About us

The LOCO 2026 workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for radical ideas, early work, and critical perspectives that aims to reduce the emissions from computing. It covers topics like sustainable software engineering, low energy computing, and low footprint hardware.

Important Dates

Fri, May 29, 2026
Paper and Lightning talks submission
Fri, Jun 26, 2026
Paper notification of acceptance
Fri, Jul 10, 2026
Lightning talks notification of acceptance
Fri, Jul 10, 2026
Revised final camera-ready papers
Thu, Sep 10, 2026
Workshop days start

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Measurements, testbeds, and simulation
Sustainable software engineering
Low energy computing
Low footprint hardware
Carbon awareness
Embodied carbon and circular economy
Frugal computing and other low footprint paradigms
Computing for climate science, other scientific computing, and energy informatics

Call for Papers Description

The workshop offers two submission formats: talks (full workshop papers up to 5 pages) and lightning talks (short abstracts of no more than 1 page). Submissions are peer-reviewed for originality, relevance, quality, and potential to stimulate discussion.

Committee

PC Chairs

Abdessalam Elhabbash

Lancaster University

Program Committee Members

tbc soon