CloudIoT Pulse 2026 · Zurich, Switzerland · Oct 19–22

Call for Papers

The 8th International Conference on Cloud, IoT, and Agentic AI invites original, unpublished research on the convergence of cloud infrastructure, IoT systems, and autonomous agent frameworks. All accepted papers appear in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and are indexed by Scopus, DBLP, EI Compendex, and Web of Science.

Submissions are managed through HotCRP at submit.cloudiotpulse.com. Questions: pc-chairs@cloudiotpulse.com.

Important Dates

All deadlines marked AoE are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC−12). Other dates are calendar days, Zurich local time.

Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
Feb 02, 2026
AoE
Abstract Registration (mandatory)
Apr 06, 2026
AoE
Title, abstract, authors, topic area
Full Paper Submission
Apr 13, 2026
AoE
Hard deadline — no extensions
Artifact Submission (optional)
Apr 20, 2026
AoE
Reviews Released to Authors
Jun 08, 2026
CET
Author Rebuttal Period
Jun 08 – 15, 2026
CET
1,000-word response per paper
PC Meeting (virtual)
Jun 22 – 24, 2026
CET
Author Notification
Jun 29, 2026
CET
Shepherding Completion
Aug 03, 2026
CET
Camera-Ready Deadline
Aug 17, 2026
AoE
Early-Bird Registration Closes
Sep 14, 2026
CET
Workshops & Tutorials
Oct 19, 2026
CET
Zurich, Switzerland
Main Conference
Oct 20 – 22, 2026
CET

Tracks

Authors select a primary track at abstract registration. The PC chairs may reassign submissions across tracks to balance reviewer load. Papers are reviewed by at least three PC members from the relevant track, plus one cross-track reviewer for interdisciplinary submissions.

T1

Agentic AI Systems

Track Chairs · Prof. Lena Holtz (ETH Zürich) · Dr. Samuel Chen (Google DeepMind)

Architectures, runtimes, and evaluation methodologies for autonomous and multi-agent systems operating across heterogeneous cloud and edge substrates.

  • ·Multi-agent coordination, negotiation, and planning
  • ·Tool-use, code execution, and sandboxed agent runtimes
  • ·Memory systems, retrieval, and long-horizon reasoning
  • ·Benchmarks, evaluation, and reproducibility for agent workflows
  • ·Cost-, latency-, and energy-aware agent scheduling
T2

Cloud Infrastructure & Distributed Systems

Track Chairs · Dr. Priya Ramanathan (MIT CSAIL) · Dr. Marcus Wei (Carnegie Mellon)

Foundational systems research on programmable cloud fabrics, serverless platforms, storage, scheduling, and the systems supporting modern AI workloads.

  • ·Serverless and FaaS runtimes; cold-start mitigation
  • ·Distributed training and inference for foundation models
  • ·Cluster scheduling, resource disaggregation, GPU/TPU fabrics
  • ·Storage systems, caching, and consistency at scale
  • ·Datacenter networking, RDMA, and programmable switches
T3

IoT, Edge & Cyber-Physical Systems

Track Chairs · Prof. Diego Alvarez (UC Berkeley) · Dr. Naledi Okonkwo (TU Delft)

End-to-end systems spanning constrained devices, edge gateways, and cloud back-ends, with an emphasis on real-world deployment and field evaluation.

  • ·Edge–cloud orchestration and federated learning
  • ·Low-power wireless, 5G/6G, and TSN integration
  • ·Sensor fusion, time-series analytics, digital twins
  • ·Industrial IoT, smart-grid, and autonomous mobility
  • ·On-device ML, model compression, and TinyML
T4

Security, Privacy & Trust

Track Chairs · Prof. Jamal Holt (Stanford) · Dr. Yuki Aras (NTT Research)

Threat models, defenses, and verifiable guarantees for cloud, IoT, and agent ecosystems, including confidential computing and supply-chain integrity.

  • ·Confidential computing, TEEs, and attestation
  • ·IoT device identity, provisioning, and lifecycle security
  • ·Adversarial robustness and red-teaming for agents and LLMs
  • ·Privacy-preserving ML and differential privacy at scale
  • ·Software supply-chain security and SBOM verification
T5

Sustainable & Carbon-Aware Computing

Track Chairs · Dr. Elena Ricci (Politecnico di Milano) · Dr. Aaron Hayes (Microsoft Research)

Measuring, modelling, and reducing the environmental impact of cloud and IoT systems, from silicon to datacenter to global scheduling.

  • ·Carbon-aware scheduling and workload shifting
  • ·Energy modelling for training, inference, and inference serving
  • ·Hardware lifecycle and embodied-carbon accounting
  • ·Sustainable network and edge deployments
  • ·Policy, reporting, and standards (SCI, GHG Protocol)
T6

Experience & Industrial Track

Track Chairs · Dr. Jonathan Chen (Amazon) · Prof. Margaret Hwang (NUS)

Rigorous deployment papers, post-mortems, and measurement studies from production cloud, IoT, and agent systems. Single-blind review; up to 10 pages.

  • ·Production deployment studies and post-mortems
  • ·Large-scale measurement of cloud, edge, or agent systems
  • ·Negative results and lessons learned
  • ·Operational tooling, observability, and SRE practice

Submission Guidelines

Paper Categories

  • Full Research Paper: up to 12 pages + unlimited references.
  • Short Paper: up to 6 pages + references; novel ideas or work in progress.
  • Experience Paper: up to 10 pages (Track T6, single-blind).
  • Artifact: optional 2-page appendix; eligible for the Reproducibility Badge.

Formatting

  • — IEEE conference format, 10 pt, two-column. LaTeX template required.
  • — PDF only, A4 paper, embedded fonts, < 20 MB.
  • — Figures and tables must remain legible when printed in greyscale.
  • — Generative-AI assistance must be disclosed in the acknowledgements.

Double-Blind Review

  • — Remove author names, affiliations, funding sources, and acknowledgements.
  • — Cite your own prior work in the third person.
  • — Do not post the paper to arXiv between abstract registration and notification.
  • — Track T6 (Experience) is single-blind; authors may identify themselves.

Ethics & Policy

  • — Concurrent submission to other venues is prohibited (IEEE Policy 6.3).
  • — Human-subjects research requires IRB or equivalent approval.
  • — Security disclosures must follow a 90-day responsible-disclosure window.
  • — Plagiarism is screened via iThenticate; threshold 25 % excluding references.

Review Process

  • — ≥ 3 PC reviews per paper; ≥ 4 for borderline submissions.
  • — 1,000-word author rebuttal during the response window.
  • — Virtual PC meeting with online discussion and shepherding for conditional accepts.
  • — Historical acceptance rate: 15–18 %.

Publication & Presentation

  • — Camera-ready papers appear in IEEE Xplore and conference proceedings (ISSN 2769-4418).
  • — At least one author must register at the full rate and present in person in Zurich.
  • — Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Reproducibility awards are presented at the banquet.
  • — Selected papers will be invited to extend for a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.

Submission Portal