[hpc-announce] [GAIN2026] Third IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Generative AI for Network Management - CfP

[Kurt Tutschku]

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Third IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Generative AI for Network Management (GAIN2026)
(Co-located with IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2026)
18–22 May 2026, Rome, Italy.
Call for Papers
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Dear colleagues,

the Third IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Generative AI for Network Management (GAIN 2026) provides again a venue to systematically discuss and investigate the use of Generative AI in network and service management.

This Year’s theme is: Towards Agentic and Generative AI Systems for Network Management

The theme reflects the agentic shift in network operations, where multi-AI agents are increasingly utilized, for example, to generate configurations. The workshop assumes that GenAI and agent technologies are increasingly driving the development, deployment, optimization, and autonomous operation of future networks, e.g., in next-generation Radio Access Networks (RANs).

Hence, we would like to invite you to submit your novel work to GAIN 2026:
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The workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers. The workshop invites scientific papers as well as industrial use case papers.

We look forward to your submission (please find the details and topics for submission below).

Best Regards
Alberto, Pal, and Kurt
(GAINS 2026 workshop co-chairs)

The topics for submissions might comprise:

Specifics of Agentic AI in Network Management
-     Collaborative Intelligence for Agentic AI and Generative AI
-     Localization and Transparency of Agentic AI
-     Security and Privacy of Agentic AI
-     Interaction techniques with Agentic AI and Generative AI for network management

Fault Management
–     Predictive Maintenance: Using generative AI for proactive network management
–     Network Troubleshooting using Generative AI, incl. root cause analysis and resolution
–     Monitoring using Generative AI: Using generative AI for efficient monitoring of network resources

Configuration Management
–     Network Configuration Automation with Generative AI
–     Automated Network Design and Deployment using Generative AI
–     Generative AI for Traffic Management: Optimizing network traffic engineering through AI

Accounting
–     Ethical Considerations: Addressing Privacy and Security Concerns in AI-Based Network Management
–     Ensuring fairness between network users using generative AI for optimal resource allocation

Performance
–     Network Optimization with AI: Leveraging generative algorithms for network efficiency
–     Dynamic Resource Allocation: Leveraging generative AI for efficient network resource management
–     Efficient Network Data Analysis using Generative AI:

Security
–     AI-Based Security Protocols: Developing next-generation network security strategies
–     Anomaly Detection and Response: Utilizing generative AI for enhanced network security

General
–     Prompt Engineering for Network Management Using LLMs
–     Robustness and Reliability of Generative AI for net. management (incl. benchmarks and datasets)
–     Scalability, Orchestration, Testing, and Validation of Generative AI for Network Management

Submission and Important Dates:
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Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 19, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: Mar. 2, 2026
Final Camera Ready: Mar. 16, 2026
Conference Date: May 12 or May 16, 2026

Paper format and length: IEEE double-columns - length: 6 pages

Submission site:
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Workshop organisers:
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– Alberto Leon-Garcia, Univ. of Toronto, CA (alberto.leongarcia at utoronto.ca)
– Pal Varga, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, HU (pvarga at tmit.bme.hu)
– Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Inst. of Technology, SE (ktt at bth.se)

Author Instructions:
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Authors are invited to submit original contributions to the workshop that are written in English and that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Workshop papers must be submitted as PDFs using the IEEE conference double-column format style. (Style templates can be found here: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!brxwbBtQE3fTQGbyshVJz5TkUdCkFBJTFYrjDmc79BlDmCHXmhSARWDM75_kdiMEzONinpg4EIDLatuNW-hlXtx2LyWJm58$  )

A NOMS workshop paper must not exceed six pages (excluding references). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. For accepted papers, at least one author is expected to register and present the paper in person at the workshop. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.

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Kurt Tutschku

Professor for Telecommunication Systems



Department of Computer Science (DIDA)



Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH)

Faculty of Computing

371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden



Tel. +46 455 385872

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