Doctoral SymposiumACSOS 2026

Camera Ready Submission

STEP 1: Important Dates

At least one author per accepted Doctoral Symposium paper must complete author registration by July 20, 2026.

Final camera-ready manuscripts must be submitted by July 20, 2026 AoE.

STEP 2: Page Limits

STEP 3: Formatting Your Paper

• Submitted abstracts should not exceed 200 words.
• Final submissions must use US Letter page size, the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format, and PDF format.
• IEEE templates are available from the IEEE Author Center: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
• Do not include page numbers, headers, or footers.
• The camera-ready version must include author names, affiliations, and acknowledgments as appropriate.

STEP 4: Submitting Your Final Version

Once the format of your paper has been verified and validated, you may submit your final version.

All papers should be submitted using the submission system provided by the IEEE Author Submission Site. Please use the correct site for your proceedings volume:

• Doctoral Symposium Papers: ACSOS-C Author Submission Site: The IEEE Author Submission Site link will be provided directly to authors of accepted papers by the corresponding track chairs.

After you login to the IEEE Author Submission Site, please follow the instructions as you click the Next button on the top right corner of the site. Please enter the following information exactly as it appears on your paper:

• Paper ID (Paper ID from EasyChair, unless CPS assigns a different ID)
• Names of authors, affiliations, countries, and email addresses
• Title and abstract

Follow the instructions to submit your final manuscript.

STEP 5: Submitting a Signed Copyright Release Form

ACSOS 2026 requires authors to submit a fully digital version of the electronic IEEE Copyright-release Form (eCF). The eCF is provided at the IEEE Author Submission Site.

Follow the instructions in the IEEE Author Submission Site to properly fill out and submit the IEEE Copyright-release Form (eCF), including:

• Paper's full title
• All author names
• Conference title:
  • 2026 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C)
• Signature on the appropriate line

The signed IEEE Copyright-release Form (eCF) should be submitted together with your camera-ready manuscript by July 20, 2026 AoE.

If you have any questions about the above procedures, please contact the Proceedings Chair: Jialong Li ([lijialong@aoni.waseda.jp](mailto:lijialong@aoni.waseda.jp)).

Note: Extra pages are not allowed unless explicitly stated by the conference organizers. Please complete each of the above steps. The conference organizers will not be responsible if your paper is omitted from the proceedings, is not available online in IEEE Xplore, or is subject to additional processing costs if these steps are not performed.

Call for Papers

The Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their research and ideas, and network with the ACSOS community, consisting of a diverse audience of both leading experts and early career researchers in the field. The Doctoral Symposium not only offers early career researchers a chance to gain experience in presenting to an international audience but also to receive invaluable feedback about their work from members of the ACSOS community. PhD students are invited to submit a two-page abstract, with another page for references, using the format in the submission section below. The abstract should describe the key motivation of their research, the major contribution (either actual or expected, depending on the research stage), the research methodology, and the current status of the work.

As in prior years, the Doctoral Symposium will employ a mentoring program in which every author of an accepted paper will be paired with an experienced mentor from the community. Mentors will help introduce the student to the community, offer extended discussion of their research objectives and career opportunities, and will host their student throughout the event to help them gain the best experience from an international conference.

Important Dates

Submissions

Submissions should use the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and should be a maximum of 2 pages long, with an extra page permitted for references. Authors should submit their abstracts to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsos2026 selecting the “PhD Symposium track” track.

As in previous years, the Doctoral Symposium focuses on the work of a specific PhD student, therefore, please note that only single-author submissions are permitted, with the name of the PhD supervisor(s) included below that of the author. All submissions should have the following specific structure:

• Overall problem and motivation: Explain why this research is important, and identify the key research question(s) and challenges that have yet to be addressed by the community. Explain the relevance of the problem to autonomic computing, self-adaptation and/or self-organization.
• Objectives and contribution: Present the detailed goals of your research, highlighting why your work is novel in comparison to existing research, and then present the main contributions of the research.
• Methods and results: Present the scientific methods used to tackle the research problem, discussing their suitability to the problem and contribution. Present any preliminary or expected results, including a statement about the current status of your work and the open questions and challenges that you are facing.
• Future work and research plan: Summarise your intended future work and provide a schedule of milestones for the next steps, including a plan for evaluation of the PhD results.

The submitted paper will be evaluated by the Doctoral Symposium Program Committee according to the following criteria:

• its relevance to ACSOS;
• the quality of the submission, including clarity, precision, and adequacy of the problem statement and critical reflection of the work.

Authors of accepted submissions will prepare a final (camera-ready) version of their abstract, taking into account reviewers’ feedback. Doctoral Symposium papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the ACSOS proceedings and will be made available in the IEEE Digital Library.