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

- AFIN 2026, The Eighteenth International Conference on Advances in Future Internet

AFIN 2026 is scheduled to be October 25 - 29, 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal under the NetWare 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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============== AFIN 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


AFIN 2026, The Eighteenth International Conference on Advances in Future Internet

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/AFIN26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitAFIN26.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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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


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

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPAFIN26.html

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

Trends

IPv6-based Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing; Web of Things (WoT); Mobile cloud computing; Autonomous IoT; Wearable and mobile devices; Smart mobile terminals; Data in the IoT; Real-time big data; LTE networks wiht M2M (machine-to-machine) devices; Adaptive Streaming; Secure IoT device authentication; Standardization of IoT applications; Flow-based security; Adaptive trust; Security operations centers; Trusted data marketplaces; IoT Cloud-based videoconferencing systems; Large-scale datacenter networks; Traffic-aware control systems; Short-term traffic forecasting; Energy efficiency; Differentiated services; Internet neutrality; Pricing Ontology; Micro-billing

Transforming Internet

Transforming Sociotech Design for Internet; Persuasive Internet; Computer-supported influence; Socially influencing systems; Human-internet interaction; Influential Internet platforms; Scalable health behavior change; Online persuasion; Persuasive social media; Socially influencing User Experience (UX); Persuasive wellbeing; Artificial persuasion online; Autonomous Internet solutions

New Internet Challenges

SDN, SDX, NFV; 4G/5G and advanced mobile Internet; Internet of X (everything, things, people, etc.); Internet, Virtualization and Cloud; Internet and Big Data; Sensing and sensor networks; Energy-aware networks; Content-oriented networking; Cellular cognitive networks; Future routing mechanisms

Internet Mechanisms

Internet protocols; Routing /multicast, on-demand, QoS-routing/etc./; Access control /multi technology/; Algorithms for broadband infrastructure; Address management /locator-location paradigm/; Recovering and fault-tolerance; In-network processing; Distributing computing /autonomic, on-demand, cloud/etc./; Context-aware and context recognition; Data-centers and nano-centers; Information processing /distribution, discovery, sharing/; Virtualization; Overlay infrastructure; Intelligent Web services; Service-centric networking

New Internet tooling

Integrate IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos; Deliver IPTV, Triple-play and Quadruple play; Knowledge and social networks through Google map, YouTube and FaceBook; Knowledge dissemination and discovery; Distributed gaming; Web 2.0 and Semantic Web; Interactive television; Virtual 3-D videoconferencing; Telepresence

Challenging features

Internet computing; Distributed feature interaction; All-IP versus protocol translation; IP simplified network management; Security, trust, and privacy; Network stability under topology change; Delay-tolerant IP networks; Trustworthy Internet; Mobile computing; Ubiquitous computing; Reliability; Resilience; Scalability; User and service mobility; Wireless QoS; Traffic engineering; Network planning; Intermittent services; Virtualization; Self-management and control

Internet services and applications

Internet and private networking; Internet and smart homes; Internet and Web services; Internet and tracking systems; Internet and ehealth/telemedicine; Internet and sensor networks; Internet and financial applications; Internet and kids education; Internet and body-networks;Network-as-a-platform


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AFIN 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComAFIN26.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