International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Mile for Research Papers Submission (1st Round)

December 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
*** Last Mile for Research Papers Submission (1st Round) ***

International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines,
and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026)

29 September – 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus

(*** Submission Deadline: 11 December, 2025 (extended) ***)
The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and
Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and
practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines
focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability.
VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and
results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software
configuration, and customization.

As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable,
managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging
—than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that
address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives.

VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software
and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and
Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International
Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful
editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22
successful editions).

VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability-
intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc.
For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor
conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the
research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product
lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product
configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper
and the best artifact paper.
Topics of Interest

We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all
phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

Requirements & Domain Engineering
• Domain analysis and variability modeling
• Decision modeling and support
• Customization and personalization specification
• Requirements variability and traceability

Architecture & Design
• Variability-aware software architectures
• Architecture-centric product line engineering
• Model-driven engineering (MDE)
• Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software
ecosystems

Implementation & Code Generation
• Generative programming and code synthesis
• Modularization techniques for reusable code
• Programming languages and frameworks for variability
• Open-source strategies for software reuse

Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance
• Testing and analysis of configurable systems
• Safety and security in variable systems
• Formal Methods for Software Product Lines
• Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration
• Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance

Evolution, Maintenance & Operation
• Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems
• Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring
• Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines
• Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems
• Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines

AI and Data-Driven Methods
• Machine learning for variability management
• AI-assisted product configuration
• Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories
• Recommendation systems for reuse and customization
Submission Guidelines

Paper Types
We invite the following types of submissions:

• Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present
original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal
analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the
problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results.

• Short Papers (6 – 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage
research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or
validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision,
motivation, and potential impact.

Formatting
Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to:

Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details:

Submission Link
Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track:
Paper Originality, Double-Blind Policy, Reviewing
All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double-
blind and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their
novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the
first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline,
which will be reviewed as a revision. Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY
2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series.

Revisions
Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle,
papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that
the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not
yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community
member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be
submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer
comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers
rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an
appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references,
regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format.
Best Paper Awards

Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000.
Journal Special Issue

Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30%
additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software
Engineering journal (currently under negotiation).
Important Dates (AoE)

• First Paper Submission Deadline: 4 December 2025 (extended)
• First Notification of Acceptance/Revisions: 16 February 2026
• Camera-Ready Deadline of Directly Accepted Papers: 1 April 2026
• Second Paper Submission Deadline: 2 April 2026
• Second Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026
• Camera-Ready Deadline of Accepted Revised Papers and Directly Accepted Papers: 15
July 2025
• Author Registration: 15 July 2025
Organisation

General Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium

Research Track Chairs
• Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany

Industry Track Chairs
• Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany

Journal First Track Chairs
• Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France
• Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs
• Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel

Demos and Tools Track Chairs
• Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco

Projects Showcase Chairs
• Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden
• Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France

Hall of Fame Chairs
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
• Goetz Botterweck, Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland
• Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Workshops Chairs
• Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
• Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany

Tutorials Chairs
• Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands
• Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Proceedings Chair
• Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK

Publicity Chairs
• Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA
• Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan

Local Organiser and Finance Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2026 Call for Workshops

December 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2026 Call for Workshops

5-9 October 2026, Napoli – Italy
https://icmi.acm.org/2026/
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The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026)  https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ will be held in Napoli, Italy, between 5-9 Oct 2026. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models, and applications. Examples of recent workshop topics include:

  • Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents

  • Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction

  • Eye Tracking for Multimodal Human-Centric Computing

  • Multimodal Co-Construction of Explanations with XAI

  • Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior

  • Automated Assessment of Pain

  • Multimodal e-Coaches

  • Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data

  • Insights on Group & Team Dynamics

  • Cross-Cultural Multimodal Interaction (CCMI)

We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.). 

The content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of half-day or one-day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite

experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop.

Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.

If you are the representative of an institution or company that may be interested in sponsoring a workshop on a particular topic, or sending a speaker to a relevant workshop, please contact the workshop chairs, who can act as a liaison.

Submission

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Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). The proposal should include the following:

  • Workshop title,

  • Workshop title,

  • List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies,

  • Workshop motivation (and history), expected outcomes and impact,

  • Tentative list of keynote speakers,

  • Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters,

  • workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program,

  • Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation,

  • Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.),

  • Paper submission and acceptance deadlines,

  • Special space and equipment requests, if any.

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Important Dates and Contact Details
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Submission Deadline: January 16th, 2026

Notification of Acceptance: February 13th, 2026

Workshop Dates: October 5th and 9th, 2026


Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2025 workshop chairs Mohamed Daoudi (IMT Nord Europe) and Chirag Raman (Delft University of Technology) Via icmi2026-program-chairs@acm.org. 

ICMI organization will provide the rooms, coffee and lunch for participants, and one free registration for a speaker or organizer to each workshop. Feel free to contact the workshop chairs for any further questions.

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The 2026 Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge

December 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Dear Participants,
We are excited to announce the 2026 Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge (2026 LPCVC), sponsored by Qualcomm! This is your opportunity to showcase your innovative solutions and compete with top experts in the field of efficient computer vision.
Challenge Details:
  • Website: lpcv.ai
  • Submission Window: From 00:00 AM Eastern Time on March 1, 2026, to 11:59 PM Eastern Time on April 30, 2026
  • Track Information: Three tracks covering cutting-edge areas in computer vision:
    • Image-to-Text Retrieval
    • Action Recognition in Video
    • AI Generated Images Forgery Detection
  • Prizes:
    • Champion: $6,000
    • 2nd Place: $3,000
    • 3rd Place: $1,000
We are looking forward to seeing the incredible solutions you develop!
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Dr. Chen Chen, Associate Professor
UCF Global 226 | University of Central Florida 
4356 Scorpius St, Orlando, FL 32816
E-mail: chen.chen@ucf.edu” target=”_blank”>chen.chen@ucf.edu | URL: https://www.crcv.ucf.edu/chenchen/
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IRCDL 2026 – Deadline Extended to December 12, 2025

December 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise


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Call for Papers

IRCDL 2026 

22nd Conference on Information and Research Science
Connecting to Digital and Library Science

Deadline Extended:
December 12, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE)

Modena, Italy

February 19-20, 2026

https://ircdl2026.unimore.it/

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Apologies for multiple posting

Please distribute this call to interested parties

AIMS AND SCOPE

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Since 2005, the Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science (IRCDL) has been an annual event for researchers on Digital Libraries and related topics. IRCDL has become a key forum on digital libraries and associated issues. It covers various aspects, including new forms of information institutions, digital content management, and theoretical models of information media. The conference welcomes participants from academia, government, industry, and other sectors. It draws from diverse research areas such as computer science, digital humanities, information science, librarianship, archival science, museum studies, technology, social sciences, cultural heritage, and humanities. 

IRCDL 2026 features two distinct tracks, each with an associated special issue:

  • Track 1: Computer Science Foundations for Digital Libraries: Algorithms, Systems, and Applications

This track examines core computer science concepts essential for digital libraries. It covers algorithms for information retrieval and data management, system architectures for large-scale digital collections, and practical applications in areas such as academic research and cultural heritage preservation.
Special Issue: published in International Journal on Digital Libraries

  • Track 2: Digital Humanities: The Science and Foundation of Modern Humanities Libraries
    This track explores the intersection of digital technologies and humanities research. It examines computational methods for analyzing and preserving cultural artifacts, text mining techniques for large-scale literary analysis, and digital platforms for collaborative scholarship.
    Special Issue: published in Umanistica Digitale

TOPICS

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Submissions are welcome on theory, architectures, data models, tools, services, and infrastructures. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Open data

  • Open science: models, practices, mandates, and policies

  • Information retrieval and access

  • Information extraction from tables and figures in scientific literature

  • Machine learning and data mining for digital libraries

  • Generative AI and foundation models for digital libraries

  • Responsible and ethical AI in digital libraries

  • Ontologies

  • Knowledge discovery, representation, and reasoning in digital libraries

  • Knowledge acquisition from scientific papers

  • Document analysis (layout, text, images)

  • Services for digital arts and humanities

  • Cultural heritage access and analysis

  • Metadata (definition, management, curation, integration)

  • Digital manuscript analysis

  • Data repositories and archives

  • Data citation, provenance and pricing

  • Data and information lifecycle (creation, store, share and reuse)

  • Semantic web technologies and linked data for digital libraries

  • Digital epigraphy

  • Digital preservation and curation

  • Quality and evaluation of digital libraries

  • Digital scholarship

  • Citation analysis and scientometrics

  • Research infrastructures

  • User participation

  • Human-computer interaction and user experience

  • Multimodal and multimedia information management

  • Applications of digital libraries

IMPORTANT DATES

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  • Submission deadline: November 28, 2025 December 12, 2025

  • Notifications of acceptance: January 23, 2026

  • Camera-ready deadline: February 6, 2026

  • Conference: February 19-20, 2026

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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All submissions will be handled electronically via the conference CMT website:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IRCDL2026 

Research papers, describing original ideas on the listed topics and on other fundamental aspects of digital libraries and technology, are solicited. Moreover, short papers on early research results, new results on previously published works, and extended abstract on previously published works are also welcome:

  • Research papers: should be in the 10-12 pages range.

  • Short papers: should be in the 6-7 pages range.

  • Extended abstracts: should be 5 pages long.

For all the submission types, references are not counted in the page limit.

The accepted papers will be part of the IRCDL 2026 Proceedings, published by CEUR-WS.

ORGANIZERS

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General Chairs: 

  • Lorenzo Baraldi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

  • Marcella Cornia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

Program Chairs: 

  • Fabio Carrara (ISTI-CNR)

  • Vittorio Cuculo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

  • Marilena Daquino (University of Bologna)

  • Stefano Marchesin (University of Padua)

  • Marina Paolanti (University of Macerata) 

Publication Chair: 

  • Sara Sarto (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

Publicity Chairs:  

  • Emanuele Balloni (Università Politecnica delle Marche)

  • Davide Caffagni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

  • Beatrice Portelli (University of Udine)

Local Organization Chairs: 

  • Davide Bucciarelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia & University of Pisa)

  • Evelyn Turri (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

  • Leonardo Zini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

Special Issue Chairs: 

  • Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padua)

  • Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padua)


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CfP – Elsevier COMCOM – Special Issue on Intelligence and Service Orchestration in Next-Generation Mobile Networks

December 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Elsevier Computer Communications

Special Issue

“Intelligence and Service Orchestration in Next-Generation Mobile Networks”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327227/intelligence-and-service-orchestration-in-next-generation-mobile-networks

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Mobile communication and computing infrastructures are undergoing a profound transformation, moving toward highly dynamic, service-centric ecosystems. Fundamental to this evolution is a novel paradigm for the infrastructure and service management for 5G-and-beyond networks.

 

Indeed, the architectural paradigm of 5G is shifting toward Open Radio Access Network (RAN), which introduces RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) for network overseeing and reconfiguring through Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications able to enhance the overall performance. The shift from monolithic components to virtualized functions through Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and the adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) allow the deployment of innovative solutions that demand flexible orchestration methods.

 

In this context, Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) and Network and Service Orchestration (NSO) play a crucial role by enabling real-time automation and optimization across highly dynamic and heterogeneous network environments, whilst integrating radio, transport, and core domains under a single control plane. These solutions are apt to tackle key challenges including service provisioning, resource allocation, power consumption, and quality of service. Central to this scenario is the role of AI, which enables closed-loop network automation and control, predictive management, automated fault detection, and intent-based service delivery. As such, network intelligence is essential for resilient, scalable, and adaptive orchestration techniques capable of meeting the stringent latency, reliability, and performance requirements of future mobile networks.

 

This Special Issue aims to collect innovations proposed by the research community in the field of Intelligence and Service Orchestration in next-gen mobile networks. These topics and challenges have recently been investigated by researchers, telco stakeholders, government agencies, and international organizations (e.g. NextGenerationEU, CAMARA).

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

  • Management and orchestration architectures and techniques for next-gen networks
  • Automation, coordination, management and optimization of network resources and services
  • Placement and resource allocation for VNFs
  • Resource monitoring and service analytics
  • Orchestration solutions for control plane, core, and RAN
  • Orchestration in Transport and Multi-Domain Networks
  • Enabling technologies for network orchestration
  • AI-based network orchestration
  • Closed-loop automation engines in NSO
  • Zero-Touch and intent-driven Open RAN orchestration, optimization, control, and management
  • QoS in network orchestration
  • NSO for sustainability
  • Resilience, scalability, and adaptability of next-gen networks
  • Industry-supported efforts for network optimization
  • Integrated Sensing and Communications
  • Privacy in orchestration frameworks
  • Energy-aware and Sustainable Network Management
  • Testbeds, emulators and benchmarking for orchestration solutions

 

***Manuscript submission information***

 

The journal's submission platform (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to this Special Issue from October 26, 2025. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of “VSI: Intelligent Orchestration in Next-Generation Networks” when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computer-communications

 

The impact of SI contributions should be clearly demonstrated in the context of the theme of the special issue. Papers that do not directly address this theme are considered out of scope and are subject to immediate rejection.

 

***Timeline***

 

Submission Open Date 26/10/2025

 

Final Manuscript Submission Deadline 28/02/2026

 

Editorial Acceptance Deadline 15/09/2026

 

 

***Guest editors***

 

Prof. Abderrahim Benslimane

University of Avignon, France

Email: abderrahim.benslimane@univ-avignon.fr

 

Prof. Cristiano Bonato Both

University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Email: cbboth@unisinos.br

 

Prof. Giang T. Nguyen

Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Email: giang.nguyen@tu-dresden.de

 

Prof. Giovanni Stanco

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Email: giovanni.stanco@unina.it

 

Prof. Stefania Zinno

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Email: stefania.zinno@unina.it

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