The 1st Workshop on Trustworthy Data for Agentic AI in Network and Service Management (TrustDataNet 2026) will be held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2026).

Scope

Network and service management is moving from rule-based automation toward agentic intelligence, where AI-enabled agents observe, reason, plan, act, and adapt across complex networked infrastructures.

TrustDataNet 2026 focuses on the trustworthy data layer required for reliable autonomous and agentic network and service management. The workshop addresses data quality, provenance, validation, benchmarking, governance, synthetic data, digital twins, observability pipelines, and trustworthy AI pipelines for 5G-Advanced, 6G, O-RAN, edge-cloud orchestration, network slicing, private networks, and AI-as-a-Service.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, operators, industry, testbed providers, open-source communities, standardization bodies, and EU/6G research projects.

Topics of Interest

We invite original research papers, short papers, position papers, dataset papers, tool papers, demo papers, and experience reports. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

• Trustworthy and AI-ready data pipelines for 5G-Advanced and 6G network and service management

• Data quality metrics, validation frameworks, and automated assurance for telemetry, monitoring, and observability data

• Cross-layer, multi-domain, and multi-source data correlation for autonomous management systems

• Synthetic, emulation-based, simulation-based, generative-AI-based, and digital-twin-based data generation for rare events and edge cases

• Validation of synthetic data and assessment of simulator-to-reality and digital-twin-to-reality gaps

• Dataset documentation, metadata schemas, provenance, reproducibility, leakage-free splits, and benchmark design

• Data-centric evaluation of AI agents for closed-loop network and service management

• Safe learning, policy validation, and runtime monitoring for agentic network management

• Privacy-preserving data sharing, federated analytics, secure multi-party computation, and confidential data spaces

• Explainability, fairness, bias detection, accountability, and auditability in data-driven management decisions

• Open-source tools, testbeds, datasets, data-space platforms, and benchmarking pipelines

• Lessons learned from 5G-Advanced and early 6G testbeds on data-related bottlenecks

• Standardization efforts in 3GPP, ETSI, IETF, O-RAN, and related bodies for trustworthy data exposure and AI-native management

• Governance, security, regulatory compliance, and responsible data management for agentic systems

Technical Program

The workshop is organized as an interactive half-day event combining technical papers, an invited keynote, a hands-on demo session, and a panel discussion. 

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Paper Submission and Format

TrustDataNet 2026 welcomes original research papers, short papers, position papers, dataset papers, tool papers, demo papers, and experience reports.

All submissions must follow the CNSM 2026 workshop formatting and publication rules. Papers must be submitted through EDAS.

Accepted workshop papers are expected to be included in the CNSM 2026 workshop proceedings, subject to the conference publication rules and final acceptance procedures.

Organizing Committee  

• Fatemeh Tabatabaei, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain

• Josep Mangues-Bafalluy, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain

Technical Program Committee 

• Morteza Ahmadian, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

• Farhad Rezazadeh, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

• Sarang Kahvazadeh, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain

• Redha A. Alliche, Huawei Paris Research Center, France

• Vaishnavi Kasuluru, Terma, Germany

• Somayeh Bazin, Coventry University, United Kingdom 

Additional TPC members will be announced.

Venue and Registration

TrustDataNet 2026 will be held physically in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, in conjunction with CNSM 2026. Registration, accommodation info, and travel logistics are managed directly through the main conference website. Please visit the CNSM 2026  for more details.