The 28th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
9-11 October 2026, Gothenburg, Sweden
SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment.
Call for Papers
SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment. The symposium encourages submissions of original contributions on both fundamental research and practical applications concerning topics in the symposium tracks:
Track A. Stabilization and Locality in Distributed Computing
Stabilizing Systems
Proof labelling schemes
Graph Algorithms
Graph-theoretic concepts for communication networks
Social and Peer-to-Peer Networks
LOCAL/CONGEST models
Communication complexity
Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing
Dynamic networks, time-varying graphs, evolving graphs
Track B. Time, Safety, and Security in Distributed Computing
Concurrent and fault-tolerant algorithms
Synchronization protocols
Shared and transactional memory
Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies
Formal methods, semantics and verification of distributed systems
Secure multi-party computation and cryptographic distributed protocols
Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity
Post-quantum and information theoretic cryptography and security
Track C. Moving and Computing
Mobile agents
Autonomous mobile robots
Mobile sensor networks
Mobile ad-hoc networks
Population protocols
Nature-inspired computing
Programmable particles, nanoscale robots, biological systems, and related new models
Important Dates
First Deadline
Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026 (11:59 PM AoE)
Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2026
Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 30, 2026
Second Deadline
Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026 (11:59 PM AoE)
Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2026
Camera-Ready Copy Due: July 20, 2026
Third Deadline
Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026 (11:59 PM AoE)
Acceptance Notification: August 30, 2026
Camera-Ready Copy Due: September 10, 2026
Conference Model
There will be THREE non-overlapping deadlines, and thus three submission rounds. Papers that are rejected at an early round (1 or 2) may be reworked, corrected, enhanced, and resubmitted at a later round (2 or 3), if wished by the authors. Of course, accepted papers at an early round are definitely accepted and should not be submitted again at a later round. In case of resubmission, reviews from the previously submitted round will be transmitted to the reviewers of the resubmission round.
Paper Submission
Papers are to be submitted electronically through HotCRP. (https://sss2026-submission.limos.fr/) All submissions must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS series. Each submission must be an original work written in English, in PDF format.
Double-blind Review
All submissions must be anonymous. We use a somewhat relaxed implementation of double-blind peer review: you are free to disseminate your work through arXiv and other online repositories and give presentations on your work as usual. However, please make sure you do not mention your own name or affiliation in the submission, and please do not include obvious references in the text that reveal your identity. A reviewer who has not previously seen the paper should be able to read it without accidentally learning the identities of the authors. Please feel free to ask the general co-chairs if you have any questions about the double-blind policy of SSS 2026.
Submissions
There are two types of submissions: regular papers and brief announcements.
A regular submission must not exceed 15 pages (including the title, abstract, figures, and excluding references). Additional necessary details for an expert to verify the main claims of the submission may be included in a clearly marked appendix if extra space is needed.
A brief announcement submission must not exceed 5 pages including everything.
Any submission deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of its merits. It is recommended that a regular submission begins with a succinct statement of the problem being addressed, a summary of the main results or conclusions, a brief explanation of their significance, a brief statement of the key ideas, and a comparison with related work, all tailored to a non-specialist. Technical development of the work, directed to the specialist, should follow. Papers outside of the conference scope will be rejected without review. For the third round only, if requested by the authors on the cover page, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the brief announcement format. This will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.
Publication
Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in the conference proceedings. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer.
Special Issue
Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of an international journal (under negotiation).
Paper Award
Prizes will be given to the best regular paper and best student regular paper. A regular paper is eligible for the best student paper if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at submission time. Authors should clearly indicate whether their submission is eligible to be considered for the best student regular paper award (e.g., using a thanks in the title). The PC may decline to confer awards or may split awards.
Organization
General Co-Chairs
Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State University, USA)
Elad Schiller (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Anish Arora (Ohio State University, USA)
Program Committee
Track A. Stabilization and Locality in Distributed Computing: Stéphane Devismes (Chair) (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France)
Track B. Time, Safety, and Security in Distributed Computing: John Augustine (Chair) (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Track C. Moving and Computing: Anissa Lamani (Chair) (Strasbourg University, France)
Detailed Program committee is available at: https://sss2026-submission.limos.fr/