5^th International Conference on Emerging Practices in Software Process & Architecture (SOFTPA 2026)

January 17 ~ 18, 2026, Zurich, Switzerland

Hybrid -- Registered authors can present their work online or face to face.

Scope & Topics

5^th International Conference on Emerging Practices in Software Process & Architecture (SOFTPA 2026) is an emerging practice in Software Development life cycle adopted by various software organizations to develop an environment of continuous deployment and delivery within time. There are several software development processes that practice the concept of continuous improvement and automation to maintain the operational stability and smooth flow of software delivery.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in Software Process & Architecture.

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

• AI for supporting software and systems processes
  
• Artifacts, software validation and diagnosis
  
• CI/CD, Agile and Devops
  
• DevOps in health care, education & business
  
• Devops Models, Practices, Challenges
  
• Empirical Study
  
• Hybrid processes for software and systems
  
• Intelligent software systems
  
• Lean & Agile software Development & practices
  
• Legacy systemsWireless Communications
  
• Open Source Software development
  
• Performance Evaluation, Application & Tools
  
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in the real World
  
• Software as a Service ( Saas)
  
• Software Automation
  
• Software Engineering challenges
  
• Software reliability and large-scale distribution
  
• Wireless Multimedia Systems
  

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by October 25, 2025. 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 SOFTPA 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following journals.

• International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)
  
• International Journal of Data Mining & Knowledge Management Process (IJDKP)
  
• International Journal of Ambient Systems and Applications (IJASA)
  
• Advanced Computational Intelligence: An International Journal (ACII)
  

Important Dates

Co - Located Event

• 12^th International Conference on Computer Science, Information Technology and Applications (CSITA 2026)
  
• 12^th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ARIN 2026)
  
• 12^th International Conference on Data Mining and Applications (DMAP 2026)
  
• 9^th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Trends (NATAP 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Networks, Blockchain and Internet of Things (NBIoT 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2026)
  
• 12^th International Conference on Networks, Mobile Communication (NMCO 2026)
  
• 6^th International Conference of Education (CONEDU 2026)
  

***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to softpa@csita2026.org