About us

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. The conference covers all aspects related to the development, assessment, operation, and maintenance of safety-critical computer systems.

Important Dates

Sun, Mar 8, 2026
Abstract and Workshop Proposals
Sun, Mar 15, 2026
Full Paper Submission
Fri, May 1, 2026
Author Notification
Sun, Jun 7, 2026
Camera-ready Submission
Tue, Sep 22, 2026
Workshops day
Wed, Sep 23, 2026
Main Conference days

Call For Paper

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

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 and Practical experience reports / tool descriptions.

Committee

SafeComp 2026 chairs

Mario Trapp

EWICS TC7 Chair

TU Munich, DE

Francesca Saglietti

EWICS TC7 Vice-Chairs

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE

Uwe Becker

EWICS TC7 Vice-Chairs

Draegerwerk AG & Co KGaA, DE

Juan-Carlos Ruiz-García

General Chair

UPV, ES

Elena Troubitsyna

Programme Co-Chairs

KTH, SE

David de Andrés

Programme Co-Chairs

UPV, ES

Erwin Schoitsch

Workshop Chair

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT

Friedeman Bitsch

Publications Chair

Hitachi Rail, DE

Joaquín Gracia-Morán

Web Chair

UPV, ES

Luis-José Saiz-Adalid

Local Arrangements Chair

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)