MSR 2026
Mon 13 - Tue 14 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026
VenueWindsor Convention Center and Hotels
Room nameBora Bora IV
Floor0
Room InformationNo extra information available
Program

This program is tentative and subject to change.

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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

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

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

Sun 12 Apr

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Bora Bora IV

Mon 13 Apr

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Mon 13 Apr

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Bora Bora IV
GI
Mini-Tutorial
11:00 - 11:30
GI
Closing
12:25 - 12:30
BoatSE
Opening
14:00 - 14:05
BoatSE
Closing
18:15 - 18:20