Why present a poster at FLICS?
- Visibility with experts: Engage with leading researchers in FL, edge intelligence, cyber-physical systems, and trustworthy AI.
- Feedback that matters: Refine methods, systems, and deployments with targeted feedback from a systems-savvy audience.
- Bridge theory & practice: Share datasets, tools, artifacts, and evaluation pipelines to accelerate reproducible science.
- Build collaborations: Meet potential co-authors, mentors, and industry partners.
What makes a strong poster?
- Clear problem framing & rigorous methodology
- Systems insight (scalability, robustness, cost/latency, resource use)
- Privacy, security, trust, and reproducibility considerations
- Compelling visuals (figures, ablations, benchmarks, demos/QR)
Posters may present early or late-breaking results, negative results with analysis, work-in-progress, datasets, tools, or demos.
Topics of Interest
Including but not limited to the areas below (see CFP for the full scope).
- FL systems automation, orchestration, and self-tuning; cross-silo / cross-device FL; scalability & resource efficiency
- Communication-efficient FL (quantization, sparsification, compression); network-aware co-design; mobility & heterogeneity
- Agentic workflows & multi-agent learning; privacy-preserving agent coordination; federated foundation models
- Privacy, security & trust: secure aggregation, cryptography, robustness, XAI, auditability, privacy-utility trade-offs
- Digital twins & CPS: distributed twins, real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, edge intelligence
- Mobile/wireless & 6G: vehicular/smart-edge networks, cross-layer optimization, latency/QoS-aware FL, online inference
- Applications: smart cities, autonomous systems, industrial IoT, healthcare, finance/fraud, environmental sustainability
- Emerging directions: continual/lifelong FL, few/zero-shot, meta/transfer learning, NAS for FL, generative & quantum FL
- Datasets, benchmarking suites, and evaluation frameworks for federated & edge settings
- Developer tools: simulation/emulation, testing harnesses, and profiling/telemetry for FL systems
- Responsible FL: governance, incentives, regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, EU AI Act), and socio-technical impacts
Submission Guidelines
- Original, unpublished work not under review elsewhere.
- Format: IEEE 2-column (US Letter 8.5″×11″), 10-pt font. Use the IEEE conference template (Template Selector).
- Length: up to 2 pages (including figures, tables, appendices, references).
- Review: double-blind. Please anonymize your submission.
- Include a short artifact/demo link (optional) and a QR code for videos or interactive materials (optional but encouraged).
Submissions that exceed the page limit or violate the format may be desk-rejected without review.
Important Dates (Posters)
All deadlines are AoE unless stated otherwise.
| # | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poster Submission | March 30th, 2026 |
| 2 | Acceptance Notification | April 20th, 2026 |
| 3 | Camera-Ready Submission | May 5th, 2026 |