ICE 2026 - 19th Interaction and Concurrency Experience

Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICE) is a series of international scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer science researchers with special interest in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives for concurrent systems and complex interactions.

ICE 2026 is a satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2026, held on June 12th in Urbino, Italy.

Highlights

Important Dates

All dates are in the Anywhere on Earth time zone.

Scope

The general scope of the venue includes theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among components of concurrent/distributed systems, related to several areas of computer science in the broad spectrum ranging from formal specification and analysis to studies inspired by emerging computational models.

We solicit contributions relevant to Interaction and Concurrency, including but not limited to:

Accepted Papers

Invited Speaker: Emilio Tuosto

Talk: What do you mean A -> B: m?

I will cherry pick and revisit some of the results on behavioural specifications of distributed communicating systems produced over the past three decades by a large community of researchers spanning theoretical computer science, formal methods, and programming languages. No surprise my chronicle will include nICE stuff, however the goal is not (just) celebrating ICE 19th edition, rather to examine new open problems that are intriguing me at the moment. I’ll resist the temptation of diving into technicalities in an attempt to focus on the problems and keep the discussion at a conceptual level accessible to a wide audience.

Biography

Emilio Tuosto is a full professor in Computer Science at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila (Italy). From 2005 to 2019 Emilio worked at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Leicester (UK) initially as lecturer and then as an associate professor. Before moving to UK, Emilio had been a research associate from 2003 to 2005 at the University of Pisa where he also got his PhD and MSc in Computer Science.

Emilio’s main research interests are in foundations of concurrent and distributed computations. Recently Emilio has been active in the area of behavioural specifications and distributed computations. In particular, Emilio is interested in the development of theories and formal methods for the coordination of distributed systems.

The ICE Selection Procedure

Since its first edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has been an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive, friendly, and constructive discussion amongst authors and PC members in an online forum.

During the review phase, each submission is published in a dedicated discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of the submission and by all PC members not in conflict with the submission (the forum preserves anonymity). The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions, clarifications, and modifications from the authors, allowing them better to explain and to improve all aspects of their submission. The evaluation of the submission will take into account not only the reviews, but also the outcome of the discussion.

As witnessed by the past editions of ICE, this procedure considerably improves the accuracy of the reviews, the fairness of the selection, the quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion during the workshop.

ICE adopts a light double-anonymous reviewing process, detailed below.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via hotcrp.

We invite two types of submissions:

Authors of research papers must omit their names and institutions from the title page, they should refer to their other work in the third person and omit acknowledgements that could reveal their identity or affiliation. The purpose is to avoid any bias based on authors’ identity characteristics, such as gender, seniority, or nationality, in the review process. Our goal is to facilitate an unbiased approach to reviewing by supporting reviewers’ access to works that do not carry obvious references to the authors’ identities. As mentioned above, this is a lightweight double-anonymous process. Anonymization should not be a heavy burden for authors, and should not make papers weaker or more difficult to review. Advertising the paper on alternate forums (e.g., on a personal web-page, pre-print archive, email, talks, discussions with colleagues) is permitted.

Papers in the “Oral communications” category need not be anonymized. For any questions concerning the double anonymous process, feel free to contact the ICEcreamers.

We are keen to enhance the balanced, inclusive and diverse nature of the ICE community, and would particularly encourage female colleagues and members of other underrepresented groups to submit their work.

Publications

Accepted research papers and communications must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors.

Accepted research papers will be published after the workshop in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science.

We plan to invite authors of selected papers and brief announcements to submit their work in a special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed). Such contributions will be regularly peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy, but they will be handled in a shorter time than regular submissions. A list of published and in preparation special issues of previous ICE editions is reported below.

ICEcreamers

Use ice (at) framalistes.org to reach all the ICEcreamers at once.

Programme Committee

Steering Committee

Previous Editions

For a complete listing of our previous editions, please refer to ice-workshop.github.io/#previous-editions.

More Information

For additional information, please refer to the series website or contact the ICEcreamers at ice (at) framalistes.org.