2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
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13-18 July 2026, Sydney, Australia

Part of the 2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
July 13-18
Sydney, Australia
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QSW 2026 - Conference Program

QSW-CON-S1: Architecture-Aware Compilation
13:00 – 14:10
Room: 203
Session Chair: TBD
Welcome from the Chairs

  • QSW_REG_13: An efficient compilation architecture for quantum
    Lukas Scheller, Cedric Becker, Marvin Fuchs, Timo Muscheid, Robert Gartmann, Oliver Sander and Luis Ardila-Perez

  • QSW_REG_38: A Multi-Level Compiler Pipeline for Qoala Quantum Internet Programs
    Sacha Bernheim, Bart van Der Vecht, Davide Ferrari, Diego Rivera and Stephanie Wehner

  • QSW_REG_34: DisMap: Calibration-Aware Distributed Compilation for Multi-Chip Quantum Systems
    Zefan Du, Miguel Palma, Zijian Mo, Wenqi Wei, Juntao Chen, Rajkumar Buyya and Ying Mao

 

QSW-CON-S2: Optimization and Complexity
14:10 – 15:20
Room: 203
Session Chair: TBD

  • QSW_REG_16: Detrimental Agnostic Entanglement: The Case Against Hardware-Efficient Ansätze for Combinatorial Optimization
    Tobias Rohe, Markus Baumann, Federico Harjes Ruiloba, Philipp Altmann, Gerhard Stenzel and Claudia Linnhof-Popien

  • QSW_REG_42: Learning Depth-Structured Parameterizations for Efficient Optimization of Deep Quantum Circuits
    Thi Thuy Nga Nguyen, John Le, Thai Vu and Ngoc Nhi Nguyen

  • QSW_REG_53: LE-QAOA: A Complexity Theory Enhanced Tool for Quantum Optimization
    Carla Piazza, Riccardo Romanello and Beniamino Todone

 

QSW-CON-S3: Quantum Machine Learning
15:50 – 17:00
Room: 203
Session Chair: TBD

  • QSW_REG_32: Software Between Quantum and Machine Learning – And Down to Pulses
    Maja Franz, Melvin Strobl, Jonathan Hunz, Lukas Scheller, Lucas van der Horst, Eileen Kuehn, Achim Streit and Wolfgang Mauerer

  • QSW_REG_24: Emergent Effective Depth in Quantum Machine Learning: Empirical Gradient Attenuation Scaling in Noisy Variational Quantum Algorithms
    Carlos Mario Braga Ortuño, Manuel A. Serrano and Eduardo Fernández-Medina

  • QSW_REG_40: Noise or Signal? A Causal Mediation Analysis of Quantum Circuit Learning Under Real Hardware Noise
    Cyrille Yetuyetu Kesiku and Begonya Garcia-Zapirain

QSW-CON-S4: Software Systems and Workflows
13:00 – 14:10
Room: 203
Session Chair: TBD

  • QSW_REG_26: qScheduler: A Hybrid Reservation–Dispatch System for Integrating QPUs into Slurm-Managed HPC Workflows
    Abhishek Nautiyal and Amit Saxena

  • QSW_REG_30: Automatic De-Quantization of Quantum Programs Using Constant Propagation
    Lian Remme, Alexander Weinert, Andre Waschk, Lukas Burgholzer and Robert Wille

  • QSW_REG_31: From Constraint to Code: DQI-Kit—A Software Framework for Decoded Quantum Interferometry
    Simon Thelen and Wolfgang Mauerer

 

QSW-CON-S5: Performance and Reliability
14:10 – 15:20
Room: 203
Session Chair: TBD

  • QSW_REG_33: Fidelity-Based Quantum Device Selection Using Graph Neural Networks
    Antonio Tudisco, Patrick Hopf, Linus Schulte, Deborah Volpe, Giovanna Turvani and Robert Wille

  • QSW_REG_54: Branch-Aware Quantum Constant Propagation for Dynamic Quantum Circuits
    Innocenzo Fulginiti and Yanbin Chen

  • QSW_REG_11: Pêlαγos: An Adaptive GPU Decoder for Error Correction Simulations of Quantum LDPC Codes
    Dionysios Diamantopoulos, Luc von Niederhäusern, Andreea Simona Anghel, Apo Kayi, Roman Pletka, Tristan Müller, Nikolaos Papandreou, Jovan Blanusa, Slavisa Sarafijanovic, Nelson Mimura Gonzalez, Francois Abel, Christoph Hagleitner, Seetharami Seelam, Blake Johnson, Robert Haas and Haralampos Pozidis

 

QSW-CON-S6: Analysis, testing and debugging
15:50 – 17:00
Room: 203
Session Chair: TBD

  • QSW_REG_45: MetaMorphQ: Physics-Based Metamorphic Testing of Variational Quantum Circuits
    Ngoc Nhi Nguyen, John Le, Thai Vu, Thi Thuy Nga Nguyen and Jun Shen

  • QSW_SHT_44: Noise-Aware Evaluation and Adaptive Optimization Level Selection for Quantum Circuits in NISQ Systems
    Mahesh Babu Chittem and Varsha Sambhaje

  • QSW_SHT_35: QBugLM: An Agentic Benchmarking Framework for LLM-based Quantum Software Debugging
    An B. B. Pham, Hoa T. Nguyen and Muhammad Usman

  • QSW_SHT_28: A Framework for the Efficient Evaluation of Runtime Assertions on Quantum Computers
    Damian Rovara, Lukas Burgholzer and Robert Wille

QSW-CON-S7: Applications
13:00 – 14:10
Room: 203
Session Chair: TBD

  • QSW_REG_18: QKD Authentication and BB84 Optimization Using QPUFs for the Quantum Internet
    Franco Cirillo, Maria Caterina D’Aloia and Christian Esposito

  • QSW_SHT_50: Implementing Post-Quantum Homomorphic Encryption in the Eclipse Qrisp High-Level Programming Language for Quantum Computing
    Aurelia Kusumastuti, Nikolay Tcholtchev, Philipp Lämmel, Sebastian Bock and Manfred Hauswirth

  • QSW_SHT_52: Quantum-Optimized Control of the Inverted-Pendulum System
    George Stamatiou and Kostas Magoutis

  • QSW_SHT_41: HMB-GAN: Hybrid Multi-Bézier GAN for Vector Shape Synthesis
    Elian Hugh Thiele-Evans, Binh Duong Pham, Hani Alharbi, Liibaan Aaden, Syed Umer Hasnain Zaidi, Muhammad Saeed, Prem Prakash Jayaraman and Boris Eisenbart

 

QSW-CON-S8: Emerging Methods
10:40 – 11:50
Room: 203
Session Chair: TBD

  • QSW_SHT_3: On Distributed Quantum Computing with Distributed Fan-Out Operations
    Seng Loke

  • QSW_SHT_21: Fast Larmor offset estimation for quantum process tomography using CMA-ES
    Usama Ahsan, Santiago Serrano, Gerardo Paz-Silva, Ensar Vahapoglu, Paul Steinacker, Arne Laucht, Andrew Dzurak, Andre Saraiva and Mengke Feng

  • QSW_SHT_55: Robust Shuttling Compilation for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer
    Daniel Schoenberger and Robert Wille

  • QSW_SHT_43: MPE-Adam: Multi-Population Evolutionary Optimization with Adam Refinement for QAOA
    Chi Quan Luu, Thai Vu and John Le

QSW-CON-S8: Emerging Methods
10:40 – 11:50
Room: 203
Session Chair: TBD

  • QSW_SHT_3: On Distributed Quantum Computing with Distributed Fan-Out Operations
    Seng Loke

     

  • QSW_SHT_21: Fast Larmor offset estimation for quantum process tomography using CMA-ES
    Usama Ahsan, Santiago Serrano, Gerardo Paz-Silva, Ensar Vahapoglu, Paul Steinacker, Arne Laucht, Andrew Dzurak, Andre Saraiva and Mengke Feng

     

  • QSW_SHT_55: Robust Shuttling Compilation for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer
    Daniel Schoenberger and Robert Wille

     

  • QSW_SHT_43: MPE-Adam: Multi-Population Evolutionary Optimization with Adam Refinement for QAOA
    Chi Quan Luu, Thai Vu and John Le