IWST 26 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Plovdiv Bulgaria; July 7th to 10th, 2026 Co-located with ESUG 2026
The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around contributions and experiences in building or using technologies related to Smalltalk. While maturity of presented ideas and results is not crucial, it is expected that their presentation triggers discussion and exchange of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Authors are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers.
We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as:
We invite two kind of submissions:
Presentations and proceedings are even in the case of original contributions. This means that you can present your work and the workshop and not have it published in the proceedings.
This is how it works: - Authors interested to present their work (original or previously published) submit an extended abstract before the extended abstract submission deadline. - Author of the submitted extended abstracts will be notified and (potentially) invited to present their work by the extended abstract notification deadline. - Authors of abstracts on original contributions, invited for presentations who are interested in publishing a paper based on the work to be presented, are invited to submit a paper on original contributions for further reviewing process and potential publication in our proceedings. **You do not need** your paper to be included in the workshop proceedings to present it at the conference.
Both extended abstracts and paper submissions must be prepared using a recommended template (TBD). All submissions must be sent via EasyChair submission page
Pay attention: for organisation constraints, when submitting your article for presentation you are expected to register to the conference and pay the conference fees.
**What is an extended abstract?** It's a short (up to 2 pages long) description of some work you are willing to present. Please describe the context of your work, the problem, what solution you are exploring, and how do you expect to evaluate it.
Abstracts are only required to evaluate the work for presentation. They will not be published in the proceedings, but . Therefore, take care submit your abstract in a shareable form. Furthermore, If you already have your paper ready for submission, it can be submitted but please **be aware** that this working version of your paper, that is still not ready and accepted for publishing **will be shared on the web site**. We will assume that you agree with this.
**Extended Abstracts on Previously Published Contributions**
As a special category of presentation, we invite authors of contributions related to IWST's topics, accepted for publication in Journals and Proceedings of top-rated international conferences within the previous 2 years, to submit an (extended) abstract and present their published results to the IWST workshop collocated with ESUG.
Authors of publications that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a presentation proposal to IWST organizers thorugh EasyChair submission page (To be open soon). The submission will consist of (1) the presentation title, (2) authors, (3) the abstract, (4) a pointer to the original journal paper (DOI) or pre-print, and (5) an acknowledgement that the paper meets the mentioned criteria and to not break any intellectual property limitations related to the previous publication. Authors will be invited to present their paper after checking that the submission meets the above criteria. Having the submissions already reviewed and accepted by the peers, they will not be reviewed again for technical content. We will tend to include in the program as many previously published contributions as possible; only in case an exceptionally high number of proposals is received, we will be forced to make a selection based on the quality and significance criteria.
**How about papers on original contributions?**
We are looking for papers of two kinds:
Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a Workshop Proceedings (Publisher under negotiation).
As the workshop format encourages bringing fresh ideas and early results to be presented and discussed, and aims for giving a chance to young community members to learn and grow, we will allow submissions with a discussion potential to be conditionally accepted. In this case, authors are expected to follow the recommendations of the reviewers.
Consequently, the reviewing process will be organized in two rounds:
Best Paper Award
To encourage the submission of high-quality ideas, contributions, and papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Award competition in the categories of best idea, best contribution to the community and best paper for this edition of IWST.
The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process and by the audience voting during the conference.
The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event.
The Awards will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper/abstract must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference.