**SYNT 2026 : 15th International Workshop on Synthesis**
25th July 2026
Co-located with FLoC 2026, Lisbon, Portugal
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The SYNT workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the
broad area of synthesis of computing systems. The workshop fosters the
development of frontier techniques in automating the development of
computing systems and is inclusive in its interpretation of the term
“synthesis”.
SYNT 2026 encourages submissions that can be broadly categorized into
one of the tracks: reactive synthesis, functional synthesis and
neuro-symbolic synthesis. However, submissions in other areas related to
synthesis are also welcome.
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**Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:**
- Algorithms and tools for synthesis of computing systems, broadly
interpreted
- Reactive (discrete-time, timed, hybrid, ...) synthesis
- Functional (program, circuit, …) synthesis
- Neuro-symbolic synthesis
- Specification languages and optimization in synthesis,
- Complexity and decidability results for synthesis,
- Case studies of software or hardware synthesis,
- Connections between verification and synthesis,
- Synthesis by model learning,
- Connections between synthesis and inductive programming,
- New approaches or applications for synthesis,
- Description and analysis of benchmark families for synthesis.
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**SYNT 2026 submission instructions**
SYNT 2026 welcomes submissions of extended abstracts up to 3 pages,
excluding references.
All submissions should be in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) format:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>
As in previous years, there will be no published proceedings of SYNT 2026
Submissions will be judged on how interesting they are to the SYNT
community. Overlap with previously published work should be indicated
but does not disqualify a submission if the presentation can be expected
to be of enough interest. Parallel submissions are welcome as well,
since there will be no published proceedings.
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**WORKSHOP URL:**
https://synt2026.github.io/ <https://synt2026.github.io/>
**SUBMISSION URL:**
https://submissions.floc26.org/synt/ <https://submissions.floc26.org/synt/>
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**IMPORTANT DATES:**
- Submission: 1st May (AoE)
- Author Notification: 14th May (AoE)
- Workshop: 25th July
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Organisers:
Supratik Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
K. S. Thejaswini (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Dear all,
The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by
Ashish Mishra, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, April 07,
at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NG8ydXZuaW…>
).
The details of the talk can be found on our webpage (
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/), and also appended to the body of this
email.
The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association
for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online
talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming
Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this
talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to
interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for
researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and
for younger researchers to start working in these areas.
All are welcome to join.
Best regards,
Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series
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Title: Coverage Types: Underapproximate Refinement Types for Generator
Coverage
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
(Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
Abstract:
Property-based testing (PBT) has become a widely used technique for
validating semantic properties of programs by automatically generating test
inputs that satisfy user-specified preconditions. In practice, however, the
effectiveness of PBT depends critically on the quality of input generators.
When preconditions describe rich structural constraints, purely random
generators rarely produce many valid inputs, forcing developers to write
specialized generators by hand. Unfortunately, such generators are often
incomplete, i.e., they may fail to produce many valid inputs, limiting the
behaviors explored during testing. However, it is not readily apparent how
to validate whether a particular generator provides sufficient coverage
against a given precondition. Typically, developers must rely on manual
inspection and post-hoc analysis.
In this talk, I will present a refinement type-based framework for
reasoning about the coverage of test input generators. Our key idea is
coverage types, an interpretation of refinement types that captures
must-style guarantees about the values a program will produce, rather than
the traditional may-style approximation of possible outputs. Conceptually,
coverage types bring ideas from Incorrectness logic and underapproximate
reasoning into the type system. The types associated with expressions now
capture the set of values guaranteed to be produced by an expression,
rather than the typical formulation that uses types to represent the set of
values an expression may produce. This automated, underapproximate
reasoning mechanism allows us to formally verify coverage properties of
generators in a higher-order functional language with inductive data types.
Building on this foundation, I will also describe a synthesis-based program
repair technique that automatically patches incomplete generators by
enumerating candidate repairs guided by coverage types. Together, these
ideas enable both verification and automated repair of test generators,
providing stronger guarantees about the effectiveness of property-based
testing and illustrating how incorrectness-style, underapproximate
reasoning can be integrated with modern type systems to support practical
testing workflows.
Bio: Ashish Mishra obtained his PhD from IISc Bangalore. He was
subsequently a post-doctoral researcher at Northeastern University and
Purdue University, before joining IIT Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor
in 2024. Ashish's research interests are broadly in Program Verification
and Synthesis, Functional Programming and Type Systems.
Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare(W2R-Health 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026 in Bologna, June 16-19, 2026.
Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 (Extended, firm)
Call For Papers
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The 1st IEEE International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare
(IEEE W2R-Health 2026)
in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026,
June 16 2026, Bologna, Italy
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Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 (Extended, firm)
WEBSITE
https://w2r-health.github.io/W2R-Health/
SUBMISSION LINK
https://edas.info/N35071
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CALL FOR PAPERS
W2R-HEALTH Workshop
Wearables to Robotics for Intelligent and Personalized Healthcare
The W2R-HEALTH Workshop aims to advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of wearable sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, edge computing, and robotics to enable intelligent and personalized healthcare environments. Rapid progress in wearable technologies and humanoid robotics is opening new opportunities to transform healthcare spaces into adaptive, context-aware, and patient-centered systems that support continuous monitoring, assisted living, rehabilitation, and personalized interventions.
The workshop focuses on the integration of wearable IoT technologies and robotic platforms to create smart healthcare ecosystems capable of real-time sensing, intelligent decision-making, and privacy-preserving data processing. By bridging engineering and life sciences, W2R-HEALTH seeks to stimulate collaboration and foster discussion on how sensing, computation, and robotic technologies can jointly shape the next generation of personalized healthcare solutions.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Wearable sensing and body-area networks for healthcare monitoring
• IoT architectures and platforms for smart healthcare environments
• Context-aware and personalized healthcare applications
• Human activity recognition and behavioral modeling for health assessment
• Physiological and multimodal sensing with data fusion techniques
• Humanoid and mobile robots for healthcare assistance and rehabilitation
• Human–robot interaction in assistive and clinical environments
• AI-based planning, reasoning, and decision-making for personalized care
• Knowledge representation and intelligent healthcare spaces
• Edge and fog computing for real-time and privacy-preserving processing
• Machine learning and federated learning for healthcare analytics
• Wireless and mobile networking solutions for smart healthcare systems
• Security, privacy, and trust in IoT- and robot-enabled healthcare
• Ethical, legal, and social implications of intelligent healthcare technologies
• Clinical validation, user acceptance, and real-world deployment
W2R-HEALTH encourages contributions that present novel research results, system prototypes, experimental studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, with the goal of advancing intelligent, secure, and human-centered healthcare environments.
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FEATURES
- Best Paper Award,
- Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI)
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SUBMISSION RULES
Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 (Extended, firm)
Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2026
Camera Ready: April 30, 2026
Workshop: June 16, 2026
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ORGANIZING COMMITEEE
Technical Program Chairs
* Valeria Seidita (University of Palermo, Italy)
* Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Roberto Toni (Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA)
* Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, National Research Council of Italy
Web and Publicity Chair
* Alfonso Esposito (University of Bologna, Italy)
[Apologies for multiple postings]
Congress-Level Call for Papers
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2026 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2026)
CLOUD | EDGE | ICDH | ICWS | QSW | SSE
July 13-18, Sydney, Australia
https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/
Paper submission due: March 8, 2026
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****** OVERVIEW *****
The 2026 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES) will be held on July 13-18 in Sydney, Australia.
The Congress is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society under the auspice of the Technical
Community on Services Computing (TCSVC). With six theme conferences, the scope of SERVICES covers
all aspects of services computing and applications, both current or emerging. SERVICES provides a
premier international venue for sharing and discussing significant and recent technical research
advances in services computing. Centered around services computing, SERVICES 2026 covers various
systems and networking research pertaining to cloud, edge and Internet-of Things (IoT), as well
as technologies for intelligent computing, learning, Big Data and blockchain applications, addressing
critical issues such as knowledge network, high performance, security, privacy, dependability,
trustworthiness, and cost-effectiveness. In addition to co-located theme-topic conferences, the
Congress will also include symposia and workshops supporting deep-dive discussions on emerging
topics, and complement the SERVICES 2026 program with industry and application presentations and
panels. Authors are invited to prepare early and submit original and unpublished papers to any of
these conferences at www.easychair.org. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least
three reviewers. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published
by the IEEE Computer Society Press. The 2026 Congress will host the following conferences:
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2026)
https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/cloud/
IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE 2026)
https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/edge/
IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH 2026)
https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/icdh/
IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2026)
https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/icws/
IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW 2026)
https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/qsw/
IEEE International Conference on Software Service Engineering (SSE 2026)
https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/sse/
***PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS***
Please visit
https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/info-for-authors/
for paper format and paper submission instructions for conferences
being held under the IEEE Services Congress umbrella.
****IMPORTANT DATES****
Paper submission: March 8, 2026
Acceptance notifications: May 10, 2026
Camera-ready and registration: May 31, 2026
*****CONTACT US*****
For general inquiries regarding the IEEE Services Congress, please
use the contact form available at:
[ https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/contact-us/ | https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/contact-us/ ]
Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare(W2R-Health 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026 in Bologna, June 16-19, 2026.
Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026
Call For Papers
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The 1st IEEE International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare
(IEEE W2R-Health 2026)
in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026,
June 16 2026, Bologna, Italy
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Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026
WEBSITE
https://w2r-health.github.io/W2R-Health/
SUBMISSION LINK
https://edas.info/N35071
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CALL FOR PAPERS
W2R-HEALTH Workshop
Wearables to Robotics for Intelligent and Personalized Healthcare
The W2R-HEALTH Workshop aims to advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of wearable sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, edge computing, and robotics to enable intelligent and personalized healthcare environments. Rapid progress in wearable technologies and humanoid robotics is opening new opportunities to transform healthcare spaces into adaptive, context-aware, and patient-centered systems that support continuous monitoring, assisted living, rehabilitation, and personalized interventions.
The workshop focuses on the integration of wearable IoT technologies and robotic platforms to create smart healthcare ecosystems capable of real-time sensing, intelligent decision-making, and privacy-preserving data processing. By bridging engineering and life sciences, W2R-HEALTH seeks to stimulate collaboration and foster discussion on how sensing, computation, and robotic technologies can jointly shape the next generation of personalized healthcare solutions.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Wearable sensing and body-area networks for healthcare monitoring
• IoT architectures and platforms for smart healthcare environments
• Context-aware and personalized healthcare applications
• Human activity recognition and behavioral modeling for health assessment
• Physiological and multimodal sensing with data fusion techniques
• Humanoid and mobile robots for healthcare assistance and rehabilitation
• Human–robot interaction in assistive and clinical environments
• AI-based planning, reasoning, and decision-making for personalized care
• Knowledge representation and intelligent healthcare spaces
• Edge and fog computing for real-time and privacy-preserving processing
• Machine learning and federated learning for healthcare analytics
• Wireless and mobile networking solutions for smart healthcare systems
• Security, privacy, and trust in IoT- and robot-enabled healthcare
• Ethical, legal, and social implications of intelligent healthcare technologies
• Clinical validation, user acceptance, and real-world deployment
W2R-HEALTH encourages contributions that present novel research results, system prototypes, experimental studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, with the goal of advancing intelligent, secure, and human-centered healthcare environments.
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FEATURES
- Best Paper Award,
- Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI)
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SUBMISSION RULES
Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: April 12, 2026
Camera Ready: April 26, 2026
Workshop: June 16, 2026
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ORGANIZING COMMITEEE
Technical Program Chairs
* Valeria Seidita (University of Palermo, Italy)
* Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Roberto Toni (Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA)
* Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, National Research Council of Italy
Web and Publicity Chair
* Alfonso Esposito (University of Bologna, Italy)
----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com> -----
From: Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:42:03 +0530
CALL FOR PAPERS
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ICISS-2026
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22nd International Conference on Information Systems Security
Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
December 16-20, 2026
The 22nd ICISS will be held at the Chennai Mathematical Institute,
Chennai between December 16 and 20, 2026. ICISS provides a forum for
researchers and industry practitioners to present their previously
unpublished research work.
Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: July 10, 2026
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2026
Camera-ready submission deadline: September 30, 2026
TPC Co-Chairs:
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Atul Prakash, University of Michigan, USA
SP Suresh, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India
A broad but non-exhaustive list of areas of interest is as below:
Systems Security
OS, VM, containers, cloud
Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN
IoT, RFID, SCADA systems
IDS, IPS, Honeypot, Botnet
Access control
Authentication, Authorization
PKI & Trust management
Zero Trust
Application Security
Vulnerabilities, Malware
Ransomware, APTs, MITRE
Information flow control
Threat Modelling, Attack graphs
Security in AI/ML
Adversarial learning/inputs
Prompt injection, RLHF strategies
Model stealing, Model poisoning
Formal Methods for Security
Verification of Security Protocols
FM for AI/ML Models & Apps
Hardware Security
Remote attestation, PUFs
Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA
TEE, TRNG, SGX
Privacy
PETs, anonymization tech
De-identification attacks
Surveillance & Censorship
Inference, correlation attacks
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency, stablecoins
Interoperability, scalability
Smart contracts, concurrency
DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML
Emerging Tech/Standards
ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, etc
Security-by-design, SBOM
STIX/TAXII
Use Cases
e-voting, e-gov, smart cities
Healthcare, UPI payments
Submissions must be written in English and must not exceed 20 pages in
length using LNCS format. Submissions must be in PDF format. A
double-blinded peer review process will be followed. Submission link
will be available in the coming weeks.
At the time of submission, you will have to: 1) declare potential
conflict-of-interests with TPC members, 2) declare IRB status along
with responsible disclosures while dealing with vulnerabilities and
user privacy 3) declare use of Gen-AI in the work submitted for
review.
The proceedings will appear in the Springer LNCS series.
ICISS has a best paper award.
ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating
implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate
track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning
talks & poster. ICISS has generous funds supporting students to attend
pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference.
Website: https://iciss.in
CFP version 1 (March 10, 2026)
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Dear all,
The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by
Siddhartha Prasad, a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown University
advised by Shriram Krishnamurthi. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, March
10, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzZhaGpqZ3…>
).
The details of the talk can be found on our webpage (
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/), and also appended to the body of this
email.
The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association
for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online
talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming
Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this
talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to
interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for
researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and
for younger researchers to start working in these areas.
All are welcome to join.
Best regards,
Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series
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Title: Eventually, Understanding: Operationalizing Misconceptions in LTL
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
(Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
Abstract:
Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) sits at the heart of verification and
synthesis, yet even experienced users routinely misunderstand what formulas
actually say. Over several years, we have studied LTL from a human-factors
perspective across classrooms and controlled experiments, building
instruments to surface the misconceptions people hold about its semantics
and use. These studies show that misconceptions are not isolated mistakes
but systematic misunderstandings that persist across levels of expertise
and directly affect specification quality.
This talk centers those misconceptions as the object of design. We present
LTL Tutor, a lightweight, curriculum-agnostic system that operationalizes
these insights into targeted practice with immediate, actionable feedback.
The tutor generates exercises grounded in common misconceptions, explains
errors in terms of the learner's answer versus the correct semantics, and
uses a concept-based mutation engine to adaptively drill the ideas each
learner struggles with. It is designed to fit into existing courses without
requiring changes to teaching style, while also supporting independent
learners with minimal prior instruction. By tying feedback to concrete
errors and surfacing the underlying misconceptions over time, the tutor
turns several years of research on how people misunderstand LTL into a
practical, deployable tool for both classrooms and self-guided study.
Bio: Siddhartha Prasad is a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown
University, advised by Shriram Krishnamurthi. His research takes a
programming-languages approach to improving how people express intent and
reason about program behavior, drawing on ideas from formal methods,
human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. He is especially
interested in how models of human cognition can inform the design of
languages, semantics, and interactive tools for understanding complex
computational structures. Previously, he was a software engineer at
Microsoft, where he worked both on Windows and Azure. He says that his
research interests are informed by his time as an engineer. In his own
words, "I have written code that doesn't do what I want it to, and I want
to spare everyone else the indignity."
ICTAC 2026
The 23rd International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing
11-13 of November, 2026
Bariloche, Argentina
https://ictac2026.github.io/
SCOPE
The ICTAC conference series aims at bringing together researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present
research and exchange ideas and experiences within theoretical
aspects of computing through methods and tools for system
development. ICTAC also aims to promote research cooperation between
developing and industrial countries.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract deadline: 8-Jun-2026 (AoE)
Submission deadline: 15-Jun-2026 (AoE)
Notification: 10-Aug-2026 (AoE)
Camera ready: 31-Aug-2026 (AoE)
INVITED SPEAKERS
Erika Ábrahám (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
Pablo Barceló (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile - IMFD - CENIA, CL)
Nazareno Aguirre (National University of Rio Cuarto, AR)
TOPICS
The conference concerns all aspects of theoretical computer science,
including, but not limited to:
- Languages and automata
- Semantics of programming languages
- Logic in computer science
- Lambda calculus, type theory, and category theory
- Domain-specific languages
- Theories of concurrency and mobility
- Theories of distributed computing
- Models of objects and components
- Coordination models, timed, hybrid, embedded, and cyber-physical systems
- Security and privacy
- Static analysis
- Software verification
- Software testing
- Program generation and transformation
- Model checking and theorem proving
- Theory and methods of trustworthy AI
- Applications and experiences.
SUBMISSIONS
We solicit submissions, related to the topics of ICTAC, in the
following categories:
A. original research contributions;
B. short papers, with original work in progress or with proposals of
new ideas and emerging challenges; and
C. tool papers on tools that support formal techniques for software
modeling, system design, and verification.
Submissions of regular papers must not exceed 16 pages and short and
tool papers should not exceed 8 pages, in both cases excluding
bibliography of 2 pages maximum.
Submissions must not have been published or be under consideration
for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the
basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and
presentation quality, and relevance to the conference’s topics.
All contributions to ICTAC 2026 have to be submitted electronically
in PDF format via Easy Chair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2026
Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer
LNCS papers (seehttps://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs),
without modifications of margins and other space-saving
measures. Authors should therefore consult Springer’s authors’
instructions and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or
for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages
authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers in categories A-C will appear in the proceedings
of the conference that will be published as a volume in Springer’s
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their
authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At
least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
conference by the early registration date, and present the paper.
GENERAL CHAIRS
Carlos Lopez Pombo (National University of Río Negro - CONICET, AR)
Pablo Francisco Castro (National University of Río Cuarto - CONICET, AR)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Pedro R. D'Argenio (National University of Córdoba - CONICET, AR)
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Giovanni Bacci (Aalborg University, DK)
Christel Baier (TU Dresden, DE)
Gilles Barthe (MPI Institute for Security and Privacy, DE)
Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien, AT)
Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, IT)
Carlos Budde (DTU Computing, DK)
Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT)
Clemens Dubslaff (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)
Uli Fahrenberg (EPITA Research Laboratory, FR)
Martin Fränzle (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, DE)
Diego Garbervetsky (University of Buenos Aires, AR)
Arnd Hartmanns (University of Twente, NL)
Peter Höfner (Australian National University, AU)
Justin Hsu (Cornell University, US)
David N. Jansen (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN)
Sebastian Junges (Radboud University, NL)
Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NO)
Mayuko Kori (RIMS, Kyoto University, JP)
Martin Leucker (University of Lübeck, DE)
Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, IT)
Jorge A. Pérez (University of Groningen, NL)
Elaine Pimentel (University College London, UK)
Anne Remke (University of Münster, DE)
Tamara Rezk (INRIA Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur, FR)
César Sánchez (IMDEA Software Institute, ES)
Gerardo Schneider (University of Gothenburg, SE)
B Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute, IN)
Maurice ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, IT)
Rob van Glabbeek (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Mahsa Varshosaz (IT University of Copenhagen, DK)
Thorsten Wißmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)
STEERING COMMITTEE
Martin Leucker (Chair) (University of Lübeck, DE)
Zhiming Liu (Southwest University, CN)
Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universität München, DE)
Augusto Sampaio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR)
Natarajan Shankar (SRI, US)
Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University, IS)
Dear all,
The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by
Siddhartha Prasad, a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown University
advised by Shriram Krishnamurthi. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, March
10, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzZhaGpqZ3…>
).
The details of the talk can be found on our webpage (
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/), and also appended to the body of this
email.
The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association
for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online
talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming
Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this
talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to
interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for
researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and
for younger researchers to start working in these areas.
All are welcome to join.
Best regards,
Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series
=============================================================
Title: Eventually, Understanding: Operationalizing Misconceptions in LTL
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
(Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
Abstract:
Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) sits at the heart of verification and
synthesis, yet even experienced users routinely misunderstand what formulas
actually say. Over several years, we have studied LTL from a human-factors
perspective across classrooms and controlled experiments, building
instruments to surface the misconceptions people hold about its semantics
and use. These studies show that misconceptions are not isolated mistakes
but systematic misunderstandings that persist across levels of expertise
and directly affect specification quality.
This talk centers those misconceptions as the object of design. We present
LTL Tutor, a lightweight, curriculum-agnostic system that operationalizes
these insights into targeted practice with immediate, actionable feedback.
The tutor generates exercises grounded in common misconceptions, explains
errors in terms of the learner's answer versus the correct semantics, and
uses a concept-based mutation engine to adaptively drill the ideas each
learner struggles with. It is designed to fit into existing courses without
requiring changes to teaching style, while also supporting independent
learners with minimal prior instruction. By tying feedback to concrete
errors and surfacing the underlying misconceptions over time, the tutor
turns several years of research on how people misunderstand LTL into a
practical, deployable tool for both classrooms and self-guided study.
Bio: Siddhartha Prasad is a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown
University, advised by Shriram Krishnamurthi. His research takes a
programming-languages approach to improving how people express intent and
reason about program behavior, drawing on ideas from formal methods,
human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. He is especially
interested in how models of human cognition can inform the design of
languages, semantics, and interactive tools for understanding complex
computational structures. Previously, he was a software engineer at
Microsoft, where he worked both on Windows and Azure. He says that his
research interests are informed by his time as an engineer. In his own
words, "I have written code that doesn't do what I want it to, and I want
to spare everyone else the indignity."
Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare(W2R-Health 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026 in Bologna, June 16-19, 2026.
Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026
Call For Papers
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The 1st IEEE International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare
(IEEE W2R-Health 2026)
in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026,
June 16 2026, Bologna, Italy
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Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026
WEBSITE
https://w2r-health.github.io/W2R-Health/
SUBMISSION LINK
https://edas.info/N35071
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CALL FOR PAPERS
W2R-HEALTH Workshop
Wearables to Robotics for Intelligent and Personalized Healthcare
The W2R-HEALTH Workshop aims to advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of wearable sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, edge computing, and robotics to enable intelligent and personalized healthcare environments. Rapid progress in wearable technologies and humanoid robotics is opening new opportunities to transform healthcare spaces into adaptive, context-aware, and patient-centered systems that support continuous monitoring, assisted living, rehabilitation, and personalized interventions.
The workshop focuses on the integration of wearable IoT technologies and robotic platforms to create smart healthcare ecosystems capable of real-time sensing, intelligent decision-making, and privacy-preserving data processing. By bridging engineering and life sciences, W2R-HEALTH seeks to stimulate collaboration and foster discussion on how sensing, computation, and robotic technologies can jointly shape the next generation of personalized healthcare solutions.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Wearable sensing and body-area networks for healthcare monitoring
• IoT architectures and platforms for smart healthcare environments
• Context-aware and personalized healthcare applications
• Human activity recognition and behavioral modeling for health assessment
• Physiological and multimodal sensing with data fusion techniques
• Humanoid and mobile robots for healthcare assistance and rehabilitation
• Human–robot interaction in assistive and clinical environments
• AI-based planning, reasoning, and decision-making for personalized care
• Knowledge representation and intelligent healthcare spaces
• Edge and fog computing for real-time and privacy-preserving processing
• Machine learning and federated learning for healthcare analytics
• Wireless and mobile networking solutions for smart healthcare systems
• Security, privacy, and trust in IoT- and robot-enabled healthcare
• Ethical, legal, and social implications of intelligent healthcare technologies
• Clinical validation, user acceptance, and real-world deployment
W2R-HEALTH encourages contributions that present novel research results, system prototypes, experimental studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, with the goal of advancing intelligent, secure, and human-centered healthcare environments.
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FEATURES
- Best Paper Award,
- Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI)
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SUBMISSION RULES
Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: April 12, 2026
Camera Ready: April 26, 2026
Workshop: June 16, 2026
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ORGANIZING COMMITEEE
Technical Program Chairs
* Valeria Seidita (University of Palermo, Italy)
* Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Roberto Toni (Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA)
* Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, National Research Council of Italy
Web and Publicity Chair
* Alfonso Esposito (University of Bologna, Italy)