Research Abstracts:

The Student Research Competition (SRC) is an excellent opportunity for graduate and PhD students in early stages of their research to receive feedback from the scientific community on their ideas and approaches. The program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to share and discuss their research work through poster and oral presentations and compete for the three top wining places as selected by the SRC committee. The winners will receive medals and cash awards during the conference banquet dinner. Invited authors are eligible to apply for the SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (STAP) for support. The top winner is eligible to proceed to the ACM National SRC Program for the grand finals. Please visit https://src.acm.org/ for more information.

Submission:

Graduate students are invited to submit original abstracts of their research work in areas of experimental computing and application development. Please submit your research abstracts electronically to the SRC submission system in PDF format, maximum 3 pages in ACM camera-ready format. Please see SAC 2026 website for the submission system URL and the SRC Information Sheet. Abstracts must address original and unpublished research work related to a SAC track, submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. The submission should address the research challenge and idea with emphasis on its relevance and originality (novelty), the proposed approach and research methodology, and sample preliminary results of the work as well as impact and applicability of the results to real-world problems. Only the name of the sole author of the work (graduate student) can appear on the submission, co-authors are not allowed. The sole author must attend SAC and participate to qualify for the SRC travel support and competition, no proxies or substitutions are permitted.

SAC 2026 Potential Topics

• Accessible Devices and Technologies
• Artificial Intelligence for Education
• Applications and Systems for Healthcare
• Bioinformatics
• Cloud Continuum
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems
• Decentralized Applications (DAPP) and Platforms with Blockchain, DLT, and Crypto-Currencies
• Databases and Big Data Management
• Data Streams
• Data Spaces and Trusted Data Sharing
• Applications of Evolutionary Computation
• Embedded System
• IoT and Edge Computing
• Interoperability
• Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems
• Intelligent Systems for Digital Era
• Knowledge and Natural Language Processing
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Lean and Agile Software Development
• Machine Learning and its Applications
• Mobile and Smart Computing
• Track on Computer Networking
• Operating Systems and Software Platforms
• Programming Languages
• Quantum Software Engineering
• Requirements Engineering
• Renewable and Sustainable Energy
• Safe, Secure and Robust AI
• Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructures
• Software Engineering
• Smarter Engineering – Building AI and Building with AI
• Computer Security
• Social Network and Media Analysis
• Signal Processing and Neural Engineering
• Semantic Technology
• Software Verification and Testing
• Selected Area of Wireless Communications and Networking
• Web Engineering