Hybrid Event
Basic information:
Chairs:
Tihana Galinac Grbac (Croatia), Darko Huljenić (Croatia)
Program Committee:
Stipo Čelar (Croatia), Andrej Grgurić (Croatia), Igor Ljubi (Croatia), Mladen Sokele (Croatia), Željka Tomasović (Croatia), Mladen Tomić (Croatia), Linda Vicković (Croatia)
Scope:
The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), autonomous software, and intelligent digital infrastructures is fundamentally transforming Software and Systems Engineering. Future software systems are no longer purely technical artefacts but complex socio-technical ecosystems where humans, AI agents, organizations, and digital infrastructures continuously interact, collaborate, learn, and co-evolve. Engineering such systems requires new methods that integrate software engineering, systems engineering, software architecture, human-centered design, runtime knowledge management, and decision intelligence. These systems must remain trustworthy, adaptive, explainable, maintainable, secure, sustainable, and sovereign throughout their lifecycle while continuously evolving in response to changing environments, stakeholders, and technologies.
The Software and Systems Engineering (SSE) Conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss methods, technologies, architectures, engineering practices, and industrial experiences for designing, developing, operating, and evolving next-generation intelligent software and systems. The conference particularly welcomes contributions addressing the engineering of AI-native, socio-technical, and knowledge-driven systems, emphasizing human-AI collaboration, trustworthy and sovereign AI, adaptive software architectures, runtime intelligence, and sustainable lifecycle engineering.
Topics:
- AI-Native Software and Systems Engineering
- Generative AI, Foundation Models and LLMs for Software Engineering
- Human-AI Collaboration, Human-in-the-Loop and Mixed-Initiative Systems
- Engineering of Socio-Technical Systems
- Software and Systems Architecture for AI-Native, Adaptive and Sovereign Systems
- Agentic AI and Multi-Agent Software Systems
- Runtime Knowledge Construction, Knowledge Management and Knowledge Evolution
- Decision-Centric Software Engineering and Multi-loop Decision Coordination
- Software Requirements Engineering for Intelligent Systems
- Self-Adaptive, Autonomous and Software-Defined Systems
- Engineering Concepts, Design Principles and Intelligent System Composition
- Continuous Software Evolution, Modernization and DevOps
- Software Quality: Maintainability, Traceability, Explainability and Verification
- Runtime Assurance, Validation, Certification, Safety and Resilience
- Trustworthy, Responsible and Sustainable AI and Software Engineering
- Digital Sovereignty, Data Sovereignty and Sovereign AI
- Software Engineering Tools, Programming Models, Frameworks and Automation
- Digital Twins, Knowledge-Driven Systems and Intelligent Digital Ecosystems
- Systems-of-Systems Engineering and Distributed Intelligent Systems
- Engineering Challenges in Manufacturing, Healthcare, Government, Transport, Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructures
- Metrics, Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Software and Systems
Researchers are encouraged to submit either work-in-progress papers (approximately 2,000 words) or full papers (approximately 5,000 words) presenting original research, industrial experience, emerging ideas, or innovative engineering solutions. The conference offers a forum for exchanging research results, industrial practices, and future research directions in Software and Systems Engineering, fostering collaboration between academia and industry.
Official languages are English and Croatian.
Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: Monday, October 19, 2026
Full paper submission deadline: Monday, November 30, 2026
Final paper review deadline: Monday, February 01, 2027
Registration / Fees:
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REGISTRATION / FEES
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Price in EUR
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EARLY BIRD
Up to 17 May 2027 |
REGULAR
From 18 May 2027 |
| IEEE members |
333 |
360 |
| MIPRO members |
333 |
360 |
| Students (undergraduate and graduate), primary and secondary school teachers |
185 |
200 |
| Others |
370 |
400 |
The student discount doesn't apply to PhD students.
NOTE FOR AUTHORS: In order to have your paper published, it is required that you pay at least one registration fee for each paper. Authors of 2 or more papers are entitled to a 10% discount.
Contact:
Tihana Galinac Grbac
Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
Faculty of Engineering
Zagrebacka 30
HR-52100 Pula, Croatia
GSM: +385 99 3820 750
E-mail: tgalinac@unipu.hr
The best papers will get a special award.
Accepted papers will be published in the ISSN registered conference proceedings. Papers in English presented at the conference will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Location:
Opatija is the leading seaside resort of the Eastern Adriatic and one of the most famous tourist destinations on the Mediterranean. With its aristocratic architecture and style, Opatija has been attracting artists, kings, politicians, scientists, sportsmen, as well as business people, bankers and managers for more than 180 years.
The tourist offer in Opatija includes a vast number of hotels, excellent restaurants, entertainment venues, art festivals, superb modern and classical music concerts, beaches and swimming pools – this city satisfies all wishes and demands.
Opatija, the Queen of the Adriatic, is also one of the most prominent congress cities in the Mediterranean, particularly important for its ICT conventions, one of which is MIPRO, which has been held in Opatija since 1979, and attracts more than a thousand participants from over forty countries. These conventions promote Opatija as one of the most desirable technological, business, educational and scientific centers in South-eastern Europe and the European Union in general.
For more details, please visit www.opatija.hr and visitopatija.com.