Call for Papers - Industry Track

The ISSRE Industry Track gathers industry representatives as well as researchers from, within or in collaboration with industry to discuss software reliability, quality assurance as well as experiences and lessons learned.  This year we will bring experiences from self-made tools, usage of AI, generative AI and machine learning in relation to software reliability.

Industry track papers are expected to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to anyone researching or working in the area of software reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with concrete relevance to industrial problems and practical applications.

The 37th edition of ISSRE will be an in-person event in Cyprus, from Oct 20th to Oct 23rd 2026. All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the conference in person.  Participating in the conference would give a chance to meet and discuss with a wide selection of researchers and other industry experts in the area.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, from an industrial and practitioner-oriented perspective. Ask yourself this: Is the work grounded in real-world systems, operational experience, or industrial practice, and does it address reliability or dependability concerns? If it is, you have found the right conference track. For a more detailed list check out the detailed topics list for the research track on this site.

  • Use cases, practical experiences, lessons learned, improvement programs in reliability or dependability.
  • Foundations of reliability and dependability, including process, technology, methods, metrics and lessons learned.
  • Design for reliability or dependability, failure and incident case studies, including experiences in security, testing, verification, and related practices in the field.
  • Reliability in AI-driven and autonomic systems or AI techniques used for Reliability Engineering.
  • Software reliability in any system domain.
  • Trustworthiness, security, and Responsible Software Engineering.
  • Human-centric focus on reliability and dependability.
  • Adoption of reliability standards, measurements and similar experiences.

 We look for papers with good evaluation, honest data, new insights and practical experiences that can be used to help others. We also encourage submissions reporting negative results, unexpected outcomes, and lessons learned from real-world practice.

 

Submission Guidelines and Instructions

We invite three kinds of submissions to the Industry Track:

  • Enlightening talk or Tool demo: 1-2 page abstract (OR a Power Point presentation OR a video for a tool demo)
  • Short paper: 4-pages (including references)
  • Full paper: 6-pages (including references)

All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program Committee. Accepted papers (with an abstract) will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore.

Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines as implemented by the following LaTeX/Word templates:

Each paper must be submitted as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file. All fonts must be embedded. We also strongly recommend that you print the file and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations etc.) before submitting it.

Note that:

  • A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions are not anonymous.
  • Reviewers will use the abstract during the bidding process for peer-review. Thus, the abstract should state the paper goals clearly, along with the means used to achieve them.
  • The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper.
  • Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification.
  • Limit the file size to less than 15 MB (for Video’s – provide a live link)

Papers that exceed the page limits specified, on topics not in the scope of ISSRE, or that do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review.

Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at ISSRE 2026.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the conference and to give the talk, if the paper is accepted.

Best Paper Awards

The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers’ feedback, novelty and potential impact of the results.

The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is in Industry.

Important Dates (AoE)

  • Abstracts Submission: June 28, 2026
  • Full / Short Papers Submission: July 5, 2026
  • Notification to Authors: August 12, 2026
  • Camera Ready Papers Submission: August 19, 2026
  • Enlightening Talks and Tool Demos (without abstract; not to appear in proceedings) Submission: 15 August, 2026

Submission Page

All papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2026

IEEE Conference Publishing Policies

All submissions must adhere to IEEE Conference Publishing Policies: Submission Policies – IEEE Author Center Conferences

IEEE Cross Check

All submissions will be screened for plagiarized material through the IEEE Cross Check portal.