[TYPES/announce] CFP SEFM 2026

[Adrian Francalanza]

Call for Papers
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The 24th edition of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods will be held between 23 and 27 November 2026, with workshops taking place on 23 and 24 November 2026.

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Important dates - AoE (UTC-12h)

Abstract submission: June 16, 2026
Paper submission:    June 23, 2026
Author notification: August 30, 2026
Camera ready:        September 14, 2026
Workshops:           23-24 November 2026
Conference:          25-27 November 2026

Overview and Scope

The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry, and to encourage their integration within practical software engineering methods and tools.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods.

Software Development Methods

- Formal modelling, specification, and design
- Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse
- Software Engineering for AI models, code, libraries or systems with AI components
  
Design Principles

- Programming languages
- Domain-specific languages
- Type theory
- Abstraction and refinement

Software Testing, Validation, and Verification

- Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
- Testing and runtime verification
- Statistical and probabilistic analysis
- Synthesis
- Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional properties
- Other light-weight and scalable formal methods

Security and Safety

- Security, privacy, and trust
- Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems
- Software certification
- Formal methods for AI safety, explainability, and machine learning models
- Trustworthy AI for Software Engineering

Applications and Technology Transfer

- Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things
- Component, object, multi-agent and self-adaptive systems
- Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
- Intelligent systems and machine learning
- Quantum systems
- HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis
- Education

Case studies, best practices, and experience reports

- Industrial application of formal methods
- Empirical evaluations and benchmarking
- Experience in securing critical infrastructure
- Integration of formal methods in modern development pipelines

Paper submission

We solicit two categories of papers:

- Regular papers describing original research results, case studies, or surveys, should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography of at most two pages).
- Short papers describing original research results or case studies, maybe in an incubation phase, should not exceed 8 pages (exculuding bibliography of at most one page).
- Tool papers that describe an operational tool and its contributions should not exceed 8 pages.
  
Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere.

Publication

All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will be published as a volume in Springer’s LNCS series.




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