Call for Fast Abstracts and Project Highlights

A Fast Abstract (FA) or Project Highlights (PH) paper is a two-page, lightly reviewed technical article. The FA/PH track at ISSRE 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) to: 

• Introduce early original ideas;
• Discuss relevant work-in-progress and ongoing experiences;
• Challenge the SRE status quo on key topics;
• Present critical analyses of prior work;
• Share lessons learned from real-world SRE applications;
• Propose new problems from industrial or academic experience;
• Describe approaches to problems of significance that may not yet have complete results.

 In addition to traditional Fast Abstracts, the track welcomes Project Highlights (PH) papers. PH papers are expected to disseminate results, visions, methodologies, tools, and ongoing activities from national and international research projects (e.g., European, or multi-institutional initiatives).

Project Highlights may include, but are not limited to:

• Overviews of funded research projects and their objectives;
• Project methodologies, architectures, and experimental frameworks;
• Early or intermediate results, including lessons learned and preliminary insights;
• Datasets, benchmarks, tools, platforms, and other project outcomes released or in progress;
• Collaboration experiences, challenges, and emerging research directions from national or international projects. 

Project Highlights that can stimulate discussion and collaboration within the ISSRE community are welcome. Ongoing projects and projects completed not earlier than October 2025 are eligible.

Accepted contributions will be published in the Supplemental Proceedings of ISSRE 2026 and made available via IEEE Xplore.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Reliability, safety, maintainability, security, survivability, resilience, robustness, and other dependability attributes;
• Faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures, and other dependability threats;
• Reliability of all systems, applications, networks, and software, including problems, solutions, and discussions;
• Metrics, measurement, assessment, monitoring, modeling, estimation, and prediction regarding reliability;
• Reliability of AI-powered software systems, including large language models (LLMs), autonomous agents, and AI-enabled applications;
• Other contents about software reliability, such as normative/regulatory/ethical spaces, societal aspects, etc.

Presentations

The presentation might be in the form of a short talk in a Fast Abstracts/Project Highlights session or a poster. Further details about presentations and posters will be shared with authors upon notification.

Important Dates (AoE)

• Submission Deadline: June 15, 2026
• Notification to Authors: August 05, 2026
• Camera-Ready Papers Due: August 19, 2026

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts must be:

• submitted via EasyChair as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file with all fonts embedded;
• written in English and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines.

Manuscripts must adhere to IEEE Conference Publishing Policies < Submission Policies – IEEE Author Center Conferences>. Particularly, they should NOT have been previously published or be under submission elsewhere. All submissions will be screened for plagiarized material through the IEEE Cross Check portal.

Contacts

Please contact the Fast Abstract/Project Highlights Co-chairs (issre2026-fast-abstracts@easychair.org) for any questions or further clarifications.