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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** First Call for Research Papers ***</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines,</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026)</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>29 September - 2 October 2026</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ubmVjdGlvbmlzdHMJCQljb25uZWN0aW9uaXN0c0BtYWlsbWFuLnNydi5jcy5jbXUuZWR1CUludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBTb2Z0d2FyZSBhbmQgU3lzdGVtcyBSZXVzZSwgUHJvZHVjdCBMaW5lcywgYW5kIENvbmZpZ3VyYXRpb24gKFZBUklBQklMSVRZIDIwMjYpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBSZXNlYXJjaCBQYXBlcnMJNDE0CVZhcmlhYmlsaXR5CTE3NgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fconf.researchr.org%2Fhome%2Fvariability-2026">https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026</a></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">results in all aspects of software and systems
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>variability management</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">,
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>reuse</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">,
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>software
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>configuration</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">, and
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>customization</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">—than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">successful editions).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability-</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and the best artifact paper.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Topics of Interest</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">limited to:</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Requirements & Domain Engineering</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Domain analysis and variability modeling</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Requirements variability and traceability</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Variability-aware software architectures</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Architecture-centric product line engineering</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Model-driven engineering (MDE)</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">ecosystems</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Implementation & Code Generation</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Modularization techniques for reusable code</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Programming languages and frameworks for variability</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Open-source strategies for software reuse</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Testing and analysis of configurable systems</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Formal Methods for Software Product Lines</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Evolution, Maintenance & Operation</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Machine learning for variability management</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">AI-assisted product configuration</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Recommendation systems for reuse and customization</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Variability and reuse in AI, cyber-physical systems, robotics, automotive, aerospace,
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Tools support for all activities in variability management, configuration, and reuse</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Submission Guidelines</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Paper Types</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">We invite the following types of submissions:</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Full Papers</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> (up to 16 pages excluding references):
Research papers must present</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Short Papers</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short
papers present early-stage </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">motivation, and potential impact.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Formatting</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Papers must use the
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Springer LNCS template</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> according to:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ubmVjdGlvbmlzdHMJCQljb25uZWN0aW9uaXN0c0BtYWlsbWFuLnNydi5jcy5jbXUuZWR1CUludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBTb2Z0d2FyZSBhbmQgU3lzdGVtcyBSZXVzZSwgUHJvZHVjdCBMaW5lcywgYW5kIENvbmZpZ3VyYXRpb24gKFZBUklBQklMSVRZIDIwMjYpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBSZXNlYXJjaCBQYXBlcnMJNDE0CVZhcmlhYmlsaXR5CTE3NgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Springer provides
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>author guidelines</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> that should be consulted for further
details:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ubmVjdGlvbmlzdHMJCQljb25uZWN0aW9uaXN0c0BtYWlsbWFuLnNydi5jcy5jbXUuZWR1CUludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBTb2Z0d2FyZSBhbmQgU3lzdGVtcyBSZXVzZSwgUHJvZHVjdCBMaW5lcywgYW5kIENvbmZpZ3VyYXRpb24gKFZBUklBQklMSVRZIDIwMjYpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBSZXNlYXJjaCBQYXBlcnMJNDE0CVZhcmlhYmlsaXR5CTE3NgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fresource-preview-cms.springernature.com%2Fspringer-cms%2Frest%2Fv1%2Fcontent%2F19242230%2Fdata%2Fv17">https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v17</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Submission Link</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ubmVjdGlvbmlzdHMJCQljb25uZWN0aW9uaXN0c0BtYWlsbWFuLnNydi5jcy5jbXUuZWR1CUludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBTb2Z0d2FyZSBhbmQgU3lzdGVtcyBSZXVzZSwgUHJvZHVjdCBMaW5lcywgYW5kIENvbmZpZ3VyYXRpb24gKFZBUklBQklMSVRZIDIwMjYpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBSZXNlYXJjaCBQYXBlcnMJNDE0CVZhcmlhYmlsaXR5CTE3NgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%3Fconf%3Dvariability2026">https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Paper Originality, Double-Blind Policy, Reviewing</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">All papers must be
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>original</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> and not
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>under review</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> elsewhere. Submissions will be double-</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">blind and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">which will be reviewed as a revision. Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Revisions</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Journal Special Issue</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30%</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Engineering journal (currently under negotiation).</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">First Paper Submission Deadline: 4 December 2025</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">First Notification of Acceptance/Revisions: 16 February 2026</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Camera-Ready Deadline of Directly Accepted Papers: 1 April 2026</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Second Paper Submission Deadline: 2 April 2026</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Second Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Camera-Ready Deadline of Accepted Revised Papers and Directly Accepted Papers: 15
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">July 2025</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Author Registration: 15 July 2025</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Xhevahire
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #262626;">Tërnava</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">,
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #262626;">LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">vLeopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Projects Showcase Chairs</u></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Tutorials Chairs</u></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Proceedings Chair</u></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Local Organiser and Finance Chair</u></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</span></div>
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