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role="presentation"><span
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Poster papers will undergo a rather lightweight review process. A good poster paper should include motivation, a clear problem statement, and initial results or report on work in progress. Preliminary ideas and modest extensions of previous work are welcome.</span></h1>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">At least one author of each accepted poster paper must register for the conference. Each accepted poster will be presented in a lightning talk and a poster session at FoIKS 2026.</span></h1>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">For inquiries, contact: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:foiks2026@easychair.org">foiks2026@easychair.org</a></span></h1>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">PUBLICATION</span></h1>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Accepted poster papers will appear in the FoIKS 2026 proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.</span></h1>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Oxford)</span><span
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Wolfgang Nejdl (Leibniz Universität Hannover)</span><span
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</span><span
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</span><span
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Publicity Chair:</span><span
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</span><span
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</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Laura Strieker, Heribert Vollmer (all Leibniz Universität Hannover)</span></h1>
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