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{
"title": "IWST 2026"
"title": "IWST 2026: International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies"
}

!IWST 26 Information and Call For Papers
!IWST 26 Call For Submissions

IWST 26 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
Plovdiv Bulgaria; July 4th to 7th, 2026
Plovdiv Bulgaria; July 7th to 10th, 2026
Co-located with ESUG 2026

!!! Program
!!! Description

The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around contributions and experiences in building or using technologies related to Smalltalk. While maturity of presented ideas and results is not crucial, it is expected that their presentation triggers discussion and exchange of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical.
Authors are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers.

!!! Important Dates (All in AoE - Anywhere on Earth)

- Extended abstract submission deadline: tbd
- Already Published Papers Abstract submission deadline: tbd
- Extended abstract notification deadline: tbd
- Early *registration deadline>https://esug.org/2025-Conference/conf2025.html*: tbd
- Already Published Papers Abstract notifications: tbd
- Full/short paper submission deadline: tbd
- Full/short paper first-round notification deadline: tbd

- Workshop: tbd

- Full/short paper resubmission deadline: tbd
- Full/short paper final notification deadline: tbd
- Camera-ready package submission deadline: tbd


!!!Topics

We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as:
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!!! Submissions, reviews, and selection

IWST is a special workshop: presentations and proceedings are *decoupled*.
This means that you can present your work and the workshop and not have it published in the proceedings.
We invite two kind of submissions:
- original contributions that are not submitted or published elsewhere, and
- contributions previously published in a scientific journals.

Presentations and proceedings are *decoupled* even in the case of original contributions. This means that you can present your work and the workshop and not have it published in the proceedings.

This is how it works:
- Authors interested to present their work submit first an extended abstract before the extended abstract submission deadline.
Author of the submitted extended abstracts will be notified and invited to present their work by the extended abstract notification deadline.
- Moreover, we hold a pre-published presentations track, where you Authors are invited to present work previously published in other venues/journals.
- Later, in a second step, authors are invited to send a full/short paper for publication in our proceedings. **You do not need** your paper in proceedings to present it at the conference.
- Authors interested to present their work (original or previously published) submit an extended abstract before the extended abstract submission deadline.
- Author of the submitted extended abstracts will be notified and (potentially) invited to present their work by the extended abstract notification deadline.
- Authors of abstracts on original contributions, invited for presentations who are interested in publishing a paper based on the work to be presented, are invited to submit a paper on original contributions for further reviewing process and potential publication in our proceedings.

**You do not need** your paper to be included in the workshop proceedings to present it at the conference.

!!!! Submission Instructions

Both extended abstracts and paper submissions must be prepared using the *CEUR ART style>https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip*.
We recommend using the template in single-column style, although you may use two colums.
CEUR proceedings accept papers in both styles as soon as they use the template and have 5 or more pages.
All submissions must be sent via EasyChair:
Both extended abstracts and paper submissions must be prepared using a recommended template (TBD).
All submissions must be sent via *EasyChair submission page>*

Pay attention: for organisation constraints, when submitting your article for presentation you are expected to register to the conference and pay the conference fees.

**What is an extended abstract?** It's a short (2 pages long) description of some work you are willing to present.
**What is an extended abstract?** It's a short (up to 2 pages long) description of some work you are willing to present.
Please describe the context of your work, the problem, what solution you are exploring, and how do you expect to evaluate it.

Abstracts are only required to evaluate the work for presentation. They will not be published in the proceedings.
Abstracts are only required to evaluate the work for presentation. They will not be published in the proceedings, but *will be published on the conference web site and shared to the IWST audience during the workshop*. Therefore, take care submit your abstract in a shareable form. Furthermore, If you already have your paper ready for submission, it can be submitted but please **be aware** that this working version of your paper, that is still not ready and accepted for publishing **will be shared on the web site**. We will assume that you agree with this.

**How about research papers?** We are looking for papers of two kinds:
**Extended Abstracts on Previously Published Contributions**

- Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results.
- Full research papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results.
As a special category of presentation, we invite authors of contributions related to IWST's topics, accepted for publication in Journals and Proceedings of top-rated international conferences within the previous 2 years, to submit an (extended) abstract and present their published results to the IWST workshop collocated with ESUG.

Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a Workshop Proceedings. We aim to conforming all necessary preconditions and submit the proceedings to *CEUR-WS Proceedings>https://ceur-ws.org/* for publishing.

!!!! IWST 26 Pre-published Presentations

IWST 2025 opens a Call for Presentations on previously published contributions.

We invite authors of contributions related to IWST's topics, accepted for publication in Journals and Proceedings of top-rated international conferences within the previous 2 years, to submit an abstract and present their published results to the IWST workshop collocated with ESUG.

Authors of publications that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a presentation proposal to IWST organizers by filling out the web form. The proposal will consist of (1) the presentation title, (2) authors, (3) the abstract, (4) a pointer to the original journal paper (DOI) or pre-print, and (5) an acknowledgement that the paper meets the mentioned criteria and to not break any intellectual property limitations related to the previous publication.
Authors of publications that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a presentation proposal to IWST organizers thorugh EasyChair submission page (To be open soon).
The submission will consist of (1) the presentation title, (2) authors, (3) the abstract, (4) a pointer to the original journal paper (DOI) or pre-print, and (5) an acknowledgement that the paper meets the mentioned criteria and to not break any intellectual property limitations related to the previous publication.
Authors will be invited to present their paper after checking that the submission meets the above criteria.
Having the submissions already reviewed and accepted by the peers, they will not be reviewed again for technical content.
We will tend to include in the program as many previously published contributions as possible; only in case an exceptionally high number of proposals is received, we will be forced to make a selection based on the quality and significance criteria.

Submissions are expected in the following *online form>


!!!! Camera Ready Package Submission
The camera-ready (CR) package should be submitted through EasyChair. CR package should contain:
**How about papers on original contributions?**

- Final version of the paper (PDF)
- Source files of the paper (*Word/ODT/Latex, single column>https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip*), as well as any figures, code listings, or additional materials needed.
- (Eventually) Log of changes addressing additional improvements potentially required after the second round of reviewing.
- Signed copyright transfer form.

When preparing and submitting Camera-Ready versions of papers, authors have to strictly follow the given templates. Namely, authors should use the CEUR-ART template, available in LaTeX, Word, and Libre Office variants (see *Word/ODT/Latex, single column>https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip*). We kindly ask you to preferably use LaTeX, but if using Word/ODT, please be aware of all the CEUR-WS rules related to formatting, especially the fonts. There is also an Overleaf template. Please use the single-column formating.

Please make sure to update the event info and replace the event in the preamble with:
"IWST 2025: International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, July 1-4, 2024, Gdansk, Poland". Please make the text consistent with formatting across the templates.

Furthermore, each paper to be published must contain a footnote on the first page that designates the paper as being published under the CC BY 4.0 license. The text shall be like
"Copyright © 2025 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)."


For the publication of the proceedings, it is necessary to have an agreement from all the authors. Publication on *CEUR WS>https://ceur-ws.org/* requires the usage of Creative Commons licences, to which you need to agree using one of the following documents (explanations copied from *CEUR WS website>https://ceur-ws.org/*):
We are looking for papers of two kinds:
- Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results.
- Full research papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results.

- AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (NTP) (*PDF prefilled in with IWST 2025 data>IWST-2025-ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf* | *CEUR PDF>https://ceur-ws.org/IWST-2025-ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf*) Authors shall use this form if they ""did not"" include copyrighted third party material in their paper or accompanying material or they used Generative Artificial Intelligence tools to produce material in the paper.
Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a Workshop Proceedings (Publisher under negotiation).

- AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (TP) (*PDF prefilled in with IWST 2025 data>IWST-2025-ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf* | *CEUR PDF>https://ceur-ws.org/IWST-2025-ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf*) Authors shall use this form if they ""did"" include copyrighted third party material in their paper or accompanying material or they used Generative Artificial Intelligence tools to produce material in the paper.

In case of third-party material, they must then append a copy of the permission(s) by the third parties to use this material to the signed author agreement! In the case of material produced by Generative Artificial Intelligence tools, they must fill in and sign a declaration on which elements of the paper was produced by AI tools, see *AI STATEMENT>https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-statement-AI-material.pdf*. This signed declaration must then be scanned and appended to the signed author agreement. Check *ACADEMIC-ETHICS>https://ceur-ws.org/ACADEMIC-ETHICS.html* for *CEUR WS>https://ceur-ws.org/* rules on including such material.
%!!!! Camera Ready Package Submission
%The camera-ready (CR) package should be submitted through EasyChair. CR package should contain:

Either form used ""must be signed by hand (ink on paper)"". Electronic signatures are not accepted by *CEUR WS>https://ceur-ws.org/*, due to the lack of international laws that acknowledge them.
%- Final version of the paper (PDF)
%- Source files of the paper (*Word/ODT/Latex, single column>https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip*), as well as any figures, code listings, or additional materials needed.
%- (Eventually) Log of changes addressing additional improvements potentially required after the second round of reviewing.
%- Signed copyright transfer form.


!!!! Reviewing
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- in the first round, all submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Based on these reviews authors will receive a notification with reviewers comments, advices, and requirements, and papers that are not rejected will be invited to be resubmitted in an improved form together with change log and answrers to the reviewers.
- in the second round, PC chairs in collaboration with the reviewers where needed and possible, will evaluate the improved paper version and notifiy authors about final decision on acceptance/rejection.



""Best Paper Award""

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The Awards will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper/abstract must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference.


!!! Important Dates (All in AoE - Anywhere on Earth)

- Extended abstract submission deadline: tbd
- Already Published Papers Abstract submission deadline: tbd
- Extended abstract notification deadline: tbd
- Early *registration deadline>https://esug.org/2025-Conference/conf2025.html*: tbd
- Already Published Papers Abstract notifications: tbd
- Full/short paper submission deadline: tbd
- Full/short paper first-round notification deadline: tbd

- Workshop: tbd

- Full/short paper resubmission deadline: tbd
- Full/short paper final notification deadline: tbd
- Camera-ready package submission deadline: tbd

!!! Program chairs
- tbd
- Nahuel Palumbo, Argentina
- Guillermo Polito, France
- Grodana Rakić, Serbia

!!!! Program committee

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