The main goal of SQAMIA workshop series is to provide a forum for presentation, discussion, and dissemination of the scientific findings in the area of software quality, and the establishment and improvement of interaction and cooperation between scientists and young researchers from the region and beyond. It is organized by SQAMIA Initiative (https://sqamia.org) and the workshop especially welcomes position papers, papers describing the work-in-progress, tool demonstration papers, technical reports or other papers that would provoke discussions.

SQAMIA 2026 is the 13th workshop in the series and a continuation of the successful events held in previous years. This years' theme is targeting software and information system continuous improvement, based on informed decisions, and automated IS delivery.

We invite authors to focus special emphasis on specialised disciplines, e.g. cyber-security, safety, reliable AI etc., extending industry-proven DevOps approaches (e.g. DevSecOps, MLOps, DataOps, BizDevOps etc.).

Submission Guidelines, Publication

Position papers, papers describing the work-in-progress, tool demonstration papers, technical reports or other papers that would provoke discussions are especially welcome.

Contributions are solicited for papers that are 6 to 12 pages long. Papers should be original contributions and should not be accepted or submitted elsewhere until the decisions of the SQAMIA 2026 program committee are announced.

Note that papers shorter than 10 pages will be considered as short papers and will be marked as such in conference proceedings.

All contributions should be in PDF format and should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system before the deadline.

The papers should be prepared in the CEURART template (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip), available for LaTeX, Word and Libre Office, in its single column layout. For papers in LaTeX, an Overleaf template can be used, too.

SQAMIA 2026 proceedings shall be published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org) and indexed by "dblp: computer science bibliography".

Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sqamia2026

Zoran Budimac Best Paper Award

At the SQAMIA 2026 workshop, Zoran Budimac Award for the Best Paper will be presented in honour of Professor Zoran Budimac, the initiator and longtime driving force behind the workshop, who embodied a spirit of innovation and dedication to advancing the field.

The award is intended for the best paper authored or co-authored and presented by a young researcher (i.e., the first author should not yet hold a PhD). This tradition reflects the enduring spirit of SQAMIA, which has always placed strong emphasis on encouraging and supporting young researchers.

List of Topics (including, but not limited to)

• Software quality engineering, management and control,
• Software quality attributes and quality requirements,
• Software reliability, security and safety,
• Software quality standards and certification,
• Software quality assurance techniques, tools and frameworks,
• Software quality of embeded systems,
• Software quality of critical systems,
• Software quality of intelligent systems,
• Formal methods in software quality engineering,
• Automated software delivery pipelines,
• Software evolution and prediction,
• Software maintenance process models, standards and tools,
• Software testing approaches, models, techniques and tools,
• Formal methods in software verification and validation,
• Software analysis techniques and tools,
• Static software analysis techniques and tools,
• Static timing analysis,
• Software measurement and metrics,
• Techical debt, code smells, and test smells,
• Software timing measurement and monitoring,
• Software process evaluation and improvement,
• Models of product or process quality,
• Empirical studies in software product evaluation,
• Case studies, lessons learned and empirical results on software quality.

Important dates

• Deadline: June 5th 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: July 17th 2026
• Camera-ready papers: August 14th 2026

Workshop officials (tentative)

Steering Committee

• Mirjana Ivanović, Novi Sad, Serbia

• Marjan Heričkо, Maribor, Slovenia

• Zoltán Horváth, Budapest, Hungary

• Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere, Finland

• Tihana Galinac Grbac, Pula, Croatia

Organising Committee Chair

• Petar Rajkovič, Niš, Serbia

Proceedings and Publicity Chair

• Gordana Rakić, Novi Sad, Serbia

Program Committee Chair

• Luka Pavlič, Maribor, Slovenia

Program Committee

• Vladimir Kurbalija, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad
• Doni Pracner, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad
• Gordana Rakić, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad
• Marjan Heričkо, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Luka Pavlič, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Tina Beranič, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Zoltán Horváth, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
• Melinda Tóth, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
• Zoltan Porkolab, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
• Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University, Finland
• Jari Soini, Tampere University, Finland
• Mika Saari, Tampere University, Finland
• Pekka Sillberg, Tampere University, Finland
• Sami Hyrynsalmi, LUT University, Finland
• Tihana Galinac Grbac, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
• Neven Grbac, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
• Jaak Henno, Tallinn University of Technology
• Bojana Koteska, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Skopje
• Csaba Szabo, Technical University Košice, Slovakia
• Valentino Vranić, Pan-European University, Bratislava
• Yevheniia Kataieva, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
• Reinhard Bernsteiner, MCI Innsbruck
• Stephan Schlögl, MCI Innsbruck
• Goran Mauša, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering
• Sandi Ljubić, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering
• Zlatko Stapić, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet organizacije i informatike, Varaždin
• Petar Rajkovič, University of Niš, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• João Saraiva, University of Minho, Portugal
• Pavle Dakić, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

Venue

The conference will be held at University of Niš, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, Serbia.

Email address: info@sqamia.si, sqamia@dmi.uns.ac.rs

Web address: https://sqamia.elfak.rs/, http://sqamia.org