[hpc-announce] [CFP] IEEE International Symposium on, Network Computing and Applications (NCA)

[Fabrizio De Vita]

Call for Papers
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The 24th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and 
Applications (NCA 2026)
November 10-13, 2026, Ortigia-Syracuse (Sicily), Italy
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Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. The 
proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore.
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About NCA
The IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications 
is a successful series of conferences that serves as a large 
international forum for presenting and sharing recent research results 
and technological developments in the fields of network and distributed 
computing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Network Architectures & Protocols
Routing Mechanisms
Distributed Systems & Platforms
Cloud, Edge, Computing Continuum
Future Internet and Internet of Things
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Network Softwarization & Virtualization
Autonomic & Self-Networked Systems
Performance, QoS & Energy Efficiency
Security, Privacy & Dependability
Blockchain
Social Networks
Data/AI for Networked and Distributed Systems
Applications, Prototypes & Experiences
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs)
Distributed Quantum Computing

Important dates
NCA 2026 welcomes contributions as regular, demo, or poster manuscripts. 
Further formatting requirements and page limits are clarified later. All 
the deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Regular manuscripts due: June 19, 2026
Demo/poster manuscripts due: July 24, 2026
Author notification (for all manuscripts): September 11, 2026
Camera-ready submission (for all manuscripts): September 25, 2026

Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously 
unpublished work not currently under review by any other conference, 
workshop, or journal. Manuscripts must be formatted using the two-column 
IEEE conference proceedings template. Paper submissions are handled via 
EDAS (the system is being finalized).
Double-blind peer review process
Papers following formatting requirements will be peer reviewed by at 
least three reviewers selected from the Technical Program Committee. For 
regular papers, NCA 2026 applies a double-blind peer review process. 
Authors are expected to anonymize their manuscripts. The submission must 
not reveal the authors’ identities anywhere in the text, whether 
explicitly or implicitly. When citing prior work that is their own, 
authors should describe it in the third person, as though it were 
produced by others. At the same time, anonymization should not 
compromise the paper’s integrity: do not remove relevant references 
solely because they are self-citations, since reviewers may need those 
works to assess context and novelty. Papers that fail to comply with 
these anonymization requirements will be rejected without review.

Manuscripts page limit
Page limits include all figures, tables, and references.
Regular Papers: 8 pages, up to 2 extra pages (under payment of an extra 
per-page fee of 100€)
Poster/Demo Papers: 2 pages, no extra pages allowed
NCA 2026 is an in-person event
The conference will be in-person and no virtual or remote presentations 
will be permitted. Authors of accepted papers are responsible to obtain 
an Italian visa, if required, in a timely manner so as to meet the above 
expectation. Accepted papers must be presented in person by one of the 
authors under full registration. Failure to meet this requirement will 
result in the exclusion of the paper from the final proceedings. All 
presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and 
submitted to the IEEEXplore Digital Library.
For further information, please consult the Website at 
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Best paper award and editorial follow-ups
The authors of the best paper will receive an award in recognition of 
their contribution to the field.
Substantially extended versions of selected high-quality papers accepted 
to the main conference will be considered for publication in a 
high-quality (Q1) Journal (to be defined).

General Co-Chairs
Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina)
Om Prakash Vyas (IIT Raipur)
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
Maurizio Giacobbe (University of Messina)
Carlo Puliafito (University of Pisa)
For any questions about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs.