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The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Call for Papers

We invite high-quality submissions, from both industry and academia, describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research.

Contributions should describe innovative and significant original research. Papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems are also welcome, as well as replication papers. Submissions that facilitate reproducibility by using available datasets or making the described tools and datasets publicly available are especially encouraged. For a list of specific topics of interest, please see the end of this call.

Note #1: The Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering (PACMSE) Issue FSE 2026 seeks contributions through submissions in this track. Accepted papers will be invited for presentation at FSE 2026. Approval has been granted by ACM in July 2023. PACMSE will be the only proceedings where accepted research track papers will be published. Please check the FAQ for details.

Note #2: The steering committee has decided that starting from 2024 the conference name will be changed to ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE).

Note #3: Based on the coordination among FSE, ICSE, and ASE steering committees, the FSE conference and submission dates have been moved earlier, similarly to the FSE 2025 deadlines. The intention is for this schedule to remain stable in the years ahead and the conference and submission deadlines of the three large general software engineering conferences to be spread out throughout the year.

Note #4: Submissions must follow the “ACM Policy on Authorship” released April 20, 2023, which contains policy regarding the use of Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT. Please also check the ACM FAQ which describes in what situations generative AI tools can be used (with or without acknowledgement).

Note #5: The names and list of authors as well as the title in the camera-ready version cannot be modified from the ones in the submitted version unless there is explicit approval from the track chairs.

Note #6: Submissions that change the required submission format to gain additional space will be desk rejected. Examples of changing format include removing the ACM Reference block and the permission to make digital or hard copy footnotes on the first page.

CFP

https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2026/fse-2026-research-papers