Call for Papers ― Second International Workshop on DevOps for Sustainability (DevOpsSustain 2026)

[Heng Li]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to share the Call for Papers information of the Second International Workshop on DevOps for Sustainability (DevOpsSustain 2026), which will be co-located with FSE in Montreal. I would appreciate it if you could share this information with those potentially interested.

Thank you for your support!

Best regards,

Heng Li, Polytechnique Montréal

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Call for Papers ― Second International Workshop on DevOps for Sustainability (DevOpsSustain 2026)
https://devopssustain.github.io/ws2026




DevOpsSustain 2026 will be co-located with the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2026), which will be held on 5-9 July 2026 in Montréal, Canada
https://conf.researchr.org/home/fse-2026



Paper submission: February 12th, 2026
Author notification: March 19th, 2026
Camera-ready: April 2nd, 2026



Information and communication technologies (ICT) are causing ever-growing energy consumption and carbon emissions. Software is at the center of ICT, from large-scale data centers to personal devices. Thus, improving the energy efficiency of the software is critical for reducing the energy footprint of ICT and contributing to sustainable development. DevOps has become the main principle for developing and operating modern software systems, which aims to enhance the velocity of releasing high-quality software through automation and integrating development and operations responsibilities. On the one hand, the fast DevOps release cycles pose significant challenges for ensuring the energy efficiency of software and its deployment environment. On the other hand, DevOps provides great opportunities for enhancing software sustainability, since the integration between development and operations allows for continuous collection and analytics of energy consumption data, which can be leveraged as feedback for optimizing the energy efficiency of software and its deployment environment.

The International Workshop on DevOps for Sustainability (DevOpsSustain) provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss topics related to the challenges and opportunities in the interplay of DevOps and sustainability.

This workshop edition will explore topics related to:

- Energy measurement, profiling, and monitoring
- Testing for energy efficiency
- Energy optimization in software deployment
- Energy consumption modeling/characterization
- Energy considerations software development lifecycles
- Energy-aware operations and deployment
- Energy benchmarking
- AI for software sustainability
- Energy anomaly detection and root cause diagnosis
- Empirical studies on software energy consumption
- Energy consumption of AI-based or data-centric systems
- Industry reports on sustainable development and operations

We accept three types of submissions, as described below. The page limits include references.

- Technical Research/Experience Papers (long papers, up to 10 pages): This track is defined for papers that report innovative research or significant experiences that are closely aligned with the themes of the workshop.
- Ideas, Visions, Reflections, or Working-in-Progress Papers (short papers, up to 4 pages): This track is defined for the submissions that propose radical and innovative ideas, pioneering research directions, provide insightful reflections and lessons from past experiences, or discuss early results of significant research.
- Extended Abstract (for presentations only, up to 2 pages): This track is defined for demos or industry presentations. This track will not be included in the ACM digital library.
 
 
DevOpsSustain 2026 Co-organizers
Heng Li, Luca Traini, Lizhi Liao, Andreas Brunnert, and Maryam Ekhlasi