Timelines for the workshops: (All the deadlines are in AoE)

• Opening of Workshop Papers for Acceptance:  August 10,2026 

• Deadline for Workshop Papers: September 1, 2026

• Decision on Acceptance/Rejection of the Workshop Papers:                     October 15, 2026

• Deadline Camera Ready Submissions for Workshop Papers: October 29, 2026 

• Workshop during ICDCN 2027: January 4-7, 2027

Submission Instructions

Paper length and format: 

Papers should be at most 6 pages, including title, abstract, figures and references, and not published or under review elsewhere. Papers should be prepared as per ACM conference proceedings format. 

https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template  

Double-Blind Review

Do not reveal author names, affiliations, email addresses, or identities anywhere in the manuscript. Reviews follow the ACM Peer Review Policy.

Generative AI Policy

Use of generative AI tools must comply with the ACM authorship and generative AI policy.

Submission Link:  

Submissions for the workshop must be made online through the following submission link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcn2027 

In the Author section, click a "make a new submission" hyperlink. In the next page you will find a radio button labeled "ICDCN 2027 - International Workshop on Autonomous UAV Swarms and Distributed Airborne Tracking Systems." Select this option and proceed to submit your paper to the workshop. Please ensure your paper follows all formatting and anonymization guidelines before uploading.

Registration of accepted workshop papers: 

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. In addition, no-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers NOT being included in the proceedings.

Proceedings: 

The ICDCN 2027 proceedings along with all the satellite events (posters, demo, workshops, etc.) will be published by The ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS), which is indexed by ACM, DBLP, Scopus, and other indexing bodies and made available through the ACM digital library.

Important note to authors about ACM's new open access publishing model:

ACM has introduced a new open-access publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance .