Call for Papers: LArc 2026, co-located with ICSE'26 in Brazil

[Thiago Rocha Silva]

Call for Papers:

2nd International Workshop on Low-Code Development and Software Architecture (LArc 2026), co-located with ICSE’26, April 12-18, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2026/larc-2026

The emerging paradigm of Low-Code (LC)/No-Code (NC) software development is a promising avenue to counter the currently dire shortage of skilled software developers. LC/NC approaches hinge on some kind of models and some kind of direct ”checkability“ of those models in order to ensure properties of the resulting artefacts. Because they use models, it is in principle possible to formalize the “language” of various flavours of LC and NC. Because these languages are abstract, very often graphical, and tend to be domain-specific, they resonate well with domains experts who are not able to code and do not intend to become skilled in programming in order to do their (non-programmer) jobs. A number of researchers and practitioners say that LC/NC is not new, as many communities of research and practice have pushed in this direction for over five decades. However, none of them has succeeded. The LC/NC wave we are observing today seems to be steered by new actors coming from the practice, and in many respects reinventing wheels detached from the ”culture“ and the advances in each of the above domains.

Specifically of interest here is the relationship between LC/NC approaches and software architectures. This relationship, however, comes with many questions. If architectures are more “under the hood”, to which extent do they still matter? And to whom do they matter? Will LC/NC development tools impose architectural choices or paradigms? To which extent is the quest for modularization and reusability inherent to the concept of components in component-based development, objects in object-oriented programming, services and microservices, in connection with the LC/NC paradigm?

This workshop intends to gather researchers and practitioners interested in:

• discussing the relationship between LC/NC and software architectures;
• exploring how software architecture issues are currently handled by low-code platforms;
• identifying the impact of low-code development to long-term software architecture;
• discussing the challenges of implementing software architecture tactics and design patterns in low-code development; and
• discussing the impact of low-code development on quality attributes.
• brainstorming new ideas around low-code development

We solicit the submission of:

• Full papers (including industry experience papers), which should not exceed 8 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, references, appendices, etc.
• Short papers (including industry experience papers), which should not exceed 4 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, references, appendices, etc.
• Extended abstracts (including industry experience papers and position papers), which should not exceed 2 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, references, appendices, etc.

The topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to):

• Architectural styles for low-code platforms
• Consistency between requirements and design in low-code platforms
• Low-code development and software design and modelling
• Low-code development platforms “as a service”
• Microservices for low-code development
• End-user software engineering and low-code architecture
• Specification and evaluation of quality aspects (e.g., security, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, deployability) in low-code platforms
• Graphical and textual domain-specific languages for low-code architecture
• Component-based development in low-code platforms
• Reuse in low-code development
• Visualisation of software architecture for low-code development
• Low-code architecture and continuous deployment
• Low-code development and reference architectures
• Low-code development and architectural documentation
• Low-code development and architectural erosion/debt
• Interoperability issues with low-code platforms
• Generative AI for low-code architecture/development
• Empirical studies on low-code development and software architecture
• New ideas on low-code development

Important Dates (AoE, UTC-12h)

Submission Deadline: Mon 20 Oct 2025

Acceptance Notification: Mon 24 Nov 2025

Camera Ready: Mon 26 Jan 2026

Workshop Date: Sat 18 Apr 2026

Organizing Committee

Thiago Rocha Silva, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Torben Worm, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick and Lero, Ireland

Michel Chaudron, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Program Committee

Nelly Bencomo, Durham University, United Kingdom

Tingting Bi, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Alessio Bucaioni, Mälardalen University, Sweden

Jácome Cunha, University of Porto & HASLab/INESC, Portugal

Davide Di Ruscio, University of L’Aquila, Italy

Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Esther Guerra, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Thomas T. Hildebrandt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick and Lero, Ireland

Rosemary Monahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany

Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden

Erlend Stav, SINTEF, Norway

Bernhard Steffen, TU Dortmund, Germany

Fitash Ul Haq, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

Manuel Wimmer, JKU Linz, Austria

Juan de Lara, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain