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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unpublished research work.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
=============================================================
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."
[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)
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.
--------------
FEATURES
- Best Paper Award,
- Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI)
--------------
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)
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When: 1 – 4 September, 2026
Where: Liverpool, UK
Web: https://confest-2026.github.io/concur
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The International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR) brings together
researchers, developers, and students in order to advance the theory of
concurrency and promote its applications. CONCUR solicits high quality papers
reporting research results and/or experience related to semantics, logics,
verification and analysis of concurrent systems.
The 2026 edition will be co-located with QEST+FORMATS, FMICS and a number of
workshops under the joint name CONFEST 2026, which will take place September
1-5, 2026 at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Important dates
- Abstracts: 20 April, 2026 (AoE)
- Submissions: 27 April, 2026 (AoE)
- Rebuttal: 1 – 3 June, 2026 (AoE)
- Notification: 15 June, 2026 (AoE)
- Camera Ready: 29 June, 2026 (AoE)
- Conference: 1 – 4 September, 2026
- Workshops: 5 September, 2026
Topics
Submissions are solicited in the theory and practice of concurrent systems.
The principal topics include (but are not limited to):
- Basic models of concurrency such as abstract machines, domain-theoretic
models, categorical and coalgebraic models, game-theoretic models,
parametric models, process algebras, graph transformation systems, Petri
nets, hybrid systems, mobile and collaborative systems, probabilistic
systems, real-time systems, quantum systems, biology-inspired systems, and
synchronous systems;
- Logics for concurrency such as modal logics, program logics, probabilistic
and stochastic logics, temporal logics, multi-agent logics, and resource
logics;
- Verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems such as
abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model checking, race
detection, pre-order and equivalence checking, run-time verification,
state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem
proving, type systems, and security analysis;
- Distributed/parallel algorithms and concurrent data structures: design,
analysis, complexity, correctness, fault tolerance, reliability,
availability, consistency, self-organization, self-stabilization,
commitment schemes, communication protocols;
- Theoretical foundations, tools, and empirical evaluations of
architectures, execution environments, and software development for
concurrent systems such as geo-replicated systems, distributed ledgers,
communication networks, multiprocessor and multi-core architectures,
quantum computing, quantum communication, shared and transactional memory,
resource management and awareness, compilers and tools for concurrent
programming, programming models such as component-based, object- and
service-oriented.
Paper submission
- All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for
publication elsewhere.
- Each paper will undergo a thorough review process.
- Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=concur2026).
- Proceedings will be published by LIPIcs; please use their style files
(https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/series/LIPIcs#author) when preparing
your submission.
- Submissions follow a single-blind process.
- Papers must not exceed 15 pages (excluding references and appendices,
LIPIcs style)
- An appendix may provide additional material and proofs, but should not be
expected to be scrutinized by the reviewers and will not be published in
the proceedings.
Special Issue
A special issue dedicated to selected papers from CONCUR’2026 will appear in
Logical Methods in Computer Science.
Awards
There will be a CONCUR Test-of-Time award, Best Paper award, and Best Student
Paper award in 2026. The winners will be announced at the conference.
Invited Speakers
- Jade Alglave, University College London / Arm, UK
- Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien, Austria
- Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Jean-François Raskin, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Qiyi Tang, University of Liverpool, UK
Program Committee Chairs
- Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria
- Patrick Totzke, University of Liverpool, UK
Program Committee
- Parosh Abdulla, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Giorgio Bacci, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany
- Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy
- Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA Rennes, France
- Laura Bocchi, University of Kent, UK
- Filippo Bonchi, University of Pisa, Italy
- Valentina Castiglioni, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
- Dmitry Chistikov, University of Warwick, UK
- Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, UK
- Wojciech Czerwiński, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Javier Esparza, TU Munich, Germany
- Benjamin Kaminski, Saarland University and UCL, Germany/UK
- Tobias Kappé, Leiden University, the Netherlands
- Stefan Kiefer, University of Oxford, UK
- Barbara König, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Antonín Kucera, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Yong Li, SKLCS Beijing, China
- Nicolas Mazzocchi, STU Bratislava, Slovakia
- Roland Meyer, TU Braunschweig, Germany
- Pierre Ohlmann, CNRS, LIS Marseille, France
- Prakash Panangaden, McGill and University of Edinburgh, Canada/UK
- Kirstin Peters, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Guillermo A. Pérez, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Damien Pous, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France
- Karin Quaas, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Ege Saraç, CISPA, Germany
- Sylvain Schmitz, Université Paris Cité, France
- Henning Urbat, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
- Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS, Germany
- Franck van Breugel, York University, Canada
- Rob van Glabbeek, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Pierre Vandenhove, Université de Mons, Belgium
- Kazuki Watanabe, NII, Tokyo, Japan
- Sarah Winter, Université Paris Cité, France
- Nisansala Yatapanage, Australian National University, Australia
- Florian Zuleger, TU Wien, Austria
Steering Committee
- Luca Aceto, Reykjavik University, Iceland
- Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany
- Pedro R. D’Argenio, National University of Córdoba, Argentina
- Wan Fokkink, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA Saclay and LIX, France
- Jiri Srba, Aalborg University, Denmark
Questions regarding submissions should be directed to the PC chairs
(concur2026(a)easychair.org).
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the final Call for Papers for the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State of the Art in Program Analysis (SOAP) 2026, co-located with PLDI 2026 in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
SOAP brings together researchers and practitioners working on program analysis. We welcome submissions on exciting ideas in analysis frameworks, innovative designs, and analysis techniques, including preliminary results and work in progress. We also emphasize the state of practice by encouraging submissions from industry, including tool demonstration submissions. The workshop will continue its tradition of lively discussions on extending existing frameworks, developing novel analyses and tools, and how program analysis is applied in real-world settings.
Important dates:
• Submission deadline: March 3, 2026
• Author notification: April 15, 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: April 25, 2026
• Workshop: June 16, 2026
Workshop website (CFP and updates): https://pldi26.sigplan.org/home/SOAP-2026
Submission site: https://soap26.hotcrp.com/
We warmly encourage you to submit your work and look forward to receiving contributions from the community.
Best regards,
Yue Li and Debasmita Lohar
PC Chairs, SOAP 2026
13th Rodin User and Developer Workshop
The 13th Rodin User and Developer Workshop, May 18th-19th, 2026, Tokyo, Japan
Event-B is a formal method for system-level modelling and analysis. The Rodin Platform is an Eclipse-based toolset for Event-B that provides effective support for modelling and automated proof.
The platform is open-source and is further extendable with plug-ins. A range of plug-ins have already been developed.
The 13th Rodin workshop will be collocated with the FM 2026 Conference <https://conf.researchr.org/home/fm-2026>,.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together existing and potential users and developers of the Rodin toolset and to foster a broader community of Rodin users and developers.
For Rodin users the workshop will provide an opportunity to share tool experiences and to gain an understanding of on-going tool developments.
For plug-in developers the workshop will provide an opportunity to showcase their tools and to achieve better coordination of tool development effort.
Submission
If you are interested in giving a presentation at the Rodin workshop or have a plug-in to demonstrate, send
a short abstract (1 or 2 pages PDF) to rodin(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:rodin@ecs.soton.ac.uk> by 15th March 2026.
Notification will be send out early April.
We will endeavour to accommodate all submissions that are clearly relevant to Rodin and Event-B.
The proceedings of the workshop will be available as a technical report at the University of Southampton.
Exclusive Opportunity: Special Issue Publication
This year, we are excited to announce that a special issue is in the planning stages, and the selected high-quality submissions will be invited to contribute to a Special Issue.
(Note: The finalisation of the special issue is currently underway.)
Organisers
Asieh Salehi Fathabadi <https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xb2d2/doctor-asieh-salehi-fathabadi>, Lecturer, University of Southampton
Laurent Voisin, R&D Manager, Systerel <https://www.systerel.fr/en/>
Neeraj Kumar Singh <https://sites.google.com/site/singhnne/>, Associate Professor, INPT-ENSEEIHT / IRIT, University of Toulouse
Michael Leuschel <https://www.cs.hhu.de/lehrstuehle-und-arbeitsgruppen/softwaretechnik-und-pr…>, Professor, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany
Son Hoang <https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xfl2w/doctor-son-hoang>, Associate Professor, University of Southampton