International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Call for Participation
George Angelos Papadopoulos
*** Call for Participation ***
International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines,
and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026)
29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina,
Limassol, Cyprus
https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026
*** Early Registration Deadline: 31 August 2026 ***
We are pleased to invite researchers, practitioners, educators, and students to participate
in the inaugural edition of VARIABILITY 2026, the new flagship conference dedicated to
variability engineering, software reuse, and software product line engineering.
As modern software systems must cope with evolving requirements, heterogeneous
platforms, changing user needs, adaptive behaviour, and increasingly AI-enabled
development processes, variability engineering has become more important than ever.
The conference provides a unique opportunity to discuss the latest advances in
variability-enabled systems including modelling, analysis, automation, architectures,
tools, empirical studies, software reuse, and software product line engineering.
VARIABILITY 2026 builds upon the legacies of three leading conferences in the field:
• International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR)
• International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems
(VaMoS)
• International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC)
By bringing these communities together, VARIABILITY 2026 creates a unified
international forum for advancing the engineering, management, and exploitation of
variability in software-intensive systems.
Keynote Speakers
VARIABILITY 2026 will feature keynote presentations by:
• Prof. Sigrid Eldh (Ericsson / Mälardalen University)
• Prof. Jean-Marc Jézéquel (University of Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IUF)
Tracks
VARIABILITY 2026 will feature presentations spanning many tracks including:
• Research
• Industry
• Journal-First
• Demonstrations and Tools
• Projects Showcase
• Doctoral Symposium
Workshops
• MODEVAR - International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability
• GAIV - Workshop on Generative AI and Variability
https://sites.google.com/view/gaiv-2026
Tutorials
• Product Comparison using Feature Similarity Matching by Mike Mannion and Hermann
Kaindl
• The Engineering and Manufacture of Software-based Products by Grady Campbell
Awards
The conference will honour excellence through:
• Awards for the most influential papers published more than 10 years ago in the
predecessor conferences
• Best Research Paper and Best Industry Paper awards (sponsored by Springer)
Join us in Cyprus for this historic inaugural edition and help build the future of variability-
enabled systems and software!
Organisation
General Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium
Research Track Chairs
• Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany
Industry Track Chairs
• Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Journal First Track Chairs
• Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France
• Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs
• Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Demos and Tools Track Chairs
• Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco
Projects Showcase Chairs
• Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden
• Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France
Hall of Fame Chairs
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
• Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland
• Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Workshops Chairs
• Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
• Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany
Tutorials Chairs
• Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands
• Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Proceedings Chair
• Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK
Publicity Chairs
• Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA
• Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan
Local Organiser and Finance Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus