CfP: EMERGING 2026 || September 27 - October 1, 2026 - Barcelona, Spain

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:

- EMERGING 2026, The Eighteenth International Conference on Emerging Networks and Systems Intelligence

EMERGING 2026 is scheduled to be September 27 - October 1, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain under the NexTech 2026 umbrella.

The submission deadline is June 8, 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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============== EMERGING 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


EMERGING 2026, The Eighteenth International Conference on Emerging Networks and Systems Intelligence

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/EMERGING26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitEMERGING26.html


Event schedule: September 27 - October 1, 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: June 8, 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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


EMERGING 2026 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPEMERGING26.html

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EMERGING 2026 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Research and applications trends

- Information/Knowledge

Information and data science; Deep/Machine learning; Machine Learning Centric Cloud; Interpretable Machine Learning; Deep learning and Internet of Things; Deep learning and Big data; Knowledge discovery and machine learning; Affective computing and social networks; Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven systems; Predicting emergency events; Biomimetics

- Technology/Applications

5G and 6G technologies; Slicing, virtualization, and SDN/NFV; 5G crowdsourcing data transmission; Satellite-aerial-terrestrial networks; Cognitive networks; Blockchain-based applications; Cyber-systems resiliency; Human-centered cybersecurity; Web, Mobility, and Internet of Things (IoT) apps; Smart mobile Web; Smart wearables; 3D Visualization; Immersive virtual environments; Organ-on-Chip technology; Surgeon-robots; Personalized health devices; Assisted-living applications; Industry 4.0; Drones; Electrical vehicles; Smart&nano materials; Smart energy management; IoT-based farming

Computing trends

Computational science; Cloud computing; Cluster, Grid, and P2P computing; Big Data Processing; Machine to Machine computing; High Performance Computing; Mobile computing; Knowledge Management; Social Computing; Sentiment analytics; Bio-inspired computation; Natural language processing; Computational social systems

Mobility and Ubiquity

Mobile Cloud; Cloud-based mobile services and applications; Mobile Internet services; Mobility-oriented protocols /Mobile IP, etc./; Wearable and/or mobile technologies; Self-discovery and localizing entities; Seamless handover; Ubiquitous computing; Pervasive and embedded systems; Ubiquitous sustainability; Sensing location; Citizen activity patterns; Smart environments in the workplaces; Ubiquitous cities; Internet of Things architectures; Autonomous and autonomic systems; Self-manageable systems

Intelligent services

Service-oriented smart cities; Cognitive and collaborative radio; Autonomic and dependable communications; Ambient systems; Identity and location in mobile environments; Smart homes; Brain-like networking and computing; Resource discovery; Service discovery; Content discovery; Flaws/anomaly discovery; Semantics and Adaptation; Content-aware networks; Network-aware applications; Semantic Web; Adaptive systems; Adaptive applications; Self-adaptiveness; Ontology-based adaptation; Semantic profile; Semantic service orchestration; Multi-technology semantic integration (sensors, ehealth, geosensing, etc.)

Applications and services

Smart communication; Citizen-oriented services; Peer-to-Peer applications and services; Web services; Mobile applications; Entertainment and games; Home automation; Surveillance, Home monitoring; Medical and health applications; e-commerce, m-commerce; Location-based services; Real-time and multimedia applications; Real-time services over IP; Business intelligence; Web-based analytics; e-Commerce services; Disaster management

Technology and networking trends

Advanced communications systems; Clouds-based systems; Scalable data centers; New configurable protocols stacks and real-time mechanisms; Massive uncoordinated access protocols; Applications and services for next-generation architectures; Scalability and manageability of network architectures; Opportunistic and cooperative communications; Optical networks; Wireless networks; Mobile networks; Ad-Hoc, Sensor, Vehicle networks; Access, Residential, Last mile networks; Home, Body and Personal area Networks; Self-organizing networks; Storage area networks; Peer-to-Peer and overlay networks; Network measurements and testbeds; Transmission technologies (e.g., Ultra Wideband); Wireless access technologies / WLANs, WiMAX, satellite, 5G, etc./; Multi-hop wireless networks /sensor, ad hoc, mesh, etc.; Open spectrum solutions

Vision and image related trends

Visual computation; Image processing; Remote sensing; Human computer interaction; Computer vision; Robotics vision; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Video analysis; Medical diagnosis; Visual brain models; Augmented reality; Virtual reality; Visual atmosphere models; Visual city interactive maps; Image mining; Multimedia and visualization; Media storage, indexing, and retrieval; Visualizing multi-dimensional data, textual data, multimedia data; Visualization infrastructures, services and applications for specific domains

Networking and service differentiation

Network design and planning; Network management and control; Traffic engineering; Traffic control, Flow control; Congestion and admission control; QoS support and Performance; Routing, Switching, QoS routing; Mobility management; Multicast; Service reliability, availability, robustness; Network coding; Visualization of network behavior; Semantic routing; Network flow processing; Cross-layer design and optimization; High-speed networking; Context-aware mobile networking; Bio-inspired networks

Intelligent network elements and programmability

Network processors; Content addressable memories; Multi-core processors; Context-aware reconfigurable devices; Portable and wearable devices; Mobile multimedia devices; Programmable and real-time network traffic measurements; Adaptive scheduling; Network and application load balancing; High-performance capabilities-based networks; Software techniques to improve virtualized I/O performance

Quality and optimization

Quality of service; Quality of performance; Quality of experience; Quality of data; Quality of modeling; Quality-oriented routing; Quality of context /degradation, trust, uncertainty, consistency; Quality of experience; Power optimization in data centers; Delay and fault tolerant networks; Video conferencing and telepresence systems; Resource optimization; Context-aware optimization

Security, Trust, Privacy

Trust and credential negotiations; Privacy; Intrusion prevention and containment; Security in virtualization approach; Architectural support for security; Security, privacy, and dependability; Security in cooperative networks; Anticipative control and management; Data protection strategies; Collaborative Internet attack containment; Micro-kernels and robustness; Surveillance; Biometrics; Electronic Data Interchange (EDI); Cyber Security; Cryptography; Secure protocols

Energy and electronics

E-waste; Energy-efficiency methods on sustainable ICT; Energy-efficiency in data centers; Energy efficiency in cloud computing; Green Computing; Smart Grids; Energy in Sensing and Sensor Networks; Energy-aware digital circuits; Energy optimization in analog circuits and signal processing techniques; Energy saving in assembly and packaging

User-centric

User-centric services and applications; User-oriented analytics; Frequently changing user profile; User mobility and ubiquity; Scalable and resource intensive multi-user distributed applications; User identity and multi-service access technologies; End-user perception; End-user based networking and service orchestration; End-user activity recognition with multiple goals; e-Learning; Web-based learning; Gaming; Emerging computation business models; Social networks; e-Society; Interaction accessibility and usability


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EMERGING 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComEMERGING26.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