VARIABILITY 2026
Tue 29 September - Fri 2 October 2026

Lunch, Dinner, Coffee-breaks

Dates
Plenary
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Tue 29 Sep

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08:30 - 17:00
10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

Wed 30 Sep

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10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

11:00 - 12:30
Feature Modeling FoundationsJournal First / Project Showcase / Social and Networking Events / Industry Track / Research Papers at PANORAMA
Chair(s): Xhevahire Tërnava LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
11:00
22m
Talk
Enabling SAT-based Analysis of Cardinality-Based Feature Models By Unfolding
Research Papers
Lukas Güthing Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
11:22
22m
Talk
Reconstruction of Cardinality Constraints for Multi-Instance Configuration Spaces
Research Papers
11:45
22m
Talk
Towards Decentralized Feature Models
Research Papers
Mukelabai Mukelabai Ruhr University Bochum, Johan Martinson Ruhr University Bochum, Wardah Mahmood Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Rafael Capilla Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Thorsten Berger Ruhr University Bochum
12:07
15m
Talk
FM-PRO: A Feature Modeling Process
Journal First
Thorsten Berger Ruhr University Bochum, Jude Gyimah , Johan Martinson Ruhr University Bochum, Wardah Mahmood Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

14:00 - 15:30
Human and Organizational Aspects of VariabilityJournal First / Project Showcase / Social and Networking Events / Industry Track / Research Papers at PANORAMA
Chair(s): Rick Rabiser LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz
14:00
22m
Talk
An Instrument for Measuring Variability Thinking
Research Papers
David Romero Organvídez , Jesus Moreno , José A Galindo University of Seville, David Benavides Universidad de Sevilla
14:22
22m
Talk
Software Reuse in the Age of AI: A Survey of Practices, Satisfaction, and Barriers
Research Papers
Iris Reinhartz-Berger University of Haifa, Zarima Fram
14:45
22m
Talk
Usability Analysis of Configurator User Interfaces with Multimodal Large Language Models
Research Papers
Sebastian Lubos Graz University of Technology, Alexander Felfernig Graz University of Technology, Damian Garber Graz University of Technology, Adnan Kraljić , Tarik Kraljić , Viet-Man Le Graz University of Technology, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran , Gerhard Leitner , Julian Schwazer , Doris Suppan , Reinhard Willfort , Ivan Dukic , Jeremias Fuchs , Manuel Henrich UNiQUARE Software Development GmbH
Pre-print
15:07
15m
Talk
Community-Driven Variability: Characterizing a new Software Variability Paradigm -- Summary
Journal First
Roman Bögli University of Bern, Alexander Boll University of Bern, Alexander Schultheiß Humboldt University of Berlin, Timo Kehrer University of Bern
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:06
Variability in Industrial and Cyber-Physical SystemsJournal First / Project Showcase / Social and Networking Events / Industry Track / Research Papers at PANORAMA
Chair(s): Martin Becker Fraunhofer IESE
16:00
22m
Talk
Is it Satisfiable? SMT-Based Consistency Checking in Variability-Intensive Cyber-Physical Production Systems
Research Papers
Malte Grave CDL VaSiCS, LIT CPS Lab, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Fabio Baraldi , Lisa Sonnleithner CDL VaSiCS, LIT CPS Lab, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Rick Rabiser LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz
16:22
22m
Talk
Towards Consistent, Variability-Aware Views in Systems Development
Research Papers
Fabian Eger Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Lars König Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Thomas Weber Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Dirk Neumann Karlsruhe KIT, Kevin Feichtinger Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Erik Burger Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Ralf Reussner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and FZI - Research Center for Information Technology (FZI)
16:44
22m
Talk
Understanding Variability Evolution in Automotive Product Lines - Insights from Volkswagen
Industry Track

Thu 1 Oct

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10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:00
Most Influential Paper AwardsMIP Award at PANORAMA
Chair(s): Thorsten Berger Ruhr University Bochum, Gilles Perrouin Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS & University of Namur
16:00
30m
Awards
Using machine learning to infer constraints for product lines
MIP Award
Paul Temple IRISA, José A Galindo University of Seville, Mathieu Acher INSA; University of Rennes; Inria; CNRS; IRISA, Jean-Marc Jézéquel Univ Rennes, IUF, INRIA, CNRS, IRISA
Link to publication DOI
16:30
30m
Awards
FeatureIDE: An extensible framework for feature-oriented software development
MIP Award
Thomas Thüm TU Braunschweig, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Fabian Benduhn , Jens Meinicke Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Gunter Saake University of Magdeburg, Germany, Thomas Leich Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Link to publication DOI

Fri 2 Oct

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10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:45 - 17:00
Farewell & Next VARIABILITY Editions Closing at PANORAMA
Chair(s): Thorsten Berger Ruhr University Bochum, George Angelos Papadopoulos University of Cyprus, Gilles Perrouin Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS & University of Namur
16:45
15m
Day closing
Closing
Closing
Gilles Perrouin Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS & University of Namur, George Angelos Papadopoulos University of Cyprus, Thorsten Berger Ruhr University Bochum

Unscheduled Events

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