SAC 2026

For the past 40 years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. ACM SAC has been sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP).

SAC 2026 will be held on March 23-27, 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece, which is one of the cities listed for UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM and will be also available online through ACM's Digital Library. For additional information, please visit the above official ACM SAC 2026 web site.

Intelligent Systems for Digital Era (ISDE) track - Call for Papers

The human kind is on a challenging path for digital transformation, where digital technologies offer an enormous growth potential for businesses, and a wealth of opportunities for individuals. The increase in computing power has enabled tasks that once required a desktop computer to be performed on the move on a smartphone platform, while being constantly connected to the network. The application of novel computing systems has affected masses of people through automation and intelligent systems, with AI opening further possibilities.

The Intelligent Systems for Digital Era (ISDE) track focuses on intelligent systems and their application in all domains aiming to solve everyday problems and improving the functioning of a society. This includes, but not limited to, recent developments in information and communication technologies (ICT), digitalisation, sensor technologies, process automation, predictive systems, artificial intelligence (AI), etc. The track focuses on developing and applying intelligent systems supporting the continuous transformation towards a digital society. Emphasis is placed on systems that take a holistic view of this transformation towards a better digital world, e.g., manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, business processes, and e-government and services. Researchers and practitioners from academia and industry are invited to submit theoretical, technical and practical papers on intelligent systems and sociotechnical issues related to their development and application.

Topics of interest:

• Digitalization and Automation for Enterprise Ecosystems
• Digital Transformation and Digitalisation for Societies (e.g., commerce, manufacturing, healthcare, civil engineering, marine, transportation, etc.)
• Smart Life Ecosystems (e.g., smart cities, digital twins, human-machine interaction, etc.)
• Advanced Socio Cyber Physical Systems
• Application of Soft Computing in Intelligent Systems
• Assistive Robot Technologies
• Artificial Agents and Smart Systems
• Advancements in e-governance and e-commerce
• Systems Engineering for Intelligent Systems
• Data Science for Social Good
• Decision Support Systems for Social Good
• Sociotechnical problems of digitalization
• Intelligent Systems, Platforms and Infrastructures

Student Research Competition (SRC) Program

SRC program provides graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (single author, maximum of 3 pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published on the SAC 2026 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. Electronic submission of SRC papers.

All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give poster and oral presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. More about the SRC program...

Original unpublished research papers, application experience papers, and reports of success stories/innovation on digital transformation and intelligent systems are invited on the topics above (but not limited). Submitted papers must be original contributions and must not be accepted or submitted elsewhere until the decision is received.

Each submitted paper will undergo a double-blind review process by at least three reviewers. Therefore, remove any author names and any other information that might divulge authors' identity from the paper. Self-reference should be in the third person.
Submissions of fewer than four (4) pages that do not demonstrate substantial contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review.
Please note that a paper cannot be submitted to more than one track!

Electronic submission of Regular Papers

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2026 proceedings. The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using the ACM double-column format according to the guidelines given on the SAC 2026 web site.. Accepted full papers (regular papers) should be 6-8 pages in a double column format (with the option to add 2 extra pages at an extra cost). The maximum allowable length is ten (10) pages. ORCID is required for all authors of an accepted paper.

Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation will be invited for the poster session. The length of the poster is 2 pages (with the option to add 1 at an extra cost).

DO NOTE! Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

People

Track Chairs:

• Tarmo ROBAL, Tallinn University of Technology, ESTONIA (tarmo.robal@taltech.ee)
• Raimundas MATULEVICIUS, University of Tartu, ESTONIA (raimundas.matulevicius@ut.ee)
• Diana KALIBATIENE, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LITHUANIA (diana.kalibatiene@vilniustech.lt)

Track Program Committee:

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