International Scientific Symposium SSSS 2026 is organized by the Laboratory for Electronic Design Automation (LEDA), at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering for the 10th time. The aim is to gather scientists and experts in order to exchange the information and disseminate best practices, ideas and advancements in the state-of-the-art and technical improvements in domains of Electronic and Information Systems, System Design, Energy Efficiency, Artificial Intelligence and other engineering applications.

  Having that in mind it is understandable that the research staff of LEDA started contemplating the necessity of deepening the international cooperation with several main goals among which the most important were acquiring new knowledge and promoting research results. One of the opportunities was to start regular meetings with the research centers with which the collaboration already lasted for more than ten years. So the idea of Small Systems Simulation Symposium (SSSS) was born in the autumn of the year 1999 in Southampton and one may claim that Prof. Robert Damper was the one who mainly contributed to the final spelling of the name. Among the large group of authors we appreciate the contributions of some who made the symposium to start and pertain during many years. In the attempt not to exaggerate we will most surely miss some names but still we wouldn't like to miss all of them. These are Prof. V. Litovski, Prof. M. Zwolinski, Prof. R. Damper, Dr I. Bushehri, Prof. S. Bojanić, Prof. O. Nieto, Prof. V. Zerbe, Prof. D. Trajanov, Prof. V. Melikyan, Prof. T. Kazmierski ….

   The symposium persisted in spite of many turbulent periods due to the political changes and wars conducted around and against the country, and in the time of global Covid-19 pandemic circumstances. We have done our best to find some efficient and health-safe, virtual ways to create and maintain the communications among our colleagues and friends, and respectful authors in order to continue this tradition.