CfP: PATTERNS 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:

- PATTERNS 2026, The Eighteenth International Conference on Pervasive Patterns and Applications

PATTERNS 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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============== PATTERNS 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


PATTERNS 2026, The Eighteenth International Conference on Pervasive Patterns and Applications

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/PATTERNS26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitPATTERNS26.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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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


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

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPPATTERNS26.html

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

Basics on patterns

Design patterns; Static and dynamic patterns; Pattern identification and extraction; Validate patterns; Patterns accuracy; Incomplete patterns; Patterns and noise

Patterns at work

Pattern logics and algebras; Pattern recognition; Pattern matching; Pattern languages; Patterns languages/models pitfalls; Pattern specification/modeling; Pattern validation; Pattern composition; Pattern reuse; Testing in pattern-based designed systems; Manageability and maintenance of pattern-based designed systems; Architecture, architectural design and the built environment

Classification patterns

Dynamic ensemble selection; Diversity-based ensemble; Ensemble Classification; Ensemble Clustering; Active Learning from video streams patterns; Geodesic-based similarities; Leaf species classification; Clothing image characterization; Mountain drainage patterns; Texture classification; Large scale image categorization; Clustering Web search frequency; Descriptors for food recognition; Signal patterns; High-speed video patterns

Medical and facial image patterns

Global similarities; Image quality assessment; Discovering images ROI (Regions of Interest); Features semantic relations; Lesion detection; 3D Face structures; Facial expression recognition; Shared feature learning; Video-to-Video face recognition; Learning patterns of disabled/elderly; Using therapeutic data; Malignancy-oriented patterns; Detection of misalignment; Image-based navigation systems

Tracking human patterns

Tracking Multiple Persons; Tracking in Crowded situations; Tracking by adapting detectors; Part-based appearance; Structure-constrained motion; Structure sparsity-based representation; Dominant colors patterns; Population drift-based features; Drivers face detection; Authentication via pore patterns; Iris segmentation systems; Rapid facial movements systems; Appearance-based feature analysis; Sketch recognition patterns; Mobile devices adaptive classification; Direction change patterns; Human action recognition; Appearance-based gaze tracking patterns; Free head movement patterns; Pattern-based locaization

Action recognition patterns

Pre-classification of handwritten characters; Action classification; Classification of human actions; Activity recognition in Smart homes; Learning for activity representation; Bag-of-Words for action recognition; Room occupancy patterns

Color and texture patterns

Texture classification; Extracting texture features; Texture-based descriptors; Color image patterns; Shape co-occurrence patterns; Fluorescence microscopy images; Texture defect detection patterns

Ubiquity patterns

User mobility patterns; Social networking patterns; Content dependency patterns; Content accessing patterns; Behavioral autonomy patterns; Prediction patterns /behavioral, structure, environment/; Patterns of discovery

Software patterns

Software design patterns; Software reuse patterns; Software quality patterns; Software testing patterns; Software performance, security, and safety patterns; Software management patterns; Patterns for evolving software elements

Security patterns

Security patterns; Patterns of trust; Attack patterns; Authorization patterns; Failed access patterns; Intrusion attempt patterns; Local malware patterns; Distributed malware patterns; Predictive patterns; Mobility patterns; Tracking patterns

System management patterns

Management and control patterns; Monitoring patterns; Correlation patterns; Event patterns; Visualization patterns

Discovery and decision patterns

Search patterns; Data mining for patterns; Query patterns; Knowledge patterns; Behavioral patterns; Reasoning patterns; Decision patterns; Patterns in WWW; Predictive patterns; Mobility patterns; Tracking patterns

Communications patterns

Communication patterns; Propagation patterns; Traffic/routing patterns; P2P and P4P patterns; Configuration change patterns; System abnormal behavior patterns

Domain-oriented patterns

Forensic patterns; Genomic patterns; Image patterns; Voice patterns; Speech patterns; Hand writing patterns; Text-embedded sentiment patterns; Emotion recognition patterns; Site access patterns; Service orchestration; Keyboard typing patterns; Financial/stock patterns; Shopping patterns; Dietary patterns; Global warming patterns; Job market patterns; Stock movement patterns; Investing patterns

Antipatterns and lessons learned

Architectural; Design; Development; People and project management; Social


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PATTERNS 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComPATTERNS26.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