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id="docs-internal-guid-d8835a1f-7fff-7cfd-62e7-7df038724e6b"><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">HCSE 2026</span></b></p>
<p><b style="font-weight:normal;"
id="docs-internal-guid-d8835a1f-7fff-7cfd-62e7-7df038724e6b"><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">11th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering</span></b></p>
<p><b style="font-weight:normal;"
id="docs-internal-guid-d8835a1f-7fff-7cfd-62e7-7df038724e6b"><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Call for Papers</span></b></p>
<p><b style="font-weight:normal;"
id="docs-internal-guid-d8835a1f-7fff-7cfd-62e7-7df038724e6b"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">September 29th to October 2nd, 2026 \u2013 Paderborn, Germany</span></b></p>
<p><b style="font-weight:normal;"
id="docs-internal-guid-d8835a1f-7fff-7cfd-62e7-7df038724e6b"><a
href="http://www.hcse-conference.org"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
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id="docs-internal-guid-d8835a1f-7fff-7cfd-62e7-7df038724e6b"><br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">HCSE 2026 will be co-located with the </span><a
href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2026"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">2026 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)</span></a><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Submission Dates:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical Full Papers and Late Breaking Results: </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Friday, May 8th, 2026</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Demos, Posters, and Discussion Forum</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">: Friday, July 3rd, 2026</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><b
style="font-weight:normal;"
id="docs-internal-guid-d8835a1f-7fff-7cfd-62e7-7df038724e6b"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">About HCSE:</span></b></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">HCSE</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the </span><a
href="http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-2/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design</span></a><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. We aim at </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">bringing together researchers and practitioners</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of interactive system and user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering, artificial intelligence, and human\u2013computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Topics of interest include:</span></p>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">contributions to the theory and best practices of user-centered design</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">involvement of end-users, clients and stakeholders in the design and development process of interactive systems</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">socio-technical aspects of interactive software development</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">innovative methods for identifying end-user requirements for interactive systems</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">rational design, design patterns, and traceability of design choices</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">models and model-based approaches for building interactive systems</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">methods and tools for low-code and no-code development paradigms</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">end-user development, end-user programming, and end-user software engineering</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">integration of multiple properties (e.g. usability, (cyber)security, reliability, user experience, privacy, accessibility, etc.) in software development and making them more accessible to developers and users</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">design and integration of novel interaction techniques such as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">context-aware and adaptive interactive systems (e.g. in areas such as digital collaboration, digital and worker assistance)</span></p></li>
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aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">software architectures and architectural patterns for interactive systems</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">support for new kinds of human\u2013machine interaction (HMI) for increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use or provide artificial intelligence (e.g. autonomous driving or human\u2013robot collaboration) </span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">artificial intelligence and machine learning to support the development of interactive systems</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">human-centered artificial intelligence</span></p></li>
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aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">human\u2013AI collaboration and development of hybrid intelligence systems</span></p></li>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Traditionally, HCSE as a working conference invites research papers, late-breaking results, tool demos, and posters. In addition, the </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Discussion Forum for PhD Students</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">, introduced at HCSE 2024, is an interactive format that allows PhD students</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">to present and intensively discuss with established researchers their research ideas and get feedback and/or guidance for the continuation of their work in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. Altogether, HCSE 2026 welcomes the following types of contributions: </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical Full Papers</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">up to 20 pages + references</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">) should describe substantial research contributions of novel work that has produced advanced and mature results including proper validation. Submitted contributions have to be anonymized and will be </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">reviewed double-blind</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. </span></p></li>
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aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Late-Breaking Results Papers</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">up to 12 pages + references</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">) should present work in progress, new practice and experience reports containing good (and bad) practices and/or recent practical evaluations of methods, techniques and tools. Submitted contributions have to be anonymized and will be </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">reviewed double-blind</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. </span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Demonstration Papers </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">(</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">5\u20138 pages + references</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">) should present descriptions of tools including user tasks and evidence of usefulness to end users. Demo submissions should summarize the system\u2019s significance and its performance and should either include screenshots or link to an online-accessible resource. Industry contributions to demos are particularly welcome and highly encouraged. Posters can be displayed with demos at the conference, but are not requested for the submission process. Submitted contributions are not anonymous and will be </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">reviewed single-blind</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Poster Papers</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">5\u20138 pages + references, and poster design draft</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">) should present concepts and initial ideas, ongoing work and/or early results. The poster design draft should show the planned design and content of the poster that will be presented at the conference. Industry contributions to posters are particularly welcome and highly encouraged. Submitted contributions are not anonymous and will be </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">reviewed single-blind</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. </span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Discussion Forum Papers</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">5\u20138 pages + references, and poster design draft</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">) are single-author short papers submitted by PhD students who want to attend the Discussion Forum, describing the suggested topic, accompanied by a poster design draft. The paper will be discussed at the conference, with the aim of providing helpful and constructive guidance to the PhD students on how to move forward with their research. Submitted contributions are not anonymous and will be </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">reviewed single-blind</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. Further information on this format can be obtained from the </span><a
href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/hcse-2026"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">conference website</span></a><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span></p></li>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">LNCS</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> series.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Discussion Forum for PhD Students</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Different from a usual Doctoral Consortium format, the Discussion Forum (DF) is intended to give the possibility to students to receive advice on how to address critical points in their research work, and not on their overall PhD program.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The DF will be an open forum during the conference where PhD students, supported by a poster, present shortly their research work and the topic of discussion. The presentation will be followed by timeboxed discussions with a group of attendees. Each poster will be discussed with different discussion groups for up to 90 minutes.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">PhD students who want to attend have to submit a short paper, describing the suggested topic (</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">5\u20138 pages + references, and poster design draft</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">). The short paper must include:</span></p>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The title of the work</span></p></li>
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aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The student\u2019s name, university, address, and e-mail address</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Name and e-mail address of the dissertation advisor/supervisor</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The research area or sub-area of the work </span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A brief description of their overall PhD research program </span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"
role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A longer description of the specific discussion topic and its relation to HCSE, its criticalities, why it is important, and what the PhD student wants to discuss with the attendees at the DF.</span></p></li>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Submissions and Reviewing Process</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">All contributions should be submitted via the </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">EasyChair</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> system (</span><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse2026"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse2026</span></a><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">). All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their relevance, originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality by the members of the international program committee. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical Full Papers and Late Breaking Results Papers will be reviewed </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">double-blind</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. Demonstrations, Posters, and PhD Student Discussion Forum submissions will be reviewed </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">single-blind</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. Authors must prepare their submission files accordingly.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">For Poster and PhD Student Discussion Forum submissions, both paper and poster design draft will be reviewed.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">It will be possible for the program committee to suggest accepting submissions in other than their original submission categories.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Proceedings</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer. They must be formatted according to the </span><a
href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)</span></a><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> series of Springer. Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Presentations</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">All accepted submissions will be presented at the conference in technical sessions. It will be possible for authors of accepted Technical Full Papers and Late-Breaking Results Papers to give tool demos as well, without submitting additional Demonstration Papers.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Important Dates</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical Full and Late-Breaking Results Papers</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"
aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
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role="presentation"><span
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Submission: Friday, July 3rd, 2026</span></p></li>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Notification to authors: Friday, July 17th, 2026</span></p></li>
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Camera-ready due: Friday, July 24th, 2026</span></p></li>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">General Conference Chair:</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical Paper Chairs:</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Enes Yigitbas, Paderborn University, Germany</span></p>
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