The Preliminary Program of 

the 2026 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC'26)

September 08 - 10, 2026, Bristol - UK

The live sessions of the conference will be held in Bristol - England, Time Zone (GMT/UTC + 01:00) >>> Time Converter

IEEE Catalog Number:  CFP2668Y-ART

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Full ISNCC 2026 Conference Program

The live sessions of the conference will be held at University of Bristol - UK -  Time Zone (GMT +1 / UTC + 1)

09:00 – 09:30

 Welcome & Opening Ceremony

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 Prof. Alma Oracevic  (General Chair)

 Prof. Tarek Bejaoui (Technical Program Chair)

09:30 - 10:30

Keynote Speaker 1:

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             Session Chair: TBA

11:00 - 12:30

Session A1: AI & ML for Networks and Smart Systems

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1571304395    Deep Reinforcement Learning and Prim's Algorithm for k-Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks     

Habib M Ammari and Humberto Huerta (Texas A&M International University, USA)

1571284406    Knowledge Distillation for Intelligent Softwarized Networks: Advances and Open Challenges 

Mohamed Ali Zormati (Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), France); Ghada Jaber (Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France); Hicham Lakhlef (Univ Bordeaux, France)

1571276344    Leakage-Aware Early Cybersickness Prediction from Multimodal VR Sensor Signals

Ahmad Riznandi Suhari (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokai University, Japan); Kazuhiko Hamamoto and Takashi Shibata (School of Information Science and Technology, Tokai University, Japan); Sunu Wibirama (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)

1571276766    Audits for Temporal Link Forecasting: Why Decay Calibration Outperforms Neural Architecture Under Heavy-Tailed Dyna    

Jose D. Iraheta (Iraheta Group, USA & Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil); Raimir Holanda Filho (University of Fortaleza, Brazil)

1571305670    PDF-to-HTML Layout-Preserving Machine Translation for Multilingual Open Education Resources: Addressing Character Density Expansion Across Languages   

João Filipe Papel (Tokai University, Japan & United Nations University, Japan); Tatsuji Munaka (Tokai University, Japan)

1571249857    End-to-End Fog-Based Monitoring System for Smart Greenhouse Agriculture: From Sensor Design to Data Visualization     

Jihene Rezgui (College Maisonneuve, Canada); Nils Lahaye (Polytechnique, Canada); Samy Rahmani (College Maisonneuve, Canada)

Session A2: Adversarial AI & Autonomous Security  

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1571291921    Agentic Cybersecurity: Autonomous Threat Detection & Defense Against Adversarial Metamorphic Malware Attacks        

Victor M Gonzalez-Gorrin and Josep Prieto-Blazquez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)

1571276336    How Reliable Are Automated Jailbreak Evaluators? A Study of Human-Machine Agreement in Cybersecurity Multi-Turn LLM Attacks 

Michael Tchuindjang (University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nathan Duran and Phil Legg (University of the West of England, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Faiza Medjek (UWE, Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571305696    Real-Time Deepfake Detection on IoT Edge Devices via Lightweight CNN and WebRTC Integration   

Michael Simmons, Jacob Massa and Suk Jin Lee (James Madison University, USA)

1571337209    Security-Aware Adaptive Offloading for Resource-Constrained UAV Systems Using Homomorphic Encryption    

Romia Lasmin Nafisa (University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ahmad Salman (James Madison University, USA); Amina Hamoud (University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sarfraz Nawaz Brohi (University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol United Kingdom, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571312234    CATLP: Congestion-Aware Targeted Label Poisoning of GNN-Based Traffic Speed Forecasting 

Abdullah M. Alfatah (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Mohamed Baza (College of Charleston, USA); Khaled Rabieh (Metropolitan State University, USA)

Session A3: 5G/6G Wireless Systems and Network Optimization   

Session Chair : TBA

Room: TBA

1571275731    Experimental Analysis of Performance-Energy Trade-offs in Wi-Fi 7 Multi-Band Mobile Systems       

Vivianne de Aquino Rodrigues and Luan Rocha Lopes (Sidia Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil); João Vitor da S. Campos (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil & Sidia Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil); Vanessa Reboucas de Amorim and Celso Henrique (Sidia Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil)

1571305649    Intelligent Near-RT RIC xApp for 5G O-RAN Small Cells: Energy-Efficient PRB Optimization with E2 Control

Mohammad Yaser Ammar (Advanced Communications & Electronic Systems Company (ACES), Saudi Arabia & ACES Company, Saudi Arabia); Atef A. Aburas (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES) & ACES, Saudi Arabia); Ali Ahmed (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems, Saudi Arabia); Khalid Al-Mashouq (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES)., Saudi Arabia & ACES, Saudi Arabia); Akram Aburas (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES)., Saudi Arabia); Adnan Muhammed Faiz and Nauman Shafeeq (Advanced Communication and Electronics Systems (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Asadullah Leghari (Advanced Communications and Electronic Systems Company (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Abdulraheem Aburas (Advanced Communications & Electronics System (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Mohammad Aburas (University of California, Irvine, USA)

1571281291    Performance Analysis of UL Tx Switching, Carrier Aggregation and UL-MIMO in 5G NR Systems         

Abdel Fadyl Chabi (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil & Sidia Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil); Vilmar Bolzan de Almeida Junior, Mario Jorge Braga, Celso Henrique and Gabriel Miranda Rodrigues (Sidia Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil)

1571305453    Coupled Access-Fronthaul Feasibility Analysis for Wireless-Fronthauled Cell-Free Massive MIMO under an Option-8 Functional Split   

Muhammed Selman Somuncu (Tobb Economics and Technology University, Turkey); Özlem Tuğfe Demir (Bilkent University, Turkey)

1571301401    Energy-Efficient Waveform Design for 6G IoT: A Comparative Study of Advanced OFDM-IM Schemes 

Ahmed Waheed and Smaya Moher (Technological University Dublin, Ireland)

1571292670    MORAN-Enabled O-RAN Split 7.2 Based 5G Indoor Small Cell Using srsRAN and a Custom RF Front End           

Nauman Shafeeq (Advanced Communication and Electronics Systems (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Ali Ahmed (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems, Saudi Arabia); Atef A. Aburas (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES) & ACES, Saudi Arabia); Mohammad Yaser Ammar (Advanced Communications & Electronic Systems Company (ACES), Saudi Arabia & ACES Company, Saudi Arabia); Adnan Muhammed Faiz (Advanced Communication and Electronics Systems (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Abdulraheem Aburas (Advanced Communications & Electronics System (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Khalid Al-Mashouq (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES)., Saudi Arabia & ACES, Saudi Arabia); Akram Aburas (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES)., Saudi Arabia); Mohammad Aburas (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Session A4v: AI, Analytics & Decision Support         

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1571300912    Verify, Explain, Remain Independent: A Learner-Agency Lens on Generative AI Use in a Higher-Education Machine Learning Course 

Stefania Zourlidou (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

1571326340    Beyond Speedup: Accuracy-Aware Scaling of Spatial Auto-correlation

Rim Moussa (LaTICE & ENI-Carthage, Tunisia); Tarek Bejaoui (University of Carthage, Tunisia); Islem Yagoubi (FSB, Tunisia)

1571305666    Can Open-Weight LLMs Detect Flawed Exam Questions? A Lecturer-in-the-Loop Benchmark for Technical Higher Education   

Stefania Zourlidou (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

1571305702    A dataset preparation and augmentation methods for improving infrared small-object detection algorithms based on neural networks  

Maksim Zhegulin and Sergey Karamov (Novus Converged Aerospace Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571292648    Resource-Aware Distributed Edge Framework for Heterogeneous Video Analytics

Chandra Shekar RK and Sai Prashanth V (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India); Lucy Gudino (BITS Pilani, India); Neena Goveas (BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India)

1571267787    Implication of rough-fuzzy Dematel-based Analytic Network Process in bridging the gap between organisational performance and Business Intelligence Model 

Ndala Mulongo (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) 

Session A5v: Advancements in Communications and Signal Processing for Smart Systems

Session Chair : TBA

Room: TBA

1571275229    Multi-detection for Internet of Everything Enabled Smart City Indoor Positioning: A Comparison of JML and SIC in VLC-NOMA Systems   

Naser Tarhuni, Hira Khalid and Hafiz Asif (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman); Muhammad Rizwan Mughal (Sultan Qaboos Universtiy, Oman)

1571283588    Comparative Performance Analysis of 6G Waveforms With High Power Amplifier Nonlinearities      

Bouguila Amani (National Engineering School of Gabès, Tunisia); Abdelhakim Khlifi (Innov'Com Laboratory, Higher School of Communications (Sup'COM), Tunis & University of Carthage, Tunisia); Hmaied Shaiek (CNAM, France); Mohamed Yahia (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

1571292474    A Point-Scatterer Approach to Terrain Reconstruction for Imaging Radar Simulation

Aleksandr Kharin, Sergey Karamov and Nikolai Kokin (Novus Converged Aerospace Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571277478    Power-Reduction-Driven UAV Deployment Density Enhancement for Coexistence with EESS in the 26 GHz Band       

Yuehang Zuo (Beijing University of Post and Telecommnunications, China); Cheng Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Gaofeng Cui and Weidong Wang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

1571283596    WOA-PTS: A Whale Optimization Based Partial Transmit Sequence for PAPR Reduction in OTFS        

Bouguila Amani (National Engineering School of Gabès, Tunisia); Abdelhakim Khlifi (Innov'Com Laboratory, Higher School of Communications (Sup'COM), Tunis & University of Carthage, Tunisia); Hmaied Shaiek (CNAM, France); Mohamed Yahia (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

14:00 - 15:00

Keynote Speaker 2:

Title: TBA

             Session Chair: TBA

15:30 - 17:00             

Session A6v: AI & ML in Medical Imaging and Healthcare  

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571306590    A Reliability-Focused Deep Learning Framework for Medical Image Analysis

Atik Naikwade (Capgemini, USA); Sarvesh Pedi (KL University, India)

1571304742    Morphological Analysis for Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Identification in Peripheral Blood Microscope Images Using ImageJ       

Minakshi Arya (North Dakota State University, USA); Shubhavi Arya (Indiana University Bloomington, USA); Saatvik Arya (University of Washington, USA)

1571276731    Self-Supervised Laparoscopic Image Denoising for Endometriosis Detection

Yosr Haddad (University of Carthage, Tunisia); Hela Mahersia (University of Carthage, Tunisia & National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia)

1571304726    TransferGAN-Transformer Image Generation for Leukemia Microscopy Analysis

Shubhavi Arya (Indiana University Bloomington, USA); Saatvik Arya (University of Washington, USA); Minakshi Arya (North Dakota State University, USA)

1571304608    Toward Multimodal Detection of Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors Using Vision and Wearable Sensors

Nishanth Sasikumar, Jayanth Bhansali and Nestor Tiglao (University of Maryland, USA)

1571291515    A Secure SDN-Blockchain Architecture for Controlled Medical Data Access in IoT Networks 

Elias Balseca-Fernandez, Mauro Ojeda-Alarcon and Jose Tapia-Gomez (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador); Anibal Calle-Zuniga (ESPOL, Ecuador); Patricia Chavez-Burbano (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador & Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru); Washington Velasquez (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador)

1571304612    Bridging the Synthetic-to-Real Gap in Impulsive Sound Detection Using Audio Transfer Learning       

Charlie Holden, Mathew Ridgely, Jayanth Bhansali and Nestor Tiglao (University of Maryland, USA)

Session A7v: AI-Driven Cybersecurity                      

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571323517    From Scroll to Evidence: An Android Forensics Investigation of UpScrolled Ap

Bilgehan Gul and Umit Karabiyik (George Mason University, USA)

1571276032    Security and Privacy in Aquatic Acoustic Systems: A Review of ML/DL in Edge-Fog-Cloud

Sheeja Rani S (CEA, France); Raafat Aburukba (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

1571302956    An Explainable and Efficient Ensemble Framework for Phishing Email Detection

Taiwo Abdulkareem Onitiju and Swapnoneel Roy (University of North Florida, USA); Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay (Mumbai University (NHITM), India)

1571306567    Forecasting Cyber-Attacks using Machine learning Models in IoT Environment

Ikbel Mejri, Amira Zrelli (Enit, Tunisia)

1571275741    Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Robust Intrusion Detection in Software Defined Network       

Temechu G Zewdie (University of the District of Columbia, USA & Software Engineer - National Association for Social Workers, USA)

1571278842    DAFF: Deployment-Aware Feature Fusion for Efficient TinyML-Based Intrusion Detection in IoT        

A. G. M. Fuad Hasan Akanda and Baris Aksanli (San Diego State University, USA)

Session A8v: Edge Intelligence and Connectivity                

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571290767    PESCAPE: SLA-Preserving Escape Routes for Service Function Chains

Vivek Singh (USA)

1571269461    SHFL-EI: Secure Hierarchical Federated Learning with Edge Intelligence for Robust IoT Security         

Afef Slimani (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Kamel Karoui (National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Tunisia)

1571305492    Computation Caching and Reuse for Mobile CNN Optimization          

James M Mariani, Yujin Ki and Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA)

1571278548    Similarity-Aware ML Model Selection for Network-Device Collaboration      

Hojin Kim (AUMOVIO Germany GmbH, Germany); Osvaldo Gonsa (Aumovio Germany GmbH, Germany)

1571305298    Maximizing Connectivity of IoT Devices in Smart Street using 6G outdoor VLC system

Osama Zwaid Aletri (Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia)

1571322211    DRL-Powered OpenCAPWAP for Self-Healing SDWN Coverage

Deepali Bhanushali (Twilio, USA); Aakansha Nagwani (Microsoft Research, USA); Sri Krishna Aditya Mopidevi (Jini Labs Inc, USA)

1571267784    Leveraging Ambient Intelligent Technologies For Smart Agricultural Operations Enhancement

Ndala Mulongo (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Session A9v: Smart Infrastructure for AI & Autonomous                

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571292027    Lifecycle Aware Metadata Framework for Accelerating AI Data Center Rack Commissioning

Suresh Bysani Venkata Naga (Eightfold.ai, USA & Cohesity, USA); Krishna Chaitanya Sunkara (Oracle, USA); Rambabu Konakanchi (Charles Schwab Corporation, USA)

1571292464    Graph-Based Anomaly Detection in LTE Networks: Effects of Temporal Aggregation and Window Alignment     

Alex Ju Yang Yeo, Sheila Fallon, Enda Fallon, Maulshree Singh and Sidath Handurukande (Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland)

1571307555    Communication Cost-Aware Task-to-Core Mapping Methodology for 2D Concentrated Mesh NoC-Based Neural Network Accelerators 

Alperen Cakin, Selma Dilek and Suleyman Tosun (Hacettepe University, Turkey); Alma Oracevic (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571275071    Design and Implementation of A Testbed Network for IPswen Development  

Bing Swen Sun (Peking University, China)

1571303282    Multi-Sensor Fusion for UAV Classification Based on Feature Maps of Image and Radar Data

Nikos Sakellariou (Information Technologies Institute Centre for Research & Technology); Antonios Lalas (Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas (CERTH), Greece); Konstantinos Votis (Information Technologies Institute, Centre For Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Dimitrios Tzovaras (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)

1571276452    Synergizing 5G-uRLLC Connectivity and Low-Loss Magneto-Dielectric Antenna Systems for Resilient Autonomous Vehicles and UAVs        

Sunil Sharma (Senior Member IEEE, Canada); Sucheta Sharma (Member OCT, Canada); Mahavir Singh (Himachal Pradesh University, India)

Session A10v: Next-Gen Wireless Networks & Optimization            

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571276016    Fronthaul Resiliency in Latency Constrained C-RAN  

Dave Townend (BT, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anvar Tukmanov (BT, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Stuart D Walker (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571286765    Collision-Free Channel Access Using Transmission Queues with Fast Queue Joining

J J Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California, USA & University of Toronto, Canada); Sheideh Homayon (UC Santa Cruz, USA)

1571290846    Detection and Classification of Multi-Hop Frequency Hopping Signals in Complex Electromagnetic Environments  

Mingxiu Li (Southwest Minzu University, China); Lidong Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Li Chengjie (Southwest Minzu University, China)

1571305350    Physics-Aware Latent Modeling for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in VANETs

Amitoj Birah and Ikjot Saini (University of Windsor, Canada)

1571276215    Dynamic Energy Management in 5G and Beyond Wireless Networks Using Reinforcement Learning

Chrysostomos Athanasios Katsigiannis, Konstantinos Tsachrelias and Vasileios Kokkinos (University of Patras, Greece); Apostolos Gkamas (University of Ioannina, Greece); Christos J Bouras (University of Patras - ELKE, Greece); Philippos Pouyioutas (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

1571247065    A Terrain- and SNR-Aware Framework for UAV-FSO Backbone Deployment in Post-Disaster Networks: AeroFSO-Deploy        

Jinan Charafeddine (Engineering School Léonard de Vinci - ESILV, France); Jawad Hasan AlKhateeb (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia); Maher Rebai (Devinci Higher Education, France); Taha Houda (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia); Wafaa Mohammed Ridha Shakir (Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Iraq)

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote Speaker 3:

Title: TBA

             Session Chair: TBA

10:30 - 12:00 

Session B1: Satellite Communications & Networking            

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571305551    Topology Awareness for LEO Satellite Networks with Limited Ground Station Resources

Mucen Zhang and Lidong Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

1571313168    Hack The Cube: A Cybersecurity Assessment of CubeSats      

Will Bowden, Jacob Higgins, Andy Baldrian and Lucy Berthoud (The University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sana Belguith (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571275922    QoS-Aware Resource Allocation in LEO Satellite Networks: A Graph Neural Network Approach         

Wenbo Yu and Cheng Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Gaofeng Cui and Weidong Wang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

1571303790    Detecting Forwarding Misbehaviour in LEO Satellite Networks with ML-Based Trust Models

Samara Mayhoub (Aston University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sandra Scott-Hayward (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571275538    Transparent Internet Protocol Communication over X-Band/S-Band Links for High-Altitude Platforms

Dirk Frommholz, Daniel Hein, Jörg Soterius, Christian Bartz, Matthias Wedel and Thomas Bergen (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

1571276398    MAFRL: A Multi-Agent Flow-Balance Reinforcement Learning Framework for Resource Allocation in LEO Satellite Systems  

Sheng Xie (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Cheng Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Gaofeng Cui and Weidong Wang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Session B2: AI, Privacy & Secure Systems              

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571267849    Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data Generation in Healthcare

Sulyman Age Abdulkareem (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571305090    A Machine-Readable Approach to Automated ISO/IEC 27001 Measure Extraction and Verification  

Mevre Tunca and Ann-Jacqueline Kaldjob (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany); Laura Porbadnik (Universität Potsdam, Germany); Seli Tusha (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany); Sara Reichert (TU Berlin, Germany)

1571323435    Explainable AI for Identity-Document Fraud Detection in Digital Forensics Using Grad-CAM++ Yujin

Lee and Umit Karabiyik (George Mason University, USA)

1571282965    A Blockchain-Based Identity Management System Resistant to Ransomware

Kazumasa Omote (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Session B3: Antenna Design and Array Processing            

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571291287    Wireless Coded Caching under Placement-Cost and Memory Constraints

Yousef AlHassoun (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)

1571305129    An Investigative Study of Linear Arrays: Classification and Cartan Matrix Properties

Senop Amos Sulle and Athanassios Manikas (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571306856    Gridless Subspace DF Algorithm for Any Linear Array using Manifold Characteristic Points   

Rustamaji Rustamaji and Athanassios Manikas (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571292666    Flared-Shape Omnidirectional Antenna for 5G ORAN Indoor Communication Systems

Muhammad Ashraf (Advanced Communications & Electronics System (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Atef A. Aburas (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES) & ACES, Saudi Arabia); Ali Ahmed (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems, Saudi Arabia); Nauman Shafeeq (Advanced Communication and Electronics Systems (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Asadullah Leghari (Advanced Communications and Electronic Systems Company (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Mohammad Yaser Ammar (Advanced Communications & Electronic Systems Company (ACES), Saudi Arabia & ACES Company, Saudi Arabia); Abdulraheem Aburas (Advanced Communications & Electronics System (ACES), Saudi Arabia); Khalid Al-Mashouq (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES)., Saudi Arabia & ACES, Saudi Arabia); Akram Aburas (Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES)., Saudi Arabia); Mohammad Aburas (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Session B4v: Governance & Network Security                     

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571275431    CONCISE: An Efficient and Resilient Alternative to Key Distribution for the Security of Computer Networks      

J J Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California, USA & University of Toronto, Canada); Morteza Moghaddassian (University of Toronto, Canada)

1571276736    Data Privacy and Security in the Quantum Era: A Comparative Evaluation between Classical and Post-Quantum Cryptography          

Sérgio Mendonça (ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal); Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt (ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal & ISTAR - Centro de Investigação, Portugal); Paul Crocker (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Beira Interior, Portugal)

1571276652    GDPR and Asset Management: Governance, Compliance, and Strategic Implications

Damir Regvart (Algebra University College, Croatia); Ana Kapulica and Nina Barbarić (Algebra Bernays University, Croatia)

1571305486    Zombie APIs: Detecting Runtime-Reachable but Deprecated Endpoints          

Edward L Amoruso, Paul Amoruso, Aurela Broqi and Cliff Zou (University of Central Florida, USA)

1571276589    Advances in Biometric Authentication and Emerging Ethical Challenges        

Vedran Dakic, Jasmin Redzepagic and Marko Pleslić (Algebra Bernays University, Croatia)

14:00 - 15:00

Keynote Speaker 4:

Title: TBA

             Session Chair: TBA

15:30 - 17:00 

Session B5v: Machine Learning and Data-Driven Applications                     

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA             

1571291972    Hybrid Smoothed Dirichlet-Family Regression Framework for Fake News Detection

Sana Iftikhar (Concordia University, Canada); Fatma Najar (John Jay College, CUNY, USA); Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada)

1571298792    Instruction-Tuned LLMs via Bayesian Mixture Model Preference Priors          

Ornela Bregu and Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada)

1571326377    From Foundation Models to Geospatial Intelligence: A Taxonomy and Comparative Analysis for Smart City Remote Sensing

Chaima Ben Fraj, Bf (University of Carthage, Tunisia & Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering Applications Laboratory, Tunisia); Dorsaf Omri (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia)

1571304752    Stock-Out Distortion and Under-Forecasting: An Inventory-Aware Diagnosis of Demand-Signal Bias in Multi-SKU Sales Forecasting 

I Made Debrio Amarta (Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia); Muhammad Zarlis (Bina Nusantara, Indonesia)

1571305683    Beyond Single Substances: A Machine Learning Pipeline for Polydrug Use Patterns and Past-Year Suicide-Attempt Risk in NSDUH 2021-2024     

Dylan Dhawan, Sholom Kott, Jayanth Bhansali and Nestor Tiglao (University of Maryland, USA)

1571326385    Graph Neural Networks for Groundwater Storage Prediction: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Modeling Approaches        

Eya Dridi (University of Carthage, Tunisia); Dorsaf Omri (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Tarek Bejaoui (University of Carthage, Tunisia)

1571300569    IoT Intrusion Detection on Large Scale Network Data: From Classical ML and DL to Robust, Explainable and Deployable Benchmarking

John Harb and Hussein Bakri (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Session B6v: AI & ML Innovations in Predictive and Real-Time Systems and Industry          

Session Chair: TBA

Room:  TBA

1571276648    Real-Time Dynamic Pricing Optimization Using Machine Learning And Distributed Data Pipelines In Large-Scale Retail Systems    

Sreepal Reddy Bolla (Teradyne Infotech, Inc, USA); Sunil Kumar Mudusu (Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I, USA); Revanth Reddy Bandaru (CVS, USA)

1571289823    Random Forest Exploits Uncertainty Features for S&P 500 Return Prediction: Evidence from VIX-Based Regime Analysis         

Nguyen Trung Hieu (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & FPT University, Vietnam)

1571305694    Component Failure Prediction for the SCANIA Component X Dataset

Jack Kouncar, Talia Kouncar, Jayanth Bhansali and Nestor Tiglao (University of Maryland, USA)

1571276320    Cloud to Edge: Benchmarking LLM Inference on Hardware-Accelerated Single-Board Computers      

Harri Renney (Kaze Consulting, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fouad Trad (Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Michael Mattarock (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Zena Wood (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571276638    A Multi-Paradigm AI Framework for Explainable and Proactive Battery State-of-Health Estimation in Electric Vehicles         

Ghada Toumi (University of Carthage, Tunisia); Abdelaziz Sahbani (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia & University of Carthage, Tunisia); Hela Mahersia (University of Carthage, Tunisia & National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia)

1571263054    Machine Learning for GDP Forecasting: LightGBM and CatBoost Outperform ARIMA Across 20 Economies    

Nguyen Trung Hieu (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & FPT University, Vietnam)

1571267788    Application Of Digital Twin In The Heavy Machinery Manufacturing Industry  

Ndala Mulongo (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Session B7v: Threat Analysis & Defense     

Session Chair: TBA

Room:  TBA

1571275738    INTARG: Informed Real-Time Adversarial Attack Generation for Time-Series Regression       

Gamze Kirman Tokgoz (San Diego State University, USA); Onat Gungor (University of California San Diego, USA); Tajana Simunic Rosing (University of California, San Diego, USA); Baris Aksanli (San Diego State University, USA)

1571275797    Edge-Aligned LLM Defense for Robust Cybersecurity Question Answering

Roshan Sood (University of California, San Diego, USA); Onat Gungor (University of California San Diego, USA); Jiasheng Zhou and Tajana Simunic Rosing (University of California, San Diego, USA)

1571324994    Assessing the Forensic Impact of Riot Vanguard: Artifact Visibility, Completeness, and Integrity       

Johnny P Tran and Umit Karabiyik (George Mason University, USA)

1571305548    Benchmarking Snort and Suricata for Alert Usefulness, Behavioural Divergence, and Resource Efficiency Using Enterprise Attack Workloads  

Mohammed F Suleiman (University of Sunderland, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571276590    Empirical Benchmarking of Next-Generation Firewall Platforms in Modern Architectures     

Jasmin Redzepagic, Zlatan Moric and Leo Škvorc (Algebra Bernays University, Croatia)

1571276004    Detecting False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grids: A Review        

Sheeja Rani S and Arnaud Mathilde (CEA, France)

Session B8v: 6G & RF Innovations for Wireless Systems     

Session Chair: TBA

Room: TBA

1571276795    Parasitic-Assisted Resonance Substitution for Dual-Band Diplexers in 6G Front Ends

Unnikrishnan Gopinathan Pillai (Skyworks Solutions Inc, USA); Moitreya Adhikary (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

1571305709    Monostatic Radar Cross Section Study of a Low-Cost Composite Wing for Quasi-Stealth UAV  

Nikolay Lysenko and Sergey Karamov (Novus Converged Aerospace Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571247076    AI-Enabled Intelligent Channel Modeling for UWB RFID in IoT  

Jinan Charafeddine (Engineering School Léonard de Vinci - ESILV, France); Khaled Fawagreh (PMU, Saudi Arabia); Zeinab Mhanna (Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci, France); Taha Houda (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia); Wafaa Mohammed Ridha Shakir (Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Iraq)

1571276460    RF Front-End Circuit Innovations for 5G-Advanced and Early 6G User Equipment

Unnikrishnan Gopinathan Pillai (Skyworks Solutions Inc, USA); Florinel Balteanu (Skyworks Solutions, USA)

1571292804    5G NR-Inspired Adaptive OFDM Software Modem For Flawless Image Transmission

Md Asef Jawad, Adam Taktek and Stephen Rayment (Carleton University, Canada); Jun Steed Huang (Carleton University & University of Ottawa, Canada)

1571276800    Interpretable Characterization of Spectrum Usage Patterns from Long-Term Passive Measurements  

Naicheng Wei and Cynthia Hood (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

1571292837    Overhead Millimeter-Wave Single-Antenna Architecture for Wireless VR/AR Head-Mounted Display Tethering      

Unnikrishnan Gopinathan Pillai (Skyworks Solutions Inc, USA); Moitreya Adhikary (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Chetan Verma (Austria)

Session B9v: Advances in Agentic AI and Autonomous Systems      

Session Chair: TBA

Room:  TBA            

1571271418    Agentic AI for Intelligent Automation and Workflow Orchestration in Financial Store Reconciliation System

Dhivya Guru (Anna University, India)

1571286710    FoodCHA: Multi-Modal LLM Agent for Fine-Grained Food Analysis   

Woojin Lee and Pranav Mekkoth (University of California, San Diego, USA); Ye Tian and Onat Gungor (University of California San Diego, USA); Tajana Simunic Rosing (University of California, San Diego, USA)

1571290732    Agentic FinOps: An Autonomous Framework for Real-Time Cost Governance in AI-Infused Cloud Architectures

Sandip Patel (Microsoft Corporation, USA); Prakash Upadhyay (Northwestern Mutual, USA); Sibasis Padhi (, USA & Walmart Associates Inc., USA)

1571306620    Release-Aware Prior-Guided Regex Planning for Token-Bounded Log Retrieval in AIOps

Sharan Babu Paramasivam Murugesan (Senior Member IEEE, USA)

1571322209    Scaling SDN Control Planes with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Deepali Bhanushali (Twilio, USA); Aakansha Nagwani (Microsoft Research, USA); Annie Rathore (USA); Sri Krishna Aditya Mopidevi (Jini Labs Inc, USA)

1571300372    Design of a Low-Cost Autonomous USV for Aquatic Debris Collection  

Grace Oletu and Ama Baduwa Baidoo (Academic City University, Ghana); Barnabas Nomo (Goliath Robotics, Ghana)

1571305359    A Learning Analytics Infrastructure for Studying Calibrated AI Assistance in Data Science Problem Framing          

Aalekh Pradeep and Stefania Zourlidou (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)