Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from artificial intelligence, nature-inspired computing, and social-oriented technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing domains. PICom 2026 is the conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, previously held as PCC (Las Vegas, USA, 2003 and 2004), PSC (Las Vegas, USA, 2005), PCAC (Vienna, Austria, 2006, and Niagara Falls, Canada, 2007), IPC-2007 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-2008 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), and since 2009 as the name PICom. It aims to bring together computer scientists and engineers, providing a platform for vibrant discussions and exchanges on experimental and theoretical results, ongoing work, cutting-edge designs, and innovative test-environments or testbeds, while also delving into the latest advancements and novel trends in Intelligence and Machine Learning within the realms of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing.

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Tracks and Topics

- Track 1: Next-Gen Pervasive AI

GenAI for wireless sensing
Machine-to-machine GenAI
Generative IoT
GenAI for semantic communications
Multi-agent network powered by GenAI
Big Data and Smart Data
Brain-inspired Computing
Mobile Data Mining
Ubiquitous Data Mining

- Track 2: Intelligent Networks, Middleware and Applications

Pervasive Networks/Communications
5G networks and Technologies
AI/ML for smart wireless networks
AI and machine learning-based applications for ad hoc networks
Cooperative and cognitive communication
Middleware for the IoT
Adaptive Middleware for Pervasive Systems
Context-aware applications
Intelligent/Smart IoT
Programming Abstractions for IoT

- Track 3: Pervasive Computing and Activity/Affect Recognition

Crowdsourcing and Social Computing
Collective Intelligence
Agent-based Computing
Pervasive Devices and RFIDs
Wearable Devices and Applications
Activity Recognition
Intelligent Social Networking
Pervasive Technologies for ITS
HCI for Pervasive Computing

- Track 4: Next Gen Smart Environments

Smart grid, healthcare, transportation applications
Wearable and human-centric devices and networks
Device Virtualization
Intelligent Cloud Computing
Services for Pervasive Computing
Smart Cities and Smart Homes
Privacy, Security and Trust in Smart Environments
Autonomous Pervasive Systems
Autonomous IoT
Digital Twins

- Track 5: Edge Intelligence Applications

ML for resource allocation at the Edge
NFV-Edge
5G-Edge
Edge-assisted IoT
Integration of Edge Computing and Blockchain
Edge-Cloud Continuum
Edge AI

- Track 6: Work-in-Progress (WiP) and Late Breaking Innovation (LBI)

The track covers all the topics, but it is aimed at either papers that have an original but not fully validated proposal (WiP) or present a breakthrough, a new vision, or an out-of-the-box idea on the field to be discussed at the conference (LBI).

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Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), and workshop/special session papers need to be submitted via EDAS (link available soon) in IEEE CS Proceedings format. IEEE formatting info: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
All the accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the Conference Proceedings (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high-quality papers. Some papers, originally submitted as full papers and based on review results, can be accepted as short papers or poster papers. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the number of pages of the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. Authors of accepted poster papers will be required (i) to prepare and submit the camera-ready version of the paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings and (ii) to realize the poster (format will be announced later) for its presentation at the conference.
At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference.
Full Papers: 6-8 pages - WiP/WS/SS/Short Papers: 4-6 pages -
Poster Papers: 2-4 pages - Late-Breaking Innovation (LBI) Papers: 4-8 pages


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Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair
-Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney (Australia)

General Chairs
-Claudio Miceli, UFRJ (Brazil)
-Eric Pardede, La Trobe University (Australia)

General Executive Chairs
-Bernady O. Apduhan, KSU (Japan)
-Chao Chen, RIMT University (Australia)

Program Chairs
-Rossana Andrade, Federal Univ. of Ceara (Brazil)
-Bo Wu, Tokyo Univ. of Technology (Japan)

Workshop Chairs
-Victor Chang, Aston University (UK)
-Federico Santoro, University of Catania (Italy)

Track Chairs
-Santoso Wibowo, CQUniversity (Australia)
-Lidia Fotia, University of Salerno (Italy)
-Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University (USA)
-Alex Tomy, La Trobe University (Australia)
-Rebeca Motta, Fluminense Federal Univ. (Brazil)
-Marco Miozzo, CTTC (Spain)

Social Media & Publicity Chairs
-Antonio Guerrieri, ICAR-CNR (Italy)
-Rudri Kalaria, La Trobe University (Australia)
-Hong Chen, Xiamen Institute of Technology (China)

Advisory Committee
-Jinhua She, Tokyo Univ. of Technology (Japan)
-Paulo de Figueiredo Pires, Dell/UFF (Brazil)
-Chuan-Yu Chang, YunTech Univ. (Taiwan)
-Flavia C Delicato, Fluminense Federal Univ. (Brazil)
-Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria (Italy)
-Samee U. Khan, Mississippi State University (USA)
-Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI (UAE)
-D. Frank Hsu, Fordham University (USA)
-Hui-huang Hsu, Tamkang University (Taiwan)
-Victor Chang, Aston University (UK)

Steering Committee
-Jianhua Ma, Hosei University (Japan)
-Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ. (Canada)
-Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland U Tech. (New Zealand)
-Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal Univ. (Brazil)