ENASE 2026: Call for Papers

The International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE) aims to be a prime international forum for discussing research findings and IT industry experiences related to novel software engineering approaches.

Scope

ENASE acknowledges the evolution in systems and software thinking due to contemporary shifts of computing paradigms. The conference aims at identifying promising trends and proposing new directions for consideration by researchers and practitioners involved in large-scale systems and software development, integration, deployment, delivery, maintenance, and evolution.

Conference Areas

1. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT
2. CHALLENGES AND NOVEL APPROACHES TO SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (SSE)
3. SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE QUALITY
4. SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (SSE) FOR EMERGING DOMAINS

Area 1: Theory and Practice of Systems and Applications Development

• Software Development Methodologies
• Software and Service Design
• Software and Service Maintenance and Evolution
• Business Process Management and Engineering
• Analysis and Design Methods
• Requirements Engineering
• Enterprise Systems Modelling and Architecture
• Architectural Design and Frameworks
• Service Discovery and Composition
• Metamodeling and Model-Driven Development
• Agile Systems Development
• Frameworks and Middleware in Software Development
• Application Integration Technologies
• Software Change and Configuration Management
• Software Product Line Engineering
• Empirical Software Engineering
• Component-Based Software Engineering
• Design Thinking and Human-Centered Approaches
• Software Reuse and Reusability
• Integration of AI-Driven into Systems and Applications Development Processes
• AI in Software Project Management and Risk Management

Area 2: Challenges and Novel Approaches to Systems and Software Engineering (SSE)

• Development of Cyber-physical Systems
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for SSE
• Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Collaborative Software Engineering
• Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Quality of Service (QoS)
• Software and System Interoperability
• Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
• Big Data for SSE
• User-Centered Software Engineering
• Meta Programming Systems and Meta Modeling
• Reverse Software Engineering and Design Recovery
• Formal Methods for SSE
• Safety, Security and Compliance
• Ethics and Social Implications and SSE
• Interdisciplinary SSE
• SSE and Human Factors
• Generative AI in Software Development
• Prompt Engineering in Software Development

Area 3: Systems and Software Quality

• Quality Management
• Metrics
• Quality Assurance
• Effectiveness and Efficiency
• Satisfaction, Usefulness and Trust
• Usability
• Reliability and Security
• Maintainability
• Software and System Testing
• Software Patterns and Refactoring
• Process Improvement
• Risk Mitigation
• Correctness
• Fault Tolerance and Recoverability
• Complexity
• AI Technologies for Coding and Testing
• AI for Quality Assurance

Area 4: Systems and Software Engineering (SSE) for Emerging Domains

• SSE for Internet of Things
• SSE for Mobile Computing
• SSE for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
• SSE for Blockchain
• SSE for Data and Process Mining
• SSE for E-Commerce and Mobile Commerce
• SSE for Ontologies and Knowledge Management
• SSE for Cloud and Edge Computing
• SSE for Social Computing
• SSE for Games and Gamification
• SSE for AI Applications

Paper Submission

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract. Accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings.

Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper or as a Position Paper. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS.

To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors.

Publications

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

Important Dates

Conference Date: 22 - 24 May, 2026

Category	Deadline
Regular Paper Submission	January 5, 2026
Authors Notification	March 3, 2026
Camera Ready & Registration	March 17, 2026
Position Paper Submission	February 17, 2026
Authors Notification	March 24, 2026
Camera Ready & Registration	April 6, 2026
Workshop Proposal	January 20, 2026
Special Session Proposal	January 20, 2026
Tutorial Proposal	April 10, 2026
Demo Proposal	April 10, 2026
Panel Proposal	April 10, 2026
Abstract Submission	March 30, 2026
Authors Notification	April 10, 2026
Camera Ready & Registration	April 20, 2026

Note: All dates refer to AOE time, i.e. "Anywhere on Earth"

Secretariat

ENASE Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: enase.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://enase.scitevents.org

Venue

Available soon.

Conference Chair

Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie Univ., Australia and Wroclaw Univ. of Economics and Business, Poland

Program Co-Chairs

Mike Mannion, Computing, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom
Tomi Mannisto, University of Helsinki, Finland