AvioSE'27, February, 23, 2027, Dortmund, Germany

Software development in the aerospace is increasingly shaped by software-defined avionics, extensively connected aircraft, growing certification demands, and the need for resilient, cyber-secure architectures. Emerging applications such as autonomous and highly assisted flight operations, unmanned systems, and next-generation air traffic integration require new development and verification methodologies. At the same time, industry is facing major technological challenges in areas such as multicore and heterogeneous computing platforms, artificial intelligence and machine learning in safety-critical environments, as well as the integration of open and modular avionics architectures. Model-based engineering, digital twins, and virtualization, are becoming key enablers for managing increasing system complexity while maintaining compliance with evolving certification standards and safety requirements.

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Important dates

Oct 21, 2026	Paper submission deadline
Nov 25, 2026	Paper acceptance notification
Dec 09, 2026	Camera-ready paper deadline
Feb 23, 2027	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

* 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. Vanessa Tietz, Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. Andreas Schweiger, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
Dr. Martin Halle, Technische Universität Hamburg

Program committee

To be announced

Proceedings

All accepted contributions will be published with dl.gi.de and are freely accessible. Please find the proceedings below.

Past Editions

AvioSE'26	Co-located with SE Bern, Switzerland
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