The 3rd International Workshop on Reliable Autonomics and Internet of Things (RA-IoT)

 Call for Papers

Reliable autonomic systems are designed with self-management capabilities that enable them to monitor, analyse, decide, and act with minimal human intervention. These capabilities help reduce the burden of system operation and management while supporting more efficient, resilient, and trustworthy behaviour.

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow, computational and networked devices are being deployed across an increasingly wide range of technological domains. However, the scale, heterogeneity, distribution, and resource constraints of IoT environments make manual configuration and management increasingly impractical.

To address these challenges, intelligent mechanisms are needed to support autonomy, allowing devices, networks, and services to operate efficiently, securely, and reliably with minimal human involvement. This workshop invites submissions on reliable autonomic systems, IoT solutions, and related approaches that advance the design, deployment, management, and assurance of autonomous and connected systems.

This workshop invites submission of papers in the research area of reliable Autonomics and/or IoT solutions.

Specific topics may include but are not limited to:

• 5G, beyond 5G, and mission-critical services

• Agentic AI

• Best-effort goal realisation

• Cryptography and steganography solutions and services

• Decision-support systems and services

• Digital twins

• End-to-end IoT management frameworks

• Healthcare-based IoT solutions

• Detection and remediation of failures, uncertainty, and security breaches

• Goal-oriented swarm solutions

• Heterogeneous and resource-constrained networks

• IoT automation

• IoT edge services, security, and trust

• Legal, policy, and governance roles for reliable services

• Machine-learning-based solutions

• Net-zero technologies

• Secure ledger-based computational solutions

• Self-healing networks

• Service-level agreement management, monitoring, and adherence

• Trust attestation

• Zero-trust protocols for reliable systems

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: November 27, 2026
Author Notification: January 15, 2027
Camera-Ready Submission: January 31, 2027
Author Registration: January 31, 2027
AINA 2027 Important dates: https://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/aina/2027/

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors should submit a paper with a maximum 12 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. Papers must be prepared using the Lecture Notes Style of Springer Proceedings (template: HERE ) and must be formatted in PDF format.

Papers should be submitted electronically via the RA-IoT AINA-2027 EDAS submission page. 

https://edas.info/N35435 

All submissions will undergo peer review. Accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes conference proceedings. The proceedings will be submitted by Springer for indexing in Scopus.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. Papers that are not presented may be removed from the digital library after the conference.

The workshop will operate in a hybrid mode.

For general questions about this workshop, please contact j.rafferty@ulster.ac.uk 

Venue

The conference will be held at the Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania