Additional Information for Accepted Papers
Upon acceptance, authors will receive guidelines for preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) along with the notification of acceptance.

Review Process
Submitted papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation, and clarity of exposition.

Ethical Guidelines
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them, including self-plagiarism. If you have questions about self-plagiarism, please contact us.

AI Principles
Authors must follow AI guidelines stated in Springer’s AI Principles: 
https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/ai/ai-principles 

The use of LLMs for submission preparation is permitted, although it is highly recommended that they only be used for cosmetic changes, e.g. proofreading of the text. The use of LLMs in technical parts should be treated in the same way as any other software or system, and thus carefully described and documented in the submission. Ultimately, the authors are responsible for the content of their submission, and misuse of LLMs will result in rejection.

Contact Author Information
The contact author must provide the following information in the ARES conference system:

• Paper title
• Authors' names
• Affiliations
• Postal address
• Phone
• Email address of the author(s) (all authors listed in the paper must be added to EasyChair during the initial submission; if authors need to be added later, please contact us)
• About 200-250 words abstract
• About five keywords

Submission via EasyChair
Please submit your paper via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ares2026

Double-Blind Review
ARES requires anonymized submissions. Ensure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.

Attendance Requirement
Submission of a paper implies that, if accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference.

Publication Data Sharing
Your EasyChair data (publication, name, affiliation, email address) will be forwarded to findresearch.org.

Preprints and Plagiarism Check
Publishing preprints to arXiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. However, authors should use a different title than the submission and they should avoid specifying that the work is under submission to ARES. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. 

IMPORTANT NOTE
To ensure originality, papers for ARES will be plagiarism checked. Self-plagiarism also counts as plagiarism. If you have questions about self-plagiarism or wish to opt-out of automatic checks, please contact ARES Conference Management.