FiCloud 2026
Granada, Spain
20-22 July 2026 [Hybrid]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing.

The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus on the particular challenges regarding mobile Web and intelligent information systems. Topics of conference include (but not limited to):

Security, Privacy and Trust

IoT and cloud security; Privacy issues; Service Reliability in cloud and IoT; Accountability and audit; Authentication and authorization; Cryptography; Identity theft; Data loss or leakage; Trust management; Fraud Detection.

AI and Machine Learning

Application of AI in cloud and IoT; Intelligent data processing; Reinforcement learning; Generative models; Feature Extraction; Neural Networks; Supervised/Unsupervised Machine Learning; Anomaly Detection; Pattern Recognition.

Big Data, Cloud and IoT

Big data; NoSQL databases; Data mining; Data analytics; Storage architectures; Querying and Searching; Data quality; Data and Process Modeling; Tiny/small databases for IoT; Sensor data and stream analytics; Ontologies.

Software Systems and Services

Software architectures; Programming models; Services provisioning and management; Requirements analysis and modelling; Service integration; SaaS, IaaS, PaaS; QoS in Cloud and IoT; SOA for Cloud and IoT, Context-awareness in cloud and IoT.

Distributed Systems and Networks

Distributed systems, Parallel Programming, Blockchain, Transmission protocols; Models and algorithms; Communication protocols for datacentres; Software defined networks; P2P and overlay networks.

Performance Modelling & Evaluation

Performance modelling in cloud and IoT; Evaluation techniques; Performance monitoring; Scheduling and application workflows; Scalability in cloud and IoT; Fault monitoring; Capacity planning and elasticity.

Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Computing

Energy efficient services; Sustainable computing, Energy efficient resource utlization; Data storage and processing; Energy-efficient networking; Energy metrics and benchmarks; Energy-efficient hardware.

Fog and Edge Computing

Fog and edge computing models, Cloud at Edges; IoT and network edges; IoT data at network; Infrastructure for Fog/Edge; Middelware for Fog/Edge computing; Qos in Fog/Edge computing.

Industry Track

Practical applications of cloud/IoT; Industry case studies; Cloud/IoT and Industry 4.0.


IMPORTANT DATES


Submission Deadline (Extended) 07 April 2026
Authors Notification 15 May 2026
Final Manuscript Due 05 June 2026

PUBLICATION

All papers accepted for this conference are planned to be published in the conference proceedings by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) (approval pending).


Note: The work presented in the submitted papers should be novel and should not have been previously published or submitted in parallel to another publication outlet (conferences, journals, etc.). It is authors’ responsibility to make sure that there is no plagiarism in their paper or have greater similarity with others or authors' previous work. Publishers use plagiarism detection tools (such as iThenticate) to check for similarity with other works. Papers of high similarity score with previous work may not be considered for publication in the conference proceedings.