CfP: FUTURE COMPUTING 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:

- FUTURE COMPUTING 2026, The Eighteenth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications

FUTURE COMPUTING 2026 is scheduled to be April 19 - 23, 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal under the ComputationWorld 2026 umbrella.

The submission deadline is January 7, 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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============== FUTURE COMPUTING 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


FUTURE COMPUTING 2026, The Eighteenth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/FUTURECOMPUTING26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitFUTURECOMPUTING26.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 7, 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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


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

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPFUTURECOMPUTING26.html

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

Trends in future computing and applications

Reflective computing; Dependable computing; Urban computing; Big data-oriented computing; Fog-computing; Mobile Edge Computing; Computing high speed sensing data; High-performance computing; Neural computing; Soft Computing; Spatial Computing; Computing in Internet of Thinks (IoT)-based environments; Computing with sparse, big and huge data

Future computing challenges

Truthful Mechanisms; Indistinguishable obfuscation; Succinct histograms; Optimal data-dependent computation; Convergence of fast computations; Approximation algorithms; Delegating computations; Generalized flow maximization; Interactive coding; Optimal error rates; Combinatorial problems; Approximation and optimization schemes; Randomized compositions; Polynomial-time approximation; Polynomial complexity; Optimal resilience; Adaptive data analysis computation; Bounding programming relaxations; Deniable encryption; Sparse dimensionality reduction; Exponential improvement in precision

Computational intelligence strategies

Cognitive computing; Intelligent computation; Ambient computing; Unconventional computing; Indeterminist computing; Adaptive computation; Autonomic computation; Computation under uncertainty; Chaotic computation; Intentional computing; Anticipative computing; Evolutionary computing

Mechanism-oriented computing

Spatial computation; Elastic computing; Human-centered computing; Embedded computing; Entertainment computing; Time-sensitive/temporal computing; Soft computing (fuzzy logic, neural computing, evolutionary computation, machine learning, and probabilistic reasoning + belief networks, + chaos theory + learning theory)

Large-scale computing strategies

Distributed computing; Parallel computing; Macro- and micro-computing; Activity-based computing; Data intensive computing; Resource-constraint computing; Grid computing; Cloud computing; Cluster computing; On-demand computing; Ubiquitous/pervasive computing; Memristor Computing; Unconventional computing; Evolutionary computing

Computing technologies

Quantum computing; Optical computing; DNA (genetic) computing; Molecular computing; Reversible computing; Billiard Ball computing; Neuronal computing; Magnetic computing; Gloopware computing; Moldy computing; Water wave-based computing; Graphene-based computing

Quantum Computing

Quantum computing models; Quantum complexity theory; Qubits; Non-deterministic and Probabilistic Computers; Quantum algorithms; Quantum computational operations; Scalable quantum computing; Quantum teleportation; Quantum cryptography; Quantum simulation; Quantum decoherence; Quantum gravity; Physical implementation of quantum computers

Technology-oriented computing

Peer-to-Peer computing; Mobile computing; Sensor-based computing; Wireless computing; Trusted computing; Financial computing; Genetic computation

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FUTURE COMPUTING 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComFUTURECOMPUTING26.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