Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- AIVTS 2026, The Second International Conference on AI-enabled Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and Internet of Things for Critical Services

AIVTS 2026 is scheduled to be October 25 - 29, 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal under the SocSys 2026 umbrella.

The submission deadline is July 6, 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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============== AIVTS 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


AIVTS 2026, The Second International Conference on AI-enabled Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and Internet of Things for Critical Services

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/AIVTS26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitAIVTS26.html


Event schedule: October 25 - 29, 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: July 6, 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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


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

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPAIVTS26.html

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

AI-Cognition for UAV/IoT-based critical services and applications
- AI-based cognition and decision making in IoT/ UAV systems
- AI and Autonomy in UAVs based on real-time data
- Autonomous vehicles and smart city infrastructure with Edge AI computing
- Self-learning IoT systems and UAVs
- Swarm intelligence applications
- Neuromorphic computing for IoT devices and UAVs
- AI-based regulatory frameworks for IoT and UAV
- AI and IoT convergence in Industry 4.0
- Planned complex services for healthcare, urban planning, and emergency services

AI-based orchestration of IoT & UAV for critical systems
- UAV-IoT-enabled sensing and tracking
- Environmental monitoring
- Disaster handling
- Search and Rescue
- Mapping and surveying
- Precision agriculture
- Emerging applications of 3D networks

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones)
- Single and Multi-UAV networks: architectures, topologies
- UAV-related protocols and mechanisms
- UAV-based sensor networks
- UAV integration in cellular networks 5G, 6G
- UAV-enabled edge computing: architectures and protocols
- Mobility aspects
- Micro flying systems
- Standards and regulations

Ground autonomous vehicles (robots)
- IoT sensors for robot perception
- IoT-enabled robot navigation and mapping
- AI-based path optimization and scheduling
- AI-based orchestration of Industrial robots
- IoT data analytics for robots
- Robot swarms and IoT communication

UAV Applications for Critical Missions and Services
- Express shipping and delivery
- Disaster management: gathering information or supplying essentials
- Storm tracking and forecasting hurricanes and tornadoes
- Image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition
- Law enforcement and border control surveillance
- UAVs for search and rescue operations
- Forest fires related missions
- Safety inspections and surveillance

UAV Operations
- Wireless communication technologies for UAV
- Routing, path planning, scheduling and tracking
- Resource allocation in UAV systems
- Mobility-related protocols and procedures
- Cooperative control of UAV swarms
- VLOS, EVLOS, and BVLOS operations of UAVs
- Security protocols and mechanisms in UAV networks
- Optimal UAV deployment strategies

Intelligent orchestration of UAV communication and computing
- Autonomous sensing via UAVs
- AI/Machine learning (DL, RL, DRL, etc.) for UAV communications, management & control and for services
- UAV Swarm intelligence
- AI-based coordination in multi-UAV systems
- Regulations and guidelines

UAV-related energy
- Scalable wireless charging platforms for UAV networks
- Battery and energy management in UAV networks
- Energy-efficient UAV communications
- AI-based prediction of drone energy consumption in flight

Internet of Things
- IoT architectural evolution
- IoT applications for critical missions
- IoT communication technologies
- IoT integration in cellular networks 5G, 6G
- Fog/Edge-computing-driven IoT
- IoT-enabled tracking techniques
- Security and privacy in IoT systems
- Standards and regulations
- Intelligent and AI-based IoT
- AI-based applications in IoT

UAV and IoT Cooperation
- UAV and IoT Integration: use cases, applications and challenges
- UAV/IoT system architectures
- UAV enabled networks for IoT
- Physical and access layers topics in UAV-enabled IoT
- UAVs equipped with IoT sensors
- IoT- UAV management and control
- IoT sensing for green and sustainable UAV-based applications
- IoT for real-time UAV data transmission
- UAV swarms for IoT deployments
- Network and information security for UAV-enabled IoT
- Quality of Service in UAV-enabled IoT
- Energy-related topics in UAV-enabled IoT


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AIVTS 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComAIVTS26.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