Poster and Demo Track Call for Papers
OVERVIEW
The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies. ICWE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines in academia and industry to tackle the emerging challenges in the engineering of Web applications. The Demos and Posters track provides a unique forum to showcase artifacts, present early results, discuss ongoing research, and obtain feedback from members of the Web Engineering community. In line with this year’s theme, “Agentic & Autonomous Web: Design, Trust, Accessibility, Sustainability and Performance”, we particularly welcome contributions that explore how Web systems can be designed for and in collaboration with autonomous agents; how to engineer trust, security, privacy and explainability; how to advance accessibility and sustainability; and how to meet performance demands across the edge-cloud continuum.
DEMOS
Demonstrating artifacts
The Demos track offers an interactive forum to present prototypes, tools, frameworks, datasets, benchmarks and running systems. Submission may report on open-source or commercial solutions. We particularly encourage interactive demos with which attendees can engage hands-on. Submissions are evaluated for novelty, technical quality, clarity, relevance to ICWE, interactivity and contributions to the year’s theme. Each paper should include a section describing the exact demonstration scenarios, which include how the audience will experience the demo, the artifact’s functionalities, user interface and interaction options. Note that demonstrations should be brief so that they can be shown repeatedly.
POSTERS
Presenting and demonstrating theoretical work (demonstration of concepts, theories and algorithms)
The Posters track invites researchers, practitioners, PhD students to submit original research ideas, preliminary results, experience reports and vision papers. Posters are ideal for theoretical and architectural work that benefits from interactive discussion and visual explanation. Submissions are evaluated for novelty, technical quality, clarity, relevance to ICWE, and contributions to the year’s theme.
Topics of interest (not exhaustively) include the following:
We solicit contributions on all topics relevant to Web Engineering, including:
- AI and Machine Learning for the Web: LLMs, generative AI, explainability, user modelling, recommender systems
- Web data, semantics and analytics: mining, Big Data, Linked Open Data, Semantic Web, Ontologies
- Web application domains: mobile, social, Web of Things, crowdsourcing/human computation
- Web architectures, services and infrastructure: microservices, Web services, cloud/fog/edge computing, liquid/isomorphic software, mashups
- Web user interfaces and human-centric interaction
- Quality, security, privacy, fairness and accessibility in Web applications
- Responsible and ethical Web engineering
In addition, ICWE 2026 encourages submissions aligned with this year’s conference theme:
- Agentic and Autonomous Web: models, architectures, interaction paradigms
- Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security inagent-driven Web systems
- Sustainability and Energy Efficiency of Web applications in agentic and autonomous Web environments
- AI-assisted development paradigms: vibe coding, developer-agent collaboration
- High-performance Web engineering for agent-driven systems: edge-cloud continuum, resource-aware execution
- Safety, Inclusivity and Accessibility in agent-driven Web
- Conversational and agentic interfaces for Web applications: Web-embedded agents, LLM-driven interaction models
SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS
The submissions to the track Demo and Poster must include:
A description of the work (up to 4 pages in LNCS format including references) to be included in the proceedings of ICWE 2026. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use proceedings templates as instructed at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines . Submissions should be in PDF format.
Together with your submission, you are encouraged to include a URL that points to a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots, videos, or a running system), or a downloadable poster in PDF format (A0 size).
All submissions should go through EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwe2026. (and submit to the Posters & Demos Track).
PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS
Camera-ready versions of accepted Demos and Posters submissions will be published in the ICWE 2026 main conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for the conference and present the work during the demos and poster sessions.
The final version of each accepted paper must strictly adhere to the LNCS guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) and must include a printable file of the camera-ready version as well as all required source files (either MS Word or Latex). No changes to the LNCS formatting rules are permitted. Authors of accepted papers must also download and sign a copyright form that will be made available in due time.
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 at the end of the manuscript, preceding the References section.
If we notice that a submission utilizes large language models (LLMs) without clear disclosure, such papers will be subject to immediate desk rejection. However, if such technologies are not used, no disclosure statement is required.
IMPORTANT DATES
All dates are according to the time zone “Anywhere on Earth”, i.e., UTC-12.
- Poster/demos submission deadline: March 13, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: April 3, 2026
DEMO & POSTER CHAIRS
- Daniele dell'Aglio Aalborg University
- Sergio Firmenich National University of La Plata, Argentina
CONTACT
Questions about the ICWE workshops can be emailed to posterchair.icwe2026@webengineering.org
OVERVIEW
The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies. ICWE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines in academia and industry to tackle the emerging challenges in the engineering of Web applications. The Demos and Posters track provides a unique forum to showcase artifacts, present early results, discuss ongoing research, and obtain feedback from members of the Web Engineering community. In line with this year’s theme, “Agentic & Autonomous Web: Design, Trust, Accessibility, Sustainability and Performance”, we particularly welcome contributions that explore how Web systems can be designed for and in collaboration with autonomous agents; how to engineer trust, security, privacy and explainability; how to advance accessibility and sustainability; and how to meet performance demands across the edge-cloud continuum.
DEMOS
Demonstrating artifacts
The Demos track offers an interactive forum to present prototypes, tools, frameworks, datasets, benchmarks and running systems. Submission may report on open-source or commercial solutions. We particularly encourage interactive demos with which attendees can engage hands-on. Submissions are evaluated for novelty, technical quality, clarity, relevance to ICWE, interactivity and contributions to the year’s theme. Each paper should include a section describing the exact demonstration scenarios, which include how the audience will experience the demo, the artifact’s functionalities, user interface and interaction options. Note that demonstrations should be brief so that they can be shown repeatedly.
POSTERS
Presenting and demonstrating theoretical work (demonstration of concepts, theories and algorithms)
The Posters track invites researchers, practitioners, PhD students to submit original research ideas, preliminary results, experience reports and vision papers. Posters are ideal for theoretical and architectural work that benefits from interactive discussion and visual explanation. Submissions are evaluated for novelty, technical quality, clarity, relevance to ICWE, and contributions to the year’s theme.
Topics of interest (not exhaustively) include the following:
We solicit contributions on all topics relevant to Web Engineering, including:
- AI and Machine Learning for the Web: LLMs, generative AI, explainability, user modelling, recommender systems
- Web data, semantics and analytics: mining, Big Data, Linked Open Data, Semantic Web, Ontologies
- Web application domains: mobile, social, Web of Things, crowdsourcing/human computation
- Web architectures, services and infrastructure: microservices, Web services, cloud/fog/edge computing, liquid/isomorphic software, mashups
- Web user interfaces and human-centric interaction
- Quality, security, privacy, fairness and accessibility in Web applications
- Responsible and ethical Web engineering
In addition, ICWE 2026 encourages submissions aligned with this year’s conference theme:
- Agentic and Autonomous Web: models, architectures, interaction paradigms
- Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security inagent-driven Web systems
- Sustainability and Energy Efficiency of Web applications in agentic and autonomous Web environments
- AI-assisted development paradigms: vibe coding, developer-agent collaboration
- High-performance Web engineering for agent-driven systems: edge-cloud continuum, resource-aware execution
- Safety, Inclusivity and Accessibility in agent-driven Web
- Conversational and agentic interfaces for Web applications: Web-embedded agents, LLM-driven interaction models
SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS
The submissions to the track Demo and Poster must include:
A description of the work (up to 4 pages in LNCS format including references) to be included in the proceedings of ICWE 2026. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use proceedings templates as instructed at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines . Submissions should be in PDF format.
Together with your submission, you are encouraged to include a URL that points to a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots, videos, or a running system), or a downloadable poster in PDF format (A0 size).
All submissions should go through EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwe2026 (and submit to the Posters & Demos Track).
PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS
Camera-ready versions of accepted Demos and Posters submissions will be published in the ICWE 2026 main conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for the conference and present the work during the demos and poster sessions.
The final version of each accepted paper must strictly adhere to the LNCS guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) and must include a printable file of the camera-ready version as well as all required source files (either MS Word or Latex). No changes to the LNCS formatting rules are permitted. Authors of accepted papers must also download and sign a copyright form that will be made available in due time.
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 at the end of the manuscript, preceding the References section.
If we notice that a submission utilizes large language models (LLMs) without clear disclosure, such papers will be subject to immediate desk rejection. However, if such technologies are not used, no disclosure statement is required.
IMPORTANT DATES
All dates are according to the time zone “Anywhere on Earth”, i.e., UTC-12.
- Poster/demos submission deadline: March 13, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: April 3, 2026
DEMO & POSTER CHAIRS
- Daniele dell’Aglio Aalborg University
- Sergio Firmenich National University of La Plata, Argentina
CONTACT
Questions about the ICWE workshops can be emailed to posterchair.icwe2026@webengineering.org