The deadline for submissions to SAND 2026 was extended to *Mar 3* (AoE).
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SAND 2026: Call for Papers
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The 5th Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks
July 1-3, 2026
Le Havre, France
https://litis.univ-lehavre.fr/sand2026/
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Dates
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Submission deadline (extended for all papers, including new
submissions): *March 3*, 2026, 23:59 AoE
Notification: April 21, 2026
Camera-ready version: May 2, 2026
Conference: July 1-3, 2026
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Scope
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The Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks is a
primary venue for original research on the fundamental aspects of
computing in dynamic networks and dynamic computational processes.
Broadly, the conference and its community aim to improve understanding
of the role of dynamics in computing. We seek high-quality contributions
related to this aim from all viewpoints, including theory, design,
analysis, and applications, and welcome both conceptual and technical
contributions, as well as novel ideas and new problems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Bio-inspired, physical, and chemical dynamic models
- Boolean networks
- Complex systems, financial, social, and transportation networks
- Computability and complexity within dynamic networks
- Continuous models of dynamic networks
- Distributed computation in dynamic networks
- Dynamic graph algorithms
- Dynamically reconfigurable networks and graph reconfiguration
- Dynamics of games, puzzles, and gadget systems
- Fault tolerance, network self-organization, and formation
- Geometric dynamic models
- Information spreading, gossiping, and epidemics
- IoT, cloud, edge, and fog computing
- Learning approaches for dynamic networks
- Multilayer, peer-to-peer, and overlay networks
- New models for dynamic networks
- Offline and online algorithms for dynamic networks
- Population protocols and chemical reaction networks
- Randomness in dynamic networks
- Reconfigurable and swarm robotics, programmable matter, and DNA
self-assembly
- Streaming models
- Temporal data and dynamic network analysis
- Temporal graphs
- Wireless networks, mobile computing, and autonomous agents
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Paper Submission
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Papers should be submitted electronically through Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sand2026).
Submissions must be in English in pdf format and they must be prepared
using the LaTeX style template for LIPIcs
(https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author) with
\documentclass[a4paper,anonymous,USenglish]{lipics-v2021}.
Submissions must be anonymous, without any author names, affiliations,
or email addresses.
SAND accepts two types of submissions: regular papers and brief
announcements.
A regular paper submission must be original research and report on novel
results that have not appeared or been concurrently submitted to a
journal or a conference with published proceedings. Every regular paper
submission must be at most *15 pages*, excluding references, plus an
(optional) appendix. The main part of the submission (i.e. the *15
pages*) should contain a clear presentation of the merits of the paper,
including a discussion of the paper's importance within the context of
prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas
used to achieve its main claims. There is no guarantee that the
reviewers will read the (optional) appendix; this will only be read at
the discretion of the Program Committee. The appendix can contain
missing proofs from the main text, or it can just be the full version of
the paper, this decision is left to the authors.
A brief announcement submission may report on preliminary work or work
presented elsewhere. The title of a brief announcement submission should
begin with "Brief Announcement: ". Papers submitted as brief
announcements should include presentation of their merits within *5
pages* plus at most 1 extra page of references, plus an (optional)
appendix (as described above).
The program committee may decide that some of the regular papers not
selected for publication are suitable for publication in the brief
announcement format. The authors of any such paper will be asked to
prepare a brief announcement final version out of their original regular
submission. By default, every regular paper submission will be
considered as a potential brief announcement, if it is not accepted as a
regular paper. Any authors who *do not* wish their regular paper
submission to be considered for the brief announcement format in case of
rejection, are asked to clearly indicate this on the first page of their
submission, for example by adding above or below the title "NOT eligible
for brief announcement".
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Instructions for Double-Blind Review
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The reviewing process is double-blind, the authors' names must not be
included in the paper, and the writing of the manuscript should be done
in such a way to not de-anonymize authors (e.g., instead of, our result
[1], they should use, the result of [1]). We assume that reviewers do
not actively try to recognize the authors. Therefore, authors are
allowed to publish their results on pre-print services before or at any
point of the submission/reviewing process. Non-anonymous submissions
will be rejected.
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Publication
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The conference proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. The final
version of the paper must be formatted following the LIPIcs guidelines
(https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors). Papers accepted
in full will have 15 pages in the final proceedings (excluding
references). Any papers accepted in the brief announcement format will
have 5 pages in the final proceedings plus at most 1 extra page of
references.
Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for
a special issue of a journal.
For every accepted regular paper and brief announcement, at least one of
the authors must fully register and present the paper during the
conference and according to the conference program. Any paper accepted
but not presented will be withdrawn from the final proceedings.
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Awards
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All regular papers are eligible for the best paper award. Regular papers
co-authored by at least one full-time student may also be eligible for
the best student paper award. For a paper to be considered for the best
student paper award, at least one author who is a full-time student at
the time of submission should have made a significant contribution to
the paper. In case the authors think that their paper is eligible for
the best student paper award, they should clearly indicate this on the
first page of their submission, for example by adding above or below the
title "Eligible for the best student paper award".
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Organization
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Program Chairs:
- George Mertzios, Durham University, UK
- Andrea Richa, Arizona State University, USA
Program Committee:
- Duncan Adamson, University of St Andrews, UK
- James Aspnes, Yale University, USA
- John Augustine, IIT Madras, India
- Luca Becchetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Petra Berenbrink, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Arnaud Casteigts, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University, USA
- Shantanu Das, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, France
- Joshua Daymude, Arizona State University, USA
- Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- David Doty, University of California, Davis, USA
- Yuval Emek, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel
- Thomas Erlebach, Durham University, UK
- Javier Esparza, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- George Giakkoupis, INRIA, France
- Olga Goussevskaia, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Giuseppe Italiano, Luiss University, Rome, Italy
- Bart de Keijzer, King's College University of London, UK
- Othon Michail, University of Liverpool, UK
- Nils Morawietz, University of Bordeaux, France
- William K. Moses Jr., Durham University, UK
- Thomas Nowak, ENS Paris-Saclay, France
- Fukuhito Ooshita, Fukui University of Technology, Japan
- Matthew Patitz, University of Arkansas, USA
- Maria Potop-Butucaru, LIP6, Sorbonne University, France
- Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University, USA
- Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, Germany
- Ana Silva, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
- Paul Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK
- Yukiko Yamauchi, Kyushu University, Japan
- Isabella Ziccardi, IRIF, Paris Cité University, France
Organizing Committee:
- Stefan Balev, University of Le Havre Normandy, France
- Julien Baudry, University of Le Havre Normandy, France
- Antoine Dutot, University of Le Havre Normandy, France
- Frederic Guinand, University of Le Havre Normandy, France
- Antoine Huchet, University of Le Havre Normandy, France
- Théo Morel, University of Le Havre Normandy, France
- Yoann Pigné, University of Le Havre Normandy, France
- Eric Sanlaville, University of Le Havre Normandy, France (chair)
- Antoine Toullalan, University of Le Havre Normandy, France
Steering Committee:
- Othon Michail, University of Liverpool, UK (SC chair)
- Arnaud Casteigts, University of Geneva, Switzerland (SC vice chair)
- George Mertzios, Durham University, UK (PC chair 2026)
- Andrea Richa, Arizona State University, USA (PC chair 2026)
- Kitty Meeks, University of Glasgow, UK (PC chair 2025)
- Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, Germany (PC chair 2025)
- Eric Sanlaville, University of Le Havre Normandy (General chair 2026)
Advisory Board:
- James Aspnes, Yale University, USA
- Luca Becchetti, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
- Arnaud Casteigts, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
- Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Canada
- George Mertzios, Durham University, UK
- Othon Michail, University of Liverpool, UK
- Rotem Oshman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Nicola Santoro, Carleton University, Canada
- Paul Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK
- Viktor Zamaraev, University of Liverpool, UK
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Dr. George B. Mertzios
Associate Professor in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Durham University, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 191 33 42 429
Email: george.mertzios@durham.ac.uk
https://mertzios.net/
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