EDCC 2026
21st European Dependable Computing Conference
7-10 April 2026
Canterbury, UK

Workshops

Workshops Call for Contributions

The European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems.

Traditionally one-day workshops precede the main conference. The purpose of the workshops is to provide a forum for exchanging opinions, presenting novel ideas, and discussing preliminary results in an interactive atmosphere. Three workshops will be organized with this edition of EDCC. These workshops are:

• 1st International Workshop on AI Code QUality, Integrity & REliability (ACQUIRE)
• 10th International Workshop on Critical Automotive Applications: Robustness & Safety (CARS)
• 2nd Workshop on Dependability, Security, and Resilience for Future Airspace Safety (U-SPACE)

Accepted papers from ACQUIRE, CARS and U-SPACE workshops will be included in the conderence Companion Proceedings managed by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted to Xplore and the CSDL.

1st International Workshop on AI Code QUality, Integrity & REliability (ACQUIRE)

Description

Large Language Models are already writing, reviewing, and repairing code, yet the community lacks a rigorous, shared basis for judging whether these AI-produced artifacts are dependable throughout real software lifecycles. Today’s emphasis on benchmark accuracy obscures risks that matter in practice: silent hallucinations, insecure toolchains and prompts, brittle behavior under distribution shift, opaque provenance, and evidence that cannot be audited or reproduced. ACQUIRE’26 responds to this gap by convening AI and Software Engineering researchers and practitioners to refocus the conversation from raw performance to verifiable quality, grounded in auditable taxonomies and metrics, assurance cases and transparent and reproducible evidence. The workshop’s aim is to make AI-for-code not just powerful, but trustworthy and dependable, encompassing all aspects of software quality, including security, maintainability, correctness and performance.

Website

https://acquire-workshop.github.io/2026/

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10th International Workshop on Critical Automotive Applications: Robustness & Safety (CARS)

Description

The increasing complexity of automotive applications, the challenges posed by autonomous vehicles, the need to master production costs using off-the-shelf components, the coexistence of critical and non-critical applications, and the emergence of new architectural paradigms may have a strong effect on dependability of automotive embedded systems. This situation requires design and validation methods, but also tools to improve automotive systems robustness and their safety and security properties. The CARS workshop is a forum focusing on architecture, methods and development techniques for safety-related automotive embedded systems and applications. CARS aims at promoting and fostering discussion on novel ideas and techniques, possibly controversial approaches, a place where researchers and developers can share both real problems and innovative solutions. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the construction of critical automotive applications and systems.

Website

https://www.iks.fraunhofer.de/en/events/cars-2026.html

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2nd Workshop on Dependability, Security, and Resilience for Future Airspace Safety (U-SPACE)

Description

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in civil airspace, particularly with their growing use in urban environments. To ensure their safe and efficient operation, especially in very low-level (VLL) airspace, Europe is developing U-space services. U-space refers to a suite of highly digitalized and automated services, integrated either on-board UAVs or within ground control systems. These services facilitate the safe and efficient management of large numbers of UAVs in urban areas. U-space can be viewed as a cyber-physical system, where dependability, security, safety, and resilience are of paramount importance. The U-SPACE workshop provides a dedicated platform for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the key challenges, latest ideas, and advancements in theory, experimentation, techniques, systems, and tools. The workshop aims to help with enhancing the design, implementation, validation, and evaluation of U-SPACE services, contributing to the safe integration of UAVs into European airspace.

Website

https://uspace-workshop.github.io/2026/

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