5^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Automation (SEAU 2026)

August 15 ~ 16, 2026,Melbourne, Australia

Scope & Topics

5^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Automation (SEAU 2026) serves as a premier global forum for presenting and exchanging the latest innovations, research findings, methodologies and industrial experiences in Software Engineering and Automation. As modern software systems grow in complexity and scale, the need for advanced engineering principles, intelligent automation and interdisciplinary collaboration has never been greater. SEAU 2026 aims to bring together leading researchers, practitioners and industry experts to explore these evolving challenges and opportunities.

Authors are invited to contribute high quality submissions that showcase original research results, innovative applications, case studies, surveys and industrial insights demonstrating significant progress in software engineering and automation. The topics listed below represent the comprehensive and forward looking scope of SEAU 2026, capturing both established research areas and the most recent trends shaping the future of the discipline.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

Foundations and Advances in Software Engineering

• Software Engineering Theory and Foundations
  
• Formal Methods, Verification and Model Checking
  
• Static, Dynamic and Hybrid Program Analysis
  
• Requirements Engineering and Modeling
  
• Software Architecture, Design and Patterns
  
• Software Evolution, Maintenance and Refactoring
  
• Empirical Software Engineering & Evidence Based SE
  
• Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
  
• Socio Technical Systems and Organizational SE Research
  
• Cognitive Aspects of Software Engineering
  AI Driven, LLM Driven and Agentic Software Engineering
  
• LLM Driven Software Engineering (generation, repair, refactoring, planning)
  
• AI Agents for Autonomous Software Development
  
• Multi Agent Systems for End to End Software Engineering
  
• Prompt Engineering and Prompt Optimization for SE Tasks
  
• Evaluation and Benchmarking of AI Assisted Development Tools
  
• Human AI Collaboration and Developer Experience (DX)
  
• Safety Aligned and Policy Aligned AI Systems
  
• Guardrails, Safety Layers and Alignment Engineering for LLM Based Systems
  
• Engineering AI Generated Codebases (maintainability, hallucination detection, architecture quality)
  Software Engineering for AI/ML and Multi Modal Systems
  
• Engineering Large Scale AI/ML Pipelines
  
• MLOps, AIOps, DataOps and Model Lifecycle Management
  
• Testing and Verification of AI/ML Systems
  
• Software Engineering for Multi Modal AI (VLMs, audio text, code vision models)
  
• Federated Learning Systems Engineering
  
• Edge AI, TinyML and On Device Intelligence
  
• Distributed AI Training Infrastructure (scheduling, fault tolerance, resource optimization)
  
• AI Model Deployment, Monitoring and Drift Management
  
• Synthetic Data Generation, Validation and Bias Detection
  Software Testing, Quality and Automation
  
• Automated Software Testing and Test Generation
  
• NLP Based Test Automation
  
• Autonomous and Self Adaptive Testing
  
• Testing of Large Scale, Distributed, or Safety Critical Systems
  
• Testing Multi Modal and Agentic AI Systems
  
• Usability and UX Testing Automation
  
• Reliability, Dependability and Quality Engineering
  
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Testing
  
• Chaos Engineering and Resilience Testing
  
• Testability of AI Generated Code
  Security, Privacy and Autonomous Cybersecurity
  
• Software Security Engineering
  
• Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
  
• Software Supply Chain Security & SBOM Engineering
  
• Vulnerability Detection, Analysis and Automated Remediation
  
• Security Automation and DevSecOps
  
• Autonomous Cybersecurity Systems (AI driven threat hunting, self healing systems)
  
• Privacy Preserving Software Engineering
  
• Safety Critical and Mission Critical Software Systems
  
• AI Security and Adversarial Robustness
  Systems, Platforms and Emerging Technologies
  
• Cloud Native Software Engineering
  
• Microservices and Service Oriented Architectures
  
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Engineering and Testing
  
• Distributed Systems and High Performance Computing
  
• Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Industrial Automation
  
• Robotics Software Engineering
  
• Autonomous Systems Engineering
  
• Blockchain Based Software Systems
  
• Quantum Software Engineering
  
• Digital Twins and Simulation Driven Engineering
  
• Software Engineering for Neuromorphic and Bio Inspired Computing
  
• Software Engineering for DNA Based Storage Systems
  Human Centered, Social and Organizational Aspects
  
• Human Centered AI for Software Engineering
  
• Developer Experience (DX) and Productivity
  
• Collaboration, Coordination and Team Dynamics
  
• Cognitive Load in Software Development
  
• Open Source Ecosystems, Governance and Community Analytics
  
• Software Economics, Decision Making and Value Assessment
  
• Ethics, Fairness and Governance in Software Systems
  
• AI Compliance Engineering (e.g., EU AI Act)
  Web, Mobile and User Facing Systems
  
• Web Engineering and Web Scale Systems
  
• Mobile and Wearable Software Engineering
  
• Intelligent User Interfaces and Interaction Automation
  
• XR/AR/VR Software Engineering
  
• AI Enhanced Learning Systems and Learning Analytics
  
• Networking, Automation and Distributed Intelligence
  
• Network Automation and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  
• Automation in Cloud, Edge and Data Center Systems
  
• Autonomous Service Oriented and Microservices Architectures
  
• Distributed AI Systems and Multi Agent Coordination
  
• Software Engineering for Large Scale LLM Deployment and Inference Optimization
  Domain Specific and Application Driven Software Engineering
  
• Software Engineering for Big Data Systems
  
• Software Engineering for Scientific Computing
  
• Software Engineering for Healthcare, Finance and Smart Cities
  
• Software Engineering for Autonomous Vehicles and Drones
  
• Software Engineering for Sustainability and Green Computing
  
• Software Engineering for Critical Infrastructure
  
• Software Engineering for Climate Modeling and Environmental Systems
  

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by May 10, 2026. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from SEAU 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)
  
• International Journal of Computer-Aided technologies (IJCAx)
  
• Advanced Computing: An International Journal (ACIJ)
  
• International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (IJCSEIT)
  
• International Journal in Foundations of Computer Science & Technology (IJFCST)
  
• International Journal of Information Technology, Control and Automation (IJITCA)
  

Important Dates

Co - Located Event

• 13^thInternational Conference on Foundations of Computer Science & Technology (CST 2026)
  
• 15^th International Conference on Information Technology Convergence and Services (ITCS 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on VLSI & Embedded Systems (VLSIE 2026)
  
• 5^th International Conference on NLP and Machine Learning Trends (NLMLT 2026)
  
• 17^th International Conference on Database Management Systems (DMS 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data (CLBD 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Networks & IOT (NeTIOT 2026)
  

***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to seau@seau2026.org