CfP: INFOCOMP 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:

- INFOCOMP 2026, The Sixteenth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation

INFOCOMP 2026 is scheduled to be April 19 - 23, 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal under the DataSys 2026 umbrella.

The submission deadline is January 24, 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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============== INFOCOMP 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


INFOCOMP 2026, The Sixteenth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/INFOCOMP26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitINFOCOMP26.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 24, 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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


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

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPINFOCOMP26.html

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

Modern Computing Paradigms and Algorithms

Generative AI, LLMs, and ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch); Cloud-native technologies (containerization, Kubernetes, serverless, microservices); DevOps/MLOps pipelines and infrastructure-as-code; High Performance Computing (HPC); Energy-efficient High Performance Computing; Large scale data visualization; Tools for parallelization; High performance codes; Optimization; Innovative architectures; Distributed systems, dynamical systems; Future architectures, integrated systems, beyond cloud, reaching exaflop; Supercomputing architectures, operation, and management; Petascale, Exascale; Big data, dCache; HPC centers, data centers; Quantum computing, Heterogeneous computing architectures (CPU–GPU–TPU–FPGA integration); Advanced scheduling and orchestration.

Architecture & Infrastructure

Edge computing and edge AI integration; Modern data architectures (data lakes, streaming platforms, data mesh); Distributed computing beyond traditional HPC centers Grid computing; Cloud computing; Pervasive / ubiquitous computing; Services computing and Opportunistic computing; Distributed systems, dynamical systems; Multi-tenant cloud workloads; Scalable cortical computing; Molecular dynamics supercomputing; Petascale biomolecular simulations; Observational data and simulations; Digital Twins; 5G/6G and beyond, Software-Defined Networking (SDN); Network Function Virtualization (NFV); Network slicing; High-speed optical and photonic interconnects; Sustainable data center operations (cooling efficiency, energy reuse).

Security, biometry, and access

Zero Trust Architecture (replacing outdated VPN-centric models); AI-powered threat detection and automated response; Post-quantum cryptography, ransomware evolution, supply chain attacks; Technologies and advances in biometric algorithms and interfaces (gait, electrocardiography, iris, image, fingerprint, palm veins, multi-modality); Biometric systems; Integration of biometrics with other technologies; Simplified enrollment; NFC support, spoofing, and countermeasures; Single sign on (SSO); Adaptive trust; Distributed and mobile devices; Public Key Infrastructures; Digital Forensics; Quantum cryptography theory and application for commercial usage; Privacy-preserving computation (homomorphic encryption, federated learning, secure MPC); AI-driven cybersecurity orchestration and autonomous response systems.

Emerging technologies and sustainability

Blockchain/Web3 and decentralized computing; Neuromorphic computing (1000x energy efficiency potential); XR/spatial computing and immersive visualization; AI-Web3 convergence for decentralized ML; Carbon-aware computing and renewable energy scheduling; Algorithmic efficiency (pruning, quantization); Lifecycle analysis and environmental impact metrics; Quantum networking and quantum communications; Sustainable data centers (cooling, reuse, lifecycle impact); Lifecycle-based environmental metrics and circular IT systems.

Trends and advances on disciplines/applications

Urban Simulations; Molecular dynamics supercomputing; Petascale biomolecular simulations; Data-centric parallel systems; Lithospheric dynamics; Graph computation; Genome-scale gene networks; Scale free graphs; Migratable objects; Quantum simulations; Metascalable quantum molecular dynamics simulations; Real-time data analytics; Adaptive, scalable workload execution; Sharing in IaaS clouds; Large-scale visualization; Distributed NoSQL data stores, Cyber-physical systems and large-scale IoT simulations; Federated edge data processing and real-time analytics.

Computational intensive applications

e-Energy, geosciences, prospection, exploration, oil and gas; Mobile syetems; Geoscientific Information Systems (GIS); Remote sensing and satellite imaging; Cartography, hydrology; Climatology and environmental sciences; Medicine, genetics, and epidemiology; Vehicular, underground and underwater networks and applications; Earth and planetary sciences; Archaeology, cultural heritage; Large-scale sensor networks and IoT-enabled infrastructures; Smart city and autonomous system simulations; High-fidelity digital twin environments for scientific applications.


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INFOCOMP 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComINFOCOMP26.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