Industrial Track Call for Papers

The Industrial Track of ICWE 2026 covers all aspects of innovative commercial or industrial-strength web engineering. We also welcome novel applications of web engineering approaches, innovative and demanding application scenarios, web engineering practices, and experience in applying recent research advances to problems relevant to the web engineering industry.

Specifically, we welcome submissions from:

• researchers working on concrete industrial problems
• research-oriented staff members from the industry working towards a doctoral degree 
• R&D staff members from industry sharing experiences
• company staff members promoting an industrial approach
• company staff members willing to share industry-relevant research topics with the research community
• researchers bridging academic and industry expectations
• researchers highlighting innovation transfer towards supporting industrial use

Each submission must include at least one author with a non-academic affiliation.

Further, following the general debate on the need for human-centric, responsible, and inclusive web technologies, the 26th edition of ICWE in particular invites contributions under the following general theme:

Agentic & Autonomous Web: Design, Trust, Accessibility, Sustainability, and Performance

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The track will emphasize submissions that describe innovative industrial advancements in all areas of interest of ICWE, including, but not limited to:

• Safety, Inclusivity, and accessibility for the Web
• Fair and explainable web technologies
• Human-Centered vs. More-than-Human web
• Conversational web
• Fake news, misinformation, and online toxicity
• Web security, identity, trust and privacy engineering
• Participatory and deliberative web
• Web application modeling and engineering
• Web infrastructures and architectures
• Web of things, social web and mobile web applications
• Web mining, knowledge extraction and analytics of big data on the Web
• Machine learning, AI and large-language models for web engineering
• Web user interfaces and UX
• User modeling and web-based recommender systems
• Quality aspects of web applications
• Performance, scalability, energy-efficiency and sustainability aspects of web applications
• Semantic web, knowledge graphs, web ontologies, and linked open-data applications
• Web crowdsourcing and human computation
• Web composition and mashups
• Web services, Microservice architecture, computing, workflows, and standards
• Architecting the Web in the cloud continuum, e.g. cloud, fog, edge and server-less computing for Web applications
• Web engineering processes, practices, experience and paradigms, e.g. Agile, Lean
• Re-decentralization of the web
• Web standards and disruptive web technologies
• Comparisons, data sets, empirical studies of web technologies
• Web programming languages, tools and frameworks

And we welcome topics below that are specifically related to this year’s theme, showing how to design web systems not just for humans but for and in collaboration with autonomous agents. We encourage the discussion on how to balance trust and security, as well as vision and ideas on how agents can make web engineering more sustainable and accessible. For instance, submissions may address the environmental impact of web technologies and discuss how emerging AI-assisted coding paradigms (i.e., vibe coding) may open to a less technical audience. Last but not least, we welcome works discussing the support of AI to web engineering in performance-critical environments (e.g., edge-cloud continuum).

• Web engineering and sustainability
• Autonomous agents for web engineering
• Vibe-coding for web engineering
• High-performance web engineering

SUBMISSIONS TO THE INDUSTRIAL, APPLICATIONS, AND EXPERIENCE TRACK

Authors are invited to submit papers of a length commensurate with the contribution (minimum 8 pages, and maximum 15 pages), following the Springer LNCS format.

We welcome mature, original contributions. Reported results must be supported by some type of evaluation, include a justification about the choice/suitability of the evaluation method, and provide evidence of use in practice. Demonstration of scalability is regarded as a plus. 

Papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS authors instructions available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines, and must be submitted in PDF format through the ICWE 2026 EasyChair web page: TBA (and submit to the Industrial Track).

Papers submitted to ICWE 2026 must not be under review elsewhere while under consideration for ICWE 2026, nor may have been previously published elsewhere. Manuscripts that are not in compliance with the required submission format, stated page limits, or that are out of the scope of the conference will be desk rejected without review. 

We strongly encourage authors to facilitate replication of their research in order to increase visibility, reproducibility, and impact by making relevant artifacts (data, source code, etc.) available for reviewers and readers.

Upon acceptance, one corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form, through which the copyright for their paper is transferred to Springer. Then, at least one author of each accepted submission must register for the conference and present the work during the corresponding session in person. 

Accepted contributions will be included in the ICWE 2026 Springer LNCS proceedings. Selected papers, including the best papers, will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering (https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JWE/).

USE OF GENERATIVE AI

Authors should explicitly disclose the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in their manuscripts when these tools are employed for more than just editing the author’s text. This disclosure can be made through a statement placed at the end of the manuscript, preceding the References section.

If it comes to our notice that a submission utilizes large language models (LLMs) without clear disclosure, such papers will be subject to immediate desk rejection. However, if there is no usage of such technologies, no disclosure statement is required.

IMPORTANT DATES

All dates are according to the time zone “Anywhere on Earth”, i.e., UTC-12.

• Abstract submission: February 6, 2026
• Paper submission: February 13, 2026
• Author notification: March 30, 2026
• Camera-ready due: April 3, 2026

INDUSTRY TRACK PROGRAM CHAIRS

• Elod Egyed-Zsigmond INSA Lyon
• Yen-Chia Hsu, University of Amsterdam

CONTACT

Any questions about submitting contributions to the research track should be emailed to industrychair.icwe2026@webengineering.org