Eighth International Workshop on
Software Engineering Research & Practices for the IoT

A one-day workshop co-located with ICSE 2026

April 18th 2026

http://serp4iot.ptidej.net

Organizing Committee

Rodrigo Morales Alvarado

Concordia University, Canada

Rubén Saborido Infantes

University of Malaga, Spain

Shah Rukh Humayoun
San Francisco State University, USA

Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

Concordia University, Canada

Kiev Gama

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Recife, Brazil

Program Committee

Darine Ameyed

Ericsson, Canada

Marios-Eleftherios Fokaefs

York University, Canada

Osamu Mizuno

KIT, Japan

Fabio Petrillo
ETS, Canada

Francisco Chicano
University of Málaga, Spain

Hironori Washizaki
WASEDA University, Japan

Hamid Mcheick
 UQAC, Canada

Lotfi Ben Othmane

Iowa State University, USA

Mónica Pinto
University of Málaga, Spain

Ghizlane Elboussaidi
ETS, Canada

Kiev Gama

Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Rares Cristea

University of Bucharest, Romania

IoT systems comprise software systems that enable solutions for device connectivity, device management, data management, application development, and advanced analytics for/from connected IoT systems. Software engineering is vital for IoT to design systems that are secure, interoperable, modifiable, and scalable. However, there is no consensus on crucial questions like what the best practices are for developing projects for IoT, how to select the best architecture, which communications protocols are the most suitable, and what the best practices are in terms of security.

SERP4IoT 2026 aims to provide a highly interactive forum for researchers and practitioners to address the challenges of, find solutions, and share experiences with the development, release, and testing of robust software for IoT devices and systems. The workshop will consist of keynotes presented by academic experts and practitioners from industry, long- and short-paper presentations, talks, poster sessions, working groups after each lighting session, and a fishbowl panel for semi-structured group discussions at the end of the workshop.  

This year, we are providing a hybrid format, where remote and in-person sessions are mingled to reach more people in the IoT community.

Topics for papers and talks include, but are not limited to:

Prospective participants, from the academy and industry, are invited to submit long (8 pages), short (4 pages), extended abstracts (max. 5 pages, free of APC charges) or poster (1 page) papers describing their work or ideas related to the workshop topics. Short and long papers should identify challenges, discuss opposing viewpoints, outline processes, or present solutions related to any aspects of software engineering for IoT. Authors will have the choice to publish their papers (short/long) in pre- and post-proceedings. The paper format of the Workshop’s paper must follow the ACM formatting guidelines, and should be submitted through HotCRP. Accepted papers and talk abstracts will have between 5 and 10 minutes for presentation.

ACM Open policies: ACM papers, excluding “extended abstracts”, need to have an OA institutional agreement or undergo article processing charges (APCs) to be paid by the authors (250 dollars for members, and 350 for non-members) in order to be published. It is not possible to pay for extra pages

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2026. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Important Dates

Submission: November 2, 2025 AoE

Notification: November 24, 2025

Camera-ready: TBA 

Workshop: April 18th