Theme

Engineering safe and sustainable computing systems

Society increasingly depends on interconnected systems of systems - combining cyber-physical infrastructures, industrial platforms, edge and cloud computing, and AI-enabled services - across domains such as mobility, healthcare, industry and agriculture. These systems not only provide the services that are essential for our lives but also pose unprecedented safety challenges. SafeComp 2026 focuses on engineering approaches to manage safety amid growing complexity, cybersecurity threats and pressing ecological concerns, ensuring that the computing systems remain sustainable and viable in the long term.

Topics of interest

The conference covers all aspects related to the development, assessment, operation, and maintenance of safety-critical computer systems. Major topics include, but are not limited to:

• Distributed and real-time monitoring and control
• Fault-tolerant and resilient hardware and software architectures
• Fault detection and recovery mechanisms
• Security and privacy protection mechanisms for safety applications
• Safety guidelines and standards
• Safety/security co-engineering and trade-offs
• Safety and security qualification, quantification, assurance and certification
• Threats and vulnerability analysis
• Risk assessment in safe and secure systems
• Dependability analysis using simulation and experimental measurement
• Model-based analysis, design, and assessment
• Formal methods for verification, validation, and fault tolerance
• Testing, verification, and validation methodologies and tools
• Multi-concern dependability assurance and standardisation

Aplication domains

Relevant domains of application are, but are not limited to:

• Railways, automotive, space, avionics, and process industries
• Highly automated and autonomous systems
• Telecommunication and networks
• Safety-related applications of smart systems and IoT

Conference venue

The conference will be hosted at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), one of Spain’s leading technical universities, located in the vibrant city of Valencia on the Mediterranean coast. Valencia combines rich cultural heritage with modern infrastructure and is easily accessible by air and high-speed rail.

Important dates

• Abstract and Workshop Proposals ………… February 16, 2026
• Full Paper Submission …………………………… February 27, 2026
• Author Notification ………………………………… April 24, 2026
• Camera-ready Submission …………………… June 7, 2026
• Workshops day ……………………………………… September 22, 2026
• Main Conference days …………………………… September 23–25, 2026

Workshops at SafeComp

It is planned to have workshops on the day preceding the conference. Workshop proposals should be sent by email to the SafeComp 2025 Workshop Chairs including scope and contents, Programme Committee, and length (half or full day).

Submission of conference papers

The tradition of SafeComp is to act as a platform for bringing academic research and industrial needs together. Therefore, industrial contributions and real-world experience reports are explicitly invited. We solicit two types of paper submission (in both cases, up to 14 pages including bibliography):

• Research papers address a research gap and illustrate how the contribution submitted can help improve the state-of-the-art by advancing current knowledge.
• Practical experience reports / tool descriptions provide new insights and valuable support to practitioners. 

Papers exceeding the page limit will be excluded from the review process.

All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Programme Committee. Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere.

All paper submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS templates provided by Springer. Abstracts and papers should be submitted in PDF through Easychair.

Conference and workshops proceedings

All accepted research papers, practical experience reports, and tool descriptions will be published by Springer in the LNCS series (Lecture Notes on Computer Science) in the SafeComp and the SafeComp Workshop volumes.

SafeComp 2026 chairs

EWICS TC7 Chair

   Mario Trapp (TU Munich, DE)

EWICS TC7 Vice-Chairs:

   Francesca Saglietti (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)

   Uwe Becker (Draegerwerk AG & Co KGaA, DE)

General Chair

   Juan-Carlos Ruiz-García (UPV, ES)

Programme Co-Chairs:

   Elena Troubitsyna (KTH, SE)

   David de Andrés (UPV, ES)

Workshop Chair

   Erwin Schoitsch (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT)

Publications Chair

   Friedeman Bitsch (Hitachi Rail, DE)

Web Chair

   Joaquín Gracia-Morán (UPV, ES)

Local Arrangements Chair

   Luis-José Saiz-Adalid (UPV, ES)

International Programme Committee

• Jaume Abella Barcelona Supercomputing Center (ES)
• Magnus Albert SICK AG (DE)
• Uwe Becker Draegerwerk AG & Co KGaA (DE)
• Peter G. Bishop Adelard (UK)
• Friedemann Bitsch Hitachi Rail (DE)
• Jeroen Boydens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE)
• Andrea Bondavalli University of Florence (IT)
• Simon Burton Fraunhofer IKS (DE)
• Carmen Carlan Edge Case Research GmbH (DE)
• António Casimiro Universidade de Lisboa (PT)
• Andrea Ceccarelli University of Firenze (IT)
• Mary Cummings, George Mason University (US)
• Peter Daniel, EWICS TC7 (UK)
• Jose Luis de la Vara, University of Castilla-La Mancha (ES)
• Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR (IT)
• Francesco Flammini, Mälardalen University (SE)
• Cody Fleming, Iowa State University (US)
• Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen University (SE)
• Jérémie Guiochet, LAAS-CNRS (FR)
• Ibrahim Habli, University of York (UK)
• Yan Jia, University of York (UK)
• Elena Lisova, Volvo CE (SE)
• Zoltan Micskei, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU)
• Leonardo Montecchi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
• Natasha Neogi, NASA-Langley (US)
• Ganesh Pai, KBR / NASA Ames Research Center (US)
• Philippe Palanque, ICS-IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 (FR)
• Peter Popov, City University (UK)
• Alexander Romanovsky, The Formal Route Ltd (UK)
• Matteo Rossi, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
• Martin Rothfelder, Siemens AG (DE)
• Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (DE)
• Behrooz Sangchoolie, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (SE)
• Horst Schirmeier, TU Dresden (DE)
• Erwin Schoitsch, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AT)
• Christel Seguin, ONERA (FR)
• Wilfried Steiner, TTTech Computertechnik AG (AT)
• Mark-Alexander Sujan, Loughborough University (UK)
• Kenji Taguchi, UL Japan (JP)
• Martin Törngren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)
• Stefano Tonetta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IT)
• Mario Trapp, Technical University of Munich (DE)
• Valeria Vittorini, Università Federico II di Napoli (IT)
• Marcus Völp, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (LU)