=== ACAI 2026: Advances in Collaborative AI Systems ===
Workshop co-located with the International Conference on Intelligent Digital
Forensics and Cybersecurity (IDFC 2026)
September 1–4, 2026 · University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Website: https://idfc-conference.org/acai/
Submissions (EasyChair): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idfc2026

--- About the Workshop ---
ACAI (Advances in Collaborative AI Systems) brings together researchers and
practitioners across the full landscape of collaborative AI — federated learning,
multi-agent systems, foundation models, agentic AI, distributed AI, and
trustworthy AI. As machine learning moves from centralized labs into edge
devices, hospitals, factories, vehicles, autonomous agents, and consumer
products, the systems that train, serve, and coordinate these models are
increasingly collaborative by design.

The workshop explores how collaborative AI systems are built, deployed, and
evaluated across diverse settings: how agents cooperate and coordinate, how
models are trained across distributed parties, how foundation models can be
adapted collaboratively, and how applications across domains benefit from
collaborative intelligence. We welcome contributions on methods, systems,
applications, and case studies, and explicitly encourage interdisciplinary work.

--- Topics of Interest (non-exhaustive) ---
• Federated and distributed learning: optimization, personalization, communication efficiency
• Multi-agent systems and agentic AI: cooperation, coordination, planning, orchestration
• Collaborative foundation models: distributed/federated adaptation, fine-tuning, alignment
• Distributed AI systems: edge intelligence, serving, scalability
• Trustworthy collaborative AI: privacy, robustness, security, fairness, accountability
• Applications and case studies: healthcare, mobility, industry, IoT, cybersecurity
• Benchmarks, evaluation methodologies, and reproducibility for collaborative AI

--- Submission Types ---
• Full Papers — up to 8 pages: rigorous studies, frameworks, or systems with validated results
• Short Papers — up to 6 pages: exploratory or early-stage work, preliminary results
• Poster & Demo Papers — up to 4 pages: late-breaking results, demonstrations, tool showcases

--- Proceedings & Indexing ---
All accepted papers will appear in the IDFC 2026 proceedings published by
IOS Press (Open Access), and indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, EI Compendex,
Google Scholar, and DBLP.

--- Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth) ---
• Paper Submission: August 1, 2026
• Author Notification: August 12, 2026
• Camera-Ready Due: August 20, 2026
• Conference & Workshop: September 1–4, 2026 · Trento, Italy

--- Organizers ---
General Chairs:
• Addi Ait-Mlouk — University of Skövde, Sweden
• Tarik Agouti — Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
TPC Chairs:
• Rachid Ouchikh — Lund University, Sweden
• Mohamed Nezar Abourraja — University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

--- Contact ---
addi.ait-mlouk@his.se