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Full-day workshop @ ICWE 2026 · Lyon, France · June 9, 2026 (TBC)

Ethical and Assurance-Driven Web Engineering in the Age of the Agentic Web

AI-assisted development and agentic interactions accelerate delivery—but also make Web systems harder to understand, audit, and govern. This workshop focuses on turning ethical principles into measurable, evidence-backed engineering practices.

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Format
Lightning + hands-on
Outcomes
Maturity model · labels · blueprint
Workshop theme illustration
Illustration of agentic assurance-driven web

About the workshop

We need ways to show—using evidence—that privacy, security, accessibility, transparency, resilience, and sustainability are being met, and that these properties don’t degrade as systems evolve or new agent-driven abuse appears.

The workshop combines lightning talks, guided discussion, and hands-on co-creation, producing draft community artifacts:

  • Web Trustworthiness Maturity Model
    Dimensions · levels · indicators
  • Evidence-backed Label Taxonomy
    Claims · evidence · exclusions
  • Continuous Assurance Blueprint
    Signals · regression triggers · evaluation protocols

Call for Papers

We welcome short papers that make a clear claim supported by empirical evidence, a concrete system/deployment, a threat model/failure analysis, or a translation of regulatory/normative requirements into engineering practice.

Submission instructions See deadlines

Topics (examples)

  • Assurance & answerability in agentic/autonomous web systems
  • Continuous compliance, monitoring, and regression detection
  • Trust labels, certification, and evidence requirements
  • Privacy/security/accessibility as measurable dimensions
  • Deceptive design, governance, and socio-technical accountability

Submission format

Springer LNCS, recommended up to 4 pages (excluding references)

Accepted paper categories
  • Short papers
  • Position papers
  • Experience reports
  • Negative results / problem statements

Participation

At least one author of each accepted paper should attend in person and participate in the interactive sessions (TBC per ICWE workshop rules).

Channels

Important dates

Submission details →
Submission deadline
May 8, 2026
AoE (UTC-12)
Notification
May 22, 2026
AoE (UTC-12)
Camera-ready
May 29, 2026
AoE (UTC-12)
Workshop day
June 9, 2026
Full day · ICWE Workshops

Submission

How to submit

  1. Prepare your paper in the required format (e.g., LNCS) and page limit.
  2. Submit as PDF via Submission link (TBA).
  3. Include keywords and a short statement describing relevance to workshop outcomes.
  4. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend in person.
Submission system
EasyChair

Workshop day timetable

Example schedule (adjust if needed).

See important dates →
  1. 09:00 Session
    Welcome, scope boundaries, expected outputs

    Framing, goals, and how we’ll co-create the workshop artifacts.

  2. 09:15 Talks
    Invited impulse talk(s)

    Assurance under agentic interaction and regulation.

  3. 09:45 Papers
    Lightning talks + clustering

    Claims, evidence, and failure modes.

  4. 10:30 Break
    Coffee break
  5. 11:00 Hands-on
    Session I: Assurance gap mapping

    Failure modes → engineering obligations.

  6. 12:30 Lunch
    Lunch break
  7. 14:00 Hands-on
    Session II: Maturity model sprint

    Dimensions, levels, indicators.

  8. 15:15 Break
    Coffee break
  9. 15:45 Hands-on
    Session III: Labels & evidence design

    Claims → verifiable evidence.

  10. 16:45 Wrap-up
    Continuous assurance blueprint

    Signals, monitoring, evaluation protocols.

  11. 17:20 Closing
    Editorial plan & next steps
  12. 17:30 End
    Workshop ends

Organizers

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