Ubiquitous and intelligent infrastructures are facing many challenges of features and emerging technologies and concepts in various domains that require addressing through scientific research activities as a first step for developing future technical solutions. Domains such as Smart environments, Cybersecurity, the Internet of things, and Critical infrastructure are one of the cutting-edge fields that call for research breakthroughs. Smart environments and the Internet of things are already well-known and widely used concepts that give space for research contributions in the development of new services, rising cybersecurity levels, and better management and optimization. On the opposite, quantum communication is the new cutting-edge concept that has the potential to significantly improve communication security, and its various application has yet to be explored.  The FABULOUS 2026 conference planning to unite those and other related research questions and challenges related to Ubiquitous and Intelligent infrastructures through novel works and high-quality review and survey papers.

-Teletraffic & intelligent network: Network traffic anomaly detection, Intelligent network traffic analysis, Machine learning in anomaly detection, Reliability and Performance Modeling, Next-Generation Networking and Internet, 5G & 6G networks, Cloud RANs, Self-organizing networks, Wireless sensor networks and practical applications, Machine-to-machine (M2M), Device-to-device (D2D), Ad-hoc networking, Optical wireless communications
-High Speed/Capacity Networks: Optical Networks, Software-defined networking, Smart city networks, Network infrastructure of Intelligent transport systems (ITS) / C2C, C2I, x2x networks, CFS in Industry 4.0
-Quantum Communication: Quantum communication applications ad use cases, Quantum key distribution, Quantum communication standardization and protocols, Quantum communication network design, Quantum communication network simulations, Cybersecurity aspects of quantum communications
-IoT: IoT cyber threats, IoT threats in critical infrastructure, IoT testbeds • IoT device identification, IoT device classification, IoT device profiling, IIoT (IoT in Industry 4.0), SHIoT (IoT in SmartHome), SCIoT (IoT in SmartCity), ITSIoT (IoT in ITS), DDoS attacks in IoT
-Cyber Security: Cyber threats detection, Cyber threats mitigation, Security, trust and privacy for emerging cyber physical systems, Advanced solutions in Network Security, Physical Security • Privacy and Confidentiality, Cryptography, Multimedia and content security, Digital forensic, DDoS scenarios, Blockchain for cybersecurity and privacy
-AI / ML: Applied machine learning, AI in digital security, AI in future forensic, AI, Big Data and ML for Networking, Datasets creation, Dataset preprocessing, Security challenges associated with deep learning, Federated learning
-Smart Environment Applications/ scenarios: Intelligent transport system (ITS), Industry 4.0, eHealth & eCare solutions, Ambient intelligence and independet living, Assistive technologies, SmartHome, Society 5.0, Digital Single Market
-Multimedia: Video and image signal processing, Audio processing, Third sense multimedia & communication, Quality of service (QoS), Quality of Experience (QoE), Quality of Service (QoS)

Conference Proceedings

All registered and presented papers will be submitted for publication in the Springer – LNICST series and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: FABULOUS Conference Proceedings. This series is indexed in leading indexing services, such as Scopus, Ei Compendex, and zbMATH.

Available journals

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

• Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.0) 

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities

Authors have the opportunity to publish their articles in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Scopus, Ei-indexed, ESCI-WoS, Compendex) by paying an additional $250, discounted from the standard $400 rate for conference authors.

The article’s publication is subject to the following requirements:  

• It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
• The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
• The article will be processed using the fast-track option.
• Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at [email protected] with the details of their article to begin processing.

Additional publication opportunities

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
  (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

EAI is an open community dedicated to creating an environment where every member receives the same opportunities and benefits to develop and grow their research mission and career. As the largest free professional research society in the world, EAI offers a complete range of conference proceedings publication opportunities. Based on the qualification of the conference and the conference scope, EAI provides the possibility to publish the proceedings for every sponsored conference. Consistent with its mission to support developing communities, all EAI sponsored conferences appear in EUDL, the European Union Digital Library (EUDL). EUDL is Open Access and free for EAI members, reaching a community of 250,000 subscribers and providing the visibility that allows the conference organisers to develop the conference into a fully fledged indexed proceedings publication in subsequent years.

Papers should be submitted through the EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

• Full/ Regular papers should be 12-20 pages in length. (Excluding appendices, references, appreciation, etc.)
• Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length. (Excluding appendices, references, appreciation, etc.)

*Please note that additional pages will be subject to an extra charge for each extra page uploaded.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here.

1. Go to Confy+ website.
2. Log in or sign up as a new user.
3. Select your desired track.
4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions.

• All papers must be submitted in English. 

• Submitted PDFs should be anonymized.

• Previously published work cannot be submitted, nor can it be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. These papers will be rejected without review. 
• Papers must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (available in the Author’s Kit section). 
• Authors must read and agree to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
• As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images should have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text)

HOW TO WRITE GOOD ALT TEXT

Full information: https://www.springernature.com/gp/partners/rights-permissions-third-party-distribution 

AI Authorship Policy

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do not currently satisfy our authorship criteria. Notably an attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs. We thus ask that the use of an LLM be properly documented in the Acknowledgements, or in the Introduction or Preface of the manuscript.

The use of an LLM (or other AI-tool) for “AI assisted copy editing” purposes does not need to be declared. In this context, we define the term “AI assisted copy editing” as AI-assisted improvements to human-generated texts for readability and style, and to ensure that the texts are free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation and tone. These AI-assisted improvements may include wording and formatting changes to the texts, but do not include generative editorial work and autonomous content creation. In all cases, there must be human accountability for the final version of the text and agreement from the authors that the edits reflect their original work. This reflects a similar stance taken on the AI generative figures policy, where it was acknowledged that there are cases where AI can be used to generate a figure without being concerned about copyright e.g. to generate a graph based on data provided by the author. 

AI Authorship Guidance

Authors should familiarise themselves with the current known risks of using AI models before using them in their manuscript. AI models have been known to plagiarise content and to create false content. As such, authors should carry out due diligence to ensure that any AI-generated content in their book is correct, appropriately referenced, and follow the standards as laid out in our Book Authors’ Code of Conduct.

AI-generated Images Policy

The fast-moving area of generative AI image creation has resulted in novel legal copyright and research integrity issues. As publishers, we strictly follow existing copyright law and best practices regarding publication ethics. While legal issues relating to AI-generated images and videos remain broadly unresolved, Springer Nature journals and books are unable to permit its use for publication.

Exceptions:

• Images/art obtained from agencies that we have contractual relationships with that have created images in a legally acceptable manner.
• Images and videos that are directly referenced in a piece that is specifically about AI and such cases will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
• The use of generative AI tools developed with specific sets of underlying scientific data that can be attributed, checked and verified for accuracy, provided that ethics, copyright and terms of use restrictions are adhered to.

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive in .ZIP file, containing LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.