------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers
40th European COnference On Programming (ECOOP 2026) June 29 - July 3, 2026 Brussels, Belgium https://2026.ecoop.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ECOOP is Europe's longest-standing annual Programming Languages conference, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and students to share their ideas and experiences in all topics related to programming languages, software development, systems and applications. ECOOP welcomes high quality research papers relating to these fields in a broad sense. ECOOP was originally focused on object orientation, but now includes all practical and theoretical investigations of programming languages, systems and environments. ECOOP solicits innovative solutions to real problems as well as evaluations of existing solutions. ECOOP is committed to affordable open access publishing. Recent years' publications have been published by Dagstuhl's LIPIcs series under a Creative Commons CC-BY license where the authors retain their copyright. ECOOP articles have been published without open access publishing fee and can be accessed via a DOI. LIPIcs is indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, Scopus and others. In 2026, ECOOP will be hosted by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, between June 29th and July 3rd. More information can be found on the conference website: https://2026.ecoop.org # Important Dates (all AoE) - Thu 27 Nov 2025: Round 1 Submissions - Mon 12 - Fri 16 Jan 2026: Round 1 Author response deadline - Thu 29 Jan 2026: Round 1 Notification - Thu 12 Feb 2026: Round 2 Submissions - Mon 23 - Fri 27 Mar 2026: Round 2 Author response deadline - Thu 9 Apr 2026: Round 2 Notification # Submissions Submissions will be done through HotCRP: https://ecoop26.hotcrp.com. Authors are asked to pick one of the following paper categories: - *Research.* The most traditional category for papers that advance the state of the art. - *Replication.* An empirical evaluation that reconstructs a published experiment in a different context in order to validate the results of that earlier work. - *Experience.* Applications of known PL techniques in practice as well as tools. Industry papers will be reviewed by practitioners. We welcome negative results that may provide inspiration for future research. - *Pearls/Brave New Ideas.* Articles that either explain a known idea in an elegant way or unconventional papers introducing ideas that may take some time to substantiate. These papers may be short. Submission must not have been published, or have major overlap with previous work. In case of doubt, contact the PC chairs. Proceedings will be published in open access by Dagstuhl LIPIcs in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs LaTeX-style template. To reduce friction when resubmitting, ACM's PACMPL and TOPLAS formatted papers can be submitted as such (with the understanding that if accepted, they will need to be reformatted and reduced to the page limit). ECOOP uses double-anonymous reviewing. Authors' identities are only revealed if a paper is accepted. Papers must omit author names and institutions, and use the third person when referencing the authors' own work. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission; see the Double-Anonymous FAQ on the ECOOP 2026 website. If in doubt, contact the chairs. There is no page limit on submissions, but authors must understand that reviewers have a fixed time budget for each paper, so the length of the feedback is likely to be unaffected by length. Brevity is a virtue. Authors also have to consider that the camera-ready version must be (at most) 25 pages in LIPIcs format (not including references). Authors will be given a four-day period to read and respond to the reviews of their papers before the program committee meeting. Responses have no length limit. ECOOP will continue to have two deadlines for submissions. Papers submitted in each round can be (a) accepted, (b) rejected, or (c) asked for revisions. Rejected papers that are submitted to the immediate next round can be desk-rejected if they do not sufficiently differ from the previous submission. Revisions can be submitted at any later round. Papers retain their reviewers during revision. # Artifact Evaluation and Intent To support replication of experiments, authors of accepted research papers may submit artifacts to the Artifact Evaluation Committee. They will be asked whether they intend to submit an artifact at paper submission time. Artifacts will be submitted after paper acceptance. It is understood that some papers do not have artifacts. # Journal First and Journal After We have Journal First/After arrangements with ACM's Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming (SCP) and AITO's Journal of Object Technology (JOT). Only new research papers are eligible to be Journal First (JF). JF papers will have an extended abstract in the ECOOP proceedings. The deadline is the same as Round 1 of submissions and the notification is aligned with Round 2 notification. TOPLAS JF papers should be submitted according to this announcement. SCP JF papers should follow this call for papers. JF papers are presented at the conference and eligible for awards. Journal After (JA) papers are papers for which the authors request to be considered for post conference journal publication. Once accepted by the ECOOP PC, these papers will be forwarded to the journal editors. Reviews and reviewers will be forwarded and used at the editor's discretion. JA papers will have an extended abstract (up to 12 pages) in the conference proceedings. # Program Committee *Chairs:* Robbert Krebbers, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Alexandra Silva, Cornell University, United States *Members:* Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta Alceste Scalas, Technical University of Denmark Aleksandar S. Dimovski, Mother Teresa University, Skopje Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh Andreas Lööw, Royal Holloway, University of London Antonio Ravara, NOVA University of Lisbon Atalay Mert Ileri, University of Oxford Brijesh Dongol, University of Surrey Ben Hermann, Technische Universität Dortmund Baber Rehman, Huawei Technologies Stefan Brunthaler, Universität der Bundeswehr München Walter Cazzola, Universita degli Studi di Milano Christian Hammer, University of Passau Colin S. Gordon, Drexel University Elena Zucca, University of Genova Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark Francesco Dagnino, University of Genova Guido Salvaneschi, University of St. Gallen Dongjie He, Chongqing University Hesam Shahrokhi, RelationalAI Hila Peleg, Technion Jaemin Hong, KAIST Hernan C. Melgratti, ICC - Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET Jan de Muijnck-Hughes, University of Strathclyde Joao Costa Seco, NOVA LINCS, NOVA University Lisbon José Fragoso Santos, INESC-ID; University of Lisbon Julien Vanegue, Bloomberg / Imperial College London Liyi Li, Iowa State University Marco Giunti, University of Algarve Hidehiko Masuhara, Institute of Science Tokyo Matthew Flatt, University of Utah Petar Maksimovic, Nethermind / Imperial College London Sheng Chen, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Jiasi Shen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Joshua Sunshine, Carnegie Mellon University Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences -- [LOGIC] mailing list, provided by DLMPST More information (including information about subscription management) can be found here: http://dlmpst.org/pages/logic-list.php
