NII Shonan Meeting No. 255: Future of Refactoring in the Era of GenAI
📅 Monday, 16 November 2026 → Thursday, 19 November 2026 in 122 days
NII research meeting on using generative AI and agents to refactor and validate software.
NII Shonan Meeting No. 255, “The Future of Refactoring in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence”, takes place from 16 to 19 November 2026 at the Shonan Village Center in Hayama, Japan, with check-in on 15 November. It is an invitation-based research seminar in the NII Shonan series rather than an open-registration event.
The meeting examines how automated code refactoring — source-to-source program transformations that improve code quality — intersects with generative AI. The official description notes that refactorings generated by large language models can carry a high error rate, and the seminar explores detecting such errors, IDE integration, and testing strategies for AI-generated and refactored code.
Organisers listed are Toufique Ahmed (IBM Research), Danny Dig (University of Colorado Boulder and JetBrains Research), Shinpei Hayashi (Institute of Science Tokyo) and Ying Zou (Queen’s University). As an invitation-only format, participation is limited; the NII Shonan site describes how meetings in this series are convened.
