With increasingly connected vehicles, modern driver assistance functions, and the ongoing challenges surrounding highly and fully automated driving, automotive software today is more central than ever. In addition to the steadily growing functional complexity, ever stricter requirements for reliability, functional safety, IT security, and data protection must be met.

Intuitive, multimodal human-machine interaction through speech, gestures, or personalized interfaces is also gaining in importance. The trend toward comprehensive networking and digitalization in vehicles continues: value-added services such as social media, streaming, or office applications are increasingly being systematically integrated and can be used safely and context-sensitively even while driving.

The 23rd Workshop on Automotive Software Engineering is dedicated to the challenges of software development in the automotive sector and addresses suitable methods, techniques, and tools. Current challenges and solution approaches in automotive software engineering will be discussed. A particular focus is on the use of agile methods in regulated environments. Contributions from all areas of software development for modern vehicles are explicitly welcome.

With increasingly connected vehicles, modern driver assistance functions, and the ongoing challenges surrounding highly and fully automated driving, automotive software today is more central than ever. In addition to the steadily growing functional complexity, ever stricter requirements for reliability, functional safety, IT security, and data protection must be met.

Intuitive, multimodal human-machine interaction through speech, gestures, or personalized interfaces is also gaining in importance. The trend toward comprehensive networking and digitalization in vehicles continues: value-added services such as social media, streaming, or office applications are increasingly being systematically integrated and can be used safely and context-sensitively even while driving.

The 23^rd Workshop on Automotive Software Engineering is dedicated to the challenges of software development in the automotive sector and addresses suitable methods, techniques, and tools. Current challenges and solution approaches in automotive software engineering will be discussed. A particular focus is on the use of agile methods in regulated environments. Contributions from all areas of software development for modern vehicles are explicitly welcome.

At the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Bachelor’s students can learn object-oriented programming from the ground up. They are, among other things, able to develop portable programs with graphical user interfaces for Windows, macOS, and Linux. This is possible within just one semester, over 60 in-class hours with a total workload of 200 hours — 8 European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits.

This workshop focuses on the factors that make this possible, including the course objectives, course materials, applied pedagogical principles, and the programming language taught. Participants in the workshop will be able to teach the course themselves.

At the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Bachelor’s students can learn object-oriented programming from the ground up. They are, among other things, able to develop portable programs with graphical user interfaces for Windows, macOS, and Linux. This is possible within just one semester, over 60 in-class hours with a total workload of 200 hours — 8 European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits.

This workshop focuses on the factors that make this possible, including the course objectives, course materials, applied pedagogical principles, and the programming language taught. Participants in the workshop will be able to teach the course themselves.

Quantum computers can solve certain computational problems which are not effectively solvable by classical computers. Over the past years, significant progress has been made in the development of quantum computing hardware, thus paving the way to practically usable mid-size quantum computers in the foreseeable future.

To enable today’s and future developers of quantum software to fully exploit these potentials, we require software, tools and engineering techniques established for classical software engineering also for the quantum computing stack. This requires collaborative research across a wide range of disciplines including programming languages and software abstractions, compiler construction, software testing and verification as well as processes, guidelines and benchmarks for developing new quantum algorithms and deploying them on target hardware.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from classical software engineering and from quantum computing to shape the research agenda for the upcoming era of quantum software engineering.

Quantum computers can solve certain computational problems which are not effectively solvable by classical computers. Over the past years, significant progress has been made in the development of quantum computing hardware, thus paving the way to practically usable mid-size quantum computers in the foreseeable future.

To enable today’s and future developers of quantum software to fully exploit these potentials, we require software, tools and engineering techniques established for classical software engineering also for the quantum computing stack. This requires collaborative research across a wide range of disciplines including programming languages and software abstractions, compiler construction, software testing and verification as well as processes, guidelines and benchmarks for developing new quantum algorithms and deploying them on target hardware.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from classical software engineering and from quantum computing to shape the research agenda for the upcoming era of quantum software engineering.

Quantum computers can solve certain computational problems which are not effectively solvable by classical computers. Over the past years, significant progress has been made in the development of quantum computing hardware, thus paving the way to practically usable mid-size quantum computers in the foreseeable future.

To enable today’s and future developers of quantum software to fully exploit these potentials, we require software, tools and engineering techniques established for classical software engineering also for the quantum computing stack. This requires collaborative research across a wide range of disciplines including programming languages and software abstractions, compiler construction, software testing and verification as well as processes, guidelines and benchmarks for developing new quantum algorithms and deploying them on target hardware.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from classical software engineering and from quantum computing to shape the research agenda for the upcoming era of quantum software engineering.

Quantum computers can solve certain computational problems which are not effectively solvable by classical computers. Over the past years, significant progress has been made in the development of quantum computing hardware, thus paving the way to practically usable mid-size quantum computers in the foreseeable future.

To enable today’s and future developers of quantum software to fully exploit these potentials, we require software, tools and engineering techniques established for classical software engineering also for the quantum computing stack. This requires collaborative research across a wide range of disciplines including programming languages and software abstractions, compiler construction, software testing and verification as well as processes, guidelines and benchmarks for developing new quantum algorithms and deploying them on target hardware.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from classical software engineering and from quantum computing to shape the research agenda for the upcoming era of quantum software engineering.

Im Rahmen von NFDIxCS werden zentrale Services entwickelt, die Software-Engineering-Forschende entlang des Forschungsprozesses unterstützen, insbesondere in der nachhaltigen Begutachtung, Veröffentlichung und Wiederverwendung von Forschungsartefakten.

Ziel dieses Workshops ist es, diese Services praxisnah vorzustellen, gemeinsam mit der Community zu erkunden und gezielt Feedback aus der Software-Engineering-Forschung zu sammeln.

Der Workshop richtet sich an Forschende, die ihre Forschung transparenter, reproduzierbarer und nachhaltiger gestalten möchten und Interesse an Open Science, FAIR-Prinzipien und moderner Forschungsdateninfrastruktur haben.

Im Rahmen von NFDIxCS werden zentrale Services entwickelt, die Software-Engineering-Forschende entlang des Forschungsprozesses unterstützen, insbesondere in der nachhaltigen Begutachtung, Veröffentlichung und Wiederverwendung von Forschungsartefakten.

Ziel dieses Workshops ist es, diese Services praxisnah vorzustellen, gemeinsam mit der Community zu erkunden und gezielt Feedback aus der Software-Engineering-Forschung zu sammeln.

Der Workshop richtet sich an Forschende, die ihre Forschung transparenter, reproduzierbarer und nachhaltiger gestalten möchten und Interesse an Open Science, FAIR-Prinzipien und moderner Forschungsdateninfrastruktur haben.

“Avionics” is derived from “Aviation Electronics”. Software engineering for such avionics systems is driven substantially by safety. Its grand challenges are demanding fault tolerance and graceful degradation, maintaining determinism despite of increasing complexity, rising certification effort, and increasing cost and time pressures.

The previous decade of aviation is characterized by disruptive requirements for electrification and automation. New software development methodologies are required for fast adaptation of future applications, e.g., advanced air mobility (AAM), aircrew (workload) reduction, and electric aircraft. At the same time, there are still many unsolved issues in communication and navigation in airspace, certification of new hardware platforms, such as multi/many-core processors, artificial intelligence (AI) as well as cyber-security.

The objective of the workshop is to foster the synergy between the software engineering and avionics systems community and provide a platform for exchanging new software engineering methods, tools, and techniques applied in avionics to accelerate innovation in aviation.

“Avionics” is derived from “Aviation Electronics”. Software engineering for such avionics systems is driven substantially by safety. Its grand challenges are demanding fault tolerance and graceful degradation, maintaining determinism despite of increasing complexity, rising certification effort, and increasing cost and time pressures.

The previous decade of aviation is characterized by disruptive requirements for electrification and automation. New software development methodologies are required for fast adaptation of future applications, e.g., advanced air mobility (AAM), aircrew (workload) reduction, and electric aircraft. At the same time, there are still many unsolved issues in communication and navigation in airspace, certification of new hardware platforms, such as multi/many-core processors, artificial intelligence (AI) as well as cyber-security.

The objective of the workshop is to foster the synergy between the software engineering and avionics systems community and provide a platform for exchanging new software engineering methods, tools, and techniques applied in avionics to accelerate innovation in aviation.

“Avionics” is derived from “Aviation Electronics”. Software engineering for such avionics systems is driven substantially by safety. Its grand challenges are demanding fault tolerance and graceful degradation, maintaining determinism despite of increasing complexity, rising certification effort, and increasing cost and time pressures.

The previous decade of aviation is characterized by disruptive requirements for electrification and automation. New software development methodologies are required for fast adaptation of future applications, e.g., advanced air mobility (AAM), aircrew (workload) reduction, and electric aircraft. At the same time, there are still many unsolved issues in communication and navigation in airspace, certification of new hardware platforms, such as multi/many-core processors, artificial intelligence (AI) as well as cyber-security.

The objective of the workshop is to foster the synergy between the software engineering and avionics systems community and provide a platform for exchanging new software engineering methods, tools, and techniques applied in avionics to accelerate innovation in aviation.

“Avionics” is derived from “Aviation Electronics”. Software engineering for such avionics systems is driven substantially by safety. Its grand challenges are demanding fault tolerance and graceful degradation, maintaining determinism despite of increasing complexity, rising certification effort, and increasing cost and time pressures.

The previous decade of aviation is characterized by disruptive requirements for electrification and automation. New software development methodologies are required for fast adaptation of future applications, e.g., advanced air mobility (AAM), aircrew (workload) reduction, and electric aircraft. At the same time, there are still many unsolved issues in communication and navigation in airspace, certification of new hardware platforms, such as multi/many-core processors, artificial intelligence (AI) as well as cyber-security.

The objective of the workshop is to foster the synergy between the software engineering and avionics systems community and provide a platform for exchanging new software engineering methods, tools, and techniques applied in avionics to accelerate innovation in aviation.

The main topic of the workshop is artificial intelligence in the field of software engineering, with a focus on neuro-symbolic AI. The goal of the workshop is to engage with current methods and tools in the area of generative AI and to explore new applications in software development.

In particular, we aim to emphasize neuro-symbolic approaches that combine machine learning (ML) with symbolic AI methods (i.e., knowledge representation and reasoning based on symbolic logic) in order to improve the reliability and robustness of generative models.

The main topic of the workshop is artificial intelligence in the field of software engineering, with a focus on neuro-symbolic AI. The goal of the workshop is to engage with current methods and tools in the area of generative AI and to explore new applications in software development.

In particular, we aim to emphasize neuro-symbolic approaches that combine machine learning (ML) with symbolic AI methods (i.e., knowledge representation and reasoning based on symbolic logic) in order to improve the reliability and robustness of generative models.

Im Rahmen von NFDIxCS werden zentrale Services entwickelt, die Software-Engineering-Forschende entlang des Forschungsprozesses unterstützen, insbesondere in der nachhaltigen Begutachtung, Veröffentlichung und Wiederverwendung von Forschungsartefakten.

Ziel dieses Workshops ist es, diese Services praxisnah vorzustellen, gemeinsam mit der Community zu erkunden und gezielt Feedback aus der Software-Engineering-Forschung zu sammeln.

Der Workshop richtet sich an Forschende, die ihre Forschung transparenter, reproduzierbarer und nachhaltiger gestalten möchten und Interesse an Open Science, FAIR-Prinzipien und moderner Forschungsdateninfrastruktur haben.

Im Rahmen von NFDIxCS werden zentrale Services entwickelt, die Software-Engineering-Forschende entlang des Forschungsprozesses unterstützen, insbesondere in der nachhaltigen Begutachtung, Veröffentlichung und Wiederverwendung von Forschungsartefakten.

Ziel dieses Workshops ist es, diese Services praxisnah vorzustellen, gemeinsam mit der Community zu erkunden und gezielt Feedback aus der Software-Engineering-Forschung zu sammeln.

Der Workshop richtet sich an Forschende, die ihre Forschung transparenter, reproduzierbarer und nachhaltiger gestalten möchten und Interesse an Open Science, FAIR-Prinzipien und moderner Forschungsdateninfrastruktur haben.

Software plays an increasingly important role in assuring effective and efficient operation of industrial automation engineering systems. This interactive half-day workshop shall discuss software engineering methods to support the maintenance of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (SECPPS'26). This workshop edition, which lines up in a series of gatherings initiated at SE'21, shall consist of paper presentations and lightning talks, with a focus on discussing the presented topics.

At SE2026, the workshop aims to strengthen the roots of the SECPPS community within the German-speaking SE community and to engage with practitioners from the industrial setting in Switzerland.

Software plays an increasingly important role in assuring effective and efficient operation of industrial automation engineering systems. This interactive half-day workshop shall discuss software engineering methods to support the maintenance of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (SECPPS'26). This workshop edition, which lines up in a series of gatherings initiated at SE'21, shall consist of paper presentations and lightning talks, with a focus on discussing the presented topics.

At SE2026, the workshop aims to strengthen the roots of the SECPPS community within the German-speaking SE community and to engage with practitioners from the industrial setting in Switzerland.

The initial panelists are the main speakers of the event and selected participants.

Attendance is by invitation only.

Attendance is by invitation only.

Attendance is by invitation only.

European Digital Sovereignty is on everyone’s lips. European governments are making their intentions clear, with EU Member States signing the  Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty, setting out landmark commitments to reduce Europe’s dependence on a small number of global platforms and to invest in trusted European infrastructures. Industry events have been popping up everywhere and governments are working hard to share knowledge and try to crack the problem. Open Source and Digital Commons are cornerstones of the solution, and the launch of the  Digital Commons EDIC in December 2025 is a good example of the work being done.

But what is Digital Sovereignty, why is it important and why are Open Source and Digital Commons so central to it? And more importantly: What are the traps to avoid and best practices if we want to implement Digital Sovereignty successfully? Let’s pause and have a think.

European Digital Sovereignty is on everyone’s lips. European governments are making their intentions clear, with EU Member States signing the  Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty, setting out landmark commitments to reduce Europe’s dependence on a small number of global platforms and to invest in trusted European infrastructures. Industry events have been popping up everywhere and governments are working hard to share knowledge and try to crack the problem. Open Source and Digital Commons are cornerstones of the solution, and the launch of the  Digital Commons EDIC in December 2025 is a good example of the work being done.

But what is Digital Sovereignty, why is it important and why are Open Source and Digital Commons so central to it? And more importantly: What are the traps to avoid and best practices if we want to implement Digital Sovereignty successfully? Let’s pause and have a think.