The GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) conferences series has over 38 years of tradition reporting leading edge research in computer architectures and operating systems. This year, the conference has a special focus on: "Open-Source Architectures: From RISC-V to AI Accelerators". Furthermore, ARCS hosts a Research Forum and invites research projects to present their results at any stage of the projects. The research projects should be related to the ARCS conference and focus on hardware architectures, programming models, operating systems, and runtime environments, among other topics.

The aim of the research forum is to establish cooperations between the existing projects and to establish an open discussion between the projects and the ARCS community. In addition, the goal of the forum is to foster the sustainable use of the project results.

Researchers are invited to participate by submitting a paper of up to 5 pages plus references via EasyChair (select the Group Forum track).

Papers must be written in English. Papers should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style and submitted in PDF format. The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of ARCS 2026 (listed in Scopus and DBLP).

Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen (slankes@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de)