Call for Papers (CFP)

LLM-Based Software Systems 2026

Engineering, Architectures, and Applications

About the Event

LLM-Based Software Systems 2026 is a focused academic and industrial forum dedicated to the emerging discipline of building, deploying, and maintaining software systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). While LLMs have rapidly advanced natural language processing capabilities, their integration into real-world software systems introduces new engineering paradigms, architectural challenges, and lifecycle management requirements.

This event aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and system architects to discuss methodologies, tools, best practices, and future directions for designing scalable, reliable, and responsible LLM-driven software systems. The forum emphasizes system-level perspectives that go beyond model training, covering software engineering workflows, DevOps/MLOps pipelines, human-in-the-loop design, safety mechanisms, and deployment strategies.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must present original work that has not been previously published and is not under review by another conference, journal, or workshop.

The following categories of submissions are welcome:

Full Papers

Full research or experience papers (15-20 pages) describing:

• Novel architectures and system designs for LLM-based software

• Engineering methodologies and frameworks

• Empirical evaluations and benchmarks

• Industrial deployments and large-scale case studies

• Tooling and infrastructure innovations

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Introduction to LLM-Based Software Systems

• Foundations, evolution, and scope of LLM-integrated systems

LLMs in the Software Development Lifecycle

• Requirements engineering, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance

Prompt Engineering as a Software Artifact

• Prompt versioning, reuse, evaluation, optimization, and management

Architectural Patterns for LLM-Based Systems

• Monolithic, microservices, agent-based, and hybrid architectures

Testing, Evaluation, and Quality Assurance

• Benchmarks, robustness, uncertainty handling, reliability, and validation

DevOps and MLOps for LLM-Centric Development

• CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, observability, deployment automation, and lifecycle management

Human-in-the-Loop and Responsible AI

• Safety, ethics, governance frameworks, transparency, and moderation layers

Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Knowledge Integration

• RAG pipelines, vector databases, indexing strategies, and domain adaptation

Performance Optimization and System Efficiency

• Caching strategies, token optimization, inference efficiency, and cost control

Applications and Case Studies

• Code assistants, education platforms, healthcare systems, legal tech, business automation

Low-Code/No-Code and Tooling Ecosystems

• LangChain, DSPy, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, and emerging frameworks

Future Directions and Research Challenges

• Agentic systems, autonomous software, multi-agent coordination, and next-generation architectures

  Important Dates(Tentative)

• Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2026

• Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2026

• Camera-Ready Submission: May 30, 2026

• Organizing Committee

• Rajkumar Buyya, Professor, The University of Melbourne, Australia

• Soumya K. Ghosh, Professor, IIT Kharagpur, India

• Shreya Ghosh, Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, India