Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) is the premier international computer science conference in India, and takes place each year in December since 1981. It is organised by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM India. The FSTTCS conference is a forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology.

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Next conference

FSTTCS 2025 will be held during December 17–19, 2025 at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

Click here to access past editions of FSTTCS.

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Proceedings

The proceedings from 1984 till 2007 have been published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer. Since 2008, the proceedings are published electronically as part of the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics.

• Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LMF, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, France)

• Deepak D'Souza (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) – Chair

• Amit Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)

• Daniel Lokshtanov (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)

• G Ramalingam (Microsoft Research, Bangalore)

• Venkatesh Raman (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)

Those who wish to bid for FSTTCS 2026 may submit their application by filling in this Google form.

FSTTCS proceedings are available for free since 2008, as part of the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. Click on the links below to browse and search for papers in each individual year.

• FSTTCS 2024
• FSTTCS 2023
• FSTTCS 2022
• FSTTCS 2021
• FSTTCS 2020
• FSTTCS 2019
• FSTTCS 2018
• FSTTCS 2017
• FSTTCS 2016
• FSTTCS 2015
• FSTTCS 2014
• FSTTCS 2013
• FSTTCS 2012
• FSTTCS 2011
• FSTTCS 2010
• FSTTCS 2009
• FSTTCS 2008