{"id":61,"date":"2025-10-06T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icwe2026.webengineering.org\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:47:47","slug":"research-track","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icwe2026.webengineering.org\/index.php\/research-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"61\" class=\"elementor elementor-61\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7aae769 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7aae769\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3a6f0e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c3a6f0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"white-space: normal;border: 0px;font-size: 2.25rem;margin: 0px 0px 20px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;clear: none;line-height: 1.4em;text-align: center;, sans-serif\"><strong style=\"font-weight: 700\">Research Track Call for Papers<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4b8c82 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"e4b8c82\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a57a2b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6a57a2b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a42e636 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a42e636\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a84b81e elementor-widget-mobile__width-auto elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"a84b81e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-23441af8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ICWE 2026 \u2013 AT A GLANCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies. It covers different aspects of Web Engineering, including the design, creation, maintenance, operation, and usage of Web applications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 problems and opportunities of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">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:<\/p>\n\n\n<h3>Agentic & Autonomous Web: Design, Trust, Accessibility, Sustainability, and Performance\n<\/h3>\n\n<p>We solicit submissions 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).\n<\/p>\n\n<p>ICWE 2026 solicits submissions on a wide spectrum of Web Engineering topics, such as, among others:\n<\/p>\n\n<!--\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Inclusive Web: Realizing Safe, Accessible, Inclusive, and Sustainable Web Engineering<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We indeed solicit contributions on diverse aspects related to designing innovative Web technology that however results in being fair, ethical, transparent, privacy-preserving, trustworthy, safe, inclusive, and accessible for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These aspects relate to a wide spectrum of Web Engineering topics, such as, among others:<\/p>\n\n-->\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Safety, Inclusivity, and accessibility for the Web<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fair and explainable web technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Human-Centered vs. More-than-Human web<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conversational web<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fake news, misinformation, and online toxicity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web security, identity, trust and privacy engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participatory and deliberative web<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web application modeling and engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web infrastructures and architectures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web of things, social web and mobile web applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web mining, knowledge extraction and analytics of big data on the Web<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Machine learning, AI and large-language models for web engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web user interfaces and UX<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>User modeling and web-based recommender systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quality aspects of web applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performance, scalability, energy-efficiency and sustainability aspects of web applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Semantic web, knowledge graphs, web ontologies, and linked open-data applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web crowdsourcing and human computation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web composition and mashups<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web services, Microservice architecture, computing, workflows, and standards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Architecting the Web in the cloud continuum, e.g. cloud, fog, edge and server-less computing for Web applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web engineering processes, practices, experience and paradigms, e.g. Agile, Lean<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Re-decentralization of the web<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web standards and disruptive web technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comparisons, data sets, empirical studies of web technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web programming languages, tools and frameworks<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<h5>Theme-specific topics:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n   <li> Web engineering and sustainability<\/li>\n<li>Autonomous agents for web engineering<\/li>\n<li>Vibe-coding for web engineering<\/li>\n<li>High-performance web engineering <\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the research track, ICWE 2026 also seeks contributions of industrial papers, demos and posters, student papers at the PhD Symposium, tutorials, and workshops, which will be the subject of individual calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>SUBMISSIONS TO THE RESEARCH TRACK<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p style='color:red;'><strong>All the page limits include the references. Submissions are single blind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>This call addresses research contributions in one of the following two categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2013 Full papers (15 pages, Springer LNCS format):<\/strong>  mature, original research contributions. Reported results must be supported by some type of evaluation, and also include a justification about the choice\/suitability of the evaluation method. In addition, evidence of use in practice and\/or demonstration of scalability is regarded as a plus. Resources and artefact papers, showcasing an <u>open-source<\/u> (explicit License) datasets, library, or else are also welcome. Resources should have a permanent identifier, and include a sustainability plan for the medium term in the submission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2013New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) papers (8 pages, Springer LNCS format):<\/strong>  short papers exploring bold hypotheses, unconventional methodologies, and interdisciplinary perspectives about relevant aspects of Web Engineering. Submissions aim to foster discussions that challenge the status quo and open new avenues for exploration that promise potential for research that will impact Web Engineering in the coming years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papers must be formatted according to the <strong>Springer LNCS<\/strong> authors instructions available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/computer-science\/lncs\/conference-proceedings-guidelines\">https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/computer-science\/lncs\/conference-proceedings-guidelines<\/a>, and must be submitted in PDF format through the <strong>ICWE 2026 EasyChair<\/strong> web page: <a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=icwe2026\">https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=icwe2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icwe2026.webengineering.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LNCS-Logo.png\" style=\"display: block; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 80%; height: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/conference\/icwe\">\n\n\n\n<p>Papers submitted to ICWE 2026 must not be under review elsewhere while under consideration for ICWE 2026, nor may have been already 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon acceptance, one corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a <strong>Consent-to-Publish<\/strong> form, through which the copyright for their paper is transferred to Springer. Then, <strong>at least one author of each accepted submission must register for the conference and present the work during the corresponding session in person<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accepted contributions will be included in the ICWE 2026 Springer LNCS proceedings. <strong>Selected papers, including the best papers, will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.riverpublishers.com\/index.php\/JWE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/journals.riverpublishers.com\/index.php\/JWE\/<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>USE OF GENERATIVE AI<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s text. This disclosure can be made through a statement placed at the end of the manuscript, preceding the References section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n<!--\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>SPRINGER BEST-PAPER AWARD SPONSORSHIP&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Springer will sponsor the ICWE 2026 Best Paper Award which will be announced during the ICWE 2026 Banquet.<\/p>\n\n-->\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>IMPORTANT DATES<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All dates are according to the time zone \u201cAnywhere on Earth\u201d, i.e., UTC-12.<\/p>\n\n\n<!--\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6b5d31601b76257cba23cb1c1a3c1f25\"><strong>Note: Submission deadlines are extended for one week.<\/strong><\/p>\n-->\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<!--\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f2616c343cc83d95b1894e99878b8e20\"><strong>Abstract submission:<\/strong> <s>February 6, 2026<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a8273ed95ad966ef82dc8892c3cba335\"><strong>Paper submission:<\/strong> <s>February 13, 2026<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0ef46ea385e46c141da52bb59e750870\"><s><strong>Abstract submission:<\/strong> February 13, 2026<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c1bd3ae578c13d8ea9031d503bc0b1c7\"><s><strong>Paper submission:<\/strong> February 20, 2026<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9979755b36b4cfc6b32ce9b621dcb2b7\"><s><strong>Author notification:<\/strong> April 3, 2026<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Camera-ready due:<\/strong> May 1, 2026<\/li>\n-->\n<li class=\"wp-elements-f2616c343cc83d95b1894e99878b8e20\"><strong>Abstract submission:<\/strong> February 6, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\" wp-elements-a8273ed95ad966ef82dc8892c3cba335\"><strong>Paper submission:<\/strong> <s>February 13, 2026<\/s> (New) February 20, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-elements-9979755b36b4cfc6b32ce9b621dcb2b7\"><strong>Author notification:<\/strong> March 30, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Camera-ready due:<\/strong><s> April 3, 2026<\/s> (New) April 15, 2026<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>PROGRAM CHAIRS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n    \n    <li><strong>Lola Burgue\u00f1o<\/strong>, <em>University of Malaga, Spain<\/em><\/li>\n    \n<li><strong>Riccardo Tommasini<\/strong>, <em>INSA Lyon, France<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>GENERAL CHAIRS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Andrea Mauri<\/strong>, <em>Lyon 1 University, France<\/em><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CONTACT<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Any questions about submitting contributions to the research track should be emailed to <a href=\"mailto:icwe2026@easychair.org\"> icwe2026@easychair.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-636123a elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"636123a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>ICWE 2026 \u2013 AT A GLANCE<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies. It covers different aspects of Web Engineering, including the design, creation, maintenance, operation, and usage of Web applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 problems and opportunities of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the ongoing discussion about the role of artificial intelligence in all aspects of computer science, this year we invite the ICWE community to reflect and submit their work on the following theme:<\/span><\/p><h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agentic &amp; Autonomous Web: Design, Trust, Accessibility, Sustainability, and Performance<\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We solicit submissions 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).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICWE 2026 solicits submissions on a wide spectrum of Web Engineering topics, such as, among others:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Safety, Inclusivity, and accessibility for the Web<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fair and explainable web technologies<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human-Centered vs. More-than-Human web<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversational web<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fake news, misinformation, and online toxicity<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web security, identity, trust and privacy engineering<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participatory and deliberative web<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web application modeling and engineering<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web infrastructures and architectures<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web of things, social web and mobile web applications<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web mining, knowledge extraction and analytics of big data on the Web<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Machine learning, AI and large-language models for web engineering<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web user interfaces and UX<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">User modeling and web-based recommender systems<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quality aspects of web applications<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Performance, scalability, energy-efficiency and sustainability aspects of web applications<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Semantic web, knowledge graphs, web ontologies, and linked open-data applications<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web crowdsourcing and human computation<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web composition and mashups<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web services, Microservice architecture, computing, workflows, and standards<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architecting the Web in the cloud continuum, e.g. cloud, fog, edge and server-less computing for Web applications<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web engineering processes, practices, experience and paradigms, e.g. Agile, Lean<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Re-decentralization of the web<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web standards and disruptive web technologies<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comparisons, data sets, empirical studies of web technologies<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web programming languages, tools and frameworks<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><strong>Theme-specific topics:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web engineering and sustainability<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Autonomous agents for web engineering<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vibe-coding for web engineering<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High-performance web engineering\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the research track, ICWE 2026 also seeks contributions of industrial papers, demos and posters, student papers at the PhD Symposium, tutorials, and workshops, which will be the subject of individual calls.<\/span><\/p><h3>\u00a0<\/h3><h3><b>SUBMISSIONS TO THE RESEARCH TRACK<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>All the page limits include the references. Submissions are single blind.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This call addresses research contributions in one of the following two categories:<\/span><\/p><p><b>\u2013 Full papers (15 pages, Springer LNCS format):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mature, original research contributions. Reported results must be supported by some type of evaluation, and also include a justification about the choice\/suitability of the evaluation method. In addition, evidence of use in practice and\/or demonstration of scalability is regarded as a plus. Resources and artefact papers, showcasing an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">open-source<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (explicit License) datasets, library, or else are also welcome. Resources should have a permanent identifier, and include a sustainability plan for the medium term in the submission.<\/span><\/p><p><b>\u2013 New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) papers (8 pages, Springer LNCS format):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> short papers exploring bold hypotheses, unconventional methodologies, and interdisciplinary perspectives about relevant aspects of Web Engineering. Submissions aim to foster discussions that challenge the status quo and open new avenues for exploration that promise potential for research that will impact Web Engineering in the coming years.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Papers must be formatted according to the <\/span><b>Springer LNCS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> authors instructions available at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/computer-science\/lncs\/conference-proceedings-guidelines\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/computer-science\/lncs\/conference-proceedings-guidelines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and must be submitted in PDF format through the <\/span><b>ICWE 2026 EasyChair<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> web page: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=icwe2026\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=icwe2026<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/conference\/icwe\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-385\" src=\"https:\/\/icwe2026.webengineering.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LNCS-Logo-300x111.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icwe2026.webengineering.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LNCS-Logo-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/icwe2026.webengineering.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LNCS-Logo-768x284.png 768w, https:\/\/icwe2026.webengineering.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LNCS-Logo.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Papers submitted to ICWE 2026 must not be under review elsewhere while under consideration for ICWE 2026, nor may have been already 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon acceptance, one corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a <\/span><b>Consent-to-Publish<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> form, through which the copyright for their paper is transferred to Springer. Then, <\/span><b>at least one author of each accepted submission must register for the conference and present the work during the corresponding session in person<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accepted contributions will be included in the ICWE 2026 Springer LNCS proceedings. <\/span><b>Selected papers, including the best papers, will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering (<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.riverpublishers.com\/index.php\/JWE\/\"><b>https:\/\/journals.riverpublishers.com\/index.php\/JWE\/<\/b><\/a><b>).<\/b><\/p><h3><b>USE OF GENERATIVE AI<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2019s text. This disclosure can be made through a statement placed at the end of the manuscript, preceding the References section.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p><h3><b>SPRINGER BEST-PAPER AWARD SPONSORSHIP\u00a0<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Springer will sponsor the ICWE 2026 Best Paper Award which will be announced during the ICWE 2026 Banquet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h3><b>IMPORTANT DATES<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All dates are according to the time zone \u201cAnywhere on Earth\u201d, i.e., UTC-12.<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Abstract submission: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">February 6, 2026<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Paper submission: <\/b><del><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">February 13, 2026 <\/span><\/del><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(New)\u00a0<\/span><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">February 20, 2026<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Author notification:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> March 20, 2026<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Camera-ready due:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> April 3, 2026<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h3><b>PROGRAM CHAIRS<\/b><\/h3><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lola Burgue\u00f1o, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of M\u00e1laga, Spain<\/span><\/i><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Riccardo Tommasini<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INSA Lyon, France<\/span><\/i><\/li><\/ul><h3><b>GENERAL CHAIRS<\/b><\/h3><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Andrea Mauri<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France<\/span><\/i><\/li><\/ul><h3><b>CONTACT<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any questions about submitting contributions to the research track should be emailed to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">icwe2026@easychair.org<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Track Call for Papers ICWE 2026 \u2013 AT A GLANCE The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies. 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