The MUSICAL 2026 Workshop will serve as an interdisciplinary forum for the latest research on Mobile & Ubiquitous Systems for Immersive, Connected, and AppLications. The scope spans the full spectrum of information‐ and communication‐technology advances that are shaping next-generation mobile ubiquity, including, but not limited to
ultra-reliable low-latency communications in 5G-Advanced and 6G,
integrated sensing-communication networks and IoT fabric,
edge/cloud continuum, federated learning, and on-device intelligence,
spatial-computing platforms (AR/VR/MR) and cyber-physical digital twins,
human-centric AI for behavioral insight, wellbeing, and accessibility,
privacy-preserving data analytics, security, and trustworthy autonomy, and
sustainable mobile computing and green networking.
We explicitly encourage submissions from graduate students, doctoral candidates, and other early-career researchers. Mobile-ubiquitous computing is evolving at an unprecedented pace; breakthrough ideas often emerge from fresh perspectives unencumbered by legacy assumptions. By highlighting early-stage work from visionary concepts to preliminary prototypes, the workshop aims to accelerate community feedback, collaboration, and mentoring.
The workshop will be organized in a manner that fosters interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. Besides paper presentations, time will be allocated to a session for group discussion. For each group, we will assign one or two active researchers as coordinators to facilitate discussion among participants and provide feedback to young researchers.
New Open Access Publishing Model for ACM
ICDCN 2026 workshop proceedings will be published as a companion volume along with the main conference proceedings. However, please note that ACM has moved to a new open-access publishing model for all conference proceedings to be published via ACM ICPS. The authors have to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to ACM (which is beyond the regular conference registration fee) if the corresponding author’s organization is not a member of the ACM Open program. Please check the details through this link: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance. Several institutes worldwide are already members of the ACM Open program. The authors can use the following link to check if their organization is a member under the ACM Open program: https://libraries.acm.org/acmopen/open-participants. For any clarifications, contact icps-info@acm.org.
Important Date
Deadline for Workshop Papers: September 15, 2025 October 6, 2025 October 20, 2025 (hard deadline)
Decision on Acceptance/Rejection of the Workshop Papers: October 25, 2025 November 3, 2025
Camera-Ready Papers: November 15, 2025 (hard deadline)
Organizers
Tomoya Kawakami
Associate Professor, Fukui University, Japan.
Tomoki Yoshihisa
Professor, Shiga University, Japan.
Technical Programming Committee
Siya Bao (Waseda University, Japan)
Yi-Chung Chen (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan (R.O.C))
Yusuke Gotoh (Okayama University, Japan)
Akihiro Fujimoto (Wakayama University, Japan)
Kei Hiroi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Akimitsu Kanzaki (Shimane University, Japan)
Ryo Katsuma (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
Arnan Maipradit (Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand)
Kanae Matsui (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
Teruhiro Mizumoto (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)
Naoyuki Morimoto (Mie University, Japan)
Takuya Yoshihiro (Wakayama University, Japan)
Contact
musical2026 _at_ ml.sys.wakayama-u.ac.jp (replace _at_ with @)