Bora Bora IV - MSR 2026

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Sun 12 Apr
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09:00 - 10:30	Opening and keynoteQ-SE at Bora Bora IV Chair(s): Anila Mjeda CyberSkills, MTU Munster Technological University; Lero - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Marcos Lordello Chaim University of São Paulo

09:00 15m Registration		Arrival and Registration Q-SE
09:15 15m Day opening		Opening Remarks Q-SE
09:30 60m Keynote		Practical Software Engineering with Quantum Approaches Q-SE K: Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University

11:00 - 12:30	Session 2:Q-SE at Bora Bora IV

11:00 30m Talk		Industry Expectations and Skill Demands in Quantum Software Testing Q-SE Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, Maria Teresa Baldassarre Department of Computer Science, University of Bari , César França Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) Pre-print
11:30 30m Talk		RuntimeSpeQ: Specifying Runtime Monitors for Quantum Programs Q-SE Flavio Melinte-Citea King's College London, Mohammad Reza Mousavi King's College London
12:00 30m Talk		Migrating QAOA from Qiskit 1.x to 2.x: An experience report Q-SE Julien Cardinal École de Technologie Supérieure, Imen Benzarti Software and Information Technology Engineering Department, École de Technologie Supérieure, Ghizlane El Boussaidi École de Technologie Supérieure, Christophe Pere École de technologie supérieure

14:00 - 15:30	Session 3:Q-SE at Bora Bora IV

14:00 30m Talk		Design Space Exploration for Quantum Service Selection and Shot Combination Q-SE Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Shinobu Saito NTT, Inc.
14:30 30m Talk		Learning State Separation for Quantum Circuit Synthesis Q-SE Christoph Stein Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Stefan Klikovits Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Manuel Wimmer JKU Linz
15:00 30m Talk		Practical Subarchitectures for Optimal Quantum Layout Synthesis Q-SE Kostiantyn V. Milkevych Aarhus University, Jaco van de Pol Aarhus University, Irfansha Shaik Kvantify Aps, Aarhus University

16:00 - 17:30	Session 4:Q-SE at Bora Bora IV

16:00 30m Talk		Twirlator: Pipeline for Analyzing Subgroup Symmetry Effects in Quantum Machine Learning Ansatzes Q-SE Valter Uotila Aalto University & University of Helsinki, Väinö Mehtola VTT, Ilmo Salmenperä University of Helsinki, Bo Zhao Aalto University
16:30 20m Talk		Towards Quantum Software for Quantum Simulation Q-SE Maja Franz Technical University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Lukas Schmidbauer Technical University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Joshua Ammermann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Ina Schaefer KIT, Wolfgang Mauerer Technical University of Applied Sciences Regensburg
16:50 30m Panel		Q-SE Challenges and Opportunities Q-SE Anila Mjeda CyberSkills, MTU Munster Technological University; Lero - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Marcos Lordello Chaim University of São Paulo
17:20 10m Day closing		Closing and Q-SE 2027 Q-SE

Mon 13 Apr
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09:00 - 10:30	GI@ICSE 2026 Session 1GI at Bora Bora IV Chair(s): Vesna Nowack Imperial College London

09:00 10m Day opening		Welcome and Introductions GI Aymeric Blot University of Rennes, IRISA / INRIA
10:10 20m Talk		Improving a Parallel C++ Intel SSE SIMD Linear Genetic Programming Interpreter GI William Langdon University College London, Carol Hanna University College London

11:00 - 12:30	GI@ICSE 2026 Session 2GI at Bora Bora IV Chair(s): Aymeric Blot University of Rennes, IRISA / INRIA

11:00 30m Tutorial		Mini-Tutorial GI
11:30 20m Talk		Applying Genetic Improvement Techniques for Automated Program Repair of Transpiled Code GI Prasham Jadhwani University College London (UCL), Carol Hanna University College London, William Langdon University College London, Justyna Petke University College London
11:50 20m Talk		GI-Agent Search-Based LLM Agent for Code Optimization with Genetic Improvement GI Donghyun Lee University College London, William Langdon University College London, Justyna Petke University College London
12:10 15m Talk		Databending as a Target for Genetic Improvement GI Erik Fredericks Grand Valley State University, Byron DeVries Grand Valley State University, Reihaneh Hariri Grand Valley State University
12:25 5m Day closing		Closing GI

14:00 - 15:30	Industrial Application of Bots and AgentsBoatSE at Bora Bora IV

14:00 5m Day opening		Opening BoatSE
14:05 40m Keynote		Keynote speech — Building an Internal Coding Agent at Zup: Lessons and Open Questions BoatSE
14:45 15m Talk		Experiences Developing an AI Chatbot in the Pharmaceutical Industry BoatSE Samuel Abedu Concordia University, Saviour Owolabi University of Calgary, Mayra Sofia Ruiz Rodriguez Concordia University, Adam Yuen University of Calgary, Cedric Lim Ah Tock Concordia University, Ali Zaraket Sandoz, Ahmad Abdellatif University of Calgary, Emad Shihab Concordia University, Nahal Nasseri Sandoz
15:00 15m Talk		Developer Challenges in the Adoption of Model Context Protocol in AI Agent Development BoatSE Oluwatoyosi Oyelayo Concordia University, Samuel Abedu Concordia University, SayedHassan Khatoonabadi Concordia University, Emad Shihab Concordia University
15:15 15m Talk		Essence Coach: A Bot for Software Practice Adoption BoatSE Sonia Nicoletti University of Bologna, Paolo Ciancarini University of Bologna

16:00 - 17:25	Bots and ChatbotsBoatSE at Bora Bora IV

16:00 40m Keynote		Keynote speech — The Fall-Off of Bots in Software Engineering BoatSE
16:40 15m Talk		Reconsidering Conversational Norms in LLM Chatbots for Sustainable AI BoatSE Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, Cleyton Magalhaes Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Italo Santos University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Pre-print
16:55 15m Talk		Patterns of Bot Participation and Emotional Influence in Open Source Development BoatSE Matteo Vaccargiu University of Cagliari, Riccardo Lai University of Cagliari, Maria Ilaria Lunesu Università degli studi di Cagliari, Andrea Pinna University of Cagliari, Giuseppe Destefanis University College London
17:10 15m Talk		Bita: A Conversational Assistant for Fairness Testing BoatSE Keeryn Johnson University of Calgary, Cleyton Magalhaes Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary Pre-print

17:30 - 18:20	Software AgentsBoatSE at Bora Bora IV

17:30 15m Talk		Towards Structured, State-Aware, and Execution-Grounded Reasoning for Software Engineering Agents BoatSE Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University
17:45 15m Talk		Reformulate, Retrieve, Localize: Agents for Repository-Level Bug Localization BoatSE Genevieve Caumartin Concordia University, Glaucia Melo Toronto Metropolitan University Pre-print
18:00 15m Talk		Agentic RTE: A Framework for Synchronizing Multimodal Software Artifacts BoatSE Tales Mello Paiva University of Waterloo, Ivens da Silva Portugal University of Waterloo, Paulo Alencar University of Waterloo, Donald Cowan University of Waterloo
18:15 5m Day closing		Closing BoatSE

Tue 14 Apr
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	09:00 - 10:30	Opening + Discussion Group 1ICSE School of Empirical Studies in SE at Bora Bora IV Chair(s): Maria Lydia Fioravanti University of São Paulo & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Lilian Passos Scatalon State University of Maringá - UEM, Pedro Henrique Valle University of São Paulo - USP Participants: Alcione Jandir Candéas Ramos Andréia de Barros Carpi Maria Raquel Lopes de Couto Tatiana Cartagena

	11:00 - 12:30	Discussion Group 2ICSE School of Empirical Studies in SE at Bora Bora IV Chair(s): Maria Lydia Fioravanti University of São Paulo & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Lilian Passos Scatalon State University of Maringá - UEM, Pedro Henrique Valle University of São Paulo - USP Participants: Ayumi Aoki Santana João Antônio Misson Milhorim Raphael Oliveira Cabral Renato de Souza Garcia

	14:00 - 15:30	Discussion Group 3ICSE School of Empirical Studies in SE at Bora Bora IV Chair(s): Maria Lydia Fioravanti University of São Paulo & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Lilian Passos Scatalon State University of Maringá - UEM, Pedro Henrique Valle University of São Paulo - USP Participants: Lucas Reis Abreu Moniely Silva Barboza José Weverton Barros da Silva Yohan Duarte Pessanha

	16:00 - 18:00	Discussion Group 4 + Q&A SessionICSE School of Empirical Studies in SE at Bora Bora IV Chair(s): Maria Lydia Fioravanti University of São Paulo & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Lilian Passos Scatalon State University of Maringá - UEM, Pedro Henrique Valle University of São Paulo - USP Participants: Andressa de Souza Silva Medeiros Cristiane Alves Estevo da Silva Israely Lima de Oliveira Vinicius Feitosa Gonçalves

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Bora Bora IV	GI GI@ICSE 2026 Session 1																								GI GI@ICSE 2026 Session 2																																				BoatSE Industrial Application of Bots and Agents																								BoatSE Bots and Chatbots																		BoatSE Software Agents

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Bora Bora IV	ICSE School of Empirical Studies in SE Opening + Discussion Group 1																								ICSE School of Empirical Studies in SE Discussion Group 2																																				ICSE School of Empirical Studies in SE Discussion Group 3																								ICSE School of Empirical Studies in SE Discussion Group 4 + Q&A Session

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Bora Bora IV	Q-SE Arrival and Registration 09:00 - 09:15			Q-SE Opening Remarks 09:15 - 09:30			Q-SE Practical Software Engineering with Quantum Approaches 09:30 - 10:30																		Q-SE Industry Expectations and Skill Demands in Quantum Software Testing 11:00 - 11:30						Q-SE RuntimeSpeQ: Specifying Runtime Monitors for Quantum Programs 11:30 - 12:00						Q-SE Migrating QAOA from Qiskit 1.x to 2.x: An experience report 12:00 - 12:30																								Q-SE Design Space Exploration for Quantum Service Selection and Shot Combination 14:00 - 14:30						Q-SE Learning State Separation for Quantum Circuit Synthesis 14:30 - 15:00						Q-SE Practical Subarchitectures for Optimal Quantum Layout Synthesis 15:00 - 15:30												Q-SE Twirlator: Pipeline for Analyzing Subgroup Symmetry Effects in Quantum ... 16:00 - 16:30						Q-SE Towards Quantum Software for Quantum Simulation 16:30 - 16:50				Q-SE Q-SE Challenges and Opportunities 16:50 - 17:20						Q-SE Closing and Q-SE 2027 17:20 - 17:30

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Bora Bora IV	GI Welcome and Introductions 09:00 - 09:10														GI Improving a Parallel C++ Intel SSE SIMD Linear Genetic Programming Inte ... 10:10 - 10:30										GI Mini-Tutorial 11:00 - 11:30						GI Applying Genetic Improvement Techniques for Automated Program Repair of ... 11:30 - 11:50				GI GI-Agent Search-Based LLM Agent for Code Optimization with Genetic Impr ... 11:50 - 12:10				GI Databending as a Target for Genetic Improvement 12:10 - 12:25			GI Closing 12:25 - 12:30																			BoatSE Opening 14:00 - 14:05	BoatSE Keynote speech — Building an Internal Coding Agent at Zup: Lessons and ... 14:05 - 14:45								BoatSE Experiences Developing an AI Chatbot in the Pharmaceutical Industry 14:45 - 15:00			BoatSE Developer Challenges in the Adoption of Model Context Protocol in AI Ag ... 15:00 - 15:15			BoatSE Essence Coach: A Bot for Software Practice Adoption 15:15 - 15:30									BoatSE Keynote speech — The Fall-Off of Bots in Software Engineering 16:00 - 16:40								BoatSE Reconsidering Conversational Norms in LLM Chatbots for Sustainable AI 16:40 - 16:55			BoatSE Patterns of Bot Participation and Emotional Influence in Open Source De ... 16:55 - 17:10			BoatSE Bita: A Conversational Assistant for Fairness Testing 17:10 - 17:25				BoatSE Towards Structured, State-Aware, and Execution-Grounded Reasoning for S ... 17:30 - 17:45			BoatSE Reformulate, Retrieve, Localize: Agents for Repository-Level Bug Locali ... 17:45 - 18:00			BoatSE Agentic RTE: A Framework for Synchronizing Multimodal Software Artifacts 18:00 - 18:15			BoatSE Closing 18:15 - 18:20

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