JAWs 2026

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 relevant results for the community are more and more often previewed on Arxiv, and presented in webinars before publication in software engineering journals and presentation at software engineering events.

The JAWs workshop aims to strengthen the software engineering community by offering the possibility of promptly presenting ideas at an early stage, and yet supporting timely publication of wellrefined results in top SE journals. The participants will be invited to submit papers that present groundbreaking ideas at an early development stage, and publish the results in either ACM TOSEM Transactions of Software Engineering and Methodology of IEEE TSE Transactions on Software Engineering as soon as completely 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 journals, 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 main goal and outcome of JAWs is to balance timeliness and quality of the research articles in software engineering. Software engineering has always been a fast-moving field; however recently the pace of growth and development of the field has accelerated, due to the great influence of AI in software engineering. While many important and fresh new ideas are being generated, they are often lost in the sea of Arxiv reports. It is important to present and publish them in reputable venues, in a timely fashion. JAWs addresses this issue by ensuring the timely publication of high quality fresh ideas in the field of software engineering. Today, many papers appear first in Arxiv, and are presented and published in conference proceedings only much later. Arxiv reports are not peer reviewed and thus do not benefit from community feedback in a structured fashion.

JAWs offers a forum where researchers and practitioners can present and discuss ground-breaking ideas as soon as available, and quickly publish them in archive journals as soon as they mature. JAWs will promote academia-industry interaction, allowing the development of cutting edge ideas with an eye towards their practical usage and deployment. Developing ideas via discussions at the workshop, followed by subsequent journal peer review will ensure publication of high-quality, developed, and cutting edge fresh ideas in software engineering.