ARES 2026 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2026)

August 24 - August 27, 2026
Linköping, Sweden

https://www.ares-conference.eu/

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ARES CONFERENCE

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The 21st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of security, dependability, and privacy.

ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, integrity, maintainability, covering important aspects of security in different fields and applications.

ARES emphasizes the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in important areas such as e-government, mobile applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, edge computing, confidential computing.

ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable and Secure Computing and the definition of a future road map.

The acceptance rate of the ARES 2025 conference was 19,5% (full and SoK papers only).

ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Abstract Registration: March 2, 2026 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) [Firm deadline]

Submission Deadline: March 9, 2026 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) [Firm deadline]

Author Notification: May 13, 2026

Camera Ready Upload to submission publisher system: June 13, 2026 (AoE)

Conference: August 24 – August 27, 2026

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Authors are invited to submit original papers not simultaneously submitted elsewhere within the following, but not limited to the following areas:

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Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
Automated Vulnerability Repair
Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity
Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
Cloud Security
Compliance, Certification and Legal aspects related to Security and Privacy
Digital Forensics
Human Factors in Security and Privacy
Identity Management
Incident Response
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Machine Learning for Security and Privacy
Security and Privacy for Machine Learning
Offensive AI
Mobile Security
Network Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Process based Security Models and Methods
Risk analysis
Side Channel Attacks
Software Security
Static and Dynamic Code Analysis for Security and Privacy
Security and Privacy for IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems
Resilience in Critical Infrastructures
Security and Privacy Awareness
Security by Design
Threats and Attack Modelling
Trusted Computing
Trust Models and Trust Management
Usable Security and Privacy
Web Application Security and Privacy

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SUBMISSION

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ARES 2026 will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2026

Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according to the following guidelines:

For the main conference as well as the workshops, submission papers are classified into 4 categories representing original, previously unpublished work:

- full paper (max. 22 pages, including references)
- short paper (max. 11 pages, including references)
- SoK paper (max. 22 pages, including references)
- workshop paper (max. 18 pages, including references)

Formatting Instructions / template:

Please read the instructions here: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference.

Publishing preprints to arXiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. However, authors should use a different title than the submission and they should avoid specifying that the work is under submission to ARES. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission.

Authors must follow AI guidelines stated in Springer’s AI Principles:
https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/ai/ai-principles

Important Note:
To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2026 which are not presenting original work, your paper will be checked for plagiarism. Self-plagiarism also counts as plagiarism!

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

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General Chair 2026
Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden

Program Committee Chairs 2026
Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden
Andreas Ekelhart, University of Vienna, Austria

Workshop Chair 2025
Zeeshan Afzal

EU Symposium Workshop Chair, 2026
Florian Skopik, AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

Proceedings Chairs 2026
Buse Atli, Linköping University, Sweden

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Program Committee

The program committee of ARES 2025 can be found here:
https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/committee/

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