[TYPES/announce] NETYS 2026 First Call for Papers

[Roland Meyer]

**Call for Papers**
THE 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKED SYSTEMS (NETYS 2026)
June 10-12, 2026, Agadir, Morocco
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.netys.net__;!!IBzWLUs!Vmb7wfvSVjyvZ7xJrjVzvG4mVOVlHlW1QUBCUaB_b-G1iNG7wckx9-wYV6J90eihVXv2tpLflQT0DCm60d5BVvTtFI0pcU-tEysAqpJxEWwIaZ4$ 
 
**Aim and Scope**
NETYS aims to bring together researchers and engineers from the theory and practice of distributed and networked systems. The scope of the conference covers all aspects related to the design and the development of these systems, including, but not restricted to, cloud systems, formal verification, concurrent and distributed algorithms, data management, data science, parallel/concurrent/distributed programming, machine learning theory and applications, large language models, multicore architectures, networks, and security.

NETYS will provide a forum to report on best practices, novel algorithms, results, and techniques on networked systems. Original research contributions and experience papers on the principles, design, implementation, modeling, analysis, verification, and application of networked systems are solicited. 
Topics of interest are broadly divided into three categories: networked systems, distributed computing, and machine learning.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):  

1-Networked systems 

- Cloud systems and data centers
- Cyber-physical systems
- Distributed databases, embedded and operating systems
- Multicore architectures and multi-threaded applications
- Distributed ledgers and blockchain technologies
- Internet of Things, 6G, URLLC
- Mobile, wireless, ad-hoc, and sensor networks
- Social networks
- Overlay and peer-to-peer infrastructures

2-Distributed Computing

- Concurrency, synchronization, and persistence
- Distributed and concurrent data structures
- Languages, verification, and formal methods for distributed systems
- Design and analysis of distributed algorithms
- Lower bounds and impossibility results for distributed computing
- Game theory, mechanism design
- Fault-tolerance, reliability, self-stabilizing and self-organizing systems
- Collaborative intelligent systems

3-Machine-Learning 

- Collaborative/federated learning
- Distributed machine learning
- Trustworthy machine learning
- Large language models theory and applications
- Fairness and privacy in machine learning
- Reinforcement learning theory and applications
- Generative AI
- Optimization algorithms
 
**Important dates (all deadlines are at 23:59 AoE)**
- Abstract submission: March 11, 2026
- Paper submission: March 18, 2026
- Notifications: April 22, 2026
- Conference dates: June 10-12, 2026

**Publication**
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series will publish the conference proceedings (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs__;!!IBzWLUs!Vmb7wfvSVjyvZ7xJrjVzvG4mVOVlHlW1QUBCUaB_b-G1iNG7wckx9-wYV6J90eihVXv2tpLflQT0DCm60d5BVvTtFI0pcU-tEysAqpJxOE9YXkY$ ). One of the authors of each accepted paper must present it at the conference.
 
**Submission Instructions**
All submissions must follow the LNCS template and be written in English.
Full papers are allowed a maximum of 15 pages in the LNCS format, excluding bibliographic references, whereas short papers are allowed a maximum of 5 pages (in the same format).
 
Papers exceeding these limits may be rejected without review. A clearly marked appendix can be included for supplementary materials, but it will be read at the reviewers' discretion; therefore, the main body of the paper should contain sufficient details to assess its contributions.
 
Submission of papers is via Easychair:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netys2026__;!!IBzWLUs!Vmb7wfvSVjyvZ7xJrjVzvG4mVOVlHlW1QUBCUaB_b-G1iNG7wckx9-wYV6J90eihVXv2tpLflQT0DCm60d5BVvTtFI0pcU-tEysAqpJxVeebRz0$ 
 
**Program Chairs**
Roland Meyer <roland.meyer at tu-bs.de>
Mohamed Seddik <mohamed.seddik at tii.ae>