Call for Papers
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The 17th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN)
📅 Date: October 28–30, 2026
📍 Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan
🔗 Website: https://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-26/

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The 17th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are engaged in different facets of ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of EUSPN based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of EUSPN and related areas.

Important Dates
- Workshop Proposals: June 10, 2026
- Paper Submission Due: June 15, 2026
- Author Notification: August 21, 2026
- Final Manuscript Due: September 18, 2026

Publication
All EUSPN 2026 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com(http://www.elsevier.com/) and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com(http://www.sciencedirect.com/)), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com(http://www.scopus.com/)) and by Thomson Reuters’ Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com(http://www.scopus.com/)) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com(http://www.engineeringvillage.com/)). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex(http://www.ei.org/compendex)). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:

- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)
- International Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, IASKS (https://iasks.org/juspn)

EUSPN 2026 will be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-26/). Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related tracks: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-26/call-for-papers.html

Venue
EUSPN 2026 will be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan. It is a vibrant cultural, financial, and scientific center located in the southeastern part of the country, at the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains. It is Known for its scenic beauty, green spaces, and mild climate, Almaty offers a unique combination of urban life and natural landscapes. The city is famous for its picturesque surroundings and outdoor attractions. The Medeu high-mountain skating rink, one of the highest in the world, and the Shymbulak ski resort are popular destinations for winter sports enthusiasts. Just outside the city, the Big Almaty Lake attracts visitors with its stunning turquoise waters and panoramic mountain views.

Conference Tracks
- Ad hoc and Pervasive Networks
- Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Big Data and Big Data Science
- Cloud, Fog, Edge Computing
- Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Explainability
- Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
- Security, Privacy, and Trust
- Semantic Web Technologies

Committees
Honorary chair
Meiram Begentayev, Board Chairman – Rector, Satbayev University, Kazakhstan

General Chair
Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK

Program Chairs
Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
Esteve Hassan, Acadia University, Canada

Local Chairs
Madina Ipalakova, International Information Technology University, Kazakhstan
Raissa Uskenbayeva, Satbayev University, Kazakhstan

Workshops' Chair
John Gialelis, University of Patras, Greece

Publicity Chairs
Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria
Siddardha Kaja, Air Canada, Canada
Jennifer Joyce Montemayor, Mindanao State University, Philippines
Dimitrios Zavantis, VITRONIC Machine Vision M.E LLC, UAE

Program Vice Chairs
Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium
Issam Al Azzoni, Al Ain University, UAE
Sajid Anwar, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan
Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria
Taner Cokyasar, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Amir Eaman, Acadia University, Canada
Jingjun Li,Heriot-Watt University, UK
Orven Llantos, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines
Flavio Lombardi, Universita Roma Tre, Italy
Chengqi Lu, Dresen University of Technology, Netherlands
Abdeljebar Mansour, Abdelmalek Essaadi University-Tetouan, Morocco
Fernando Moreira, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal
Yazan Mualla, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Mahtab Shahin, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Didar Yedilkhan, Astana IT University, Kazakhstan
Hui Zhao, Tongji University, China
Han Zhou, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Netherlands

Advisory Committee
Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia

Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-26/organizing-commitee.html