Call for Papers
The First International Workshop on Networks for AI and AI for Networks (NetAI 2026), held in conjunction
with the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2026), aims to
bring together researchers and practitioners working on the interplay between AI and modern networked
systems. The workshop seeks high-quality contributions addressing theoretical advances, system designs,
experimental evaluations, operational experiences, and emerging research challenges at the intersection of
these domains.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- AI-driven resource management and service orchestration in networks
- Foundation models and generative AI for network management and optimization
- Generative AI-assisted intent-based networking
- Small language models for edge and resource-constrained environments
- AI-driven prediction of resource and performance metrics for orchestration and control
- Machine learning for network monitoring, anomaly detection, diagnosis, and self-healing
- AI-enabled management of NFV/SDN environments
- AI in 5G/6G networks and in the cloud-edge continuum
- Trustworthy, Explainable, and secure AI for networked systems
- Networks and protocols for AI systems and workloads
- Federated learning and collaborative intelligence over networks
- Communication-efficient, privacy-preserving, and secure distributed AI
- Edge computing and distributed cloud for efficient distributed AI
- Performance, scalability, reliability, and sustainability issues in AI/network integration
- Experimental studies, datasets, benchmarks, prototypes, and real-world deployments
- Open challenges and visionary directions in AI for networks and networks for AI
A single-blind peer-review process is adopted. Each submitted paper will receive at least three reviews
from members of the Technical Program Committee.
NetAI 2026 is an in-person event. The workshop will be in-person and no virtual or remote presentations will be permitted. Authors of accepted
papers are responsible to obtain an Italian visa, if required, in a timely manner so as to meet the above
expectation. Accepted papers must be presented in person by one of the authors under full registration to the main conference. Failure
to meet this requirement will result in the exclusion of the paper from the final proceedings. All presented
papers will be submitted to the IEEEXplore Digital Library.
Submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work not currently under
review by any other conference, workshop, or journal. Manuscripts must have a maximum length of 6 pages
(one additional page is allowed upon payment of an extra fee of 100€) and be formatted using the two-column
IEEE conference proceedings template. LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates are available
here. Paper submissions are handled via EDAS (the system is being
finalized).