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*** Last Call for Industry/Short Papers/Posters/ERA/RENE/Tool Demo/JF/RR Tracks ***

The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and

Reengineering (SANER 2026)

17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus

https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026

SANER 2026 attracted for the research track 213 full paper submissions, the third highest

in the 33 years of running. Although the submission deadline for the research track is

now over, there are plenty of other tracks for which the submission deadline is still open,

for just a few more days!

SANER 2026 welcomes high-quality submissions of papers describing original and

unpublished research results. We encourage submissions describing various

types of research, including empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented studies.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis,

evolution, and reengineering community (including researchers, practitioners, educators).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• AI for Software Engineering and Software Engineering for AI (see note below);

• Generative AI and LLM Applied to Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering of Software;

• Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction;

• Software Maintenance and Evolution, Evolution Analysis;

• Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering;

• Program Comprehension;

• Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting;

• Program Transformation and Refactoring;

• Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics;

• Software Visualization;

• Software Reconstruction and Migration;

• Program Repair;

• Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery;

• Software Security, Safety, Reliability and Quality Analysis;

• Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance;

• Human Factors and Legal Aspects in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and

Reengineering;

• Empirical Studies in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering;

• Education and Training in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and

Reengineering.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process and will be selected

based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. Submissions must be original, not

published, accepted, or under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format

and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines.

• Industrial Papers: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages

reserved for references only) for full papers; talk proposals should not exceed 2 pages.

• Short Papers and Posters: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (including all text,

figures, references, and appendices); posters should not exceed 2 pages.

• Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (with

the last 1 page reserved for references only).

• Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track: Submissions should not

exceed 5 pages for appendices to conference submissions or previous work and should

not exceed 12 pages for new reproducibility studies and new descriptions of negative

results (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only).

• Tool Demo Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages.

• Journal-First Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 1 page (for the main

submission).

• Registered Report Track: Submissions should not exceed 7 pages (with the last 1 page

reserved for references only).

Important Note: Short Papers and Posters, ERA, and RENE Tracks follow a double-

anonymous review process.

Please refer to the conference website for details specific to each different track.

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026

PAPERS INVOLVING AI AND ML

Papers involving AI or ML must either (a) concern a software system as a whole, or a

subsystem, and not simply its AI or ML component, (b) consider software engineering

artifacts, (c) target a novel context for a software engineering task, or (d) study human,

social, socio-technical, and organizational aspects in the development of AI- or ML-

intensive software systems (see also "Scoping Software Engineering for AI: The TSE

Perspective", 10.1109/TSE.2024.3470368). Papers involving AI or ML must explicitly

explain how they address a software engineering problem. Papers not meeting these

criteria may be more suitable for AI- or ML-focused venues instead. Papers that do not

clearly explain how they address a software engineering problem or don't meet the

above criteria will be desk-rejected.

IMPORTANT DATES

(All deadlines are 23:59h "Anywhere on Earth" time)

Industrial Track

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025