CONFEST 2026

Program by Day

CONCUR
(Room A)
8:30 ! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00 ! Live

Word Automata with Limited Nondeterminism

Session chair: Patrick Totzke

Qiyi Tang

CONCUR 

10:00 ! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

CONCUR Session 1 - Stochastic Games & MDPs I

Session chair: Pedro R. D'Argenio

Asymmetrically-Discounted Stochastic GamesSarvin Bahmani, Soumyajit Paul, Sven Schewe, Shadi Tasdighi Kalat, Ashutosh Trivedi
12:00 ! Live

Lunch

13:30

CONCUR Session 2 - Stochastic Games & MDPs II

14:40 ! Live

Coffee Break

15:00

CONCUR Session 3 - Behavioural Metrics

Session chair: Henning Urbat

Threshold-Based Behavioural DistancesJonas Forster, Lutz Schröder, Paul Wild, Barbara König, Pedro Nora
On the Continuity of the Probabilistic Bisimilarity DistanceSyyeda Zainab Fatmi, Stefan Kiefer, David Parker, Franck van Breugel
16:10 ! Live

Coffee Break

16:30

CONCUR Session 4 - (Bi)Simulations

Session chair: Rob van Glabbeek

17:40
CONCUR (Room A)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

CONCUR Session 1 - Stochastic Games & MDPs I

Session chair: Pedro R. D'Argenio

Sarvin Bahmani, Soumyajit Paul, Sven Schewe, Shadi Tasdighi Kalat, Ashutosh Trivedi
12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30

CONCUR Session 2 - Stochastic Games & MDPs II

14:40
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00

CONCUR Session 3 - Behavioural Metrics

Session chair: Henning Urbat

Jonas Forster, Lutz Schröder, Paul Wild, Barbara König, Pedro Nora
Syyeda Zainab Fatmi, Stefan Kiefer, David Parker, Franck van Breugel
16:10
! Live

Coffee Break

16:30

CONCUR Session 4 - (Bi)Simulations

Session chair: Rob van Glabbeek

CONCUR (Room A)
18:00
Caption
Invited
CONCUR
Social
CONCUR
(Room A)
QEST+FORMATS
(Room B)
8:30 ! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00

CONCUR Session 5 - Vector Addition Systems

Session chair: Shaull Almagor

Reachability in Fixed-Dimensional Continuous VASSMichal Ajdarów, A. R. Balasubramanian, Łukasz Orlikowski
Monadic Presburger Predicates have Robust Population ProtocolsPhilipp Czerner, Javier Esparza, Vincent Fischer, Roland Guttenberg, Julian Pins, Simon Reilich
! Live

QEST+FORMATS Opening

Q+F 

9:10 ! Live

Monitoring of Timed and Quantitative Systems

Kim G. Larsen

Q+F 

10:10 ! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

CONCUR Session 6 - Concurrency and Verification

Session chair: Jérémy Ledent

Prophecy-Based Automated Verification of Message-Passing ProgramsTakashi Nagatomi, Musashi Katsura, Naoki Kobayashi, Yusuke Matsushita, Ken Sakayori
An MSO Framework for Weak-Memory Verification and RobustnessGiovanna Kobus Conrado, Andreas Pavlogiannis
when Behaviours Have to Happen: An Axiomatic Model of Causality in Behaviour-Oriented ConcurrencyLuke Cheeseman, Elias Castegren, Tobias Wrigstad, Sophia Drossopoulou, Matthew Parkinson
On the Encodability of Reversible Process CalculiIvan Lanese, Claudio Antares Mezzina, Iain Phillips, Irek Ulidowski, Shoji Yuen
12:00 ! Live

Lunch

13:30

CONCUR Session 7 - Time

Reaching as Cheap as Possible in 1-clock Robust Weighted Timed GamesNathalie Bertrand, Maëlle Gautrin, Julie Parreaux
Buffered control for opacity in timed automataÉtienne André, Sarah Dépernet, Engel Lefaucheux
Positional Properties in Temporal LogicJessica Newman, Benjamin Plummer
! Live

Supporting Older Adults Living Independently

Jane Hillston

Q+F 

14:40 ! Live

Coffee Break

15:00

Q+F Session 2 - Parametric Games and Automata

State-Space Abstractions for Parametric Timed GamesMikael Bisgaard Dahlsen-Jensen, Jaco van de Pol, Laure Petrucci
16:10 ! Live

Coffee Break

16:30

CONCUR Session 8 - Higher Dimensional Automata and Semantics

Session chair: Sergey Goncharov

Bisimulations and Modal Logics for Higher Dimensional AutomataSafa Zouari, Rob van Glabbeek, Krzysztof Ziemianski
Concurrent Visibility: higher-order concurrency with first-order storeIwan Quémerais, Guilhème Jaber, Ken Sakayori, Davide Sangiorgi

Q+F Session 3 - Learning and Quantum Systems

Learning Alternating Real-Time AutomataKazuki Kinoshita, Masaki Waga
17:40
CONCUR (Room A)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00

CONCUR Session 5 - Vector Addition Systems

Session chair: Shaull Almagor

Michal Ajdarów, A. R. Balasubramanian, Łukasz Orlikowski
Philipp Czerner, Javier Esparza, Vincent Fischer, Roland Guttenberg, Julian Pins, Simon Reilich
10:10
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

CONCUR Session 6 - Concurrency and Verification

Session chair: Jérémy Ledent

Takashi Nagatomi, Musashi Katsura, Naoki Kobayashi, Yusuke Matsushita, Ken Sakayori
Giovanna Kobus Conrado, Andreas Pavlogiannis
Luke Cheeseman, Elias Castegren, Tobias Wrigstad, Sophia Drossopoulou, Matthew Parkinson
Ivan Lanese, Claudio Antares Mezzina, Iain Phillips, Irek Ulidowski, Shoji Yuen
12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30

CONCUR Session 7 - Time

Nathalie Bertrand, Maëlle Gautrin, Julie Parreaux
Étienne André, Sarah Dépernet, Engel Lefaucheux
Jessica Newman, Benjamin Plummer
14:40
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00
16:10
! Live

Coffee Break

16:30

CONCUR Session 8 - Higher Dimensional Automata and Semantics

Session chair: Sergey Goncharov

Safa Zouari, Rob van Glabbeek, Krzysztof Ziemianski
Iwan Quémerais, Guilhème Jaber, Ken Sakayori, Davide Sangiorgi
QEST+FORMATS (Room B)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
! Live

QEST+FORMATS Opening

Q+F 

9:10
10:10
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30
12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30
14:40
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00

Q+F Session 2 - Parametric Games and Automata

Mikael Bisgaard Dahlsen-Jensen, Jaco van de Pol, Laure Petrucci
16:10
! Live

Coffee Break

16:30

Q+F Session 3 - Learning and Quantum Systems

Kazuki Kinoshita, Masaki Waga
Caption
Invited
CONCUR
Q+F
CONCUR
(Room A)
QEST+FORMATS
(Room B)
FMICS
(Room D)
8:30 ! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00 ! Live

Reasoning About Probabilistic Loops, Moment by Moment

Session chair: Max Tschaikowski

Ezio Bartocci

Joint Room A

10:00 ! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

CONCUR Session 9 - Algebraic Methods

Session chair: Lutz Schröder

Compositionality in Coalgebraic Trace SemanticsRobin Jourde, Henning Urbat, Sergey Goncharov, Stelios Tsampas, Jonas Forster
GKAT with Hoare HypothesesJurriaan Rot, Todd Schmid, Jana Wagemaker
Continuous Algebras with HypothesesLukas Mulder, Damien Pous, Jana Wagemaker

Q+F Session 4 - Stochastic Model Checking

Multi-Objective Statistical Model Checking using Lightweight Strategy SamplingPedro R. D'Argenio, Arnd Hartmanns, Patrick Wienhöft, Mark van Wijk
Effective Stochastic Automata Model Checking by Interval AbstractionAnnabell Petri, Arnd Hartmanns, Pedro D'Argenio

FMICS Session 1 - Formal Verification

12:00 ! Live

Lunch

13:30

CONCUR Session 10 - Parameterised Verification

WinPop: Making populations win togetherNathalie Bertrand, Patricia Bouyer, Luc Lapointe, Corto Mascle
On parameterized verification over tree topologiesRomain Delpy, Anca Muscholl, Grégoire Sutre

Q+F Session 5 - Probabilistic and Temporal Logic Semantics

Exact Evaluation of Probabilistic Programs with Cylindrical Algebraic DecompositionMohamed Hamza Bandukara, Fredrik Dahlqvist, Niki Omidvari
Algebraic Robust Semantics for Signal Temporal Logic with Graph OperatorsSheryl Paul, Vidisha Kudalkar, Anand Balakrishnan, Tianhao Wu, Lars Lindemann, Jyotirmoy Deshmukh
! Live

Application of Formal Methods to Design and Verification of Autonomous Space Systems

Julia Badger

FMICS 

14:40 ! Live

Coffee Break

15:00 ! Live

An Introduction to Multi-Environment Markov Decision Processes

Session chair: Patrick Totzke

Jean-François Raskin

CONCUR 

Q+F Session 6 - Continuous and Hybrid Systems

FMICS Session 2 - Advanced Reasoning

16:10
CONCUR (Room A)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

CONCUR Session 9 - Algebraic Methods

Session chair: Lutz Schröder

Robin Jourde, Henning Urbat, Sergey Goncharov, Stelios Tsampas, Jonas Forster
Jurriaan Rot, Todd Schmid, Jana Wagemaker
Lukas Mulder, Damien Pous, Jana Wagemaker
12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30

CONCUR Session 10 - Parameterised Verification

Nathalie Bertrand, Patricia Bouyer, Luc Lapointe, Corto Mascle
Romain Delpy, Anca Muscholl, Grégoire Sutre
14:40
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00
QEST+FORMATS (Room B)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

Q+F Session 4 - Stochastic Model Checking

Pedro R. D'Argenio, Arnd Hartmanns, Patrick Wienhöft, Mark van Wijk
Annabell Petri, Arnd Hartmanns, Pedro D'Argenio
12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30

Q+F Session 5 - Probabilistic and Temporal Logic Semantics

Mohamed Hamza Bandukara, Fredrik Dahlqvist, Niki Omidvari
Sheryl Paul, Vidisha Kudalkar, Anand Balakrishnan, Tianhao Wu, Lars Lindemann, Jyotirmoy Deshmukh
14:40
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00

Q+F Session 6 - Continuous and Hybrid Systems

FMICS (Room D)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

FMICS Session 1 - Formal Verification

12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30
14:40
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00

FMICS Session 2 - Advanced Reasoning

Caption
Invited
CONCUR
Q+F
FMICS
Social
CONCUR
(Room A)
QEST+FORMATS
(Room B)
FMICS
(Room D)
8:30 ! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00 ! Live

Category Theory for Fast Model Checking Algorithms

Session chair: Ana Sokolova

Ichiro Hasuo

Joint Room A

10:00 ! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

CONCUR Session 11 - Quantitative Verification

Session chair: Jean-François Raskin

Monitoring Discounted Sum PropertiesFilip Cano, Thomas A. Henzinger, Konstantin Kueffner, Ege Saraç
Completeness for Probabilistic Boolean TapesFilippo Bonchi, Cipriano Junior Cioffo
Graded Semantics of Nominal SystemsHannes Schulze, Lutz Schröder, Üsame Cengiz
Representing One Letter Weighted Automata Over the Tropical SemiringShaull Almagor, Ismaël Jecker, Filip Mazowiecki, Łukasz Orlikowski, David Purser, Henry Sinclair-Banks

Q+F Session 7 - Dependability and Security Analysis

FMICS Session 3 - Advanced Analysis

12:00 ! Live

Lunch

13:30

CONCUR Session 12 - Automata and Decompositions

Session chair: Anca Muscholl

Decomposition of Automata recognizing IdealsMathias Berry, Ismaël Jecker, Pierre-Cyrille Héam
A Factorization Theorem for Forest AlgebrasShaull Almagor, Michaël Cadilhac, Asaf Shoham
Complementing Emerson-Lei Elevator AutomataOndrej Alexaj, Vojtěch Havlena, Ondřej Lengál, Yong Li, Nicolas Mazzocchi

Q+F Session 8 - Queueing and Performance Models

! Live

Reducing Time to Market through Formal Methods

Colin O'Halloran

FMICS 

14:40 ! Live

Coffee Break

15:00 ! Live

On the role of prose in specifications

Session chair: Ana Sokolova

Jade Alglave

CONCUR 

Q+F Session 9 - Timed Automata and Languages

Weighing Timed Regular Languages: The Final StepEugene Asarin, Aldric Degorre, Catalin Dima, Bernardo Jacobo Inclán
! Live

Panel Session discussing the Industrial use of Formal Methods

16:10 ! Live

Coffee Break

16:30

CONCUR Session 13 - Partial Observation

Active Diagnosis with Costs and RewardsSerge Haddad, Engel Lefaucheux, Stefan Schwoon
Classification under uncertaintyOfer Leshkowitz, Orna Kupferman

Q+F Session 10 - Verification Tools

MightyPPL: Towards model checking MTLHsi-Ming Ho, S Krishna, Khushraj Madnani, Rupak Majumdar, Paritosh Pandya
LF-mc: An Efficient Verifier for Lingua FrancaMario Reja, Mikheil Rukhaia, Kyungmin Bae, Mircea Marin, Peter Csaba Ölveczky
StochasticBarrier.jl: A Toolbox for Stochastic Barrier Function SynthesisRayan Mazouz, Frederik Mathiesen, Luca Laurenti, Morteza Lahijanian
17:40
CONCUR (Room A)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

CONCUR Session 11 - Quantitative Verification

Session chair: Jean-François Raskin

Filip Cano, Thomas A. Henzinger, Konstantin Kueffner, Ege Saraç
Filippo Bonchi, Cipriano Junior Cioffo
Hannes Schulze, Lutz Schröder, Üsame Cengiz
Shaull Almagor, Ismaël Jecker, Filip Mazowiecki, Łukasz Orlikowski, David Purser, Henry Sinclair-Banks
12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30

CONCUR Session 12 - Automata and Decompositions

Session chair: Anca Muscholl

Mathias Berry, Ismaël Jecker, Pierre-Cyrille Héam
Shaull Almagor, Michaël Cadilhac, Asaf Shoham
Ondrej Alexaj, Vojtěch Havlena, Ondřej Lengál, Yong Li, Nicolas Mazzocchi
14:40
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00
16:10
! Live

Coffee Break

16:30

CONCUR Session 13 - Partial Observation

Serge Haddad, Engel Lefaucheux, Stefan Schwoon
Ofer Leshkowitz, Orna Kupferman
QEST+FORMATS (Room B)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

Q+F Session 7 - Dependability and Security Analysis

12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30

Q+F Session 8 - Queueing and Performance Models

14:40
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00

Q+F Session 9 - Timed Automata and Languages

Eugene Asarin, Aldric Degorre, Catalin Dima, Bernardo Jacobo Inclán
16:10
! Live

Coffee Break

16:30

Q+F Session 10 - Verification Tools

Hsi-Ming Ho, S Krishna, Khushraj Madnani, Rupak Majumdar, Paritosh Pandya
Mario Reja, Mikheil Rukhaia, Kyungmin Bae, Mircea Marin, Peter Csaba Ölveczky
Rayan Mazouz, Frederik Mathiesen, Luca Laurenti, Morteza Lahijanian
FMICS (Room D)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

FMICS Session 3 - Advanced Analysis

12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30
14:40
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00
16:10
! Live

Coffee Break

CONCUR (Room A)
18:00
QEST+FORMATS (Room B)
18:00
FMICS (Room D)
18:00
Caption
Invited
CONCUR
Q+F
FMICS
Social
EXPRESS/SOS
(Room B)
SNR
(Room C)
Trends
(Room D)
YR-CONCUR
(G-FLEX)
8:30 ! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00 ! Live

Expressiveness, Separation and Complexity Results on Multiparty Session Types

Nobuko Yoshida

! Live

SNR Workshop Session 1

! Live

Ensuring Liveness Properties of Distributed Systems with Justness

Rob van Glabbeek

Trends 

! Live

YR-CONCUR Workshop Session 1

10:00 ! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

Express/SOS Workshop Session 1

The MAY-preorder for timed systems with asynchronous communicationGiovanni Bernardi, Maryline Zhang, Pedro Ribeiro
Encoding call-by-push-value in the pi-calculusHans Hüttel, Nikolaj Kristensen, Benjamin Bennetzen, Peter Steffensen
! Live

SNR Workshop Session 2

! Live

TBD

Tatjana Petrov

Trends 

! Live

YR-CONCUR Workshop Session 2

11:30 ! Live

Book presentation: Models of Computation based on Automata: Formal Languages and Communicating Processes

Jos Baeten

Trends 

12:00 ! Live

Lunch

13:30 ! Live

Structural Operational Semantics for String Diagrammatic Languages

Fabio Zanasi

! Live

SNR Workshop Session 3

! Live

Abstract Operational Reasoning

Henning Urbat

Trends 

! Live

YR-CONCUR Workshop Session 3

14:30 ! Live

Coffee Break

15:00 ! Live

SNR Workshop Session 4

! Live

IFIP WG 1.8 Business meeting

! Live

YR-CONCUR Workshop Session 4

16:40
EXPRESS/SOS (Room B)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30

Express/SOS Workshop Session 1

Giovanni Bernardi, Maryline Zhang, Pedro Ribeiro
Hans Hüttel, Nikolaj Kristensen, Benjamin Bennetzen, Peter Steffensen
12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30
14:30
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00
SNR (Room C)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
! Live

SNR Workshop Session 1

10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30
! Live

SNR Workshop Session 2

12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30
! Live

SNR Workshop Session 3

14:30
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00
! Live

SNR Workshop Session 4

Trends (Room D)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30
! Live

TBD

Tatjana Petrov

Trends 

11:30
12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30
14:30
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00
! Live

IFIP WG 1.8 Business meeting

YR-CONCUR (G-FLEX)
8:30
! Live

Registration & Coffee

9:00
! Live

YR-CONCUR Workshop Session 1

10:00
! Live

Coffee Break

10:30
! Live

YR-CONCUR Workshop Session 2

12:00
! Live

Lunch

13:30
! Live

YR-CONCUR Workshop Session 3

14:30
! Live

Coffee Break

15:00
! Live

YR-CONCUR Workshop Session 4

Caption
Invited
Express/SOS
SNR
Trends
YR-CONCUR