Industry TrackVARIABILITY 2026

Call for Industry Track Papers

The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering.

The Industry Track of VARIABILITY 2026 offers a platform for practitioners, researchers, and technology leaders to share practical experiences in industrial settings with reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering across software and systems. Building on the industrial tracks of SPLC, VaMoS, and ICSR, this track bridges research and practice by showcasing how variability, reuse, and product line strategies are being applied and developed in today’s fast-changing industrial environments.

Software systems are becoming increasingly configurable, data-driven, and AI-enabled (e.g., using foundation models), while also integrating advanced technologies such as quantum computing. This growing complexity calls for balancing flexibility, reuse, and quality amid pressures from emerging technologies and sustainability objectives. The Industry Track welcomes submissions that demonstrate how these challenges are addressed in real-world settings, whether through success stories, lessons learned, or reflections on failures that yielded valuable insights.

We especially encourage submissions that demonstrate how variability management, reuse, and configuration approaches are being applied or reimagined in industrial settings, including through AI, digital twins, large language (LLMs) and foundation models, quantum computing, and cyber-physical systems.

The industry aims to:

• Showcase practical experiences from industrial settings using variability, reuse, or configuration techniques.
• Exchange insights between industry practitioners and researchers.
• Identify new industrial challenges and opportunities for future research collaboration.
• Share tools, processes, or organizational approaches that improve adaptability, scalability, and efficiency.

Topics of Interest

We welcome experience reports, case studies, and position papers on any of the topics covered by the VARIABILITY conference. The detailed list of topics can be found on the conference website (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#Call-for-Papers).

In addition to these topics, the industry track welcomes papers also on:

Industrial Applications

• Variability and reuse in AI, cyber-physical systems, robotics, automotive, aerospace, quantum computing, etc.
• Sustainable technologies for variation and sustainable software reuse approaches
• Human, organizational, and social aspects of variable systems and software
• Industrial case studies and lessons learned

Submission Guidelines

Paper Types