CfP: CROSS-SEC 2026 || April 19 - 23, 2026 - Lisbon, Portugal

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- CROSS-SEC 2026, The First International Conference on Cross-Domain Security in Distributed, Intelligent and Critical Systems

CROSS-SEC 2026 is scheduled to be April 19 - 23, 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal under the ComputationWorld 2026 umbrella.

The submission deadline is January 7, 2026.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

All events will be held in a hybrid mode: on site, online, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, pdf slides.

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============== CROSS-SEC 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


CROSS-SEC 2026, The First International Conference on Cross-Domain Security in Distributed, Intelligent and Critical Systems

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CROSS-SEC26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitCROSS-SEC26.html


Event schedule: April 19 - 23, 2026


Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]


Submission deadline: January 7, 2026


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: https://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


CROSS-SEC 2026 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPCROSS-SEC26.html

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CROSS-SEC 2026 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Security Foundations and Architectures

- Trust frameworks, access control, and zero-trust models

- Governance, compliance, and security management

- Secure design for distributed systems

- Security in virtualised, containerised, or Cloud-native environments

- Identity and access across hybrid/multi-clouds

- Monitoring and observability for threat detection

IoT, OT, and Critical Infrastructure Security

- Security for edge, fog, and hybrid architectures

- Security for IIoT, smart home, and smart grid protection

- Firmware updates, device onboarding, and identity provisioning

- Threats and countermeasures in critical infrastructure systems

- Forensics in constrained environments

- Future-proof crypto life-cycle in long-lived devices

Artificial Intelligence and Security

- AI for threat and anomaly detection

- Attacks on AI: adversarial, poisoning, model theft

- Robust and trustworthy AI systems

- Privacy-preserving machine learning

Cryptographic and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

- Post-quantum cryptography and migration

- Homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation

- Scalable identity and key management

- Blockchain or distributed ledgers for integrity and coordination

- Crypto-agility by design and secure reconfiguration

Application Domains and Human Factors

- Cybercrime analysed via culture, linguistics, history, and ethics

- Security in health, energy, mobility, public sector

- Usability and awareness in secure systems



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CROSS-SEC 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComCROSS-SEC26.html


IARIA Ambassadors

Steve Chan, Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory, USA
Dirceu Cavendish, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Monika Maria Moehring, Study Centre for Blind and Disabled Students, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Gie en Germany
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Les Sztandera, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
Andreas Rausch, TU Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Timothy Phan, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Manuela Vieira, CTS/ISEL/IPL, Portugal
Luigi Lavazza, Universit dell'Insubria - Varese, Italy