Preliminary Call for Papers

PAPER-ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2026

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 24, 2026

SAMOS is a distinctive conference with a primary focus on embedded systems, but what truly sets it apart is its unique atmosphere. Each year, it brings together researchers from both academia and industry in the serene and inspiring setting of northern Samos, a Mediterranean island known for its picturesque landscapes.

More than just a technical event, SAMOS fosters collaboration over competition. Formal and intensive technical sessions take place in the mornings, followed by engaging panels or distinguished keynote speakers who conclude the structured part of the day. The afternoons and evenings are dedicated to informal discussions, networking, excellent cuisine by the relaxing Aegean Sea—encouraging meaningful exchanges beyond the conference room.

Conference proceedings are published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and indexed in the DBLP Database. Authors are invited to submit original research papers following the provided submission guidelines.​

The SAMOS conference welcomes original research contributions in two key areas:​

Applications, Systems, Architectures, and Processors:

This track focuses on enhancing system efficiency across diverse domains. We invite submissions presenting novel architectural and microarchitectural techniques that improve performance, energy and power efficiency, reliability, and dependability in embedded systems. We further solicit innovative architectures, computing methodologies, and acceleration solutions tailored for embedded applications in fields such as automotive, space, avionics, medical, edge computing, and (machine) learning systems.​ Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Novel architectures and microarchitectures for high-performance, real-time, energy-efficient,  and dependable (e.g., fault-tolerant, secure) embedded systems;​
• Application-specific and domain-specific processing engines and accelerators;​
• Heterogeneous and homogeneous multicore and multi-chiplet systems;​
• Reconfigurable and adaptive systems;​
• Runtime management of embedded systems;​
• Advanced memory architectures and management techniques
• In- and near-memory processing;​
• Networks-on-Chip.

Modeling, Design, and Design Space Exploration:

This track covers a broad range of design methodologies and tools for embedded systems. Topics of interest include modeling and simulation, hardware/software and system synthesis, compilation techniques, performance, power, and reliability analysis, as well as design methodologies and design-space exploration strategies.​ Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Co-design of hardware/software and algorithm/architecture
• Methodologies, algorithms, and CAD tools for design space exploration
• Modeling and simulation at the system and component levels
• Synthesis techniques for hardware, software, and system-level design
• Programming models and development tools for embedded systems
• Profiling, measurement, and performance analysis techniques
• Compilation, optimization strategies, and code generation
• Verification, testing, and debugging methodologies
• Design Tools and Methods for chiplets.​

SPECIAL SESSIONS & TUTORIALS

SAMOS XXVI plans various Special Sessions and Tutorials. 

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to contribute to a special issue of the Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). This issue will accept papers from all the topics of the SAMOS conference.

TRAVEL GRANTS

The conference will award 10 travel grants to authors and participants, who are students from Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain and, in general, to people without support from their organization.