SEDES 2026
(12th Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: May 31st, 2026

Notification: June 22nd, 2026 

Camera-ready: July 3rd, 2026

Symposium day: September 9th, 2026

GOAL AND SCOPE

The goal of the SEDES doctoral symposium is to provide PhD students in software engineering with an environment in which they can present and discuss their work, receive constructive feedback and suggestions from established faculty members, peers, and network with other researchers in the field. Besides being an opportunity to gather the community of researchers in software engineering, both in academic or industrial settings, it represents a forum to publicise the research work with the goal of looking for collaborations and/or (industrial) applications.

TARGET AUDIENCE

We invite PhD students who have still some time to benefit from the discussion in the Doctoral Symposium before submitting their dissertation, but who have already settled on a thesis topic. Student research areas include software engineering or related fields such as computer science and information systems. 

TOPICS

PhD students are encouraged to submit proposal covering quality approaches in relation to:

• Data Intensive Systems

• Digital Transformation

• Generative AI in ICT Education

• Green and Sustainable Computing

• Human, Ethichal and Social Aspects

• Process Improvement and Analytics

• Quality in the Age of AI

• Requirements Engineering

• Security and Privacy

• Verification, Validation, and Testing

We are open to include software applications in various types of platforms, including mobile and embedded solutions that fall under the eligibility conditions.

PhD students are also encouraged to submit proposals that include software applications in various types of open-source platforms, such as GitHub, Zenodo, etc. 

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions should be in English, not exceeding 8 pages including references (LCNS format). 

Submissions should be coauthored by the PhD student only. 

Submissions should clearly describe the research problem that is addressed and its relevance to the field, the most relevant related work, the expected contributions, the results achieved so far (if any), and the evaluation plan for the stated contributions. 

Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair link:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quatic2026 

REVIEW PROCESS

At least three SEDES PC members will review each submission, focusing on the quality, maturity, and clarity of the ongoing research work, both in terms of scope delimitation and problem relevance, adequacy of the adopted methodology, results significance and their validation, technical writing style, etc. Accepted papers are expected to submit a camera-ready version of the paper that takes into account the comments and suggestions provided by the reviewers.

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published in QUATIC 2026 proceedings, and indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, SCImago, and Scopus.

SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE

Chairs: Prof. Leonardo Mariani (University of Milano - Bicocca)

Program Committee:

• Andrea Stocco, Technische Universität München, Germany

• Davide Di Ruscio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy

• Domenico Bianculli, SnT Centre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

• Marco Vieira, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States of America