CITS 2026: The 2026 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems

July 22-24, 2026, Piraeus-Athens, Greece

About the Conference 🔗

The 2026 International Conference on Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems, CITS 2026, is an international forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research and development results in all areas of Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems, CITS.

The conference will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, and distinguished keynote speeches. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

Extended versions of selected accepted papers from the conference will be published in special issue(s)/Section(s) of International Journal of Communication Systems (SCI indexed) and Security and Privacy Journal (Wiley).

Technical sponsor

IEEE logo ComSoc logo

Important Dates

  • Invited sessions, workshops, tutorials proposals:
  • Paper submission:
  • Author notification:
  • Camera-ready paper submission:

You can download a one-page Call For Papers (CFP)

Paper Submission

Papers should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 8 printed pages (10-point font, A4 size paper) including figures. For your submission you can use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at:

https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html (Remember: A4 size)

Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF) format, using the following EDAS link:

https://edas.info/N34270

Important Notice:

Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (multiple submission). To learn more about this matter; visit:

Conference Registration 🔗

CITS 2026 Conference Registration

CITS 2026 will be held as a hybrid conference in the period July 22-24, 2026, Piraeus-Athens, Greece. Those authors who will not be allowed to travel abroad by strict national rules in force at the time of the conference or have other serious reasons accepted by the organizers will be given an opportunity to present their accepted work remotely.

Authors can only register with two payment options: credit card and bank wire (through EDAS). Registration covers: Access to all technical sessions, keynote speeches, e-program, e-proceedings, and coffee breaks.

Please read CANCELLATION POLICY first before you pay for the registration.

CITS 2026 Registration (IN PERSON Author/Delegate) IEEE Member2 Non-member2
Author Registration (for Student or Non-Student until June 30th, 20261) €590 €690
No-paper Early Registration (until June 30th, 20261) €590 €690
No-paper Late (from July 1st, 20261)/On Site Registration €690 €790
No-paper Student Registration (from July 1st, 20261) €250 €250
Extra Page Charge (for each page beyond 8 pages/paper) €60 €60

FOR AUTHORS:

All attendees at CITS 2026 should make the registration. To be published in the CITS 2026 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the FULL registration rate.

One FULL REGISTRATION allows the author to upload ONE paper (up to 8 pages) and the Non-refundable registration fees must be paid by July 1st, 2026.

CANCELLATION POLICY:

  • For Author Refunds: Authors who have registered their accepted paper are not eligible for refund if decided to withdraw their paper.
  • For Non-authors, from July 1st, 2026 onwards, there will be No Refund for cancellation.

1 Until/from 12am (midnight) EDT

2 IEEE members must keep updated their society memberships in EDAS.

How to register for CITS 2026

  1. Go to the CITS 2026 Registration at EDAS (sign in or, if you do not have an EDAS account, sign up)
    • Members of IEEE must keep updated their society membership in EDAS (check the "update your society memberships" link) in order to register with reduced charges
  2. Click "Icon" of Payment by Credit Cards or Bank Wire
  3. Enter necessary card details as well as VAT numbers or other details for your invoice; then click the button of "PAY"
    • For Bank Wire, it takes a while for the EDAS system to update your payment status (Important Reminder: please pay "All Bank's Charges If Any Are To Be Born" by yourself!)
  4. After successful payment (via credit card or bank wire), the official receipt will be available to be downloaded from EDAS. We don’t offer the manual/customized receipt.
  5. Any problem occurs in EDAS, please Click "Request help" (on the bottom line of the page) and EDAS staff will reply to you ASAP.

Organizing Committee 🔗

General Chairs

  1. Mohammad S. Obaidat,
    Univ. of Jordan, Jordan
  2. George A. Tsihrintzis,
    Univ. of Piraeus-Athens, Greece
  3. Maria Virvou,
    Univ. of Piraeus-Athens, Greece

Senior Program Chair

  1. Petros Nicopolitidis,
    Aristotle Univ., Greece

Program Chairs

  1. Efthimios Alepis,
    Univ. of Piraeus-Athens, Greece
  2. Chi Lin,
    Dalian Univ. of Technology, China
  3. Mohammad Wazid,
    Graphic Era, India

Assistant General Chair

  1. Yu Guo,
    Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Publication Chair

  1. Xinyu Zhang,
    Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China

Assistant Publication Chair

  1. Jing Zhang,
    Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair

  1. Jose Luis Sevillano,
    Univ. of Seville, Spain

Local Arrangement Chairs

  1. Evangelos Sakkopoulos,
    Univ. of Piraeus-Athens, Greece
  2. Dionisios N. Sotiropoulos,
    Univ. of Piraeus-Athens, Greece

Publicity Chairs

  1. Nitin Gupta,
    National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India
  2. Konstantina Chrysafiadi,
    Univ. of Piraeus-Athens, Greece
  3. Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou,
    Univ. of New Mexico, USA
  4. Seungmin (Charlie) Rho,
    Sungkyul Univ., Korea
  5. Pankaj Pal,
    Univ. of Missouri Columbia, USA

International Liaisons

  1. Sang-Soo (Martin) Yeo,
    Mokwon Univ., Korea
  2. Balqies Sadoun,
    Univ. of Sharjah, UAE
  3. Helen Karatza,
    Aristotle Univ., Greece
  4. Pankaj Kumar,
    Central Univ. of Himachal Pradesh, India
  5. Aparna Kumari,
    Nirma Univ., India

Registration Chair

  1. Yu Guo,
    Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Webmaster

  1. Antonio Bueno,
    Univ. of Girona, Spain

Steering Committee 🔗

  • Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
  • Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
  • Mohammad S. Obaidat, Univ. of Texas, USA & Univ. of Jordan, Jordan (Chair)
  • Jose L. Sevillano, Univ. of Seville, Spain
  • George A. Tsihrintzis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece
  • Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada

Program Committee🔗

  • Hamid R. Arabnia, Univ. of Georgia, USA
  • Hazrat Bilal, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China
  • Ashok Kumar Das, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
  • Franco R. Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
  • Huiying Du, Beijing Information Science and Technology Univ., China
  • Stefano Giordano, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
  • Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy
  • Nitin Gupta, NIT Hamirpur, India
  • Konstantinos F. Kantelis, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Georgios Keramidas, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Fangyu Li, Beijing Univ. of Technology, China
  • Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
  • Mojtaba Mahdavi, Ericsson, Sweden
  • Khalid Mahmood, National Yunlin Univ. of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  • Habib Mostafaei, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
  • Zichao Nie, Beihang Univ., China
  • Pankaj Pal, Univ. of Missouri, USA
  • Jun Peng, UTRGV - Edinburg, TX, USA
  • Sophia Petridou, Univ. of Macedonia, Greece
  • Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar, Hangzhou International Innovation Institute of Beihang Univ., China
  • Angel-Antonio San-Blas, Univ. of Elche, Spain
  • Aggeliki Sgora, Ionian Univ., Greece
  • Axel Sikora, Univ. of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany
  • Georgios L. Stavrinides, KIOS CoE, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Sudeep Tanwar, Nirma Univ., India
  • Eleftherios Tiakas, International Hellenic Univ., Greece
  • Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Arizona State Univ., USA
  • Demosthenes Vouyioukas, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece
  • Lei Wang, Beijing Information Science and Technology Univ., China
  • Pengfei Wang, Dalian Univ. of Technology, China
  • Xiaofei Wang, Beihang Univ., China
  • Yuexian Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China
  • Bernd E. Wolfinger, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
  • Cong Wu, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Heli Zhang, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China
  • Xinyu Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China
  • Xiaolin Zhou, Fudan Univ., China

Topics of Interest 🔗

Track I: Computer Systems

  • Cloud computing
  • Cloud management
  • Cloud services
  • Computer architectures
  • Computer hardware technology
  • Computer-aided designs and technology
  • Display technology
  • Digital circuits, systems and logic design
  • Embedded systems
  • Evolutionary algorithms and computing
  • Fuzzy systems and fuzzy logic
  • Green computing
  • Grid computing and architectures
  • Hardware and software co-design
  • High-performance computing
  • Input/Output systems
  • Low-power computer technology
  • Memory systems
  • Mobile computing
  • Modeling and simulation
  • Object Oriented Languages
  • Operating system and middleware for mobile computing and networking
  • Performance evaluation
  • Pervasive computing
  • Real-time systems and simulations
  • Reconfigurable computing
  • System integration
  • Systems on chip (SoC)
  • Scientific computing algorithms
  • Soft computing
  • Software design, verification and validation
  • Software performance and engineering
  • Social networking and computing
  • VLSI design

Track II: Information Technology

  • Agents and multi-agents systems
  • Artificial intelligence and expert systems
  • Adaptive learning automata
  • Bioinformatics and biological computing and engineering
  • Database and data warehouses
  • Data mining
  • Future web
  • e-Government
  • e-Commerce
  • e-Health
  • e-Learning and adaptive learning
  • Geographical information systems (GIS)
  • Global positioning systems (GPS)
  • Human-computer interaction (HCI)
  • Network systems, proxies and servers
  • Neural networks
  • Protocols and standards
  • RF technology and control error correction
  • Signal and image processing
  • System engineering
  • Telematics
  • Web-Based Simulation Applications

Track III: Web Technologies

  • Accessibility issues and Technology
  • Data Fusion
  • Digital Libraries
  • Content transformation and adaptation in proxy server
  • Metadata and metamodeling
  • Multimedia
  • Ontology and semantic web
  • Personalized web sites/Web site classification and optimization
  • Portal strategies
  • Quality recommendation for software service provisioning
  • Service oriented architecture
  • System integration
  • User modeling
  • Usability and ergonomics
  • Web analytics
  • Web services and engineering
  • Web interfaces and applications
  • Web searching, browsing and ranking
  • Web information retrieval
  • Web intelligence
  • Web performance measurement, modeling and caching
  • XML and data management

Track IV: Networking Systems

  • Bio-inspired and nature-inspired solutions in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
  • Broadband access technologies
  • Cognitive radio
  • Cross-layer design for mobile and wireless networks
  • Dynamic spectrum management
  • Disruption tolerant networks
  • Energy-efficient networks
  • Future Internet
  • Hybrid networks
  • Medium access control protocols
  • Network management
  • Network services and protocols
  • Optical networks
  • Opportunistic networks
  • Personal area networks
  • Performance-oriented design and evaluation focused on networks and mobile applications
  • Quality of service provisioning
  • Routing protocols
  • Sensor networks
  • Smart grids
  • Testbed design and implementation
  • Traffic Eng. & measurements
  • Under water networks
  • 60 GHz networking
  • Wireless networks

Track V: Telecommunication Systems

  • Adaptive communications
  • Channel estimation
  • Cognitive vehicular ad hoc networks
  • Cooperative communications
  • Channel coding
  • Interference management
  • Massive MIMO systems
  • Modulation techniques
  • MIMO systems
  • Novel applications enabled by telecommunication networking systems
  • OFDM communications
  • Power line communication
  • Satellite communication
  • Spread-spectrum communications
  • UWB communications
  • Wireless broadcasting
  • Wireless communication

Track VI: Security Systems

  • Authentication and access control
  • Biometrics systems
  • Computer and communication security
  • Cryptography and cryptanalysis
  • Digital watermarking, fingerprinting, and traitor tracing schemes
  • Detection analysis and prevention of malware
  • Denial of service issues
  • Intrusion detection systems
  • Information systems security
  • Keystroke dynamic systems
  • Multimedia security
  • Network security
  • Network systems forensics
  • Operating systems security
  • Program security
  • Physical security
  • Privacy enhancing technologies
  • Public-key infrastructure systems
  • Quantum cryptography
  • Security of e-Systems and applications
  • Security modeling, tools & simulation
  • Security of personal area networks
  • Security of WiFi and WiMax systems
  • Security of web systems
  • Secure PHY and MAC protocols
  • User & location privacy
  • Virtual Private Network systems
  • Vulnerability and Virus analysis
  • Vulnerability and attack modeling
  • Web security and privacy
  • Web-based application security

Promote CITS 2026 🔗

Help to promote CITS 2026

Help us make CITS 2026 a success!

More attendees means better discussions and a richer experience for everyone.

  • Pass the word about CITS 2026 to your colleagues and friends and encourage them to participate or simply attend
  • Announce CITS 2026 through your contacts, mailing lists, blogs, newsgroups and online forums

Linking to the conference website

You can use the following code to link to us from your site:

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Mentioning CITS 2026 in social media

Please use "CITS2026" (one word) if you refer the conference (e.g. use the hashtag #CITS2026) and link to the main webpage: https://cits.udg.edu/

Thank you so much for your help!

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