37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Mile for Paper Submission for Doctoral Consortium Papers

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission for Doctoral Consortium Papers ***

37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE 2026)

October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus

https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/


The ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students=
 working
on innovative research for improving, monitoring, and assessing the reliabil=
ity,
dependability, and security of software systems, and give them the opportuni=
ty to present
and discuss their research in a constructive, friendly, and international at=
mosphere. The
goals of the Doctoral Symposium are:

=E2=80=A2 Providing a setting for constructive feedback on participants' cur=
rent research and
guidance on future research directions;
=E2=80=A2 Developing a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of coll=
aborative research;
=E2=80=A2 Providing an opportunity for PhD students to interact with establi=
shed researchers and
practitioners in the software reliability engineering community.

The authors of the selected papers will present their work and receive feedb=
ack both from
a panel of experts from academia and industry and from other Doctoral Sympos=
ium
students. The students will also have the opportunity to seek advice on vari=
ous aspects of
completing a PhD, such as how to perform research, how to design and execute=
 empirical
research, etc.

The papers accepted and presented at the Doctoral Symposium will be publishe=
d in the
supplementary conference proceedings of ISSRE 2026 and participants in the D=
octoral
Symposium will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their diss=
ertation
research at the conference.


Who should participate

Students at all stages (at the beginning, at the middle, or near the end of =
their PhD) who
are working on a thesis topic relevant to ISSRE are encouraged to participat=
e in the
Doctoral Symposium.


Submissions

Each submission consists of two elements:

=E2=80=A2 Research proposal: a 4-page paper describing your dissertation res=
earch to be authored
by the student only. Your advisor should be included in the acknowledgments.=

=E2=80=A2 Letter of recommendation: ask your advisor to submit a letter of r=
ecommendation in
support of your application. This letter should include your name and a cand=
id assessment
of the current status of your dissertation research. The letter should be em=
ailed to both
Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs (issre2026-ds AT stefan-winter.net) with the su=
bject
"ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium Recommendation".

Your research proposal should contain at least the following items: 1) a tit=
le for your work;
2) an abstract (maximum 200 words); 3) a description of the technical proble=
m to be
solved and the research questions to be answered; 4) the proposed approach; =
5) a brief
description of the work accomplished to date; 6) the tentative date of your =
thesis defense.

All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously pub=
lished, nor
be under consideration for publication elsewhere.


Formatting guidelines

Papers must be written in English, and be formatted according to the IEEE Co=
mputer
Society Format Guidelines (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templ=
ates).

Submissions must comply with IEEE=E2=80=99s author guidelines for AI-generat=
ed texts
(https://open.ieee.org/author-guidelines-for-artificial-intelligence-ai-gene=
rated-text/).


Process

All papers must be submitted electronically at the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dissre2026 .

Please make sure to select the track on Doctoral Symposium at the beginning =
of the
submission process.

Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium co-chairs. Authors of=

submissions selected for acceptance will present their work during the Docto=
ral
Symposium and have the camera-ready version of their paper published in the =
ISSRE 2026
Supplementary Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. In addition, =
authors of
accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to present a poster about=
 their
dissertation research at the conference.


Important Dates (AoE)

=E2=80=A2 Submission deadline: July 29, 2026 (extended and final)
=E2=80=A2 Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2026
=E2=80=A2 Camera-ready copy submission: July 29, 2026
=E2=80=A2 Author registration deadline: August 19, 2026


Organisation

General Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
=E2=80=A2 George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Coordinator
=E2=80=A2 Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy

Research Program Committee Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA
=E2=80=A2 Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK

Industry Program Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA
=E2=80=A2 Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden

Workshop Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
=E2=80=A2 August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Doctoral Symposium Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany
=E2=80=A2 Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada

Fast Abstract Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy
=E2=80=A2 Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore

JIC2 Chair
=E2=80=A2 Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France

Publicity Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
=E2=80=A2 Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Publication Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand
=E2=80=A2 Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy

Artifact Evaluation Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal
=E2=80=A2 Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Diversity and Inclusion Chair
=E2=80=A2 Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Financial Chair
=E2=80=A2 Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Web Chairs
=E2=80=A2 Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD
=E2=80=A2 Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy

Registration Chair
=E2=80=A2 Easy Conferences LTD

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