PerAgents 2027

The First International Workshop on Pervasive Agentic Systems and Multimodal Foundation Models

Co-located with IEEE PerCom 2027
March 8–12, 2027 | Goa, India

Call for Papers

The First International Workshop on Pervasive Agentic Systems and Multimodal Foundation Models (PerAgents 2027) invites original research contributions addressing the systems-level challenges of bringing autonomous AI agents and foundation models from cloud-centric environments to pervasive, resource-constrained, and physically embedded computing systems.

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and Multimodal Language Models (MLMs) are creating new opportunities for intelligent systems that can perceive, reason, communicate, and act across diverse physical environments. However, deploying these models in pervasive settings introduces significant challenges related to computation, communication, sensing, coordination, security, privacy, reliability, and resource constraints.

PerAgents focuses on the underlying architectures and systems that enable general-purpose agentic intelligence at the edge. Of particular interest are domain-agnostic approaches that can support applications across settings such as smart environments, agriculture, healthcare, transportation, robotics, and other cyber-physical and IoT systems.

Topics of Interest

We invite original research, position papers, system designs, experimental studies, and emerging ideas related to, but not limited to:

* Hardware-software co-design for edge agents
* Decentralized and split/federated agentic learning
* Multimodal sensor fusion for VLMs/MLMs
* Trust, safety, and local overrides for physical actuation
* Bandwidth-efficient distributed inference
* Cross-domain agent adaptation algorithms
* Agentic synchronization across IoT mesh networks

Important Dates

* Submission Deadline: November 3, 2026 (AoE)
* Author Notification: January 8, 2027
* Camera-Ready Deadline: February 2, 2027
* Workshop: March 8–12, 2027

Program Chairs

Dipanwita Thakur
University of Calabria, Italy

Vishesh K. Tanwar
Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Pandarasamy Arjunan
Indian Institute of Science, India

Hirozumi Yamaguchi
Osaka University, Japan

Publicity and Web Chair

Keiwan Soltani
Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Website

https://peragents.github.io/2027/

Contact

dipanwita.thakur@dimes.unical.it