EPAIS will take the concept of a discussion-oriented workshop to the extreme. Given the fact that this is the first workshop of this kind and EPAIS aims to collaboratively initiate a research roadmap, we want to be as open and broad as possible. Therefore, we do not want to limit nor pre-determine the discussions by having peer-reviewed paper presentations.
Instead, we will follow the Liberating Structures methodology, which was successfully employed in previous roadmap activities; e.g., see
Mauro Pezzè, Silvia Abrahão, Birgit Penzenstadler, Denys Poshyvanyk, Abhik Roychoudhury, and Tao Yue. 2025. A 2030 Roadmap for Software Engineering. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 34, June 2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3731559
Domenico Amalfitano, Andreas Metzger, Marco Autili, Tommaso Fulcini, Tobias Hey, Jan Keim, Patrizio Pelliccione, Vincenzo Scotti, Anne Koziolek, Raffaela Mirandola, and Andreas Vogelsang. 2026. A Research Roadmap for Augmenting Software Engineering Processes and Software Products with Generative AI. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. January 2026. https://doi.org/10.1145/3788879
The Libertating Strcuture methodology ensures an inclusive, dynamic, and productive environment where all participants (see below) contribute to a co-created outcome.
Accordingly, the day of the EPAIS workshop is structured into four 90-minute sessions, each with a distinct goal, guiding the group from discovery to concrete action.