CFP

ICICS2026: 28th International Conference on Information and Communications Security

Fukui Senkyo Building

Fukui, Japan, October 27-30, 2026

Conference website	https://sulab-sever.u-aizu.ac.jp/icics2026/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics20260
Submission deadline	February 28, 2026

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ICICS 2026 Call For Papers

The 28th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2026) will be held in Fukui, Japan, during October 27-30, 2026. The conference seeks submissions presenting novel contributions related to information and communication security. Topics of interest include bur are not limited to:

Access control
AI-based security and privacy
Anonymity
Applied cryptography
Attestation
Authentication and authorization
Biometrics security
Blockchain security and privacy
Cloud computing security
Critical infrastructure protection
Cyber-physical systems security
Cyber threat intelligence
Data security and privacy
Digital forensics
Digital rights management
Digital watermarking
Distributed systems security

Edge and fog computing security
Embedded systems security
Formal methods for security
Hardware security
Identity management
Information security management
Intrusion detection and prevention
Malware and unwanted software
Mobile security and privacy
Online safety and child protection
Online social media security, privacy, and trust
Operating systems security
Network security
Privacy enhancing technologies
Secure communication protocols
Secure information flow
Secure systems design and architectures
Security and privacy for the (Industrial) Internet of Things

Instructions for Authors

Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references, for double blind reviews.

Submissions should be in English, as a PDF file with all fonts embedded, in the Springer-Verlag LNCS format (details can be found here), typeset with reasonable spacing and margins. Papers should not exceed 18 pages in LNCS style including the bibliography, but excluding well-marked appendices (no more than 20 pages in total).

The manuscripts should be submitted via EasyChair system:

Accepted papers will be presented at ICICS 2025 and included in the conference's post-proceeding published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Please note that at least one author of each accepted paper should register with full rate to the conference and give a presentation at the conference. Failure to register or absence from the presentation will eventually make your paper NOT being included in the conference proceedings.

First submission deadline:

First Round Submission: February 28, 2026, 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Notification: April 28, 2026
Camera-ready: TBA

Second submission deadline:

Submission: May 23, 2026, 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Notification: July 21, 2026
Camera-ready: TBA

Committees

Steering Committee Chair

Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Steering Committee Members

Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, SingaporeDieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, GermanyJavier Lopez, University of Malaga, SpainQingni Shen, Peking University, ChinaZhen Xu, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

General Chairs

Kazumasa Omote, Tsukuba University, JapanYang Cao, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

Program Chairs

Mauro Conti, University of Padua, ItalyChunhua Su, The University of Aizu, Japan

Publication Chair

Hong Zhao, North University of China, China

Web Chair

Zhuotao Lian, Hiroshima University, Japan

Organizing Chairs

Akihito Nakamura, The University of Aizu, JapanShoichi Hirose, University of Fukui, JapanLu Zhou, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Publicity Chairs

Weizhi Meng, Lancaster University, UKHui Qi, Changchun University of Science and Technology, ChinaYuntao Wang, The University of Electro-Communications, JapanRashed Mazumder, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

Registration Chairs

Taku Jiromaru, Kurume University, JapanYasuyuki Kachi, The University of Aizu, Japan

Program Committee

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hongzhao2017@outlook.com