ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

With the rapid expansion of smart homes and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, end-users increasingly require intuitive tools to develop and manage automation programs. Although Home Assistant, one of the most popular open-source smart home platforms, enables flexible automation through YAML-based configuration, text-based programming remains challenging and error-prone for non-expert users. To address this limitation, we extend our previous Smart Block system—a visual programming language originally designed for the SmartThings platform—to support Home Assistant automations. The proposed Smart Block for Home Assistant provides a Blockly-based environment that allows users to visually compose automation rules, automatically generate corresponding YAML code, and reverse existing YAML automations back into visual block representations. Furthermore, we propose an inter-automation conflict analysis method that detects redundancy, inconsistency, and circularity among multiple automations, ensuring program correctness even when heterogeneous automation scripts coexist. This paper presents a progress report on our ongoing study toward building a reliable, visual, and interoperable automation development environment for smart homes.

Sat 18 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

16:00 - 17:30
Development Support and Engineering & Reverse-engineeringSERP4IoT at Capri I
Chair(s): Rodrigo Morales Concordia University
16:00
10m
Short-paper
Bootstrapping IoT Provisioning with PoMA
SERP4IoT
Federico Balaguer Stream S.A., Lucas Gutierrez Stream S.A.
16:10
20m
Full-paper
A Hybrid AHP-TOPSIS Approach for Selecting Message Brokers in IoT Applications
SERP4IoT
Mahdi Turki École de technologie supérieure, Ghizlane El Boussaidi École de Technologie Supérieure, Imen Benzarti Software and Information Technology Engineering Department, École de Technologie Supérieure, Ikram Darif University of Ottawa, Hafedh Mili Université du Québec à Montréal
16:30
10m
Short-paper
When Code Meets Things: The FLOSS Side of IoT Systems
SERP4IoT
Igor Pereira Federal University of Ouro Preto, Tiago Carneiro University Federal of Ouro Preto, Eduardo Figueiredo Federal University of Minas Gerais
16:40
20m
Full-paper
Towards moving target defense for IoT malware detection
SERP4IoT
Ita Ryan University College Cork, Luke Kurlandski Rochester Institute of Technology, Nate Mathews Rochester Institute of Technology
17:00
20m
Full-paper
Reverse Engineering and Control-Aware Security Analysis of the ArduPilot UAV FrameworkVirtual Attendance
SERP4IoT
Yasaswini Konapalli University of North Texas, Lotfi Ben Othmane University of North Texas, Cihan Tunc University of North Texas, USA, Feras Benchellal University of North Texas, Likhita Mudagere Shivaraj University of North Texas
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17:20
10m
Short-paper
A Visual Block Programming Environment for Home Assistant: A Progress ReportVirtual Attendance
SERP4IoT
Mi-Hyeon Seo Chonnam National University, Hyeon-Ah Moon Chonnam National University, Kwanghoon Choi Chonnam National University, Seungchan Park IGLOO Corp., Byeong-Mo Chang
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