*** Call for Participation ***

 

International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines,

and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026)

 

29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina,

Limassol, Cyprus

 

https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026

 

*** Early Registration Deadline: 31 August 2026 ***

 

 

We are pleased to invite researchers, practitioners, educators, and students to participate

in the inaugural edition of VARIABILITY 2026, the new flagship conference dedicated to

variability engineering, software reuse, and software product line engineering.

 

As modern software systems must cope with evolving requirements, heterogeneous

platforms, changing user needs, adaptive behaviour, and increasingly AI-enabled

development processes, variability engineering has become more important than ever.

The conference provides a unique opportunity to discuss the latest advances in

variability-enabled systems including modelling, analysis, automation, architectures,

tools, empirical studies, software reuse, and software product line engineering.

 

VARIABILITY 2026 builds upon the legacies of three leading conferences in the field:

• International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR)

• International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems

(VaMoS)

• International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC)

 

By bringing these communities together, VARIABILITY 2026 creates a unified

international forum for advancing the engineering, management, and exploitation of

variability in software-intensive systems.

 

 

Keynote Speakers

 

VARIABILITY 2026 will feature keynote presentations by:

• Prof. Sigrid Eldh (Ericsson / Mälardalen University)

• Prof. Jean-Marc Jézéquel (University of Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IUF)

 

 

Tracks

 

VARIABILITY 2026 will feature presentations spanning many tracks including:

• Research

• Industry

• Journal-First

• Demonstrations and Tools

• Projects Showcase

• Doctoral Symposium

 

 

Workshops

 

• MODEVAR - International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability

https://modevar.github.io/

• GAIV - Workshop on Generative AI and Variability

https://sites.google.com/view/gaiv-2026

 

 

Tutorials

 

• Product Comparison using Feature Similarity Matching by Mike Mannion and Hermann

Kaindl

• The Engineering and Manufacture of Software-based Products by Grady Campbell

 

 

Awards

 

The conference will honour excellence through:

• Awards for the most influential papers published more than 10 years ago in the

predecessor conferences

• Best Research Paper and Best Industry Paper awards (sponsored by Springer)

 

Join us in Cyprus for this historic inaugural edition and help build the future of variability-

enabled systems and software!

 

 

Organisation

 

General Chairs

• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

• Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium

 

Research Track Chairs

• Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

• Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany

 

Industry Track Chairs

• Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany

 

Journal First Track Chairs

• Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France

• Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

 

Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs

• Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

• Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel

 

Demos and Tools Track Chairs

• Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

• Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco

 

Projects Showcase Chairs

• Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden

• Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France

 

Hall of Fame Chairs

• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany

• Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland

• Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

 

Workshops Chairs

• Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain

• Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany

 

Tutorials Chairs

• Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands

• Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Proceedings Chair

• Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK

 

Publicity Chairs

• Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA

• Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan

 

Local Organiser and Finance Chair

• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus