GandALF 2026

Seventeenth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification

Aalborg, Denmark - September 15-17, 2026

About GandALF

Scope

The aim of GandALF is to bring together researchers from academia and industry who are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome.

Topics

The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Automata Theory
  • Automated Deduction
  • Computational aspects of Game Theory
  • Concurrency and Distributed computation
  • Decision Procedures
  • Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification
  • Finite Model Theory
  • First-order and Higher-order Logics
  • Formal Languages
  • Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems
  • Games and Automata for Verification
  • Game Semantics
  • Logical aspects of Computational Complexity
  • Logics of Programs
  • Modal and Temporal Logics
  • Model Checking
  • Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems
  • Probabilistic Models (Markov Decision processes)
  • Program Analysis and Software Verification
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Run-time Verification and Testing
  • Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems
  • Synthesis

GandALF 2026 will take place in Aalborg, Denmark, on September 15–17, 2026.
The conference will be hosted by Aalborg University and it is organised by the FICS reaserch group at the Department of Computer Science.

Call For Papers

Submission Instructions

Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages (excluding references and clearly marked appendices) using EPTCS format (please use the LaTeX style provided here), be unpublished, and contain original research.

For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via EasyChair.

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Publication

The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science.

The previous editions of GandALF already led to special issues of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), Information and Computation (GandALF 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020), Acta Informatica (GandALF 2015) and Logical Methods in Computer Science (GandALF 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025).

Important Dates

  • Abstract submission: June 18, 2026
  • Submission deadline: June 22, 2026
  • Notification: August 3, 2026
  • Early registration deadline: August 15, 2026
  • Camera ready: September 7, 2026
  • Conference Dates: September 15-17, 2026

Commitees

The full list of program committee members will be available soon.

Programme Commitee

  • Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) - chair
  • Mickaël Randour (Université de Mons, Belgium) - chair

Steering Commitee

  • Luca Aceto (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
  • Javier Esparza (University of Munich, Germany)
  • Salvatore La Torre (University of Salerno, Italy)
  • Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy)
  • Mimmo Parente (University of Salerno, Italy)
  • Jean-François Raskin (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  • Martin Zimmermann (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Organising Commitee

  • Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University)
  • Elli Anastasiadi (Aalborg University)