JAWs 2

The dramatic acceleration of technology challenges research dissemination as never before. The timely visibility of the emerging results has never been so critical to sustain innovation and progress. The JAWs workshop offers the possibility of promptly presenting ideas at an early stage and timely publishing the well-refined results in a TOP SE journal. We welcome papers that present groundbreaking ideas at an early development stage, ask authors to discuss the ideas at JAWs, and publish the results in either ACM TOSEM Transactions of Software Engineering and Methodology or IEEE TSE Transactions on Software Engineering once well worked out. The two-step review process, a first review of the groundbreaking idea for JAWs and a second review of the fully worked-out paper for the journal, will give the early visibility that new ideas deserve and a fast review process that excellent journal papers require for an effective dissemination of the results.

The support of ACM TOSEM and IEEE TSE guarantees the suitable dissemination of the results in the long term, and the repetition of the workshop at the main software engineering events will guarantee the continuity of the initiative over time.

Call for Papers

The recent acceleration of the ever-fast-moving software engineering research demands fast presentation and publication of new results. It is important to timely present and publish them in reputable venues. Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs) ensures the timely publication of thoroughly reviewed, groundbreaking ideas in software engineering.

JAWs offers a forum to researchers and practitioners to discuss ground-breaking ideas as soon as they are available, and quickly publish them in top journals as soon as they mature. The authors of JAW’s papers will discuss their cutting-edge results submitted in September 2026, at the workshop in October 2026, and will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to either ACM TOSEM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology or IEEE TSE Transactions on Software Engineering by October 2027, to get their paper reviewed within three months from the submission, and timpely published, when accepted. The discussion will be organized in a liberating structure, with a full immersion dynamic organization and no planned presentations.

Submissions

We solicit full papers with no more than eight pages, not including bibliography, in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the official “ACM Primary Article Template”, which can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template page.

Submissions should be single-anonymous since they are meant for TOSEM and TSE. There is no need to hide author names and affiliations in the submissions.

Topics of Interest

We welcome papers that discuss big challenges to software engineering research in all areas indicated in the charter of ACM TOSEM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology or IEEE TSE Transactions on Software Engineering. A preliminary list of topics that we expect to complete with the contribution of the submitted papers includes, but is not limited to:

• AI for software engineering
• Software engineering for AI
• Software engineering by and for humans
• Sustainable software engineering
• Satisfiability in software engineering
• Software quality with automated programming
• Software security analysis
• Software supply chain
• Engineering software for edge computing
• Quantum software engineering
• Review process
• Requirements engineering, specification, modeling
• Software design, architecture, code development
• Testing, verification, validation, assurance
• Debugging and code repair
• Documentation, knowledge management, software comprehension
• Software evolution (reverse engineering and maintenance)
• Self adaptive systems (autonomous vehicles and adaptive systems)
• Embedded and cyberphysical systems

All papers will be reviewed with the ACM TOSEM and IEEE TSE single blind review process: The organizer (the ACM TOSEM and IEEE TSE Editors in Chief) will assign each paper to ACM TOSEM or IEEE TSE editors, who will review the paper, and will make a recommendation for both a workshop presentation and an invitation to submit an extended version to TOSEM / TSE. The program committee will decide on acceptance in a virtual committee meeting.

The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to discuss their papers at the workshop, and will be invited to extend their papers for either ACM TOSEM or IEEE TSE. All extended papers will be reviewed for either ACM TOSEM or IEEE TSE. The paper submitted by September 30th, 2027, will be reviewed within 90 days to offer the possibility of a timely publication of novel results.