37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
George Angelos Papadopoulos
*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers ***
37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE 2026)
October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/
The ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students working
on innovative research for improving, monitoring, and assessing the reliability,
dependability, and security of software systems, and give them the opportunity to present
and discuss their research in a constructive, friendly, and international atmosphere. The
goals of the Doctoral Symposium are:
• Providing a setting for constructive feedback on participants' current research and
guidance on future research directions;
• Developing a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research;
• Providing an opportunity for PhD students to interact with established researchers and
practitioners in the software reliability engineering community.
The authors of the selected papers will present their work and receive feedback both from
a panel of experts from academia and industry and from other Doctoral Symposium
students. The students will also have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of
completing a PhD, such as how to perform research, how to design and execute empirical
research, etc.
The papers accepted and presented at the Doctoral Symposium will be published in the
supplementary conference proceedings of ISSRE 2026 and participants in the Doctoral
Symposium will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their dissertation
research at the conference.
Who should participate
Students at all stages (at the beginning, at the middle, or near the end of their PhD) who
are working on a thesis topic relevant to ISSRE are encouraged to participate in the
Doctoral Symposium.
Submissions
Each submission consists of two elements:
• Research proposal: a 4-page paper describing your dissertation research to be authored
by the student only. Your advisor should be included in the acknowledgments.
• Letter of recommendation: ask your advisor to submit a letter of recommendation in
support of your application. This letter should include your name and a candid assessment
of the current status of your dissertation research. The letter should be emailed to both
Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs (issre2026-ds AT stefan-winter.net) with the subject
"ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium Recommendation".
Your research proposal should contain at least the following items: 1) a title for your work;
2) an abstract (maximum 200 words); 3) a description of the technical problem to be
solved and the research questions to be answered; 4) the proposed approach; 5) a brief
description of the work accomplished to date; 6) the tentative date of your thesis defense.
All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor
be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Formatting guidelines
Papers must be written in English, and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer
Society Format Guidelines (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates).
Submissions must comply with IEEE’s author guidelines for AI-generated texts
(https://open.ieee.org/author-guidelines-for-artificial-intelligence-ai-generated-text/).
Process
All papers must be submitted electronically at the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2026 .
Please make sure to select the track on Doctoral Symposium at the beginning of the
submission process.
Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium co-chairs. Authors of
submissions selected for acceptance will present their work during the Doctoral
Symposium and have the camera-ready version of their paper published in the ISSRE 2026
Supplementary Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. In addition, authors of
accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their
dissertation research at the conference.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Submission deadline: July 22, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2026
• Camera-ready copy submission: July 29, 2026
• Author registration deadline: August 19, 2026
Organisation
General Chairs
• Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Coordinator
• Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy
Research Program Committee Chairs
• Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA
• Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK
Industry Program Chairs
• Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA
• Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden
Workshop Chairs
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Doctoral Symposium Chairs
• Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany
• Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada
Fast Abstract Chairs
• Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy
• Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore
JIC2 Chair
• Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France
Publicity Chairs
• Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Publication Chairs
• Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand
• Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy
Artifact Evaluation Chairs
• Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
• Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Financial Chair
• Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Web Chairs
• Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD
• Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Registration Chair
• Easy Conferences LTD