ReCode 2026

Workshop Overview

The ReCode workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to address the challenges and opportunities in translating/migrating code across languages, refactoring legacy systems, evolving software architectures, and enabling seamless modernization. We encourage contributions that bridge theory and practice, introduce reusable frameworks, and demonstrate successful applications in real-world modernization scenarios. The workshop will consist of invited talks, presentations based on research papers, and a panel discussion, where all participants are invited to share their insights and ideas to identify a research roadmap.

Why attend the Recode workshop?

1. We have planned speakers from big Tech to discuss the challenges and opportunities concerning code translation, transformation, and migration at a large scale. Along with academic attendance, such talks and discussions can form the future of a research area and expedite advancements in the field.

2. Student authors of the accepted papers and workshop registrants can submit their CVs to our database for internship/full-time opportunities, which we plan to share with industry participants (please note that this does not guarantee an interview or position). Once you register for the workshop, or if your submission is accepted to appear in the workshop proceedings, please submit your CV to our database: https://forms.gle/BobDr2qAyjDWrrmt7

3. The workshop will grant **Best Paper Awards" to the top accepted research papers. More information about the award will be added later.

Call for Papers

The ReCode workshop will welcome six categories of submissions: (1) research papers (6 pages), (2) position papers (up to 4 pages), (3) industry/experience reports (6 pages), (4) education and training papers (6 pages), (5) benchmarks, and (6) extended abstracts (five pages).

All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the ICSE’26 workshops. We also provide a non-archival option at the time of submission for the authors who prefer not to have their papers in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper should register for the workshop and present the paper in the workshop.

We welcome research related to workshop topics. We are interested in theoretical or empirical papers that explore one or more of the following perspectives (please reach out to the organizers if you would like to submit a paper with a relevant topic that is not listed here):

Code Translation

1. New techniques for code translation
2. Assessing state-of-the-art C to Rust translations
3. Code translation validation
4. Benchmarking code translation
5. LLM-based code translation
6. Code transpilation
7. Neuro-symbolic code translation
8. Metrics for evaluating code translation
9. Cross-language equivalence

Code Refactoring

1. Automated refactoring
2. Refactoring for code translation
3. Refactoring for application modernization
4. Refactoring large-scale projects

Application Modernization/Migration

1. Architecture modernization
2. Code modernization
3. Monolithic to microservice transformation
4. Modernization validation

Submission Process

All submissions must be 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. LaTeX users should use the sigconf option, as well as the review (to produce line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers) and anonymous (omitting author names) options. To that end, the following LaTeX code can be placed at the start of the LaTeX document: \documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}.

Submissions must strictly conform to the ACM conference proceedings formatting instructions specified above. Alterations of spacing, font size, and other changes that deviate from the instructions may result in desk rejection without further review.

ReCode employs a double-anonymous review process. Thus, no submission may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-anonymous review process. Further advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-anonymous review process can be found on the ICSE conference Q&A page.