18th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC'2026)
11-14 October 2026
Thessaloniki, Greece
https://conferences.sigappfr.org/idc2026/

The 18th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC'2026) provides an open forum for enhancing the collaboration between researchers, lecturers, and students from Intelligent Computing and Distributed Computing communities. Intelligent Computing covers a hybrid palette of methods, techniques and their applications ranging from classical artificial intelligence, information and data sciences, multi-agent technologies or computational intelligence to more recent trends such as swarm intelligence, bio-inspired computation, cloud computing, machine learning or social/ cyber-physical trust and security. Distributed Computing develops methods and technology to build complex computational systems composed of collaborating software components scattered across diverse computational elements. IDC'2026 welcomes research works centered on all aspects of intelligent distributed computing, with an intention to balance between theoretical research ideas and their application to great variety of industrial cases.

IDC'2026 will be co-located with the 12th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI), and the 11th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Machine Intelligence and Semantics (WIMS). Participants will have the opportunity to interact with the corresponding research communities and submit papers to the co-located events.

IMPORTANT DATES
- Full paper submission: 27 April 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 22 June 2026
- Camera-ready submission & registration: 13 July 2026

CONFERENCE TOPICS
Topics include, but are not restricted to:
- Cloud Computing ,
- Distributed Swarm Robotics Systems,
- Ephemeral and Unreliable computing,
- Intelligent Distributed Applications,
- Intelligent Distributed and High-Performance Architectures,
- Intelligent Distributed Knowledge Representation and Processing,
- Intelligent Transportation Systems,
- Internet of Things,
- Nature-inspired Methods for Supervised and Unsupervised Data Mining,
- Networked Intelligence,
- Organization and Management,
- Parallel Metaheuristics for Optimization.

SUBMISSION & PROCEEDINGS
Types of welcomed submissions: (a) full research papers (15 pages max including figures, tables and references) describing research accomplishments, (b) short research papers (10 pages max), i.e. experience reports, project overviews etc., which are nevertheless of interest and value for the participants of the conference and (c) posters (4 pages max). Submitted papers should be original contributions and should not have been accepted or submitted elsewhere. Papers must be submitted through the CMT system (follow the conference website link). Author instructions along with LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
For every accepted paper to be presented in the conference and included in the Springer proceedings, at least one author must fully register.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Selected papers will be invited to the SN Computer Science, Digital and ComSis journals.

GENERAL CHAIRS
Elio Masciari, University Federico II of Naples
Yannis Manolopoulos, University of York, Europe Campus, Greece

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia