The Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks is a primary venue for original research on the fundamental aspects of computing in dynamic networks and dynamic computational processes. Broadly, the conference and its community aim to improve understanding of the role of dynamics in computing. We seek high-quality contributions related to this aim from all viewpoints, including theory, design, analysis, and applications, and welcome both conceptual and technical contributions, as well as novel ideas and new problems.

Dates

• Submission Deadline: December 8, 2026, 23:59 AoE
• Notification: February 26, 2027
• Camera-ready version: March 27, 2027
• Conference: June 30 - July 2, 2027

Submission Guidelines

Papers should be submitted electronically through Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sand2027).

Submissions must be in English in pdf format and they must be prepared using the LaTeX style template for LIPIcs (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author) with

\documentclass[a4paper,anonymous,USenglish]{lipics-v2021}.

SAND accepts two types of submissions: regular papers and brief announcements.

• A regular paper submission must be original research and report on novel results that have not appeared or been concurrently submitted to a journal or a conference with published proceedings. Every regular paper submission must be at most 15 pages, excluding references, plus an (optional) appendix. The main part of the submission (i.e. the 15 pages) should contain a clear presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of the paper's importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims. There is no guarantee that the reviewers will read the (optional) appendix; this will only be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. The appendix can contain missing proofs from the main text, or it can just be the full version of the paper, this decision is left to the authors.
• A brief announcement submission may report on preliminary work or work presented elsewhere. The title of a brief announcement submission should begin with "Brief Announcement: ". Papers submitted as brief announcements should include presentation of their merits within 5 pages plus at most 1 extra page of references, plus an (optional) appendix (as described above).

The program committee may decide that some of the regular papers not selected for publication are suitable for publication in the brief announcement format. The authors of any such paper will be asked to prepare a brief announcement final version out of their original regular submission. By default, every regular paper submission will be considered as a potential brief announcement, if it is not accepted as a regular paper. Any authors who do not wish their regular paper submission to be considered for the brief announcement format in case of rejection, are asked to clearly indicate this on the first page of their submission, for example by adding above or below the title "NOT eligible for brief announcement".

Instructions for Double-Blind Review

The reviewing process is double-blind, the authors' names must not be included in the paper, and the writing of the manuscript should be done in such a way to not de-anonymize authors (e.g., instead of, our result [1], they should use, the result of [1]). We assume that reviewers do not actively try to recognize the authors. Therefore, authors are allowed to publish their results on pre-print services before or at any point of the submission/reviewing process. Non-anonymous submissions will be rejected.

Use of AI Tools

If any AI tools were used in preparing a submission (beyond copyediting or use of internet search tools), the nature of the usage should be disclosed in the submission for the sake of transparency. If AI tools are used, authors remain accountable for the content of the paper, including avoiding plagiarism and providing appropriate citations of sources.
 

List of Topics

• Bio-inspired, physical, and chemical dynamic models
• Boolean networks
• Complex systems, financial, social, and transportation networks
• Computability and complexity within dynamic networks
• Continuous models of dynamic networks
• Distributed computation in dynamic networks
• Dynamic graph algorithms
• Dynamically reconfigurable networks and graph reconfiguration
• Dynamics of games, puzzles, and gadget systems
• Fault tolerance, network self-organization, and formation
• Geometric dynamic models
• Information spreading, gossiping, and epidemics
• IoT, cloud, edge, and fog computing
• Learning approaches for dynamic networks
• Multilayer, peer-to-peer, and overlay networks
• New models for dynamic networks
• Offline and online algorithms for dynamic networks
• Population protocols and chemical reaction networks
• Randomness in dynamic networks
• Reconfigurable and swarm robotics, programmable matter, and DNA self-assembly
• Streaming models
• Temporal data and dynamic network analysis
• Temporal graphs
• Wireless networks, mobile computing, and autonomous agents

Committees

Program Committee

• Daniel Amir, Technion, Israel
• Thomas Bellitto, LIP6, Sorbonne University, France
• Quentin Bramas, University of Strasbourg, France
• Petra Berenbrink, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel
• Anya Chaturvedi, Arizona State University, USA
• Robert Elsässer, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Yuval Emek, Technion, Israel
• Jessica Enright, University of Glasgow, UK
• Thomas Erlebach, Durham University, UK (co-chair)
• Klaus-Tycho Foerster, TU Dortmund, Germany
• Sebastian Forster, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Olga Goussevskaia, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Kathrin Hanauer, University of Vienna, Austria
• David Ilcinkas, University of Bordeaux, France
• Frank Kammer, University of Applied Sciences Mittelhessen, Germany
• Stefano Leucci, University of L'Aquila, Italy
• Yannic Maus, TU Graz, Austria
• Othon Michail, University of Patras, Greece
• Hendrik Molter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Nils Morawietz, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
• Thomas Nowak, ENS Paris-Saclay, France
• Fukuhito Ooshita, University of Hyogo, Japan
• Maria Potop-Butucaru, LIP6, Sorbonne University, France
• Andrea Richa, Arizona State University, USA
• Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin, Germany (co-chair)
• Ulrich Schmid, TU Wien, Austria
• Ana Silva, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
• George Skretas, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
• Jiri Srba, Aalborg University, Denmark
• John Sylvester, University of Liverpool, UK
• Tegan Wilson, Northeastern University, USA and University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
• Damien Woods, Maynooth University, Ireland
• Timothy R. Wylie, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA

Organizing Committee

Paderborn University, Germany:

• Christian Scheideler (chair)
• Matthias Fischer (treasurer)
• Petra Schäfermeyer (hotel and social event)
• Thomas Thissen (webmaster)

Steering Committee

• Othon Michail, University of Patras, Greece (SC chair)
• Arnaud Casteigts, University of Geneva, Switzerland (SC vice chair)
• Thomas Erlebach, Durham University, UK (PC chair 2027)
• Stefan Schmid, Technical University of Berlin, Germany (PC chair 2027)
• George Mertzios, Durham University, UK (PC chair 2026)
• Andrea Richa, Arizona State University, USA (PC chair 2026)
• Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, Germany (General chair 2027)

Advisory Board

• James Aspnes, Yale University, USA
• Luca Becchetti, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
• Arnaud Casteigts, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
• Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Canada
• George Mertzios, Durham University, UK
• Othon Michail, University of Patras, Greece
• Rotem Oshman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Nicola Santoro, Carleton University, Canada
• Paul Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK
• Viktor Zamaraev, University of Liverpool, UK

Publication

The conference proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. The final version of the paper must be formatted following the LIPIcs guidelines (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors). Papers accepted in full will have 15 pages in the final proceedings (excluding references). Any papers accepted in the brief announcement format will have 5 pages in the final proceedings plus at most 1 extra page of references.

Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of a journal.

For every accepted regular paper and brief announcement, at least one of the authors must fully register and present the paper during the conference and according to the conference program. Any paper accepted but not presented will be withdrawn from the final proceedings.

Awards

All regular papers are eligible for the best paper award. Regular papers co-authored by at least one full-time student may also be eligible for the best student paper award. For a paper to be considered for the best student paper award, at least one author who is a full-time student at the time of submission should have made a significant contribution to the paper. In case the authors think that their paper is eligible for the best student paper award, they should clearly indicate this on the first page of their submission, for example by adding above or below the title "Eligible for the best student paper award".

Venue

The conference will be held at Hotel Aspethera in Paderborn, Germany.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to thomas.erlebach@durham.ac.uk.