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CALL FOR PAPERS -- ARCS 2026
39th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
March 24-26, 2026, Mainz, Germany
https://arcs-conference.org
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THIS YEAR'S FOCUS: *Open-Source Architectures: From RISC-V to AI
Accelerators*

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The ARCS conferences series has over 38 years of tradition on reporting
leading-edge research in computer architecture
and operating systems. New chips are designed either as general-purpose
devices with a wide user portfolio in mind,
or target the needs of specific applications (e.g. machine learning
pipelines for deep learning workloads,
mobile or embedded systems). Accordingly, they might rely on
well-established architectural approaches
(CPU-like, vector extensions), or bring completely new disruptive ideas
limiting energy consumption.
In this landscape, ARCS stands out in hosting and presenting such
concepts and ideas for versatile architectures.
Nowadays, such architectures often include open-source solutions such as
RISC-V or AI accelerators,
which are drawing more and more attention in academia and industry.
ARCS’26 aims to leverage this growing interest in such architectures to
foster their development, performance, and dissemination.
We welcome all contributions on hardware architectures, as well as their
programming models,
software stacks (operating systems, compilers...), their insertion into
computing systems, and the challenges to port optimized code.

In addition to the main conference, ARCS will host:
-A special track on Organic Computing.
-A special track on Dependability and Fault Tolerance.
-A PhD forum to present the work of young doctoral students (10 page
papers).
-A Group forum for new professors, individual researchers, and consortia
to present their research (5 page papers).

The proceedings of ARCS 2026 will be published in the Springer Lecture
Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.
A best paper will be elected by the Program Committee, and the
Participants’ Favourite Presentation Award will
be chosen by the audience.

*Topics of Interest*
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Paper submission: Authors are invited to submit original,
unpublished research papers on one or more of the following topics:

**Hardware Architectures**
* Reconfigurable architectures
* System-on-chip
* Parallel and distributed systems
* High performance systems
* Heterogeneous many-core architectures
* Domain-specific accelerator architectures
* Real-time and mixed-criticality systems
* I/O and non-volatile memory
* Energy-efficient architectures
* Smart network technologies
* RISC-V and open-source architectures
* AI accelerators
* Dependable and fault-tolerant architectures

**Programming Models and Runtime Environments**
* Programming models for heterogeneous computing
* Tools for power monitoring and performance analysis
* Operating systems, algorithms, and data structures for
heterogeneous architectures
* Hypervisors and middleware for homogeneous and heterogeneous
multi-/many-core computing platforms
* System management including but not limited to scheduling, memory
management, power/thermal management, and RTOS
* Domain-specific languages and programming models
* Architecture-specific code generation and optimization
* Architectural simulation and emulation

**Cross-sectional Topics**
* Near-memory and in-memory computing
* Memory and network compression technologies
* Organic Computing
* Pervasive systems
* Autonomous systems
* Approximate Computing
* Mixed-criticality systems
* Support for safety and security
* Hardware in the loop
* Optimization and performance analysis


*Submission guidelines*
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Submission guidelines are available at:
https://arcs-conference.org/submission-guidelines


*Organizers*
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General Co-Chairs:
André Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Mario Porrmann, Osnabrück University, Germany

PC Co-Chairs
Filippo Mantovani, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Christian Herglotz, BTU Cottbus, Germany

Proceedings Chair
Thilo Pionteck, Magdeburg University, Germany

Publicity Chair
Mathias Pacher, DHBW Karlsruhe, Germany

Web Chair
Lars Bauer, Ubitium, Germany