Research Track
The Research Track is open to novel research contributions on the topics detailed in the ICPE-2026 Call for Contributions. Papers submitted to this track will be reviewed for novelty, relevance, technical quality and scientific soundness by at least three members of the Research Track Program Committee. The track distinguishes two paper types:
- Regular research papers describing original research content with a compelling evaluation.
- Empirical / Experience / Reproduction / Case Study (EERCS) papers focusing on empirical evaluation, real life experiences, reproductions or case studies. These papers may describe new experiences with, and/or insights from, the application of existing approaches or methodologies. Both positive and negative reproduction studies are welcome.
The submission deadlines are listed on the important dates page.
The ICPE 2026 Research Track will employ a double-anonymous review process. Submissions must not reveal their authors’ identities. All authors must comply with the double-anonymous review process:
- Authors’ names must be omitted from the submission.
- All references to the authors’ prior work should be in the third person.
- All communication with the program committee must go through the program committee chairs. Authors must not contact individual program committee members regarding their submissions.
Please see the Double Anonymized FAQ for more details.
Submissions are made via HotCRP and must be in the standard ACM format for conference proceedings. More specifically, the double-column format must be used for all paper submissions, which should be typeset using the ACM Latex (preferred) or Word template. Papers must not exceed 10 pages, including all figures and tables, but not including references and appendices. Note that the appendices will not be published in the conference proceedings, so the submissions should be self-contained, with appendices only including supplementary material.
The camera-ready version of the accepted papers will be allowed to use up to 2 extra pages to remove anonymization, and to address potential shepherding comments, but may not add significant non-reviewed content.
To promote research reproducibility, the authors of the accepted research papers in this track are encouraged to submit an artifact to the conference Artifact Track. After the artifact review, such papers will be awarded an artifact badge following the ACM Artifact Review and Badging policy.
The conference Award Committee will recognize the best submissions with an ACM/SPEC Best Paper Award.
Instructions for Authors from ACM
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Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.
Program Chairs
- Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
- Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Twente and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Program Committee
For a list of program committee members, please refer to the program committee page.