8th International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Practices for the IoTSERP4IoT 2026

IoT systems comprise software systems that enable solutions for device connectivity, device management, data management, application development, and advanced analytics for/from connected IoT systems. Software engineering is vital for IoT to design systems that are secure, interoperable, modifiable, and scalable. However, there is no consensus on crucial questions like what the best practices are for developing projects for IoT, how to select the best architecture, which communications protocols are the most suitable, and what the best practices are in terms of security.

SERP4IoT 2026 aims to provide a highly interactive forum for researchers and practitioners to address the challenges of, find solutions, and share experiences with the development, release, and testing of robust software for IoT devices and systems. The workshop will consist of keynotes presented by academic experts and practitioners from industry, long- and short-paper presentations, talks, poster sessions, working groups after each lighting session, and a fishbowl panel for semi-structured group discussions at the end of the workshop.

This year, we are providing a hybrid format, where remote and in-person sessions are mingled to reach more people in the IoT community.

Topics for papers and talks include, but are not limited to:

• Software engineering (SE) practices in IoT projects
• Software security and reliability in IoT products
• Architecture and design models and techniques in IoT projects
• Software quality management in IoT projects
• Usability aspects in IoT projects
• Software development tools, platforms, and environments for IoT teaching
• SE practices in industrial IoT (IIoT) SE practices in domain-specific IoT projects, e.g., smart city, retail, logistics, healthcare, transportation, utilities SE methods and techniques for IoT projects
• Risk and evaluation techniques for software development in IoT projects
• Big data and analytics in IoT projects
• Context-awareness.
• Model-based SE for IoT projects
• SE practices for IoT projects
• Software orchestration for IoT
• Green and eco-friendly software for IoT
• Context-aware software for IoT
• Local, edge, and cloud-based IoT services

Accepted Papers

	Title
	A Hybrid AHP-TOPSIS Approach for Selecting Message Brokers in IoT Applications SERP4IoT Mahdi Turki, Ghizlane El Boussaidi, Imen Benzarti, Ikram Darif, Hafedh Mili
	A Visual Block Programming Environment for Home Assistant: A Progress Report SERP4IoT Mi-Hyeon Seo, Hyeon-Ah Moon, Kwanghoon Choi, Seungchan Park, Byeong-Mo Chang Media Attached
	BLISS: A Visual Modeling Notation for Engineering Energy-Harvesting IoT Systems SERP4IoT Adriano Branco, João Pedro Coutinho, Markus Endler
	Bootstrapping IoT Provisioning with PoMA SERP4IoT Federico Balaguer, Lucas Gutierrez
	Cross-Organizational Data Governance for Industrial Digital Twins Using Blockchain and IPFS SERP4IoT Jules Martial Yin-belta Mbara, Fehmi Jaafar, Pierre-Martin Tardif
	Enabling Digital Twins in Built Environments with Object-Oriented Models SERP4IoT Peter Yefi, Reiner Braun, Philipp Regel, Ramanunni Parakkal Menon, Ursula Eicker
	End-to-End Building Model Generation and Validation with CITYdata and MetamEnTh SERP4IoT Sikandar Ejaz, Peter Yefi, Ursula Eicker, Oriol Gavalda
	Foundations for Multi-Logic Modelling and Supervision of Cyber–Physical IoT Agents SERP4IoT Burak Karaduman, Moharram Challenger
	From Robotic to IoT Systems: Exploring the Reuse of a Robotic Orchestration DSL in the IoT domain SERP4IoT Felipe Xavier, Loek Cleophas, Michel Chaudron
	ObsAct: a Programming Model for Opportunistic IoT Applications using the Mobile-Hub SERP4IoT Felipe Carvalho, Vitor Pinheiro, Markus Endler, Francisco José da Silva e Silva
	Preliminary Usability Experimentation of a Pattern-Driven Middleware for IoT Data Processing in Research Environments SERP4IoT Zongo Meyo, Gabriel C. Ullmann, Oriol Gavalda
	Reverse Engineering and Control-Aware Security Analysis of the ArduPilot UAV Framework SERP4IoT Yasaswini Konapalli, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Cihan Tunc, Feras Benchellal, Likhita Mudagere Shivaraj Media Attached
	The Energy Consumption Graph: A Model-Driven Architecture for IIoT-based Industrial Energy Auditing SERP4IoT Liya Elizabeth Koshy, Dr. Stanley Yung-Ping Chien, Dr. Jie Chen, Dr. Da-Chun Wu
	Towards Holistic IoT Systems Profiling: Integrating Energy Consumption with Performance Metrics using SPECTRA SERP4IoT Rushin Dipak Makwana
	Towards moving target defense for IoT malware detection SERP4IoT Ita Ryan, Luke Kurlandski, Nate Mathews
	When Code Meets Things: The FLOSS Side of IoT Systems SERP4IoT Igor Pereira, Tiago Carneiro, Eduardo Figueiredo

Call for Papers

Prospective participants, from the academy and industry, are invited to submit papers describing their work or ideas related to the workshop topic, under the following formats:

• Long paper (8 pages)
• Short paper (4 pages)
• Extended abstract (max. 5 pages, free of APC charges) or
• Poster (1 page)

Short and long papers should identify challenges, discuss opposing viewpoints, outline processes, or present solutions related to any aspects of software engineering for IoT. Authors will have the choice to publish their papers (short/long) in pre- and post-proceedings. The paper format of the Workshop’s paper must follow the ACM formatting guidelines, and should be submitted through HotCRP. Accepted papers and talk abstracts will have between 5 and 10 minutes for presentation.

ACM Open policies: ACM papers, excluding “extended abstracts”, need to have an OA institutional agreement or undergo article processing charges (APCs) to be paid by the authors (250 dollars for members, and 350 for non-members) in order to be published. It is not possible to pay for extra pages.

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2026. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Eduardo Cerqueira (UFPA)

Holographic Type Communication: Are you ready for the next step in communication?

Abstract: This keynote talk will first give an introduction about Immersive communications in 6G systems, highlighting Holographic-Type Communications (HTC). A set of use cases and requirements for HTC will be presented. In addition, this keynote will present some ideas and projects from both industry and academia related to HTC. Finally an overview of research challenges and opportunities will be presented to stimulate further collaborative research in this exciting area.

Short bio: Eduardo Cerqueira received the Ph.D. degree in informatics engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2008. He was an Invited Auxiliary Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, from 2008 to 2009, and a Visitor Scholar at the Computer Science Department, University of California in Los Angeles, from 2013 to 2014. He is a Full Professor with the Faculty of Computer Engineering and Telecommunications, Federal University of Para, Brazil. His publications include eight edited books, ten book chapters, four patents, and over 280 papers in national/international refereed journals/conferences. He has served as a Guest Editor for 9 special issues for various peer-reviewed scholarly journals. His research interests include edge computing, machine learning, immersive communications, smart cities, mobility, and wireless networks.