Research TrackInternetware 2026

The Internet is an open, dynamic, and constantly evolving environment that continuously introduces new requirements for software systems. As the network landscape has shifted from intranets to the global Internet, software paradigms have likewise evolved—from object-oriented models to component-based and service-oriented approaches. These paradigms must continuously adapt to changing hardware platforms, human needs, and application domains, giving rise to the need for a new software paradigm specifically designed for the Internet: Internetware.

Internetware 2026 provides a premier forum for presenting cutting-edge research at the 17th edition of a conference that has played a pivotal role in shaping the Internetware paradigm. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines to address the fundamental challenges of building autonomous, adaptive, and cooperative software systems in open and dynamic Internet environments. With an emphasis on theoretical foundations, empirical studies, and experimental validation, Internetware 2026 aims to foster collaboration across academia, industry, and application domains, advancing the development of software systems capable of operating effectively in unpredictable and distributed Internet ecosystems.

Call for Papers

Internet is open, dynamic, and meets a constantly changing environment. These characteristics impose new requirements on software over Internet. The goals or values of software paradigm is to better utilize hardware capabilities or runtime features, as well as to provide a more expressive and natural computing model from the perspective of application domain. In that sense, software paradigm can be considered as a reflection of the runtime environment and application domain. When the dominant network environment changed from Intranet to Internet, software paradigm shifts from object-oriented to component-based and service-oriented. Therefore, software paradigm is very related to environment changes such as hardware and human itself. The new software paradigm is needed for Internet, and it is called as Internetware. Internetware is constructed by a set of autonomic software entities distributed over the Internet, and a set of connectors enabling the collaborating among these entities in various manners.

In recent years, intelligent information fusion and artificial intelligence have become increasingly important in large-scale and ubiquitous computing environments. Advances in computational power, machine learning techniques, and the availability of massive datasets have led to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), which are transforming the way software systems interact with data, users, and execution environments. LLMs are blurring the boundary between human and machine-generated content and are opening new opportunities for Internetware systems, particularly in human–cyber–physical ubiquitous computing scenarios. These developments raise new research challenges in software architecture, dependability, performance, trustworthiness, and system governance.

This conference aims to provide an interactive forum where researchers and professionals from multiple disciplines and domains meet and exchange ideas to explore and address the challenges brought by Internetware.

Internetware 2026 will be held on July 18–20, 2026, in Gold Coast, Australia.

Topic of Interests

We solicit submissions describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research related to Internetware. Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

• Software Engineering for/with Big Data
• Software Engineering for/with Artificial Intelligence
• Novel Software Paradigm for Internetware
• Modeling and Implementation of Internetware
• Research and Applications in Ubiquitous Operating Systems
• Human Aspects in Ubiquitous Operating Systems
• Human-Cyber-Physical Ternary Ubiquitous Computing Applied in Internetware
• Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)
• Operating System and Internetware
• Intelligent Information Fusion
• Requirements Engineering for Internetware
• Software Analysis, Verification, and Testing
• Mining Software Repositories
• Software Dependability, Trustworthiness and Confidence
• Software Architecture and Design
• Crowd-based Methods, Techniques and Tools for Internetware
• Social-technical Models and Techniques
• Software Ecosystem Practices and Experiences
• Software Models and Techniques for Internet-based Systems such as Cloud Computing, Service Computing, Social Computing, Mobile Internet, Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems

How to Submit

All submissions must not exceed 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, appendices, etc. Two more pages containing only references are permitted. All submissions must be in English and in PDF format. Submissions that do not comply with the above instructions will be desk rejected without review. Please use the ACM Primary Article Template (double column), as can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template pages.

Submissions to internetware 2026 conference that meet the above requirements can be made via the internetware 2026 submission site (https://internetware2026.hotcrp.com) by the submission deadline. We encourage the authors to upload their paper info early (and can submit the PDF later) to properly enter conflicts for double-anonymous reviewing.

Awards

A subset of the Research Track papers accepted for presentation at Internetware 2026 will be invited to be revised and extended for consideration in a thematic special issues of the Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE) and Springer Automated Software Engineering Journal (ASEJ). The best papers of the research track will be awarded with an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at Internetware.

Review and Evaluation Criteria

The Internetware 2026 conference will 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. In particular:

• Authors’ names must be omitted from the submission.
• All references to the author’s prior work should be in the third person.
• While authors have the right to upload preprints on ArXiV or similar sites, they should avoid specifying that the manuscript was submitted to Internetware 2026.
• During review, authors should not publicly use the submission title.

Internetware 2026 will follow the ACM SIGSOFT rules on Conflicts of Interest and Confidentiality of Submissions, and all authors, reviewers, organizers are expected to uphold the ACM Code of Conduct.