12^th International Conference on Software Engineering (SEC 2026)

May 16 ~ 17, 2026, Zurich, Switzerland

Scope & Topics

12^th International Conference on Software Engineering (SEC 2026) invites high quality submissions presenting original research, innovative ideas, and practical experiences across all areas of software engineering. SEC 2026 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to advance the state of the art and practice in software engineering, with a strong emphasis on emerging technologies, rigorous methods, and impactful applications.

We welcome submissions of technical research papers, empirical studies, industrial case studies, visionary papers, and tool demonstrations.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

• Software Engineering Foundations, Theory, and Formal Methods
• Automated Reasoning, Program Synthesis, and Program Semantics
• Human-Centered and Cognitive Aspects of Software Engineering
• Requirements Engineering, Software Design, and Architecture
• Software Testing, Verification, Validation, and Quality Assurance
• Reliability Engineering, Resilience, and Runtime Monitoring
• Software Performance Engineering and Optimization
• Software Security, Privacy Engineering, and Secure Supply Chains
• Safety Critical, Cyber-Physical, and Embedded Systems Engineering
• AI Augmented Software Engineering (e.g., LLMs, code assistants)
• Software Engineering for AI/ML Systems, MLOps, and Data Centric SE
• Trustworthy, Explainable, and Responsible AI Systems Engineering
• Automated Debugging, Program Repair, and Intelligent Tooling
• Cloud Native Software Engineering
• DevOps, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
• Distributed, Large Scale, and Real Time Software Systems
• Blockchain and Decentralized Software Systems
• Web, Mobile, and User Facing Software Engineering
• Multimedia, AR/VR, and Immersive Software Systems
• Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics
• Data-Driven and Empirical Software Engineering
• Developer Productivity, Collaboration, and Socio-Technical Systems
• Agile, Lean, and Hybrid Software Development Methods
• Software Process Improvement, Automation, and Project Management
• Open Source Software Engineering and Community Dynamics
• Software Engineering for Big Data, Autonomous Systems, and Robotics
• Software Engineering for Healthcare, Finance, and Other Critical Domains
• Software Engineering Education, Training, and Learning Technologies

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by March 14, 2026. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from SEC 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)
  
• International Journal On Cryptography And Information Security (IJCIS)
  
• International Journal of Security, Privacy and Trust Management (IJSPTM)
  
• Information Technology in Industry (ITII)
  

Important Dates

Co - Located Event

• 13^th International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIGL 2026)
  
• 13^th International Conference on Cybernetics & Informatics (CYBI 2026)
  
• 12^th International Conference on Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS 2026)
  
• 13^th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIAPP 2026)
  
• 12^th International Conference on Data Mining and Applications (DMA 2026)
  
• 13^th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CoSIT 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Big Data (CBDA 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (NLPML 2026)
  

***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to cybi@sec2026.org