Research PapersFORGE 2027

Call for Papers

The 4th ACM International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (FORGE 2027)

Co-located with ICSE 2027
Dublin, Ireland – April 26-27, 2027

The 4th ACM International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (FORGE 2027), co-located with ICSE 2027, provides a premier venue for researchers, practitioners, and educators from the AI and Software Engineering community to solve the new challenges that we meet in the era of foundation models.

Foundation models, including large language models (LLMs), vision-language models, code foundation models, and increasingly autonomous AI agents are now integral to software development, maintenance, testing, operations, and evolution. At the same time, building reliable, efficient, secure, and trustworthy AI systems presents new software engineering challenges that require principled engineering methodologies.

FORGE 2027 will be held on Mon 26 - Tue 27 2027, in Dublin, Ireland.

Topics of Interest

We solicit submissions describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research related to Software Engineering with Foundation Models. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Foundation Models for Requirement Engineering and Software Design
• Foundation Models for Code Generation/Reuse
• Foundation Models for Software Quality Assurance (e.g., including code review, analysis, testing, and debugging)
• Foundation Models to Support Software Evolution (e.g., refactoring, technical debt management)
• Foundation Models for Software Security and Privacy
• Foundation Models for AIOps
• Foundation Models for Software Supply Chain Management, e.g., Foundation Model-based vulnerability identification, software composition analysis
• LLM Agents for SE tasks, e.g., how to use various Foundation Models (e.g., LangChain) to complete a SE task.
• Prompt Engineering for Software Development
• Legal and Human Aspects of using Foundation Models
• Software Engineering for Foundation Models (e.g., Testing and verification of Foundation Models or Foundation Model-based systems)

Note that the aforementioned topics may not be limited to Foundation Models, but may also refer to new technology based on how AI models evolve.

The best papers will be awarded with an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FORGE.

How to Submit

We accept both full and new idea papers:

• Full Papers are expected to present new techniques, and/or provide research results, and/or report industry/open-source practice when applying foundation models for SE, and should be evaluated in a scientific way. Full Paper must not exceed 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, appendices, etc. Two more pages containing only references are permitted.
• New Idea Papers should present new ideas in the field, e.g., new directions or techniques that are not yet fully developed and/or evaluated, or visions that show the future of AI foundation models and SE. Accepted new idea papers will present their ideas in a short lightning talk. New Idea Paper must not exceed 4 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, appendices, etc. Two additional pages containing only references are permitted.

All submissions must be in PDF. The page limit is strict, and it will not be possible to purchase additional pages at any point in the process (including after acceptance). We employ 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. Advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-anonymous review process can be found on the ICSE Q&A page.

All submissions must conform 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}.

All papers must be written in English. The authors are strongly encouraged to use the HotCRP format checker on their submissions. Note that the format checker is not perfect. In particular, it can complain about small fonts in figures, footnotes, or references. As long as the main text follows the requested format, and the figures are readable, the paper will not be rejected for format violations. If you have any concerns, please contact the program chairs.

All papers should be made accessible to people with disabilities. Some guidelines from the SIGACCESS community are available here: https://assets21.sigaccess.org/creating_accessible_pdfs.html.

Please submit your paper on HotCRP: https://forge2027.hotcrp.com/.

Review Criteria

Following the review criteria of ICSE 2027, each paper submitted to the FORGE 2027 will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

1. Novelty: The novelty and innovativeness of contributed solutions, problem formulations, methodologies, theories, and/or evaluations, i.e., the extent to which the paper is sufficiently original with respect to the state-of-the-art.
2. Rigor: The soundness, clarity, and depth of a technical or theoretical contribution, and the level of thoroughness and completeness of an evaluation. For “New Idea Papers”, a preliminary evaluation is welcome, but not required.
3. Relevance: The significance and/or potential impact of the research on the field of foundation models and software engineering.
4. Verifiability and Transparency: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to understand how an innovation works; to understand how data was obtained, analyzed, and interpreted; and how the paper supports independent verification or replication of the paper’s claimed contributions. Any artifacts attached to or linked from the paper will be checked by one reviewer. Authors are strongly encouraged to make artifacts—including code, datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation scripts—publicly available whenever possible to facilitate reproducibility.
5. Presentation: The clarity of the exposition in the paper.

Reviewers will carefully consider all of the above criteria during the review process, and authors should take great care in clearly addressing them all. The paper should clearly explain and justify the claimed contributions.

Important Dates

All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth.

• Abstract registration: October 25, 2026
• Paper submission: October 30, 2026
• Author notification: January 4, 2027
• Camera ready: January 25, 2027