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IoTBDS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how devices and systems interact, enabling smart applications across healthcare, manufacturing, energy, transportation, and smart cities. This rapid growth generates vast, diverse, and real-time data — Big Data — which demands advanced techniques for analysis, storage, security, and intelligent decision-making.

The convergence of IoT, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning creates new opportunities for actionable insights, autonomous systems, and enhanced user experiences. In particular, emerging technologies such as Generative AI offer unprecedented capabilities for smart, connected environments.

However, security, privacy, trust, and ethical AI remain critical challenges. The conference invites research contributions, practical solutions, and case studies addressing these concerns and advancing the state of the art in IoT and Big Data ecosystems.

IoTDBS brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to explore innovations, trends, and challenges shaping the future of smart systems and data-driven applications. Maintaining a high level of security and privacy in IoT environments is crucial, and we welcome recommendations, solutions, demonstrations, and best practices addressing all aspects of security and privacy in IoT and Big Data.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. AI AND IOT SECURITY
2. BIG DATA RESEARCH
3. EMERGING SERVICES AND ANALYTICS
4. INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) APPLICATIONS
5. INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) FUNDAMENTALS
6. IOT TECHNOLOGIES
7. SECURITY, PRIVACY AND TRUST


AREA 1: AI AND IOT SECURITY


  • AI and IoT Security
  • AI-Powered IoT Threat Detection
  • Edge AI for IoT Security
  • Blockchain and AI for IoT
  • AI, Privacy, and Ethics in IoT
  • AI-driven Security for IoT

AREA 2: BIG DATA RESEARCH


  • Analytics, Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering
  • Data Management for Large Data
  • Modeling, Experiments, Sharing Technologies & Platforms
  • Networking and Social Networks

AREA 3: EMERGING SERVICES AND ANALYTICS


  • Big Data Algorithm, Methodology, Business Models and Challenges
  • Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) including Software Frameworks, Empirical Approaches and Data Processing Techniques
  • Health Informatics as a Service (HIaaS) for Any Type of Health Informatics, Computation and Services
  • IoT Services and Applications
  • Security as a Service including Any Algorithms, Methodology and Software Proof-of-Concepts

AREA 4: INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) APPLICATIONS


  • Architecture for Secure and Interactive IoT
  • Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems for Vehicles, Green Systems and Smart City
  • Sensor Networks, Remote Diagnosis and Development
  • Smart City Examples and Case Studies
  • Social Implications and Ethics for IoT Intelligence
  • Systems for IoT and Services Computing
  • Technological Focus for Smart Environments

AREA 5: INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) FUNDAMENTALS


  • Energy Efficiency
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches Data Analytics
  • Networking and Communication Protocols
  • Performance Evaluation and Modeling
  • Recommender Systems, Smart Devices and Location-Awareness
  • Software Architecture and Middleware
  • Software Engineering for IoT and IoE

AREA 6: IOT TECHNOLOGIES


  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communication
  • Communication Protocols
  • Data Processing
  • Internet of Things
  • Sensors
  • Vehicle-to-Infrastructure
  • Vehicle-to-Vehicle

AREA 7: SECURITY, PRIVACY AND TRUST


  • Analysis and Vulnerabilty Prevention
  • Case Studies
  • Data Security, Data Recovery, Disaster Recovery
  • Data, System, User and Location Privacy
  • Emerging Issues and Recommendations for Organizational Security
  • Encryption (All Aspects)
  • Experiments on Using Security Solutions and Proof-of-Concepts
  • Firewall, Access Control, Identity Management
  • Intrusion and Detection Techniques
  • Security, Privacy and Trust
  • Software Engineering for Security Modeling, Business Process Modeling and Analytics
  • Testing (Software Engineering; Penetration; Product Development)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

IoTBDS 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published by Springer in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference.
The proceedings will be abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus and zbMATH. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 21 - 23 May, 2026

Paper Submission: January 5, 2026
Authors Notification: March 3, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: March 17, 2026

Paper Submission: February 17, 2026
Authors Notification: March 24, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: April 6, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: January 20, 2026

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: January 20, 2026

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: April 10, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: April 10, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: April 10, 2026

SECRETARIAT

IoTBDS Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: iotbds.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://iotbds.scitevents.org

VENUE

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Ali Emrouznejad, Business Analytics, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Patrick Hung, Ontario Tech University, Canada

PROGRAM CHAIR

Andreas Jacobsson, Malmö University, Sweden

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Kayode Sakariyah Adewole, Malmo University, Sweden
Michele Albano, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
Pelin Angin, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
Adnan Anwar, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, Australia
Harsha Banavara, S&C Electric Company, United States
Jorge Barbosa, UNISINOS, Brazil
Martin Bauer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Sebnem Baydere, Yeditepe University, Turkey
Reinhold Behringer, Knorr Bremse GmbH, Germany
Zorica Bogdanovic, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia
Juliana Freitag Borin, University of Campinas, Brazil
Leszek Borzemski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Qiang Cheng, University of Kentucky, United States
Thomas Heide Clausen, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Pedro J. Clemente, University of Extremadura, Spain
Daniel Corujo, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Resul Das, Firat University, Turkey
Radu-Codrut David, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Luca Davoli, University of Parma, Italy
Weilong Ding, North China University of Technology, China
Erdogan Dogdu, Angelo State University, United States
Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi, Department of Electronics (Cybersecurity Group), Aalborg University, Denmark
Edilson Ferneda, Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil
Hacene Fouchal, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
Valerio Frascolla, Intel, Germany
Maria Ganzha, SRI PAS and University of Gdansk, Poland
Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Martin Gilje Gilje Jaatun, Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway
Diogo Gomes, DETI - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Holger Guenzel, Hochschule München, United States
Moutaz Haddara, Kristiania University College, Norway
Leila Ismail, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates
Imad Jawhar, Al Maaref University, Lebanon
Deepa V Jose, Christ University, India
Hanmin Jung, KISTI, Korea, Republic of
Nikolay Kakanakov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Dong-Seong Kim, Independent Researcher, Korea, Republic of
Emanuele Lattanzi, University of Urbino, Italy
Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Mon-Yen Luo, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China
Dwight Makaroff, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Maude Manouvrier, PSL Research University - Universite Paris-Dauphine, France
Dulani Meedeniya, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Ahmed Mehaoua, Universite de Paris, France
Aleksandra Klasnja Milicevic, Univesity of Novi Sad, Serbia
Thomas Moser, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Seung Yeob Nam, Yeungnam University, Korea, Republic of
Roberto Natella, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Marek Natkaniec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Brian Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Bogdan Oancea, University of Bucharest, Romania
Lorena Parra, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Pedro Pinto, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Vicent Pla, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
André Pomp, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Atslands Rocha, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
Gérald Rocher, Universite Cote d'Azur, France
Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Atanu Roy Chowdhury, Capsule Labs, India
Teodora Sanislav, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Kannan Sankaragomathi, Google Inc., United States
Domenico Santaniello, University of Salerno, Italy
Giancarlo Sperlì, Univerisity of Naples Federico II, Italy
Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland
Dragan Stojanovic, University of Nis, Serbia
Jani Suomalainen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Zhiyuan Tan, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Ralf Tönjes, University of Applied Science Osnabrück, Germany
Pedro Valderas, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Klaus Volbert, Technical University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany
Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University Göttingen, Germany
Azadeh Zamanifar, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Iran, Islamic Republic of

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