Symbols designate 🔥Keynote, 🔬CORE, 🚀DIVE, 🔁REAP, and 🌟SHOW papers.
are underlined among .
The hosting organisation is the University of Twente, the location is the C2 room of the U Park Hotel on the campus of the said university. The pre-opening on Day 0 (16 November) takes place in the city centre of Enschede. The social event on Day 2 (18 November) takes place in the Carré building on the campus.
The University of Twente is located between two cities: Hengelo and Enschede. We recommend choosing one of the following options for your stay:
The former option adds a bit to your initial and final travel time, but puts you one elevator ride away from the workshop and enables you to take a stroll through our very green campus early in the morning or late in the afternoon. The campus is essentially a town of its own, with cafés, supermarkets, hairdressers, swimming pools, and whatnot. The latter option simplifies your journey but adds a bus ride at the start and end of each day. Hengelo is slightly easier to reach from Germany, and Enschede is slightly easier to reach from the west of the Netherlands.
Choose wisely! And do get in touch with general/local chairs if you need any assistance.
The goal of BENEVOL is to bring together researchers who are working in the field of software evolution and maintenance. BENEVOL offers an informal forum to meet and discuss new ideas, relevant problems, and fresh research results.
Cutting-edge Original Research on Evolution (🔬CORE). Full-length technical papers presenting original research which has been already empirically or formally validated. We also welcome papers in the early stages of their development that would benefit from feedback from the community.
Disruptive Ideas and Visionary Explorations (🚀DIVE). We welcome position papers presenting new and potentially controversial software maintenance and evolution perspectives. Such papers may not have an evaluation, though illustrative examples and cases are welcome.
Reproduced, Examined, or Analysed Papers (🔁REAP). The growing complexity and size of software systems combined with the rise of machine learning for maintenance and evolution tasks makes replicability challenging. We invite replication efforts of existing papers, describing successes (replicated), difficulties (invalidated), or refinements (of any kind). This category extends to new negative results, which are key to narrowing down hypotheses.
Summary of Highlights and Outstanding Work (🌟SHOW). Presentation abstracts, progress reports, research results without inclusion in the proceedings. SHOW papers cover research that has already been accepted for publication, is being reviewed to be published, or is almost ready to be submitted to a conference or a journal.
At least three programme committee members will review 🔬CORE, 🚀DIVE, and 🔁REAP papers. They will assess the adherence to the workshop's scope (maintenance and evolution) and the above categories. Accepted papers will be part of the proceedings. 🌟SHOW papers will only be reviewed for relevance and will be made available on the workshop's website. BENEVOL follows the single-blind reviewing model.
All submissions must conform to the new CEUR-ART style. One can use the LATEX template directly on Overleaf or download an offline version with the style files (including DOCX template files). All submissions should use the single-column template.
We allow using AI tools for writing assistance (grammar checkers, rephrasing). Of course, we explicitly forbid LLM-generated papers as it may lead to plagiarism and may be regarded as unethical. Therefore, such tools cannot be credited as authors. Please check the CEUR-WS Policy on AI assisting tools for more information.
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair. Please mark the category it belongs to. You can upload incremental versions of your paper, so do not wait until the last minute to submit it.
We give the opportunity to authors to adjust their paper before the workshop according to the reviews, to be shared thorugh this website. After the workshop, there will be another opportunity to update the papers — based on reviews as well as on the feedback received during your presentation and in discussions which followed. Post-proceedings will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org in early 2026.
All dates are in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE, 23:59) calendar designation.
