中国计算机学会（CCF）推荐学术会议-B（软件工程/系统软件/程序设计语言）：ICPC 2026

ICPC 2026

The 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2026) is the premier venue for work in the area of program comprehension. It encompasses both human activities for comprehending the software and technologies for supporting such comprehension. ICPC 2026 promises to provide a quality forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present and to discuss state-of-the-art results and best practices in the field of program comprehension. ICPC 2026 is co-located with ICSE 2026.

重要信息

CCF推荐：B（软件工程/系统软件/程序设计语言）

录用率：41.3%（2025年）

时间地点：2026年4月12日-里约热内卢·巴西

截止时间：2025年10月19日

Call for Papers

Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques, and approaches;

Human aspects in program comprehension, including collaborative software engineering practices, gender considerations, information processing strategies, the role of emotions, emotional awareness, and more;

Cognitive theories for program comprehension are accompanied by different empirical strategies, including experiments, surveys, and case studies;

Comprehension challenges and opportunities in the era of large language models (LLMs) and AI-assisted programming, including (but not limited to) understanding LLM-generated code, hybrid human-AI codebases, and the impact of AI tools on traditional program comprehension processes and cognitive load;

Topics at the intersection between program comprehension and programming education;

Individual, collaborative, distributed, and global program comprehension;

Novel visualization or summarization techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing, and analyzing;

Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as open/closed source, mobile applications, spreadsheets, web-based systems, legacy systems, product lines, libraries, multi-threaded applications, and systems of systems;

Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as: maintenance, evolution, re-engineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing;

Comprehension of software artifacts ranging from requirements documents to test cases and crash logs; from API documentation to models, meta-models and model transformation; and from Stack Overflow questions & answers to GitHub code review messages or video tutorials - all software artifacts and formal or informal documentation that software developers encounter when creating or evolving software;

Comprehension and legal issues, such as due diligence, intellectual property and licensing, reverse engineering, and litigation; Issues and case studies in the transfer of program comprehension technology to industry.

Automated tool support for program comprehension.

Awards

A subset of the Research Track papers accepted for presentation at ICPC 2026 will be invited to be revised and extended for consideration in a thematic special issue of the Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE). The best papers of the research track will be awarded with an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICPC. In addition, ICPC 2026 will feature ICPC Honorable Mentions, special awards that will be assigned, on the basis of the program committee reports, to the papers that have applied extremely novel and/or outstanding research methods to the problem of interest.

Publication and Presentation

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will receive further instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of their submissions. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for ICPC 2026, attend the conference, and present the paper in person. All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (related to, e.g., health, visa, or COVID-19 prevention).

Details about the presentations will follow the notifications. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM or IEEE Digital Libraries. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICPC 2026. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings is not allowed.