WOSAR 2026: 18TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE AGING AND REJUVENATION
co-located with ISSRE 2026, October 20-23, Limassol, Cyprus
co-located with ISSRE 2026, October 20-23, Limassol, Cyprus
8:50(am) Opening (10 min) , Alberto Avritzer
9:00 SESSION I (50 min), Session Chair: Fumio Machida
— Keynote: Causal Software Aging: Models for Estimating, Intervening, and Explaining.
Roberto Pietrantuono (40 min)
9:50 SESSION II (30 min), Session Chair: Fumio Machida
— Empirical Assessment of Software Aging and Rejuvenation in Microservices. Andrea Janes, Helena Rodrigues, Alberto Avritzer, Laura Carnevali, Leonardo Scommegna and Enrico Vicario(15 min)
— Optimizing Bucket-Based Software Rejuvenation in Microservices Subject To Variable Workload. Leonardo Scommegna, Alberto Avritzer, Laura Carnevali, Andrea Janes, Helena Rodrigues and Enrico Vicario (15 min)
10:20(am) COFFEE BREAK
10:50 SESSION III (40 min), Session Chair: Roberto Pietrantuono
— Keynote: Toward AI systems aging and rejuvenation.
Fumio Machida (40 min)
11:30 SESSION IV (45 min), Session Chair: Roberto Pietrantuono
— Characterizing Software Aging in GPU-Based LLM Serving Systems. Domenico Cotroneo and Bojan Cukic (15 min)
— Detecting File-Level Software Aging Defects Using Large Language Models. Longteng Zheng, Rui Hao and Jianwen Xiang (15 min)
— ARB-Bench: A Benchmark for Large Language Models on Aging-Related Bugs with Integrity and Contamination Controls. Shrenik Jadhav and Vidhyashree Nagaraju (15 min)
12:15 Closing Remarks (15min)
12:30 End of Workshop