AvioSE 2026

Avionics is derived from “Aviation Electronics”. Software engineering for such avionics systems is driven substantially by safety. Its grand challenges are demanding fault tolerance and graceful degradation, maintaining determinism despite of increasing complexity, rising certification effort, and increasing cost and time pressures.

The previous decade of aviation is characterized by disruptive requirements for electrification and automation. New software development methodologies are required for fast adaptation of future applications, e.g., advanced air mobility (AAM), aircrew (workload) reduction, and electric aircraft. At the same time, there are still many unsolved issues in communication and navigation in airspace, certification of new hardware platforms, such as multi/many-core processors, artificial intelligence (AI) as well as cyber-security.

The objective of the workshop is to foster the synergy between the software engineering and avionics systems community and provide a platform for exchanging new software engineering methods, tools, and techniques applied in avionics to accelerate innovation in aviation.