PROMISE 2026

The International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (PROMISE) is an annual forum for researchers and practitioners to present, discuss and exchange ideas, results, expertise and experiences in construction and/or application of predictive models, artificial intelligence, and data analytics in software engineering. PROMISE encourages researchers to publicly share their data in order to provide interdisciplinary research between the software engineering and data mining communities, and seek for verifiable and repeatable experiments that are useful in practice.

Call for Papers

The International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (PROMISE) welcomes four types of submissions:

Technical papers (10 pages)

• PROMISE accepts a wide range of papers where AI tools have been applied to SE such as predictive modeling and other AI methods.
• Both positive and negative results are welcome, though negative results should still be based on rigorous research and provide details on lessons learned.

Industrial papers (2–4 pages)

• Results, challenges, lessons learned from industrial applications of software analytics.

New idea papers (2–4 pages)

• Novel insights or ideas that may yet to be fully tested.

Journal First

• Selected papers will be invited for journal first presentations at PROMISE. Details to follow.

Topics of Interest

PROMISE papers can explore any of the following topics (or more).

Application-oriented papers:

• prediction of cost, effort, quality, defects, business value;
• quantification and prediction of other intermediate or final properties of interest in software development regarding people, process or product aspects;
• using predictive models and data analytics in different settings, e.g. lean/agile, waterfall, distributed, community-based software development;
• dealing with changing environments in software engineering tasks;
• dealing with multiple-objectives in software engineering tasks;
• using predictive models and software data analytics in policy and decision-making;
• generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and “vibe coding” for prediction and development.

Ethically-aligned papers:

• Can we apply and adjust our AI-for-SE tools (including predictive models) to handle ethical non-functional requirements such as inclusiveness, transparency, oversight and accountability, privacy, security, reliability, safety, diversity and fairness?

Theory-oriented papers:

• model construction, evaluation, sharing and reusability;
• interdisciplinary and novel approaches to predictive modelling and data analytics that contribute to the theoretical body of knowledge in software engineering;
• verifying/refuting/challenging previous theory and results;
• combinations of predictive models and search-based software engineering;
• the effectiveness of human experts vs. automated models in predictions.

Data-oriented papers:

• data quality, sharing, and privacy;
• curated data sets made available for the community to use;
• ethical issues related to data collection and sharing;
• metrics;
• tools and frameworks to support researchers and practitioners to collect data and construct models to share/repeat experiments and results.

Validity-oriented papers:

• replication and repeatability of previous work using predictive modelling and data analytics in software engineering;
• assessment of measurement metrics for reporting the performance of predictive models;
• evaluation of predictive models with industrial collaborators.

Submissions

PROMISE 2026 submissions must meet the following criteria:

• be original work, not published or under review elsewhere while being considered;
• conform to the submission format requirements of the FSE 2026 Companion proceedings;
• not exceed 10 (4) pages for technical (industrial, new-ideas) papers including references;
• be written in English;
• be prepared for double blind review.

> Exception: For data-oriented papers, authors may elect not to use double blind by placing a footnote on page 1 saying “Offered for single-blind review”.

• be submitted via HotCRP;
• on submission, please choose the paper category appropriately, i.e.,
  technical (main track, 10 pages max); industrial (4 pages max); and new idea papers (4 pages max).

For Industrial papers and New Idea papers, please clearly indicate the paper category in the keywords below the abstract.

To satisfy the double blind requirement submissions must meet the following criteria: - no author names and affiliations in the body and metadata of the submitted paper; - self-citations are written in the third person; - no references to the authors personal, lab, or university website; - no references to personal accounts on GitHub, bitbucket, Google Drive, etc.

Evaluation

Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three experts from the international program committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality, and consistency of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work.

Important Dates

• Abstracts due: Jan 9th, 2026 AoE
• Submissions due: Jan 16th, 2026 AoE
• Author notification: March 6th, 2026 AoE
• Camera ready: April 2nd, 2026 AoE
• Conference Date: TBD

Open Access

Starting 2026, all articles published by ACM will be made Open Access. This is greatly beneficial to the advancement of computer science and leads to increased usage and citation of research. Most authors will be covered by ACM OPEN agreements by that point and will not have to pay Article Processing Charges (APC). Check if your institution participates in ACM OPEN. Authors not covered by ACM OPEN agreements may have to pay APC; however, ACM is offering several automated and discretionary APC Waivers and Discounts.

Submissions must follow the latest policies from ACM (“ACM Policy on Authorship”, with associated FAQ), which includes a policy specific to the use of generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT.

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

Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed.

We also strongly encourage authors to submit their tools and data to Zenodo, which adheres to FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable) principles and provides DOI versioning.

Journal Special Section

Following the conference, the authors of the best papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration in a special section in the journal Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE). More detailed to be released.

Publication and Attendance

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available electronically via ACM Digital Library.

Each accepted paper needs to have one registration at the full conference rate and be presented in person at the conference.