Smarter Engineering – Building AI and Building with AI (SEAI)

Aims & Topics

This track addresses the mutual reinforcement between AI techniques and disciplined engineering practices for the design, implementation, and maintenance of intelligent systems. It aims to provide a dedicated forum for research at the intersection of building AI systems and leveraging AI for modern software engineering.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Reproducibility and lifecycle management of AI-enabled applications
• Continuous integration, deployment, and training pipelines for ML/LLM models
• Testing, verification, and governance of adaptive and data-driven components
• Architecture and modularity patterns for intelligent behaviors
• Ethical software engineering, including explainability and transparency in intelligent systems
• Configuration and variability management for AI-based systems
• AI-based support for design, implementation, testing, and maintenance tasks
• Intelligent test generation, fault localization, and automated repair
• Prompt engineering and adaptive tool interfaces
• Empirical studies on the impact of AI on productivity, quality, and processes
• Cross-disciplinary topics: ethics, traceability, transparency, human-in-the-loop collaboration

Important Dates

Paper Submission & Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original research papers following ACM SAC guidelines. Papers will be double-blind reviewed. Submissions must use the ACM template and be submitted via EasyChair.

Regular papers: max 8 pages (+2 optional), Posters: 2 pages (+1 optional), SRC abstracts: 2 pages.

Refer to the SAC 2026 website for complete submission instructions.

Student Research Competition (SRC)

Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts by following the instructions published on the SAC 2026 SRC website and submitting through the EasyChair SRC Submission System.

Track Chairs

• Dr. Tewfik Ziadi – University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST)
• Dr. Seifeddine Bouallegue – UDST
• Prof. Reda Bendraou – UDST
• Dr. Vanilson De Arruda Burégio – UDST

Program Committee

• Chouki Tibermacine – Bretagne Sud University, France
• María Francisca Pérez Pérez – Valencia University, Spain
• Paulo Silveira – UFRPE, Brazil
• Belkacem Chikhaoui – Université TÉLUQ, Canada
• Mohamed Amine Chatti – Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Aymen Omri – UDST, Qatar
• Djamel Eddine KHELLADI – CNRS, - IRISA, Rennes, Francer

Contact

For questions, please contact the track chairs at: seai-sac2026@udst.edu.qa