[CogSci] [PPSN 2026] Paper Submission Deadline Extended to April 18, 2026

[Jessica Mégane]

Dear Colleague(s),

Due to numerous requests from the community, we are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 19th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2026) has been extended to April 18, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth).
We invite submissions on all types of iterative optimization heuristics. Notably, we also welcome submissions on connections between search heuristics and machine learning or other artificial intelligence approaches. We encourage submissions covering the entire spectrum of work, ranging from rigorously derived mathematical results to carefully crafted empirical studies.

Location: Trento, Italy
Conference dates: August 29 - September 2, 2026

Updated Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth):
- Paper submission (extended): April 18, 2026
- Reviews due: May 11, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2026
- Camera-ready: June 12, 2026

Submission Details:
- Papers must be original and not under review elsewhere.
- Submissions must follow the Springer LNCS format and be submitted as PDF via the conference system.
- The page limit is 14 pages, excluding references.
- Authors' names need not be hidden for the reviewing process.
- Springer's proceedings LaTeX templates are available on Overleaf. If authors wish to include supplementary material, we suggest they host a separate document online (e.g., Zenodo) and cite it appropriately within the paper.
- We encourage authors to select the appropriate paper category in the submission tool and not overuse the "other" category.

Accepted papers will be presented as posters and published in Springer’s LNCS proceedings.

For full details and submission, please visit:
https://ppsn2026.disi.unitn.it/

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We hope to see you in Trento for PPSN!

Best regards,
Jessica Mégane
PPSN Publicity Chair