12^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SOFEA 2026)

August 22 ~ 23, 2026, Dubai, UAE

Scope & Topics

12^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SOFEA 2026) serves as a premier global forum for presenting new advances, research innovations and practical developments in the field of Software Engineering and its diverse applications. As software systems continue to grow in scale, complexity and societal impact, SOFEA 2026 brings together leading researchers, engineers, practitioners and industry experts from around the world to exchange ideas, discuss emerging challenges and explore the latest breakthroughs shaping the future of software development.

The conference provides a dynamic platform for fostering collaboration between academia and industry, encouraging the dissemination of high quality research and real world experiences across all areas of modern software engineering. Authors are invited to contribute by submitting original research papers, project results, survey articles andindustrial case studies that highlight significant advances, innovative methodologies and impactful applications within the broad domain of Software Engineering.

SOFEA 2026 welcomes contributions that push the boundaries of theory and practice, address contemporary challenges and inspire new directions for the next generation of software systems and engineering methodologies.

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

Foundations and Advances in Software Engineering


• Software Engineering Theory and Foundations
  
• Empirical and Evidence Based Software Engineering
  
• Software Engineering for Emerging Domains (AI, IoT, CPS, Robotics)
  
• Software Engineering Economics and Decision Making
  
• Socio Technical Systems and Organizational Aspects
  
• Developer Behavior, Cognition and Productivity
  
  AI Driven Software Engineering and Autonomous Development
  
  
• AI Assisted Software Development (generation, repair, refactoring)
  
• Large Language Models (LLMs) for Software Engineering
  
• Autonomous Software Engineering Agents
  
• Prompt Engineering for SE Tasks
  
• AI Driven Requirements Engineering
  
• Intelligent Code Review and Static Analysis
  
• ML Based Software Quality Prediction
  
• AI Driven Software Design and Architecture Optimization
  
• LLM Ops: Deployment, Monitoring and Governance of LLM Based SE Tools
  
• Human AI Collaboration Patterns in Software Development
  
  Software Architecture, Design and Modeling
  
  
• Software Architecture and Design Patterns
  
• Microservices, Serverless and Cloud Native Architecture
  
• Model Driven Engineering (MDE/MDD/MDA)
  
• Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)
  
• Architecture Level Refactoring and Evolution
  
• Software Product Lines and Variability Management
  
• Digital Twin Software Architectures
  
• Edge Native Software Architecture and Distributed AI Systems
  
  Programming Languages, Compilers and Runtime Systems
  
  
• Programming Language Design and Implementation
  
• Compiler Optimization and Code Generation
  
• Type Systems, Semantics and Verification
  
• Runtime Systems, Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes
  
• Safe, Secure and Verified Programming Languages
  
• Program Synthesis and Automated Reasoning
  
• Neural Program Synthesis and Hybrid ML Symbolic Approaches
  
  Software Testing, Verification and Validation
  
  
• Automated Test Generation and Test Prioritization
  
• Testing AI/ML Based Systems and LLM Based Applications
  
• Formal Methods, Model Checking and Verification
  
• Debugging, Fault Localization and Automated Program Repair
  
• Reliability Engineering and Dependability Analysis
  
• Testing Distributed, Cloud Native and Microservice Systems
  
• Production Aware Testing and Observability Driven Debugging
  
• Testing Autonomous Systems and Safety Critical AI
  
  Software Maintenance, Evolution and Reengineering
  
  
• Software Evolution, Technical Debt and Refactoring
  
• Reverse Engineering and Legacy System Modernization
  
• Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
  
• Software Ecosystems and Dependency Management
  
• Automated Maintenance and Evolution Tools
  
• Software Supply Chain Analysis and Risk Management
  
• Long Term Maintainability and Digital Preservation
  
  Requirements Engineering and Human Centered SE
  
  
• Requirements Elicitation, Analysis and Management
  
• Human Centered Software Engineering
  
• Developer Experience (DX) and Productivity
  
• Cognitive Aspects of Software Development
  
• Collaboration, Communication and Team Dynamics
  
• Ethics and Responsible Software Engineering
  
• Human in the Loop Software Systems
  
• Behavior Aware and Context Aware Software Engineering
  
  DevOps, CI/CD and Software Process
  
  
• DevOps Practices, Tools and Culture
  
• Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment
  
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management
  
• Observability, Monitoring and Telemetry
  
• Agile, Lean and Hybrid Development Methods
  
• Software Process Modeling, Improvement and Automation
  
• Production Debugging and Incident Response Engineering
  
• Secure DevOps and Supply Chain Hardening
  
  Software Quality, Reliability and Security
  
  
• Software Quality Assurance and Quality Models
  
• Secure Software Engineering and Secure Coding
  
• Vulnerability Detection and Automated Security Analysis
  
• Software Supply Chain Security (SBOMs, dependency attacks)
  
• Privacy Aware Software Design
  
• Safety Critical and Mission Critical Software
  
• Resilience Engineering and Fault Tolerant Systems
  
• Developer Centric Security and Usable Security
  
• Privacy Engineering and Data Protection by Design
  
  Data Driven and Search Based Software Engineering
  
  
• Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE)
  
• Optimization Techniques for SE Tasks
  
• Data Driven Decision Making in SE
  
• Software Metrics, Measurement and Analytics
  
• Predictive Models for Software Projects and Processes
  
• AI Enhanced Analytics for Software Processes
  
  Web, Mobile and Cloud Software Engineering
  
  
• Web Engineering and Modern Web Frameworks
  
• Mobile Application Development and Testing
  
• Cloud Native Software Engineering
  
• Edge Native Software Engineering
  
• Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and Cross Platform Development
  
• Distributed and Event Driven Software Systems
  
• SE for Large Scale Distributed Systems and Consensus Protocols
  
  Software Engineering for AI/ML Systems
  
  
• MLOps, Continuous Training and ML Lifecycle Management
  
• Data Quality Engineering and Dataset Versioning
  
• Reliability and Testing of ML Pipelines
  
• Bias, Fairness and Governance in ML Based Systems
  
• Software Engineering for Foundation Models
  
• SE for Distributed AI and Federated Learning Systems
  
  Green and Sustainable Software Engineering
  
  
• Energy Aware Software Design
  
• Carbon Aware Computing and Sustainable DevOps
  
• Green Cloud and Edge Software Systems
  
• Sustainable Software Ecosystems and Circular Software Engineering
  
  Reproducibility, Open Science and SE Education
  
  
• Reproducible Software Engineering Research
  
• Artifact Evaluation and Benchmarking
  
• Open Datasets and Experimental Frameworks
  
• Software Engineering Education and Pedagogy
  
• Learning Analytics for SE Education
  
• AI Enhanced SE Education and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  
  Software Engineering for Blockchain, Web3 and Smart Contracts
  
  
• Formal Verification of Smart Contracts
  
• Testing and Debugging Blockchain Applications
  
• SE for Decentralized Applications (dApps)
  
• Blockchain Native Software Architectures
  
• Security and Reliability of Web3 Software Systems
  

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference SubmissionSystem by May 10, 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 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 SOFEA 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)
  
• Computer Science & Engineering: An International Journal (CSEIJ)
  
• International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (IJCSEA)
  

Important Dates

Co - Located Event

• 13^th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (CSEN 2026)
  
• 12^th International Conference of Control Theory and Computer Modelling (CTCM 2026)
  
• 12^th International Conference on Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition (SIPR 2026)
  
• 12^th International Conference of Networks, Communications, Wireless and Mobile Computing (NCWC 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Big Data, IOT and Blockchain (BIBC 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Education and Integrating Technology (EDTECH 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML 2026)
  
• 15^th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP 2026)
  
• 13^th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Applications (ARIA 2026)
  

***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to sofea@ncwc2026.org