FIDTA 2026
2nd Workshop on Federated Intelligence and Digital Twins for Autonomous Systems and IoT
Co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2026

Tokyo, Japan
November 26, 2026

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The 2nd Workshop on Federated Intelligence and Digital Twins for Autonomous Systems and IoT (FIDTA 2026) invites original research contributions at the intersection of Federated Learning, decentralized artificial intelligence, and Digital Twin technologies.

The increasing adoption of Internet of Things infrastructures, autonomous systems, mobile robots, and cyber-physical networks raises important challenges related to dynamic network topologies, data privacy, real-time decision-making, communication efficiency, and limited computational resources.

Federated Intelligence enables collaborative learning across distributed devices and organizations without requiring the centralization of raw data. Digital Twins provide continuously updated virtual representations of physical systems that support monitoring, prediction, optimization, and decision-making. Their combined use offers new opportunities for developing intelligent, adaptive, privacy-preserving, and resilient distributed systems.

FIDTA 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present recent advances, discuss practical challenges, and identify emerging research directions in federated intelligence and Digital Twin systems.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*Federated Learning and decentralized intelligence for IoT, mobile, and autonomous systems
*Digital Twin architectures, synchronization, and real-time updating
*Federated Digital Twins and distributed intelligent systems
*Communication-efficient, energy-aware, and resource-adaptive learning
*Privacy, security, trust, robustness, and resilience in federated environments
*Edge intelligence, multi-agent systems, and collaborative autonomous systems
*AI-native networks, agentic AI, and foundation models for edge environments
*Applications in smart cities, intelligent transportation, Industrial IoT, healthcare, and autonomous vehicles
*Experimental evaluation, benchmarking, testbeds, and real-world deployments

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Authors are invited to submit original papers presenting theoretical contributions, methodological advances, system designs, experimental studies, or real-world applications related to the workshop topics.

Submissions must:

* Be written in English
* Be submitted in PDF format
* Follow the standard ACM double-column conference template
* Not exceed 6 pages

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PROCEEDINGS
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Accepted papers are expected to appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the official ACM MobiHoc 2026 Workshop Proceedings.

Authors of accepted papers should follow the final formatting, registration, and presentation instructions provided by the workshop and ACM MobiHoc 2026 organizers.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE - Anywhere on Earth.

* Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2026
* Notification of acceptance: September 21, 2026
* Camera-ready submission deadline: September 30, 2026
* Workshop date: November 26, 2026

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FURTHER INFORMATION
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Workshop website:

https://modal-unina.github.io/FIDTA2026/

Submission portal:

https://fidta2026.hotcrp.com/

For updates concerning submissions, proceedings, registration, and the final workshop program, please consult the official workshop website.

Please feel free to circulate this Call for Papers among interested colleagues, research groups, and professional networks.