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John Gustafson

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Oct 10, 2025, 8:51:19 PM (9 days ago) Oct 10
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I was amused to see that ARITH has finally mentioned the word "posits" in their Call For Papers.

I would like to caution all of you that the Program Committee of ARITH has a history of hostility to any papers suggesting that IEEE 754 is anything but immortal and the Gold Standard of how real numbers should be handled. A few years back, we tried not holding the Conference on Next-Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA) and instead submitting papers to ARITH. A total of 8 papers were submitted. All 8 were rejected. I remember one of the reviewer comments to a paper I submitted on the "minefield method" for solving the Table-Maker's Dilemma and thus making all math functions being rounded correctly achievable in the Posit Standard. The reviewer wrote, "Why didn't you apply this idea to IEEE floating-point, which would have made the paper much more interesting?"

More recently, I know of a young researcher who submitted very impressive papers on a novel format (not posits) to ARITH, and was rejected not because of any flaws in the paper but because they didn't want to hear about novel formats. They are mainly interested in ways to keep the old formats in use by finding workarounds for the problems they cause.

ARITH is the conference for legacy floating-point format. CoNGA is for next-generation ideas. Please keep that in mind if you are presently doing research and considering submitting it to ARITH.

John


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Subject: Call for papers, ARITH 2026
Date: October 8, 2025 at 6:04:57 AM MST

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CALL FOR PAPERS                           
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The 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH 2026)
June 28 - July 1, 2026., Fulda, Germany
https://www.arith2026.org

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The IEEE International Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH) has been the premier conference for computer arithmetic since 1969.
ARITH 2026 welcomes submissions of papers describing recent scientific advances related to computer arithmetic.
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the conference proceedings and in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.


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Important Dates
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Abstract submission deadline: January 23, 2026
Paper submission deadline: January 30, 2026
Decision Notification: April 10, 2026

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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

* Arithmetic foundations, systems and formats
 - Arithmetic theory of computer systems
 - Number representation of integers, real and complex numbers, finite-fields, etc.
 - Analysis of number systems such as fixed/floating point, intervals, posits, etc.
 - Novel arithmetic systems and application-specic number formats
 - Standardization (e.g., IEEE P3109, IEEE 754-2029)
* Implementation of computer arithmetic
 - Novel architecture of arithmetic units on various technologies including traditional, FPGA, optical, analog, quantum, etc.
 - High-performance, low-power and fault-tolerant designs and implementations
 - Design tools and methodologies, including testing and formal verification
* Algorithms and numerics
 - Computer approximations of elementary and special functions
 - Arithmetic algorithms and their analysis (e.g., mixed precision, error analysis, etc.)
 - Design, compilation, optimization, validation, and verification of numerical software
* Application-specific arithmetic
 - Artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning
 - Cryptography and security
 - Signal processing, multimedia, and computer graphics

All topics that relate to intensive use of computer arithmetic are welcome as well.


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Submission Information
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Submissions must be in English and should be at most 8 pages for full papers, or 4 pages for short industry papers in the IEEE CS Conference format (including references).
Submissions will be subject to double-blind review.
Papers under review elsewhere are not acceptable for submission to ARITH 2026.
By submitting a paper, authors implicitly confirm that they are solely submitting it to ARITH 2026.

Detailed submission procedure is available at https://www.arith2026.org/call.html


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Organizing Committee
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General Chairs:
 Martin Kumm, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany
 Florent de Dinechin, INSA Lyon, France

Program Chairs:
 Javier Hormigo, University of Malaga, Spain
 Mantas Mikaitis, University of Leeds, UK

Financial Chair:
 Alexander Gepperth, Fulda University of Applied Sciences

Local Arrangement Chair:
 Sebastian Rieger, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Web & Publication Chair:
 Thomas Wiemann, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany

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