Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following areas:

• ● Quantum Software Analysis
• ● Quantum Software Architectures
• ● Quantum Software Coding Practices
• ● Quantum Programming Languages
• ● Quantum Software Reuse
• ● Quantum Software Testing
• ● Quantum Software Verification
• ● Quantum Software Metrics
• ● Quantum Software Maintenance and Evolution
• ● Service-oriented Quantum Software
• ● Industrial Applications
• ● Empirical Evaluations
• ● Teaching Quantum Software Engineering

Open Science Policy

Openness in science is the key to fostering progress via transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. Ideally, all research output should be accessible to the public, and all empirical studies should be reproducible. QSE 2026 encourages authors to disclose: 1) the source code of relevant software used or proposed in the paper, including that used to retrieve and analyze data, 2) the data used and/or produced in the paper, and 3) instructions for other researchers describing how to reproduce or replicate the results.

Important Dates

All dates refer to midnight 23:59:59 AoE.

Review Process:

All submissions submitted electronically through JEMS will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. Each reviewer will evaluate each contribution for its:

• ● Novelty: The originality and innovativeness of the proposed ideas, problem formulations, methodologies, theories, tools, or empirical evaluations, considering the current state of the art.
• ● Relevance: The significance and potential impact of the contribution to the field of Software Engineering, particularly in the context of Quantum Software Engineering.
• ● Verifiability and Transparency: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to understand how an innovation works; to understand how data was obtained, analyzed, and interpreted; and how the paper supports independent verification or replication of the paper’s claimed contributions. Any artifacts attached to or linked from the paper may be checked by one reviewer.
• ● Presentation: The clarity, organization, and technical quality of the paper.

Reviewers will consider all criteria holistically and provide constructive feedback aimed at improving the submitted work. Authors are expected to clearly articulate and justify their contributions and position them with respect to existing research.

As this is the inaugural edition of WQSE, the workshop aims not only to ensure scientific quality but also to foster the growth of the Brazilian QSE community. Therefore, while maintaining rigorous standards, the review process will emphasize constructive evaluation and community building, encouraging emerging research directions and early-stage ideas relevant to the workshop’s scope.

Submission Guidelines

Papers can be written in Portuguese or English (Portuguese papers do not need an English abstract). Submissions in English are strongly encouraged so that your research can be accessed by non-Portuguese speaking researchers.

All papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. We are accepting the following types of submissions:

Full Research Papers (max 6 pages + 1 for references): These are original high-quality technical papers on quantum software engineering.

Papers must be formatted according to the an adaptation of the ACM conference format, which is also available for download. The original template (ACM_SigConf) must not be used. This same adapted template will be used across all symposia and workshops that are part of CBSoft 2026.

Submissions must not reveal the authors' identities for the double-blind review process. In particular, the authors’ names and affiliations must be omitted on the title page and headers of the paper, and references to their prior work should be in the third person. If you want to make available any artifact in time for submission, please make it anonymous. There are existing tools for doing that easily. For instance, Anonymous GitHub is an open-source tool that helps you quickly double-blind GitHub repositories. QSE encourages authors to make artifacts publicly available. If the authors want to do so but do not want to take the risk to break the double-blind review process, they are invited to add the artifacts' links in the camera-ready versions in case of paper acceptance.

To ensure double-blind anonymization during the initial submission and review process, authors must include the anonymous option in the document preamble:

Papers must be submitted electronically through JEMS. Submitted papers must be unpublished and should not be under review elsewhere.

Regarding the Use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) or AI-assisted Technologies in Research Papers

By submitting papers to QSE 2026, authors acknowledge that they comply with the Generative AI usage policy, based on existing policies proposed by IEEE, ACM, and Springer.

Prohibited:

• Listing generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT, as authors of papers.
• Using articles or sections entirely produced by generative AI tools.

Allowed (with explicit mention in acknowledgments):

Using generative AI tools to create content, with mention in the acknowledgments section of the paper indicating what was generated and which tool was used. It is important to verify the terms of use of the tool, and such verification is the responsibility of the authors. For instance, in the acknowledgments: ChatGPT was used to generate the first paragraph of Section 3 and to create Table 3.2.

Allowed (without the need for mention):

• Using AI or AI-assisted technologies to enhance image quality in terms of contrast and clarity;
• Using generative AI tools to edit and improve the quality of your existing text (similar to an assistant like Grammarly for enhancing spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, and engagement).

Presentation and Publication

Upon notification of acceptance, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare their camera-ready versions. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the QSE 2026 workshop. All accepted and presented papers will be published in the workshop electronic proceedings, available in the SBC OpenLib (SOL) digital library.

Ethics and Publication Conduct

All submitted papers must comply with the Code of Conduct for Authors in Publications of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC).

Program Committee Co-Chairs

• Eduardo Almeida (UFBA)
• Thais Batista (UFRN)

Program Committee:

• Adenilso Simão (ICMC/USP)
• Awdren Fontão (UFMS)
• Baldoino Fonseca (UFAL)
• Daniel Lucrédio (UFSCar)
• Everton Cavalcante (UFRN)
• Filipe Fernandes (IF SUDESTE MG)
• Genaína Nunes Rodrigues (Unb)
• Gledson Elias (UFPB)
• Guilherme Horta Travassos (COPPE/UFRJ)
• Higor Amario de Souza (Poli-USP)
• Igor Wiese (UTFPR)
• Ivan Machado (IC-UFBA)
• Leonardo Murta (UFF)
• Lincoln Rocha (UFC)
• Márcio Ribeiro (UFAL)
• Marcos Chaim (USP)
• Marcos Kalinowski (PUC-Rio)
• Maycon Peixoto (IC-UFBA)
• Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto (UFRPE)
• Raphael Pereira de Oliveira (UFS)
• Rodrigo Pereira dos Santos (UNIRIO)
• Rohit Gheyi (UFCG)
• Sergio Soares (CIn/UFPE)
• Valter Camargo (UFSCar)
• Vander Alves (UnB)
• Vinicius Garcia (CIn/UFPE)