VSTTE 2026: First Call for Papers and WIP Presentations

[Aina Niemetz]

18th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments

14 September, 2026, Graz, Austria

Co-located with Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2026 (FMCAD 2026)

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Key Information

Conference Website: https://fmcad.org/FMCAD26/vstte/

Important Dates:

Abstract submission: July 10th, 2026 AoE

Paper submission: July 17th, 2026 AoE

Notification of acceptance: August 22nd, 2026 AoE (tentative)*

Final pre-conference paper submission (optional): September 2nd, 2026 AoE (tentative)

Camera-ready for papers included in post-conference proceedings: October 23, 2026 (tentative)

* Authors of accepted papers at VSTTE 2026 will be able to register at early-bird rates for FMCAD/VSTTE.

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Overview

The goal of the VSTTE conference series is to advance the state of the art in

the science and technology of software verification, through the interaction

of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation.

The Verified Software Initiative (VSI), spearheaded by Tony Hoare and Jayadev

Misra, is an ambitious research program for making large-scale verified

software a practical reality. The International Conference on Verified

Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE) is the main forum for

advancing the initiative. VSTTE brings together experts spanning the spectrum

of software verification in order to foster international collaboration on the

critical research challenges. The theoretical work includes semantic

foundations and logics for specification and verification, and verification

algorithms and methodologies. The tools cover specification and annotation

languages, program analyzers, model checkers, interactive verifiers and proof

checkers, automated theorem provers and SAT/SMT solvers, and integrated

verification environments. The experimental work drives the research agenda

for theory and tools by taking on significant specification/verification

exercises covering hardware, operating systems, compilers, computer security,

parallel computing, and cyber-physical systems.

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Call for Papers and WIP Presentations

VSTTE 2026 welcomes submissions describing significant advances in the

production of verified software, i.e. software that has been proved to meet

its functional specifications. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and

experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus

on specific problems or problem domains. We are especially interested in

submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve

collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain

knowledge. We also welcome papers describing novel experiments and case

studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies.

Following its success in VSTTE 2025, we also welcome submissions on in-progress

verified software projects to a “work-in-progress (presentation-only)” track.

Work-in-progress contributions will not appear in the post-proceedings of the

conference. Submissions describing work of interest to the software

verification community, but that could not be accepted for publication in the

conference proceedings, may be invited to the “work-in-progress (presentation-

only)” track, on a case-by-case basis.

Topics of interest for this conference include, but are not limited to,

requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification/

certification case studies, formal calculi, software design methods, automatic

code generation, refinement methodologies, compositional analysis,

verification tools (e.g., static analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking,

theorem proving, satisfiability), tool integration, benchmarks, challenge

problems, and integrated verification environments.

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Paper Submissions:

VSTTE 2026 accepts both long (limited to 16 pages, excluding references) and

short (limited to 10 pages, excluding references) paper submissions. Short

submissions also cover “verification pearls” describing an elegant proof or

proof technique. Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be

original and not submitted for publication elsewhere.

Papers must be submitted via EasyChair at the VSTTE 2026 conference submission

page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2026.

The use of LaTeX and the Springer LNCS class files is strongly encouraged.

Submissions that are not in the proper format or are too long will not be considered.

Accepted regular-track papers will be included in the post-conference

proceedings of VSTTE 2026, which will be published as a LNCS volume by

Springer Verlag. Authors of those papers will have to transfer copyright of

their contribution to Springer Verlag.

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Invited speakers

• Roderick Bloem (Graz University of Technology)
• Martin Jonáš (Masaryk University, Brno)

Invited tutorial

• Daniela Kaufmann (TU Wien)
• Omri Isac (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Chairs

Steering Committee

• Supratik Chakraborty (IIT Bombay, India)
• Natarajan Shankar (SRI International)

Program Chairs 

• Aina Niemetz (Stanford University)
• Yong Kiam Tan (Nanyang Technological University and A*STAR) 

Program Committee

• Guy Amir (Cornell University)
• Dirk Beyer (LMU Munich)
• Roderick Bloem (Graz University of Technology)
• Mario Carneiro (Chalmers University of Technology)
• Emanuele D'Osualdo (University of Konstanz)
• Parasara Sridhar Duggirala (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Katalin Fazekas (TU Wien)
• Aymeric Fromherz (Inria Paris)
• Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo)
• Jacques-Henri Jourdan (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Méthodes Formelles)
• Daniela Kaufmann (TU Wien)
• Nian-Ze Lee (National Taiwan University)
• Jorge A Navas (Certora)
• Mathias Preiner (Stanford University)
• Mark Santolucito (Barnard College)
• Dominik Schreiber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Roger Su (The Australian National University)
• Stefan Zetzsche (University College London)
• Tom van Dijk (University of Twente)
• Johannes Åman Pohjola (Chalmers University of Technology)

(* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP)