DAIS 2026 is one the three conferences of DisCoTec 2026, the 21st International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, which will take place in Urbino, Italy in June 8-12, 2026.

## Important Dates (AoE)

- Abstract submission: 12 February 2026
- Paper submission: 20 February 2026
- Artefact submission: 27 February 2026
- Paper notification: 24 March 2026
- Artefact notification: 27 March 2026
- Camera-ready: 3 April 2026
- DisCoTec/DAIS conference: June 8-12, 2026

##Scope

The DAIS conference series addresses all practical and conceptual aspects of distributed applications, including their design, modeling, implementation and operation, the supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies and tools, as well as experimental studies and applications. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness.

The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

Novel and innovative distributed applications and systems, particularly in the areas of

- middleware,
- cloud, edge and fog computing,
- big data processing,
- distributed embedded machine learning (TinyML),
- decentralised/distributed AI/ML,
- streaming and complex event processing,
- distributed social networking,
- IoT and cyber-physical systems,
- mobile computing,
- advanced networking (SDN/NFV),
- micro-services and service-oriented computing,
- peer-to-peer systems, and
- data center and internet-scale systems.

Novel architectures and mechanisms, particularly in the areas of
- publish/subscribe systems,
- epidemic protocols,
- language-based approaches,
- virtualization and resource allocation,
- distributed storage,
- large-scale data management,
- trusted execution environments,
- blockchains, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts, and
- distributed consensus mechanisms.


System issues and design goals, including
- interoperability and adaptation,
- self-* properties (e.g., self-organization, self-management,…),
- security and practical applications of cryptography,
- trust and privacy,
- cooperation incentives and fairness,
- fault-tolerance and dependability,
- scalability and elasticity, and
- tail-performance and energy-efficiency.

## Submission and Publication

Submission are via Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2026

All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough peer review by the Program Committee. DAIS 2025 offers three submission tracks:

Full research papers in no more than 15 pages + 2 pages references.
Full practical experience reports, including experimental and evaluation studies, case studies, and practice reports in no more than 15 pages + 2 pages references.
Work-in-progress papers, describing ongoing work and interim results, in no more than 6 pages + 2 pages references.

## Proceedings

The proceedings of COORDINATION, DAIS, and FORTE will be published as volumes in the Springer LNCS-IFIP series.
The volumes will be open access from the IFIP digital library after a 3-year embargo.

##Program Committee Chairs

Ana Nunes Alonso (University of Minho & INESC TEC, Portugal)
Roberto Palmieri (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania)

##Program Committee
Pierre Louis Aublin, IIJ Research laboratory, Japan
Christian Berger, University of Passau, Germany
David Bermbach, TU Berlin, Germany
Lorenzo Carnevale, Universty of Messina, Italy
Davide Frey, Inria, France
Pradeeban Kathiravelu, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Odorico Machado Mendizabal, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Etienne Rivière, UC Louvain, Belgique
Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Cláudia Brito, INESC TEC, Portugal
João Leitão, UNL, Portugal
Ahmed Hassan, Lehigh University, USA
Sebastiano Peluso, Meta, USA
Lewis Tseng, UMass Lowell, USA

## Steering Committee

Daniel Balouek, Inria, France
Silvia Bonomi, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Lydia Y. Chen, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
David Eyers, University of Otago, NZ
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
Rüdiger Kapitza, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Marta Patino-Martínez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
João Paulo, University of Minho, Portugal
Jose Pereira, University of Minho / INESC TEC, Portugal
Rolando Martins, University of Porto, Portugal
Miguel Matos, University of Lisboa & INESC-ID, Portugal
Ibéria Medeiros, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Hans P. Reiser, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Anne Remke, University of Münster, Germany
Etienne Riviére, UCLouvain, Belgium
Valerio Schiavoni (Chair) University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Mennan Selimi, South East European University, North Macedonia
Spyros Voulgaris, Athens University of Economics and Business, GR