Call for Papers: Special Issue on Internetware 2026

Internet is open, dynamic, and meets a constantly changing environment. These characteristics impose new requirements on software over Internet. The goals or values of software paradigm is to better utilize hardware capabilities or runtime features, as well as to provide a more expressive and natural computing model from the perspective of application domain. In that sense, software paradigm can be considered as a reflection of the runtime environment and application domain. When the dominant network environment changed from Intranet to Internet, software paradigm shifts from object-oriented to component-based and service-oriented. Therefore, software paradigm is very related to environment changes such as hardware and human itself. The new software paradigm is needed for Internet, and it is called as Internetware. Internetware is constructed by a set of autonomic software entities distributed over the Internet, and a set of connectors enabling the collaborating among these entities in various manners.

In recent years, intelligent information fusion and artificial intelligence have become increasingly important in large-scale and ubiquitous computing environments. Advances in computational power, machine learning techniques, and the availability of massive datasets have led to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), which are transforming the way software systems interact with data, users, and execution environments. LLMs are blurring the boundary between human and machine-generated content and are opening new opportunities for Internetware systems, particularly in human–cyber–physical ubiquitous computing scenarios. These developments raise new research challenges in software architecture, dependability, performance, trustworthiness, and system governance.

The special issue invites submissions describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research related to Internetware. We especially encourage the submissions of extended papers from the 17th International Conference on Internetware (Internetware 2026).

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

Software Engineering for/with Big Data
Software Engineering for/with Artificial Intelligence
Novel Software Paradigm for Internetware
Modeling and Implementation of Internetware
Research and Applications in Ubiquitous Operating Systems
Human Aspects in Ubiquitous Operating Systems
Human-Cyber-Physical Ternary Ubiquitous Computing Applied in Internetware
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)
Operating System and Internetware
Intelligent Information Fusion
Requirements Engineering for Internetware
Software Analysis, Verification, and Testing
Mining Software Repositories
Software Dependability, Trustworthiness and Confidence
Software Architecture and Design
Crowd-based Methods, Techniques and Tools for Internetware
Social-technical Models and Techniques
Software Ecosystem Practices and Experiences
Software Models and Techniques for Internet-based Systems such as Cloud Computing, Service Computing, Social Computing, Mobile Internet, Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems

Deadlines

Jan 7 2027: submission deadline
Mar 8 2027: first round of review (tentative)
May 7 2027: revision due

Submission details

Submission link TBA.

Guest Editors

Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria, dustdar@dsg.tuwien.ac.at
Xiaoning Du, Monash University, Australia, Xiaoning.Du@monash.edu (Lead Guest Editor)
Xiaoyuan Xie, Wuhan University, China, xxie@whu.edu.cn