17^th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBIC 2026)

September 19 ~ 20, 2026, Copenhagen, Denmark

Scope & Topics

17^th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBIC 2026) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Ubiquitous Computing. Current information age is witnessing a dramatic use of digital and electronic devices in the workplace and beyond. Ubiquitous Computing presents a rather arduous requirement of robustness, reliability and availability to the end user. Ubiquitous computing has received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational applications in real life. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

• Ubiquitous Systems
  
• Context Aware Computing
  
• Location Aware Services
  
• Mobile & Wireless Computing
  
• Edge Computing
  
• Distributed Computing
  
• Embedded Devices
  
• Intelligent Devices
  
• Wearable Technologies
  
• Smart Environments
  
• IoT Systems
  
• Sensor Networks
  
• Scalable Ubiquitous Deployment
  
• Edge Middleware
  
• Service Discovery
  
• Ubiquitous Networking
  
• Resilient Systems
  
• Privacy & Trust
  
• Self Managing Systems
  
• Edge Virtualization
  
• On Device AI
  
• TinyML
  
• Edge Machine Learning
  
• Federated Learning
  
• LLM Enabled Ubiquitous Systems
  
• Ubiquitous Agents
  
• Multimodal Foundation Models
  
• Generative Sensing
  
• Proactive Computing
  
• Multimodal Sensing
  
• Activity Recognition
  
• Affective Sensing
  
• Ubiquitous HCI
  
• Interfaces for Ubiquitous Devices
  
• Human–AI Interaction
  
• Ubiquitous Accessibility
  
• Social Sensing
  
• Privacy Aware Interaction
  
• Ethics & Societal Impact
  
• Mental Health Technologies
  
• Smart Homes
  
• Smart Buildings
  
• Smart Cities
  
• Ubiquitous Healthcare
  
• Transportation Systems
  
• Environmental Sensing
  
• Crowd Sensing
  
• Spatial Computing
  
• Ubiquitous Robotics
  
• Digital Twins
  
• Crisis Response Systems
  
• Low Power IoT
  
• Energy Harvesting
  
• RF Sensing
  
• Wireless Ubiquitous Networking
  
• Edge Orchestration
  
• Zero Trust IoT
  
• Sustainable Ubiquitous AI
  
• Decentralized Identity
  
• Trust Frameworks
  
• Ubiquitous Data Markets
  
• Federated Analytics
  
• Computing for Social Good
  
• Sustainability Systems
  
• Public Health & Safety Systems
  

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by July 18, 2026. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from UBIC 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) -Scopus, ERA Indexed
  
• International Journal of UbiComp (IJU)
  
• International Journal of Ad hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC)
  
• Information Technology in Industry (ITII)

Important Dates

Co - Located Event

• 15^th International Conference of Networks and Communications (NECO 2026)
  
• 15^th International Conference on Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Applications (SCAI 2026)
  
• 15^th International Conference on Signal, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SPPR 2026)
  
• 16^th International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (ICCSEA 2026)
  
• 18^th International Conference on Wireless, Mobile Network & & Applications (WiMoA 2026)
  
• 17^th International Conference on Communications Security & Information Assurance (CSIA 2026)
  
• 18^th International Conference on Grid Computing (GridCom 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on NLP & Artificial Intelligence Techniques (NLAI 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Machine Learning Techniques and Data Science (MLDS 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Managing Information Technology (SEMIT 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on IoT, Blockchain & Cloud Computing (IBCOM 2026)
  

***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to ubic@gridcom2026.org