About us

COPA 2026 explores Concurrent Processes Architectures and Embedded Systems, featuring research on hardware-software co-design, reconfigurable computing, formal verification, parallel computing, and AI applications in concurrent systems. The conference will be held at University College, Oxford University, with proceedings published in high-impact journals.

Important Dates

Fri, Jun 19, 2026

Abstract registration deadline

Sun, Jun 21, 2026

Submission deadline

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Tools and languages for hardware-software co-design

Hardware and software approaches to reconfigurable computing

Synchronous Message Exchange-Modeling and model-driven development of concurrent software architectures

Verification and analysis of concurrent systems

Nested formal verification techniques

Massively parallel computing, supercomputing architectures using concurrent processes

Applications of concurrent processes including to IoT, 5G and future 6G hardware/software requirements

Emphasis both software and hardware (IoT), including hardware-software equivalence like that of occam and the Transputer

Advances in Blockchain and AI Applications

Advances in AI guardrails and concurrent processes

Advances in Formal Methods, AI program transformation and formula translations

LEAN as a Model checker for Trusted AI

Very Low Power Efficient AI semiconductors, Hardware and Software Techniques

Disconnected Stand Alone AI and Practical Applications

Call for Papers Description

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: Full papers (research and/or application, long or short papers) and Posters (related to papers, fringe or new topics). Workshops and Tutorials are also welcome.

Committee

Program Committee

Dr. Jeremy Martin

Senior Research Fellow

University of Buckingham

Dr. Lindsay O’Brien Quarrie

2023 Delphi Award Professor for Academic Excellence

Senior Member IEEE, National University & CETO Space Sciences Corporation

Dr. Brian Vinter

Vice Dean, Research

Aarhus University, Aarhus Denmark; formerly Head of High-Performance Computing and Professor of X-Ray and Neutron Science Neils Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Dr. Lawrence John Dickson

Chief Scientist

Space Sciences Corporation

Øyvind Teig

External examiner at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Engineering Cybernetics and retired from being a senior development engineer at Autronica Fire & Security