8th Workshop on Avionics Systems and Software Engineering
February 24, 2026, Bern, Switzerland
Co-located with the se2026 (February 23 - 27, 2026)
Scientific and industrial state of the art contributions
Peer-review by an academic and industrial committee
AvioSE'26, February, 24, 2026, Bern, Switzerland
Avionics is derived from the expression “Aviation Electronics”. Software engineering for avionics systems is driven by safety. Its grand challenges are demanding fault tolerance and graceful degradation, increasing complexity, rising certification effort, and increasing cost and time pressures. The last decade of aviation is characterized by disruptive requirements for electrification and automation. New software development methodologies are required for fast adaptation of future applications, e.g., reduced crew operation, manned-unmanned teaming and formation flight. At the same time, there are still many unsolved issues in communication and navigation in airspace, certification of new target platforms, such as multi/many-core processors, artificial intelligence as well as cyber-security.
News
| 2025-11-28 |
AvioSE'26 Deadline ExtensionThe paper submission deadline for the AvioSE'26 workshop is extend to Dec 08, 2025. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions. |
| 2025-10-23 |
AvioSE'26 CfP onlineThe CfP for the AvioSE'26 workshop is now online. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions. |
| 2025-09-09 |
AvioSE'26 acceptedAvioSE'26 was accepted as a workshop co-located with the SE'26. We are looking forward to your contribution and participation! |
| 2025-09-06 |
AvioSE'26 proposedWe would like to inform you that we proposed AvioSE'26 as a workshop for SE'26. |
Important dates
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Camera-ready paper deadline |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Day of the workshop |
Registration
Participation as an author or listener requires a registration at the hosting conference SE26.
Call for Papers ( PDF )
The objective of the workshop is to foster the synergy between the software engineering and avionics systems community and provide a platform for exchanging new software engineering methods, tools, and techniques applied in avionics to accelerate innovation in aviation. Topics of interest, but not limited to these, are:
Development technologies (e.g. model-based systems and software engineering):
- Requirements engineering
- Modelling languages and tools
- Model-based systems and software engineering (MBSE)
- Transfer of modelling techniques to industrial application and their scalability
- Cyber-Security and Safety
- Algorithm-based sizing, layout, design, and automation of development and certification artifacts
Development methods (e.g. deployment of AI):
- Avionics-specific languages, compilers, checkers or tools
- Agile development vs. certification
- Interaction with other domains (e.g., electrical engineering, physics, psychology)
- Deployment of artificial intelligence for enhancing development processes
- Automated and/or digital engineering workflows
- Software-Defined Avionics
Quality assurance methods (e.g. model-based tests, formal methods):
- Model-based tests as well as safety and security assessment
- Verification via testing and formal methods and their scalability
- Qualification simplification methods
- Alternative certification strategies
Product technologies (e.g. applications of AI):
- Applications of AI (including verification, certification, and explainability)
- Autonomous Systems (e.g., UAS, Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS))
- Reference architectures for hard- and software and interfaces between sub-systems
- Sensors, sensor fusion and sensor management
- Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and other avionics platforms
- Human-Machine-Interface (HMI)
- Safty-critical middleware and operating systems
Vision papers
- Short vision papers on upcoming challenges, technologies or regulations
Type of submission and conditions
We welcome two kinds of contributions:
- Full Paper: The paper does not exceed 20 pages and states completed research.
- Short Paper: The paper does not exceed 10 pages and states ongoing research.
All accepted contributions will be published within the SE-workshop proceedings.
!!! Accepted contributions must be presented by one of the authors in person. One author must be registered for the workshop or full SE before the final manuscript deadline!!!
How to Contribute?
The papers must follow LNI formatting guidelines.
The papers are to be submitted using EasyChair. If you do not have an EasyChair account, you need to create a new one. The text of the abstract should not exceed 200 words.
Assessment and Selection of Submissions
The requested submissions lie in the field of expertise of the Organisation and Program Committee. They are assessed according to the following scientific criteria:
- Reasonable structure (problem statement and related work, solution, evaluation of the presented approach)
- Presentation of the unique feature of the submission w. r. t. existing solutions
- Intersubjectively comprehensible compilation
- Relevance of the presented approach
- Innovation of the submission
- Sustainability of the solution
- Appropriate citation of relevant scientific publications
- Form (language, spelling, grammar and formatting)
Program
The workshop is an all-day event. It is a mini-conference giving space to the authors of the accepted papers to present their work. Moreover, invited experts give insights on important avionics topics in keynote presentations. Last, a panel session with experts is organized for exchanging experiences and fostering the network. The workshop language is English. The preliminary program can be found below.
| FROM* | TO | DUR | SLOT | LOCATION |
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| 09:00 | 09:30 | 00:30 | Opening | TBA |
| 09:30 | 10:00 | 00:30 | Keynote 1: Breaking the Silos: How Avionics Open System Design Drives Innovation - Darbaz Darwesh (Aerogenium) | TBA |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | 00:30 | Coffee break | ** |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | 00:30 | Paper 1: A Single-Source-of-Truth Approach for Automatic ED-247 Gateway Configuration in Hybrid Testing Through UCoF - Philipp Chrysalidis, Martin Halle and Frank Thielecke (Technical University of Hamburg, Germany) | TBA |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | 00:30 | Paper 2: Dynamic Mitigation of Multi-Core Interference in Safety-Critical Systems - Moritz Meier, Wanja Zaeske and Umut Durak. (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany) | ** |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | 00:30 | Keynote 2: TBA - Patrick Siegl (Airbus Defence & Space, Germany) | TBA |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | 01:30 | Lunch break | ** |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | 00:30 | Paper 3: Towards Verifiability-Aware Variability Modeling using SysML v2 for Security- and Safety-Critical Avionics - Stephan Jahnke, Hendrick Kausch, Mathias Pfeiffer, Deni Raco, Amelie Rath, Bernhard Rumpe, Andreas Schweiger (OHB Systems AG, Germany & RWTH Aachen University, Germany & Airbus Defence & Space, Germany) | TBA |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | 00:30 | Paper 4: Extension of a Deterministic Path Planner for Cooperative Multi-UAV Missions through the Use of Modern Artificial Intelligence Methods - Simon Berger, Jens Halbig, Bernhard Krach and Roland Brachmanski (Airbus Defence & Space, Germany) | TBA |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | 00:30 | Keynote 3: TBA - Nicolaus Bär (Airbus Defence & Space, Germany) | TBA |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | 00:30 | Coffee break | ** |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | 01:30 | Panel discussion on "Software-defined Avionics": with Darbaz Darwesh (Aerogenium), Patrick Siegl (Airbus Defence & Space), Nicolaus Bär (Airbus Defence & Space), Wanja Zaeske (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany). | TBA |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | 00:30 | Closing | TBA |
| 19:00 | Dinner: Social and technical exchange with the people from the AvioSE workshop (optional and self-payed). | **** |
* All times are given in Central European Time (CET), e.g. Berlin
Committee
To contact the organizers, send an email to Andreas Schweiger: andreas.schweiger[at]airbus.com.
Workshop chairs
Dr. Andreas Schweiger, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH Prof. Umut Durak, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marina Reich, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Technische Universität Chemitz Dr. Vanessa Tietz, Universität Stuttgart
Program committee
Dr. Andreas Schweiger, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Umut Durak, DLR Braunschweig Prof. Björn Annighöfer, Universität Stuttgart Dr. Vanessa Tietz, Universität Stuttgart Marina Reich, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Technische Universität Chemitz Prof. Dr. Ralf God, Technische Universität Hamburg Dr.-Ing. Martin Halle, Hamburg University of Technology Dr. Winfried Lohmiller, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH Dr. Christian Meißner, Volkswagen AG Stéphane Poulain, Airbus Operations GmbH Deni Raco, RWTH Aachen University Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University Prof. Dr. Sebastian Voss, FH Aachen
Past Editions
| AvioSE'25 | Co-located with SE Karlsruhe, Germany |
| AvioSE'24 | Co-located with SE Linz, Austria |
| AvioSE'23 | Co-located with SE Paderborn, Germany |
| AvioSE'22 | Co-located with SE virtual |
| AvioSE'21 | Co-located with SE virtual |
| AvioSE'20 | Co-located with SE in Innsbruck, Austria |
| AvioSE'19 | Co-located with SE in Stuttgart, Germany |