Why showcase your artifact at FLICS?
- High-impact visibility: Engage with world-class researchers in FL, edge AI, CPS, and trustworthy systems.
- Actionable feedback: Get systems-oriented reviews on scalability, robustness, latency, and cost.
- Bridge research & practice: Share datasets, pipelines, and tooling for reproducibility and adoption.
- Grow collaborations: Meet potential co-authors, mentors, and industry partners.
What makes a strong artifact/demo?
- Clear problem framing & rigorous methodology
- Systems insight: scalability, heterogeneity, failure modes, telemetry
- Privacy, security, trust, and auditability considerations
- Compelling visuals: ablations, benchmarks, live/recorded demo links, QR
We welcome early/late-breaking results, negative results with analysis, datasets, tools, and deployed systems.
Topics of Interest
Including but not limited to the areas below.
- FL frameworks & automation: orchestration, self-tuning, cross-device/cross-silo, resource efficiency
- Communication-efficient FL: quantization, sparsification, compression, network-aware co-design
- Edge & systems: scheduling, offloading, hardware acceleration (GPU/TPU/NPU), energy & cost models
- Agentic workflows & multi-agent learning; federated foundation models; coordination & incentives
- Privacy / security / trust: secure aggregation, DP, cryptography, robustness, XAI & auditability
- Digital twins & CPS: distributed twins, real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance
- Mobile, wireless & 6G: vehicular/smart-edge networks, latency/QoS, online inference, mobility
- Applications: smart cities, industry 4.0, autonomous systems, healthcare, finance/fraud, sustainability
- Responsible FL: governance, incentives, fairness, compliance (e.g., GDPR), socio-technical impacts
- Datasets & benchmarking suites; simulation/emulation testbeds; profiling & telemetry tooling
- Emerging directions: continual FL, few/zero-shot, meta/transfer learning, NAS, generative & quantum FL
What to submit
- Motivation & technical contributions of the artifact/demo
- Key interactive features; how attendees will engage
- Links to resources (live demo, video, docs, repo, dataset)
- Special requirements (non-standard power/network, space)
On-site logistics
- Power & basic Wi-Fi are provided (bring adapters if needed)
- Bring your own device(s) and peripherals
- Include QR codes to video/demo pages for fast access
Submission Guidelines
- Format: IEEE 2-column (US Letter 8.5″×11″), 10-pt font. Use the official IEEE conference template.
- Length: up to 6 pages including figures, tables, appendices, and references.
- Review: single-blind (author names/affiliations visible).
- Accepted & presented papers are included in the FLICS 2026 proceedings. At least one author must register and present on-site.
Submissions that exceed the page limit or violate the format may be desk-rejected.
Important Dates (Artifacts & Demos)
| # | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paper Submission | April 10th, 2026 |
| 2 | Acceptance Notification | May 5th, 2026 |
| 3 | Camera-Ready Submission | May 20th, 2026 |