ARES 2026 Conference Information
International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
https://www.ares-conference.eu/
Linköping, Sweden (Linköping University)
Conference Dates
8/24/26 - 8/27/26
Submission Dates
Abstract Registration: 3/2/26
Full Paper Submission: 3/9/26 (NO EXTENSION, AoE)
Note: All deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
Call for Papers (Full Text)
The 21st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
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.
ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. The acceptance rate of the
ARES 2025 conference was 19.5% (full and SoK papers only).
ARES 2026 will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS).
Conference Officers
Steering Committee Chairpersons
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research & University of Vienna, Austria
A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria
General Chair
Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden
Program Committee Chairs
Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden
Andreas Ekelhart, SBA Research and University of Vienna, Austria
Workshop Chairs
Zeeshan Afzal, Linköping University, Sweden
Patrick Kochberger, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
EU Symposium Workshop Chairs
Florian Skopik, AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Peter Kieseberg, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
Proceedings Chair
Buse Atli, Linköping University, Sweden
Publication Chair
Gurjot Singh, Linköping University, Sweden
Website Chair
Sebastian Schrittwieser, SBA Research and University of Vienna, Austria
Program Committee
The PC of ARES 2026 will be published soon!
Deadlines
Abstract Registration Deadline: 3/2/26
Submission Deadline (NO EXTENSION) AoE: 3/9/26
Author Notification: 5/13/26
Author Registration: 6/13/26
Camera Ready Upload AoE: 6/13/26
Conference: 8/24/26 - 8/27/26
Topics of Interest
Include, but are not limited to:
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
Submission
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:
Springer Conference Proceedings Guidelines
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
Additional Information for Accepted Papers
Upon acceptance, authors will receive guidelines for preparing and
submitting the final manuscript(s) along with the notification of
acceptance.
Review Process
Submitted papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance,
technical soundness, presentation, and clarity of exposition.
Ethical Guidelines
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues,
submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes
dishonesty or fraud. ARES prohibits these practices and may take
action against authors who have committed them, including
self-plagiarism. If you have questions about self-plagiarism, please
contact us.
AI Principles
Authors must follow AI guidelines stated in Springer's AI Principles:
https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/ai/ai-principles
Contact Author Information
The contact author must provide the following information in the ARES
conference system:
Paper title
Authors' names
Affiliations
Postal address
Phone
Email address of the author(s) (all authors listed in the paper
must be added to EasyChair during the initial submission; if
authors need to be added later, please contact us)
About 200-250 words abstract
About five keywords
The Submission system will open soon!
Double-Blind Review
ARES requires anonymized submissions. Ensure that submitted papers
contain no author names or obvious self-references.
Attendance Requirement
Submission of a paper implies that, if accepted, at least one of the
authors will register and present the paper at the conference.
Publication Data Sharing
Your EasyChair data (publication, name, affiliation, email address)
will be forwarded to findresearch.org.
Preprints and Plagiarism Check
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.
IMPORTANT NOTE
To ensure originality, papers for ARES will be plagiarism
checked. Self-plagiarism also counts as plagiarism. If you have
questions about self-plagiarism or wish to opt-out of automatic
checks, please contact ARES Conference Management