The 2026 International Workshop on Reliable Decision and Scheduling (RDS 2026)


Description


Decision and scheduling are key issues in various reliable system applications such as project management, mission planning, transportation, delivery, swarm controlling, and so on. Various operational models and approaches have been proposed for decision and scheduling problems with respect to optimization, but it is very necessary to talk about reliability with optimization in decision and scheduling regarding their practices in real situations.

This workshop is to share various applications and methodologies on decision scheduling among researchers and participants, and to bring them together to work on analyzing and modelling reliability requirements in optimization, and to exchange novel ideas to make reliable decisions and scheduling. The workshop welcomes papers and presentations in the field of operational research, dynamic decisions, and resource scheduling.

Topics


The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

  • Reliable optimization algorithms
  • Scheduling
  • Mission planning
  • Transportation optimization
  • AI in workflow management
  • Integrated application in internet services
  • Knowledge and expert system for reliable decision
  • Machine learning attack and threat models
  • Fuzz testing and mutation testing for machine learning and deep learning
  • Testing the technology of autopilot software, Internet of Things, and natural language interface
  • Artificial intelligence system reliability evaluation methodologies and metrics
  • Reliability, robustness, and vulnerability of decision and scheduling
  • Robustness and adversarial perturbation in neural networks
  • Requirements, process, standards, productivity, and project management
  • Big data and storage
  • Applications, tools, and automation
  • Dependability, reliability modeling, and measurement

Submission


Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research papers as well as industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences are not permitted.

Papers should be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The length of a camera-ready paper will be limited to ten pages, including the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract, and up to 6 keywords. Shorter version papers (up to four pages) are also allowed.

Authors must follow the DSA conference proceedings format (PDF | Word DOCX | Latex) to prepare their papers. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop.

At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to pay a full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop. Arrangements are being made to publish selected accepted papers in reputable journals.

Submission

Program Chairs


Xiaopan Zhang's avatar
Xiaopan Zhang China

Wuhan University of Technology

Dongcheng Li's avatar
Dongcheng Li USA

California State Polytechnic University

Program Committee


NameAffiliation
Bin HeChina Electronics Technology Group Corporation No.15 InstituteChina
Liangcun JiangWuhan University of TechnologyChina
Hua LiWuhan University of TechnologyChina
Yutao SunChina University of Geosciences, WuhanChina
Jian WangInstitute of Automation, Chinese Academy of SciencesChina

Previous RDS


  • RDS 2025 - Sharjah (in conjunction with DSA 2025)
  • RDS 2024 - Suzhou (in conjunction with DSA 2024)
  • RDS 2023 - Tokyo (in conjunction with DSA 2023)
  • RDS 2022 - Wulumuqi (in conjunction with DSA 2022)
  • RDS 2021 - Yingchuan (in conjunction with DSA 2021)