SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction among multiple communities focusing on defining, optimizing, and executing complex algorithms in several application areas. The focus of the conference then ranges from symbolic and numeric computation to formal methods applied to programming, artificial intelligence, distributed computing, and computing theory. The interplay between these areas is essential in the current scenario where the economy and society demand for the development of complex, data-intensive, trustworthy, and high-performance computational systems.

Related Events

SYNASC 2026 is organized in conjunction with FROM 2026 (Working Formal Methods Symposium).

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must contain original research results and should not have been submitted or published elsewhere. There are three categories of submissions:

• Regular papers describing fully completed research results (up to 8 pages of text, excluding references, in the two-column paper style).
• System descriptions and experimental papers describing software prototypes, results of simulations, or experimental data analysis, with a link to the reported results (up to 8 pages of text, excluding references, in the two-column paper style).
• Short papers describing ongoing work, preliminary results and/or research challenges of PhD students (up to 4 pages of text, excluding references, in the two-columns paper style).

Important Dates

• 15 March 2026 (AoE): Proposals for workshops, special sessions, tutorials
• 15 May 2026 (AoE): Paper submission for main tracks
• 15 June 2026 (AoE): Paper submission for workshops, special sessions and tutorials
• 25 July 2026: Notification of acceptance
• 4 September 2026: Registration
• 4 September 2026: Revised papers for electronic pre-proceedings
• 14-17 September 2026: Symposium
• 16 November 2026: Camera-ready papers for post-proceedings

Workshops

• Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems (ACSys)
• Workshop on Iterative Algorithms for Approximating Fixed Points of Various Contractive-type Operators (IAFP)
• Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications (NCA)
• Workshop on Serious Games in Well-being, Environment, Digital Heritage and Other Applications (SegWEDA)
• Workshop on Remote Sensing, Computer Vision, and AI for a Sustainable Future (WSAI)

Special sessions

• Special Session on Neuro-symbolic Artificial Intelligence (NSAI)
• Special Session for PhD Students (PhD)

Tutorials

TBA

Invited Speakers

• Vasile Berinde, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Temur Kutsia, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
• Markus Roggenbach, University of Swansea, UK
• Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, Italy

List of Topics

SYNASC is organized into six tracks:

• Symbolic Computation
  • computer algebra
  • symbolic analysis
  • symbolic combinatorics
  • symbolic techniques applied to numerics
  • symbolic regression
  • hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms
  • numerics and symbolics for geometry
  • programming with constraints, narrowing
  • applications of symbolic computation to artificial intelligence and vice-versa
• Numerical Computing
  • iterative approximation of fixed points
  • solving systems of nonlinear equations
  • numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations
  • numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization
  • parallel algorithms for numerical computing
  • scientific visualization and image processing
• Logic and Programming
  • automatic reasoning
  • formal system verification
  • formal verification and synthesis
  • software quality assessment
  • static analysis
  • timing analysis
  • automated testing
• Distributed Computing
  • modelling of parallel and distributed systems
  • parallel and distributed algorithms
  • architectures for parallel and distributed systems
  • applications for parallel and distributed systems
  • acceleration of AI or Big Data applications using distributed and parallel computing
  • networked intelligence and Internet of Things
• Artificial Intelligence
  • knowledge discovery, representation, and management
  • automated reasoning, uncertain reasoning, and constraint strategies
  • recommender and expert systems
  • intelligent systems, agents, and networks
  • agent-based complex systems and agentic AI
  • AI-based systems for scientific computing
  • large language models
  • machine learning – including deep learning models and technologies
  • explainable and trustworthy AI
  • information retrieval, data mining, text mining, and web mining
  • computational intelligence - including fuzzy, neural, and evolutionary computing
  • AI applications: natural language processing, computer vision, signal processing, stock market, computational neuroscience, robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical diagnosis, cybersecurity, digital design, online education, algorithm invention, and algorithm analysis
• Theory of Computing
  • data structures and algorithms
  • combinatorial optimization
  • formal languages and combinatorics on words
  • graph-theoretic and combinatorial methods in computer science
  • algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms
  • computational complexity theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing
  • logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory
  • algorithmic and computational learning theory
  • aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory
  • proof complexity
  • computational social choice and game theory
  • new computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic, and other non-standard approaches to computability
  • randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena, and typical-case complexity
  • automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification
  • applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology,y and computational economics
  • experimental algorithmics

Committees

Program Committee

• Honorary Chair:
  • Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
• Steering Committee:
  • Anca Mirela Andreica, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • James Davenport, University of Bath, UK
  • Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
  • Laura Kovacs, TU Wien, Austria, Austria
  • Dorel Lucanu, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania
  • Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
  • Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
  • Alin Stefanescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
  • Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• General Chairs:
  • Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
  • Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Program & Proceedings Chairs:
  • Peter Csaba Olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Track Chairs:
  • Symbolic Computation
    • James Davenport, University of Bath, UK
    • Stephen Watt, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Numerical Computing
    • Eva Kaslik, West University of Timisoara, Romania
    • Dorota Mozyrska, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
    • Stephen Takacs, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  • Logic and Programming
    • Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA
    • Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada
    • Laura Kovacs, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
  • Artificial Intelligence
    • Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK
    • Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
    • Ciprian Zăvoiany, Robert Gordon University, UK
  • Distributed Computing
    • Marc Frincu, Nottingham Trent University, UK
    • Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
  • Theory of Computing
    • Gabriel Istrate, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania
    • Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Special Sessions and Workshops Chair:
  • Daniel Pop, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Tutorials Chair:
  • Florin Fortis, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Organizing committee

• Monica Sancira, West University of Timisoara, Romania - chair
• Cosmin Bonchis, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Alexandra Fortis, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Theodor Grumeza, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Flavia Micota, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Adrian Spătaru, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Publicity Chairs

• Sebastian Stefănigă, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania

Technical Committee

• Dorin Cazan, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Razvan Iovescu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Alexandru Nagy, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Publication

Papers accepted and presented at the symposium will be published as proceedings by Conference Publishing Service (CPS) and submitted for indexing in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, and SCOPUS. For all accepted papers, at least one author is required to register for the conference and present the paper.

Venue

The conference will be held at the West University of Timisoara, Romania, blvd. Vasile Pârvan, 4.

Information related to accommodation can be found at https://synasc.ro/2026/accommodation/

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact@synasc.ro