Dear ACSOS Community,
We are happy to announce and share the second edition of the ACSOS Community Newsletter. This newsletter is dedicated to regularly sharing news, updates on the upcoming conference, ideas, challenges, and collaboration opportunities in the ACSOS community.
The next ACSOS conference is approaching. After reviewing more than 100 main track submissions, the Program Chairs are working hard on finalizing the program. Additionally, the keynote speakers have been announced, promising an exciting program.
Best wishes and enjoy reading!
The ACSOS 2026 Community Building Chairs
🔜 ACSOS 2026 To Be the Biggest ACSOS Ever
The 7th edition of the ACSOS conference is approaching. This year set a new record regarding the number of submissions, with 106 main track submissions. Thus, the Program Chairs faced the challenge to select the best submissions from this huge pile. It will take a few more moments to create the program. Additionally, a few calls are still open for submission, so take the opportunity to submit to ACSOS 2026!
However, the three keynote speakers were already announced: Marco Dorigo from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ivona Brandic from TU Wien, and Valeria Cardellini from Tor Vergata University of Rome. Furthermore, Carlo Ghezzi from Politecnico di Milano will give a keynote for the doctoral symposium. We will introduce the keynote speakers in more detail soon!
Besides, from what we’ve heard, the rest of the overall program, including social events, will definitely be worth the trip to Cesena! So attend ACSOS 2026, September 7-11 in Cesena, Italy! Registration will open on July 1 (with Early Bird rates until July 20), for more details see https://2026.acsos.org/attending/Registration
🔊 Steering Committee Elections
We are pleased to announce the results of the latest Steering Committee election for the IEEE ACSOS community. We warmly welcome the new Co-Chairs, Peter Lewis and Sven Tomforde, and sincerely thank Samuel Kounev, Mirco Viroli, and Jean Botev for their dedicated service as they step down from the Steering Committee. We also express our deepest gratitude to Ada Diaconescu for her many years of outstanding leadership and commitment in her role as Co-Chair.
See who was elected into the Steering Committee, what the SC Co-Chairs aim for the upcoming election period, and get in contact with them on Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1162311213162704916/1518528117998878831
đź“… ISA Lecture: Alessandro Papadopoulos at the University of Bologna in Cesena
Alessandro Papadopoulos visited the University of Bologna’s Cesena Campus (the venue of the upcoming IEEE ACSOS conference) last month (May 2026), during which he delivered an ISA lecture entitled “On the Edge of the Cloud: Making Smart Systems Predictable When Time Matters.” He gave a sharp and accessible view of a problem that is becoming central for modern computing: smart systems are only useful if they can react in time, even when their logic is spread across sensors, devices, networks, and the cloud.
Want to dig deeper into these themes? Come to ACSOS 2026, September 7-11 in Cesena, Italy, and join the discussion on Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1162311213162704916/1516071552368775218
🏆 Toulouse+Bologna - joint collaboration
We’re happy to announce that the SMAC group at IRIT (France) and the PSLab group at UniBo (Italy) started a PhD student collaboration.
The first step is the ongoing 3-month visit of Martina Baiardi, a PhD student at the University of Bologna, to the SMAC group, working on the convergence between the techniques and applications of the two research groups. Recently, Elsy Kaddoum and Danilo Pianini applied for a joint “Vinci” call for Italo-French joint PhD supervision with the goal of integrating cooperative self-adaptive multi-agent systems to guide and control emergent agent behaviors, thereby engineering robust collective intelligence.
The results of the call will be known by the end of this month (June 2026): fingers crossed 🤞
🗨️ ACSOS 2025 in Tokyo – a personal look back with the General Chair Kenji Tei
For this issue, we asked ACSOS 2025 General Chair Kenji Tei for a more personal, behind‑the‑scenes view of the conference in Tokyo.
What was his personal highlight of the conference? What surprised him during the organization, and what advice would he give to future General Chairs? Read the full interview and join the discussion on Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1162311213162704916/1514516678963105822
You want to share your news with the ACSOS community? Submit content for the ACSOS Newsletter via the ACSOS Discord server (https://discord.gg/XpGQhQMF3D)!