ASE 2026
Mon 12 - Fri 16 October 2026 Munich, Germany

The First International Workshop on Automated Techniques for Integrity and Quality in Software-Engineering Research

With the availability of increasingly powerful tools to support conducting and reporting on software-engineering (SE) research, the submission counts to top tier SE venues increase dramatically, as also seen for ASE 2025 (graphic by Xovee Xu).

In order to ensure that this increase does not come at the expense of research quality, scalable and reliable automated techniques are needed to support academic peer review and publishing practices. These include traditional automated techniques, e.g., querying publicly available databases to validate the integrity of bibliography entries as implemented in the hallucinator tool, but also AI-based review support as implemented at the AAAI conferences and everything in between (e.g. TPMS for automating bidding and review assignment).

The goal of the workshop is to provide a platform for researchers working on or with such techniques.

Plenary
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12:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 16:00
ATIQSER Opening, Keynote, and TalksATIQSER at Forum 9
Chair(s): Jürgen Cito TU Wien, Ben Hermann University of Stuttgart
14:00
10m
Day opening
Welcome to ATIQSER 2026
ATIQSER
Jürgen Cito TU Wien, Ben Hermann University of Stuttgart
14:10
50m
Keynote
What We Learned in 15 Years of Artifact Evaluation
ATIQSER
Ben Hermann University of Stuttgart
15:00
20m
Talk
doi-checker: A Tool for Validating References of Research Papers
ATIQSER
Dirk Beyer LMU Munich, Marian Lingsch-Rosenfeld LMU Munich
DOI
15:20
20m
Talk
ATIBA: Grounded Integrity and Quality Checking for Research Papers
ATIQSER
Veli Karakaya Bilkent University, Semih Çağlar Bilkent University, Turkey, Yusuf Yiğit Korkmaz Bilkent University, Eray Tüzün Bilkent University
DOI
15:40
20m
Talk
RefVerifier: Semi-Automated Reference Claim Verification for Scientific Manuscripts
ATIQSER
Stefania Mocan Technical University of Munich, Florian Angermeir fortiss, Mark Kreitz University of the Bundeswehr Munich
DOI Pre-print

Call for Contributions

We solicit contributions related to automated techniques for assessing and improving integrity and quality in software engineering research. Such techniques include, but are not limited to those that

  • support academic peer review, including review assignments and review assistance
  • support research artifact creation, evaluation, and preservation
  • detect scientific misconduct (plagiarism and AI-generated content, hallucinated or unjustified references, simultaneous submissions, peer review collusions, etc.)
  • perform compliance checks against community norms or publishers’ requirements
  • validate the correct processing of camera-ready submissions by publishing service providers
  • improve scholarly writing practice to reduce errors (e.g., via literate programming)
  • improve type-setting and article presentation for better accessibility of the material

We welcome two types of submission formats:

  • Tool papers and experience reports (6p + up to 2p references)
  • Extended abstracts (2p including references)

Submissions

The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library and submissions must use ACM’s template: \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members in a double-blind process.

All submissions must be made via the submission system by the submission deadline on August 13th AoE.

Questions? Use the ATIQSER contact form.