ARCS 2026: 39TH GI/ITG INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, March 24th Wednesday, March 25th Thursday, March 26th

Tuesday, March 24th

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11:00-12:30Registration and Lunch
12:45-13:45 Session 2: Keynote #1
12:45
Ubitium: From RISC-V to AI Accelerators (abstract)
13:45-14:00Break
14:00-15:35 Session 3: ARCS26 Main Track 1: RISC-V and processor architectures
14:00
Leszy: A Dynamically Reconfigurable Superscalar Out-of-Order RISC-V Processor (abstract)
14:20
Prototyping RISC-V 48-bit Instructions for Improved Code Density (abstract)
14:40
Benchmarking Highway C++ on RISC-V: Efficiency and Limitations of Portable SIMD Wrappers (abstract)
15:00
XVI-V: A Scalable and Programmable RISC-V based Multi-Cluster Accelerator for Embedded Systems (abstract)
15:20
Research Group Forum: LIBERO: A Flexible, Lightweight GDB-based Visualization Tool for RISC-V Vector Extensions (abstract)
15:35-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:35 Session 4: Organic Computing 1: Foundations
16:00
ORCA-Next: A Graph-Based Framework for Controlled Runtime Evolution in Organic Computing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marco Hüller
16:20
Evolving Observers for Agnostic Pattern Discovery in Spatiotemporal Fields (abstract)
16:40
Awareness Engine: A Cognitive Middleware for Explicit Self-Awareness between Agent and Environment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zhixin Huang
17:00
ADNA-based Organic Computing for Fail-Safe Systems Providing High Dependability: Formal Verification of ADNA Building Blocks (abstract)
17:20
Research Group Forum: Trust as a First-Class Citizen: A Research Agenda for Trustworthy Organic Computing Systems (abstract)
Wednesday, March 25th

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09:00-10:00 Session 5: Keynote #2
09:00
Vector Evolution: With RISC-V from HPC to AI (abstract)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:05 Session 6: ARCS26 Main Track 2: FPGA and custom hardware accelerators
10:30
FLICS: FPGA-acceLerated Ingestion of documents into Columnar Storage (abstract)
10:50
A Flexible Open-Source Framework for FPGA-based Network-Attached Accelerators using SpinalHDL (abstract)
11:10
FPGA-Based Energy-Efficient Decision tree ensemble Accelerator (abstract)
11:30
OpenEye: A scalable Open-Source Hardware Accelerator for DNNs (abstract)
11:50
Research Group Forum: Runtime-Adaptive Cross-Level Techniques for Efficient and Reliable Edge AI (abstract)
12:05-13:05Lunch Break
13:05-14:40 Session 7: ARCS26 Main Track 3: Networking, DPUs and interconnections
Chair:
13:05
Bringing a L3 Load Balancer Closer to the Network; Experiments on the Nvidia Bluefield-3 SmartNIC (abstract)
13:25
Adaptive Task Offloading to BlueField-2 DPU using INTadapt (abstract)
13:45
Speeding Up Berstein's Formulas for Permutation Networks (abstract)
14:05
Improving NoC traffic with online reconfiguration (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marc Grau
14:25
Research Group Forum: ScalNEXT: Exploring Smart Network Devices for High-Performance Computing (abstract)
14:40-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-16:00 Session 8: PhD Forum
15:00
A Modular Multi-Sensor Fusion Framework for Autonomous Maritime Navigation (abstract)
15:15
Real-Time System Awareness and Adaptation for Autonomous Systems (abstract)
15:30
A Comprehensive Study of Communication Bottlenecks and Transmission Strategies in 3D Network-on-Chips for heterogeneous Monolithic 3D SoCs (abstract)
15:45
Research Group Forum: Towards HW/AI Co-design of Resource-efficient Hardware Accelerators (abstract)
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Session 9: Dependability in the Era of Hardware-Accelerated AI Systems
16:30
Error-Correction Encoding for Covert Channel in Bloom Filter (abstract)
16:50
SPARQ: Spiking Early-Exit Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Edge AI (abstract)
17:10
Are DNA Molecules Fault-Tolerant? (abstract)
Thursday, March 26th

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09:00-10:15 Session 10: Organic Computing 2: Learning and Planning
09:00
From Global Objectives to Local Acceptance: Preference-Aware Centralized Planning in Organic Computing Systems (abstract)
09:20
MARLCoop: A Simulation Environment for Studying Emergent Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems (abstract)
09:40
Modernising Reinforcement Learning–Based Navigation for Embodied Semantic Scene Graph Generation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Roman Küble
10:00
Research Group Forum: A Machine Learning-Centric Approach to Opportunistic Sensor Integration in Organic Computing Systems (abstract)
10:15-10:35Coffee Break
10:35-11:55 Session 11: Organic Computing 3: Applications and Experiences
10:35
Self-Organized Charging Infrastructure for VICON-based Crazyflie Drone Swarms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Oliver Kosak
10:55
Uncertainty-Aware Transformer-Based Representation Learning for Vibration-Based Motor Speed Estimation (abstract)
11:15
Online Team Formation in a Highly Flexible Multi-Robot Production Cell (abstract)
PRESENTER: Christian Lehner
11:35
occuFormer: Probabilistic Occupancy Forecasting at Geographically Distributed Electric Vehicle Charging Sites (abstract)
11:55-12:55Lunch Break
12:55-14:15 Session 12: ARCS26 Main Track 4: AI acceleration and neural networks
12:55
High Performance Implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks on Versal AI Engine with STANN-AIEML (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yu Li
13:15
Automated Neural Network Partitioning Across Distributed Heterogeneous Edge Accelerators (abstract)
13:35
BD-RVE: Block Dictionary Approach for ANN Acceleration Using RISC-V Extension (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ahmad Menbari
13:55
ConvLUT: LUT-based FPGA Accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks (abstract)
14:15-14:35Coffee Break
14:35-16:15 Session 13: ARCS26 Main Track 5: Data structures and software engineering
14:35
HyperionR - Experiences transforming an optimized Trie index data structure from C to Rust (abstract)
PRESENTER: Reza Salkhordeh
14:55
CDH: Accelerating Topological Mode-Seeking via Parallel Cell-Based Density Hiking (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jan Schneegans
15:15
16-Bit Posits as an Alternative to Single-Precision Floats in Embedded Radar FFTs (abstract)
15:35
Rebooting Microreboot: Architectural Support for Safe, Parallel Recovery in Microservice Systems (abstract)
15:55
Extending Contiki-NG with AntHocNet Routing for Mobile Scenarios (abstract)
PRESENTER: Thomas Böhme