THE 14th INTERNATIONAL "ORGANIC COMPUTING DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM" (OC-DDC 2026)
June 11th and 12th, 2026 at University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany
June 11th and 12th, 2026 at University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany
OC-DDC 2026
The 14th International “Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium” (OC-DDC) will take place at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany from Thursday, June 11th to Friday, June 12th. The OC-DDC is organised by the Special Interest Group on Organic Computing within the Gesellschaft für Informatik.
We invite applications from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies on Organic Computing, Autonomic Computing, intelligent systems, self-adaptation and self-organisation, self-aware computing systems, autonomous learning, self-* mechanisms, trustworthy systems, and related research topics.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 30, 2026
Review Deadline: May 15, 2026
Conference Dates: June 11+12, 2026
Colloquium Theme
The intent of the DDC is to bring together PhD students who have their research focus within the broader Organic Computing community and have not defended their thesis before June 2026. The main goal of this colloquium is to foster excellence in OC‑related research by providing students with feedback and advice that are particularly relevant to their doctoral studies and career development. Each participant will take part in the colloquium organisation and the review process for the other participants. The colloquium will give participants the opportunity to present their ongoing research in a friendly forum. They will obtain valuable feedback from colloquium attendees in a constructively critical and informal atmosphere.
The schedule includes:
Prepare an extended abstract or short paper of 6 pages (max.) reflecting your PhD concept
Participate in the review process
Participate in the (supervised) decision process (acceptance of submissions)
Present your work to an audience consisting mainly of other PhD students from your community
Identify points of contact between your work and others
Build your social research network
Meet experts in your research domain and listen to their invited talks and expertise
Enjoy the opportunity to improve your PhD work, overcome stipulations and learn from the experts
Submission
PhD students are invited to participate by submitting an extended abstract of up to 6 pages (including references and figures) via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ocddc2026. Papers must be written in English. Papers should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and submitted in PDF format.
The colloquium will give participants the opportunity to present their ongoing research in a friendly forum. They will obtain valuable feedback from colloquium attendees in a constructively critical and informal atmosphere.
After the OC-DDC, each participant will be invited to prepare a book chapter for an edited book. The book chapter will contain approx. 14 pages. For instance, the book of the DDC's 2024 edition.
To ease writing and preparing the book chapter, we recommend to use LaTeX.
A PDF version of the Call for Papers is available here.