IEEE CIC 2026
The 12th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing
Nov. 4-6, 2026, San Jose, CA, USA
Co-located with IEEE CogMI 2026, IEEE TPS 2026, IEEE RISC 2026.
The 12th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing
Nov. 4-6, 2026, San Jose, CA, USA
Co-located with IEEE CogMI 2026, IEEE TPS 2026, IEEE RISC 2026.
The Internet and AI have revolutionized the globalized society and enabled the growth of infrastructures, applications, and technologies that significantly enhance global interactions and collaborations that have a significant impact on society. Unprecedented cyber-social and cyber-physical infrastructures and systems that span geographic boundaries are possible because of the Internet technologies, including 5G and beyond, and the growing number of collaboration-enabling technologies such as generative AI, large language models (LLMs), machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, federated learning, and multimodal learning. Individuals and organizations have increasingly relied on electronic and/or Internet-enabled collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce collaboratively developed products that would have been impossible to develop without the contributions of multiple collaborators.
Technology has evolved from standalone tools to open systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings and from general-purpose tools to specialized collaboration platforms. Future collaboration and Internet computing solutions that further the goal of achieving the full potential of global-level collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction, cooperation and collaboration paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools.
IEEE CIC has been conceived as the key multidisciplinary venue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in Internet technologies, applications and services, collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Human-AI -People Collaboration
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Machine learning & AI
- Deep learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Transfer learning
- AI and cybersecurity
- AI influence
- Multimodal learning
- Federated learning
- Large Language models
- Social computing
- Machine learning with graphs
- Internet enable Human-AI-People collaboration
- Internet-based technologies & infrastructure for collaboration
- From cloud to fog/edge for collaborative computing
- Internet of Everything for collaboration
- Data and service models for collaboration
- Quality of service and experience
- Service management and testing
- System engineering, metrics, and performance
- Cyber science and Data science
- Security, privacy, and trust in collaborative computing
- Resilient and trustworthy Internet
- Big data analytics for data-driven collaboration
- Social computing for collaboration
- Cognitive collaboration
- Web services and Service Oriented Architectures for Collaborative Internet services
- Crossover service computing
- Collaboration in pervasive and cloud computing environments
- Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing
- Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services
- Collaborative sensor networks
- Social networks and services
- Human-provided and outsourcing of services
- Collaborative search and question answering
- Human computation and crowdsourcing
- Participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, and citizen science
- Collaboration computing between human and machine
- Collaborative technologies for cyber-physical-human environments
- Socio-technical and policy frameworks for collaboration and Internet computing
- Influence of/on CIC on/from other fields (arts and sciences, engineering, law, cultures, management, and economics, etc.)
- Domain-specific social and collaborative applications
- Platforms for process, factory, and industrial applications
- Vehicle networks and applications
- Smart cities and smart territories
- Collaborative robotics
- Collaborative E-Commerce
- Collaborative e-Learning environments
- Collaborative health networks and services
- Collaborative Science
- Collaboration for disaster/crisis management
- Collaborative manufacturing and supply chain management
- Collaboration for resilient critical infrastructures
- Collaboration for personalized services
We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers submitted to Research track should be up to 10 pages, anonymously in the standard two column IEEE proceedings format, excluding the bibliography, well-marked appendices, and supplementary material. which can be found at IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings . Authors should not change the font or the margins of the IEEE format. Papers should avoid revealing authors’ identity in the text. When referring to their previous work, authors are required to cite their papers in the third person, without identifying themselves. The papers should be submitted at the research track of the conference in EasyChair.
We invite original research vision papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Vision contributions should focus on blue-sky ideas and research vision in the area that at least one of the lead senior authors are known for. Vision paper can be as short as 2 pages but should be no longer than 10 pages in the standard two column IEEE proceedings format, which can be found at IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings . The papers should be submitted at the vision track of the conference in EasyChair.
We invite original industry papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. At least one co-author must be affiliated with industry or Government organizations, such as labs in DoE, DoD, NIH, NSA Labs. Papers submitted to Regular or Industry/Gov track should be no longer than 10 pages in the standard two column IEEE proceedings format, IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings . The papers should be submitted at the industry/gov track of the conference in EasyChair.
Submission Rounds: There are two submission rounds to IEEE CIC 2026. Authors who submit in the first round may revise and resubmit their papers in the second round if their papers are not accepted initially. It is also possible to submit directly to Round 2; however, in that case, there won't be an opportunity for resubmission.
Authors should note the following key points regarding use of large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools in the preparation of their submissions. These points are meant to complement IEEE's policy on AI generated text, available here: IEEE Submission Policies.
Use of AI tools solely for minor copy-editing or grammar/clarity improvements applied to the authors' own text does not require disclosure.AI Disclosure: We used [Tool Name] to assist with [Brief Description of Use]. The tool materially affected [Sections X and Y]. More details can be found in [Section Z]. The authors verified the correctness and originality of all content including references.
Proposals for full and half-day tutorials are solicited. Tutorials are intended to enhance the technical program, and as such they should be relevant to collaborative computing, networking, internet technologies, worksharing, and applications. Workshop papers should be submitted to EasyChair.
Proposals for panel discussions that focus on future visions relevant to Collaboration and Internet Computing are preferred. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal of at most three pages, including biographical sketches of the proposed panelists and questions to be asked to the EasyChair.
Proposals for full and half-day tutorials are solicited. Tutorials are intended to enhance the technical program, and as such they should be relevant to collaborative computing, networking, internet technologies, worksharing, and applications. Potential tutorial presenters should submit a tutorial proposal of at most three pages, including: description of potential audience and background knowledge expected from the audience, if any; tutorial description; biographical sketch(s) of presenter(s).
IEEE Policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice.
Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.
We would like to solicit papers that promote visionary ideas and blue sky thinking in areas aligned with the conference themes. These papers are expected to spark intense discussions and newer research directions/insights through potentially disruptive, controversial, or highly cross-disciplinary ideas that look forward to collaboration and internet computing space for the next 10 years and beyond. Ideas that are just being conceived, not fully developed, far from experimentally evaluated, or out-of-the box are highly encouraged. The papers should follow the same format as the regular conference papers and can be up to 10 pages.
We would like to solicit papers that focus on design, implementation and deployment of solutions related to Collaboration and Internet Computing within the industrial or government environments. The papers submitted to this track are expected to advance practical and applied research focused on the use of CIC technologies, and real world CIC relevant networks, systems applications. Applications, such as: Internet enabled collaborative e-commerce, medical and pharmaceutical, defense, critical cyber-physical infrastructures, public policy, finance, engineering, environment, manufacturing, telecommunications, and government.
The Industry/Government Track will include papers selected through a separate program committee. Authors must clearly indicate sub-areas their papers are to be evaluated in because distinct criteria may be used for reviewing different category of submissions:
Deployed systems that aim to provide real practical value to industry, Government, or other organizations, or communities. The papers should point out how the deployed system explicitly leverage CIC technologies or describe either qualitatively (lessons learnt, deployment experiences, etc.) or quantitatively the effect of use of CIC relevant technology in operational environments.
Newer applications that use collaboration and internet computing as central themes are expected here. The authors should clearly demonstrate value and interest to Industry, Government of society (e.g., scientific or medical professions; critical infrastructures). Papers that describe infrastructure development and deployment that enables the large-scale deployment of CIC technologies or their validation are also in these areas.
IEEE CIC will feature a Best Paper award and a Best Student Paper award (to be selected by the program committee/best paper award team). A paper is eligible for the Best Student Paper award if the first author is a full-time student at the time of submission. A partial travel grant or cash award may be offered to the winner student depending on fund availability.
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