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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
20th WORKSHOP ON MODELS and EVOLUTION 2026 (ME'26)
https://models-and-evolution.github.io/

Málaga, Spain
Sunday 4 – Friday 9 October 2026
Co-located with MODELS'26
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The workshop aims to provide a forum to present and discuss bleeding-edge research contributions related to model evolution, and to provide visibility to novel technical solutions, early new ideas, and outside-the-box approaches.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be in PDF format. The page limit is strict; it will not be possible to purchase additional pages at any stage of the process.

Formatting instructions are available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). The review option adds line numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their comments.

By submitting to the MODELS Foundations Track, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Papers submitted to the workshop should have at least 5 pages and 10 pages for full papers following the same style and format of the main tracks of the Conference. Submissions that do not adhere to the formatting instructions may be desk-rejected without review.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=me2026

List of Topics

• Foundations
  • Theories, methods, and tools for (meta-)model evolution
  • Co-evolution across multiple meta-levels (incl. instance and data levels)
• Correctness and quality aspects
  • Correctness and consistency concerns of model evolution
  • Verification and validation of evolving MDE artifacts
• Applications
  • Software migration, reconstruction, reuse, and repurposing
  • Evolution of heterogeneous systems, e.g., CPS and digital twins, including the (co-)evolution of virtual and physical artifacts and infrastructure
• Empirical works, industry reports, patterns and catalogs, training and education in the area of model evolution
• Special focus in 2026: model evolution and maintenance in Digital Twins
  • Frameworks and theories handling model evolution in the Digital Twin models
  • Handling verification, consistency, migration and co-evolution of models in the Digital Twin

Committees

• Organizing Committee
  • Djamel Eddine Khelladi
  • Juri Dirocco
  • Wael Kessentini

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to wkessent@depaul.edu OR djamel-eddine.khelladi@irisa.fr OR juri.dirocco@univaq.it

Please, do not hesitate to contact us for any inquiry.

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Important Dates

We follow the defined deadlines by the MODELS workshop co-chairs.

• Abstract submission: Friday June 26, 2026 (AOE)
• Paper submission: Friday July 3, 2026 (AOE)
• Author notification: Thursday July 31, 2026
• Camera-ready: Thursday August 14, 2026

In general, all deadlines will be aligned with the final deadlines of MODELS.