Call for Papers

• Paper submission deadline: August 20, 2026

• Notification to authors: September 18, 2026

• Camera-ready deadline: October 4, 2026

• Submission portal: link

We encourage high-quality paper submissions on topics related to:

• Continual Anomaly Detection: Adapting models to ongoing changes in data distribution while retaining past knowledge.

• Open World Learning: Training models to recognize and adapt to new conditions with limited or no prior knowledge. This includes unsupervised, semi-supervised, and one-class learning.

• Domain Adaptation: Transferring detection capabilities across different environments.

• Challenging learning conditions: Handling missing data, imbalance, noise.

Other relevant topics include open-world anomaly detection in the following settings: 

• Concept Drift and Data Stream Mining

• Multimodal and Multi-task Learning 

• Federated, Decentralized, and Privacy-Preserving Approaches

• Active, Few-Shot, and Semi-Supervised Learning

• Anomalous Pattern Mining and Discovery

• Explainability in Continual Learning

• Large Language Models

• Graph Learning, Time Series, and Spatio-Temporal Learning 

• Unsupervised, Contrastive, and Adversarial Learning

• Green AI and Model Compression for Learning in Constrained Environments 

• Neural Architecture Search for Task Mapping

The workshop’s focus is on anomaly detection in any real-world application, with special attention to the following key domains:

• Cybersecurity: Intrusion detection, fraud detection, and malware identification.

• Financial Data: Fraud detection and risk assessment in financial transactions.

• Industrial and Sensor Networks: Fault detection, predictive maintenance, etc.

• Cyberphysical Systems & Smart Grids: Anomalies in digital-physical infrastructures.

• Medical Healthcare: Anomalies in medical imaging and electronic health records.

• Social Networks: Misinformation detection, hate speech, and network security. 

We are using IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) to collect camera-ready papers and copyright forms. Please do NOT upload your camera-ready papers or copyright forms to CyberChair.  

Instead, submit your camera-ready papers and copyright forms at the following link, which also contains more detailed instructions on preparing them (including instructions for validation with PDF eXpress): https://ieeecps.org/cps/v2/author-kit/dashboard/2KnH5P2Tdk5q8gARXritEn

If you have never used CPS before, you will be required to Sign Up and create a new account before being able to submit. Please use the same email address that you used for the manuscript submission. Please note this is separate from an IEEE membership login.

Make sure you are submitting your Camera Ready to the ICDMW portal and not the ICDM portal. Also please note that ICDMW follows some separate guidelines from ICDM so be sure to observe the instructions from the ICDMW author kit.

Please make sure to adhere to the following rules for your camera-ready submission:

    • Regular Papers have a limit of 8 pages, including references and appendices

    • For papers transferred from the main ICDM conference, this may mean modifying the body of your paper.

    • You may purchase 2 extra pages at 125 USD/page for both Regular and Short Papers.

    • You may alternatively add a link or reference to the “full” version of your paper (hosted on a legitimate platform such as ArXiV or GitHub) in your standard-length Camera-Ready submission

Should you have any questions about submitting the camera-ready paper and/or the copyright release form, please contact the publication chairs: Prof. Yanfeng Zhang (zhangyf@mail.neu.edu.cn) and Prof. Xinjian Luo (xinjianluo@sjtu.edu.cn) or IEEE CPS Production Editor Martha Nunez (martha.nunez@contractor.ieee.org).

Camera-ready Deadline: 11:59 PM PDT, October 4th, 2026

• All papers must be submitted online via the submission portal: link

• Submitted manuscripts should use the ICDM 2026 paper template and be anonymized, i.e., papers must adhere to the IEEE 2-column format. For the regular paper track, submissions should not exceed 8 pages of content, plus an additional 2 pages for references. For the short paper track, submissions should be limited to a maximum of 4 pages of content, plus 1 extra page for references.

• In alignment with the ICDM 2026 reviewing scheme, all submissions will undergo triple-blind reviews by the Program Committee, evaluating technical quality, relevance to the workshop scope, originality, significance, and clarity.

• Duplicate submissions of the same paper are forbidden (including to more than one ICDM workshop). Papers must be original research. Submitting a paper substantially similar in content to a paper that has been accepted or is under consideration at another archival venue (conference or workshop with proceedings) is not allowed. During the review process, or after acceptance, submitted papers cannot be submitted to another archival venue unless substantial new material is added.

• Accepted papers will be included in the ICDM Workshop Proceedings (separate from ICDM Main Conference Proceedings). The proceedings are published by IEEE and EI-indexed. Each accepted workshop paper requires a full registration.

• A paid registration is required for each accepted paper, regardless of whether it is presented in person or via video.

• Desk Reject Policy: Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or are affected by academic dishonesty issues, such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification, may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs.

All accepted papers will be presented in person as presentation or poster during the workshop or as a video presentation if the authors cannot attend the workshop in person. More details coming soon.

See the previous edition of our workshop along with the recording of all invited talks: 

https://sites.google.com/view/icdm2025-open-world-workshop/home