Submission page:
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Sensors, IoT devices, and cyber-physical systems continue to spread across agriculture, cities, industry, and healthcare, pushing more computation toward the edge of the network. This trend is supported by steady gains in communication efficiency, embedded compute capability, and computing paradigms such as fog, serverless, and cloud-edge continuum architectures. Meeting these demands raises open questions in system architecture, deployment models, data management, interoperability, and real-time responsiveness, alongside long-standing concerns around security and privacy. The growing use of AI/ML, robotics, and large-scale automation in these settings calls for careful attention to how underlying hardware, middleware, and distributed system design interact. This year, CIFS is particularly interested in contributions that connect system and hardware architecture with the IoT-fog-cloud continuum, alongside its usual focus on distributed intelligence, secure computing infrastructure, and utility computing for sensor-driven and cyber-physical systems. Submissions ranging from architectural studies and system design to applied deployments are all welcome.
Topics of Interest
We solicit research papers (up to 6p) and technical industry reports (typically 3-6p) on the following topics:Submission Information
Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed six (6) ACM-formatted *double-column* pages, including figures, tables, and references. All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Your submission is subject to a determination that you are not under any sanctions by ACM.
Please note: Submissions and reviews follow a double-blind model. Please submit without author names/affiliations and without hyperlinks that could reveal your origin or identity.
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop in person. Additionally, at least one author must register at the full (i.e., non-student) rate. All workshop participants must register under the UCC/BDCAT 2026 conference fee. Please note that acceptance of a workshop paper is conditional on the final decision by UCC/BDCAT organizers regarding whether the workshop will take place.
Important Dates
Technical Programme Committee
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Workshop Organisers