ATVA AT A GLANCE - Abstract/Paper submission deadline: May 19/21, 2026 (AoE, extended) - 18 pages (regular papers), 4 - 18 pages (tool papers, see details below) - Springer LNCS format - double-blind (regular papers), single-blind (tool papers) - Submission link: atva26.hotcrp.com - PC member submissions allowed - NEW THIS YEAR: Spotlights of Verification DETAILED INFORMATION https://conf.researchr.org/track/aplas-atva-2026/atva-2026#Call-for-Papers ATVA 2026 is the 24th in a series of Symposia aimed at bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners in the area of theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, synthesis, and verification of hardware and software systems. ATVA solicits high quality submissions in the following (non-exclusive) list of topics: - Formalisms for modeling hardware, software, and embedded systems - Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state and parameterized systems - Program analysis and software verification - Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, systems-on-chip, and embedded systems - Analysis of real-time, probabilistic, quantum, hybrid, priced, and weighted systems - Deductive, algorithmic, compositional, and abstraction/refinement techniques for analysis and verification - Analytical techniques for safety, security, and dependability - Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology - Analysis and verification of parallel and concurrent systems - Verification in industrial practice - Synthesis for hardware and software systems - Applications and case studies of verification - Automated tool support for verification - Testing and verification of neural networks - Testing and verification of autonomous systems IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission deadline: May 19, 2026 (AoE) - Paper submission deadline: May 21, 2026 (AoE) - Tool paper artifact submission deadline: May 28, 2026 - Early-rejection notification: June 11, 2026 - Author response period: July 2 - 9, 2026 (AoE) - Paper notification: July 23, 2026 - Regular paper artifact submission deadline: TBA, tentatively approx. 2 weeks after paper notification - Camera-ready deadline: September 10, 2026 (AoE) - Tutorials and Workshops: TBA, 2026 - Conference: December 1 - 5, 2026 SUBMISSIONS ATVA welcomes submissions in the following two categories: - Regular research papers (18 pages, excluding references, must be anonymized) - Tool papers (up to 18 pages, excluding references, not anonymized) Submissions in both categories must be in Springer's LNCS format. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs. Adding line numbers (LaTeX package lineno) is highly recommended. Submissions authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are allowed and encouraged. An artifact evaluation will be undertaken, which will be optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. Papers must be submitted through HotCRP atva26.hotcrp.com ("New submission"). The papers will be subject to a two-stage review process, with possible early rejection. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A few outstanding papers will be selected for a distinguished paper award. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference. Regular papers Regular papers should not exceed 18 pages in Springer's LNCS format, not counting references and appendices. Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers, and to be omitted in the final version. Regular papers at ATVA 2026 will follow a full double-blind review process, which means that author names and affiliations must be omitted from the submission. Additionally, if a submission refers to prior work done by the authors, the reference should be made in the third person. These are firm submission requirements, and any regular paper that does not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted regular papers will be invited (but are not required) to submit a relevant artifact for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee. The submission deadline for this artifact evaluation will be soon (approx. 2 weeks) after the paper acceptance notification. Independent of the artifact evaluation process, research paper authors are encouraged to include a URL to a repository in their original submission, if such a repository is available and is pertinent to the paper. This repository could contain code, datasets, results, etc. This would be for the consideration of the PC reviewers of the submission, at their discretion. If such a URL is included in the submission, the contents of the repository should adhere to the guidelines of a double blind review process. Tool papers Tool papers report on new tools or their version. The tools are expected to adhere to the usual standards, such as stable operation, acceptance of a wide range of standard inputs, reasonable user interface etc. The tool papers clearly explain what is substantially new compared to either previous versions or to other existing tools. While no novel theory is required, the sum of the engineering and of the scientific content should be high enough to warrant a contribution interesting for the community. The length of the paper is formally up to 18 pages in Springer's LNCS format, not counting references. The actual length of the paper should be adequate to the content, i.e., it is up to the authors' judgement and sense to find a satisfying solution adhering to the rules above; the call for papers does not impose artificial cuts between "short" and "regular" papers. As a guidance, papers without any novel algorithm or theory are then typically around 4 pages. Tool papers will follow a single-blind review process. They do NOT need to be anonymized. Each tool paper submission must be followed by a separate artifact submission via HotCRP ("New Artifact submission"). Please see the Artifact Evaluation track instructions in the conference web site for more information. Papers describing tools that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented. Artifact Evaluation An artifact evaluation will be undertaken, which will be optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. Details will follow soon.