CONFEST 2026

The 9th International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Reasoning about games (SNR)

Games are a fundamental framework for modelling interaction and strategic behaviour in verification, synthesis and logic. Reasoning about games often requires a combination of symbolic methods, such as strategy improvement, fixpoint computation, automata-theoretic techniques, and logical encodings, with numerical methods, such as value iteration, policy iteration, approximation, and quantitative optimisation.

The goal of the SNR (Symbolic and Numerical Reasoning about games) workshop is to provide a platform for exploring symbolic and numerical techniques for reasoning about games, with applications in verification, synthesis, reactive systems, probabilistic models, and related areas.

SNR will be held on Saturday 5 September 2026.

Call for submissions

SNR solicits submissions for contributed talks in the form of extended abstracts (LIPIcs style, upto 2 pages without reference). We encourage submissions of ongoing works and new results as well as works published elsewhere. All submissions will undergo a lightweight peer-reviewing process. Authors of selected submissions presenting original unpublished work will subsequently be invited to submit a full version of their work for publication in formal proceedings, to be published by EPTCS.

Submissions are judged on the expected interest and relevance to the theme of the workshop. The topics include (but are not limited to) :

Submissions should be made via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snr26.

Important Dates

29 June AOE 9 July AOE : Submission Deadline
20 July AOE : Notifications
5 Sep (full day) : Workshop

Program Committee

K. S. Thejaswini (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Mickael Randour (FRS - FNRS and UMONS - Université de Mons)
Suman Sadhukhan (TU Clausthal)
Aline Goeminne (ENS Rennes, IRISA)
Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool)
Ashutosh Trivedi (University of Colorado, Boulder) (PC Chair)
Dominik Wojtczak (University of Liverpool)
Anirban Majumdar (TIFR, Mumbai)

Invited Speakers

Munyque Mittelmann, CNRS, LIPN, Université Sorbonne-Paris-Nord
Prince Mathew, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Organisers

Sougata Bose
Soumyajit Paul
Ashutosh Trivedi
Dominik Wojtczak

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