July 13 to July 17, 2026
San José, Costa Rica
Description of the Workshop
Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (ACPS) have a wide range of applications in our daily lives, including autonomous driving on roads, autonomous vessels in maritime operations, drones in the air, and robotics applications in healthcare. Evolutionary Computation (EC) has already been used to support the design, development, testing, operation, and maintenance of ACPSs. EC is now increasingly used in conjunction with advanced technologies such as digital twins, foundation models, and quantum computing. EC4ACPS solicits papers on both novel EC algorithms and the application of existing ones to any ACPS-related activities. Moreover, we welcome submissions on the use of EC with emerging technologies, such as foundation models, digital twins, and quantum algorithms, for ACPS.
Topics
We solicit submissions that use EC in the context of autonomous cyber-physical systems, alone or in combination with emerging technologies, including but not limited to foundation models, digital twins, and quantum computing. The submission can cover various aspects of ACPS, e.g., modeling and simulation across different settings (e.g., software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop), code generation for ACP, testing and debugging ACPS, and the operation of ACPS with digital twins. The submissions can cover the following topics, including but not limited to:
- New EC algorithms
- Application of existing EC algorithms for ACPS
- The use of foundation models (e.g., vision language models, large language models) for the automated design of EC algorithms
- Using foundation models as part of EC algorithms
- Using EC for digital twins for ACPS
- Quantum search and optimization for ACPS
- Real-world applications
- Human evaluation of EC
- Uncertainty quantification and handling in EC
- Safety assurance of ACPS
- Runtime verification
- Ethical aspects
- Interpretability and explainability
- Reducing the simulation-reality gap in ACPS with EC
- Real-time optimization of ACPS
Format of Workshop
We plan to have an invited keynote speaker, paper presentations, and a panel discussion. We may invite additional speakers if the number of paper submissions is low.
Attendance
Everyone interested is welcome!
Submission Types
Extended Abstracts: 4 pages (Not APC eligible)
Full Papers: 8 pages + references
Submission Site Information: TBA
Publication: Accepted papers will be published by ACM. Regarding APC and Generative AI use, please take a look at the Proceedings.
Important Deadlines
Submission: March 27, 2026 (AoE)
Notification: April 24 5, 2026 (AoE)
Camera Ready: TBA (AoE)
Workshop Chairs
Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, shaukat@simula.no,
Paolo Arcaini, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, arcaini@nii.ac.jp
PC Members
TBA