Conference Topics
COSI 2026 is organized around the following five topics, with a non-exhaustive list of associated keywords. In the 2026 edition of COSI, we wish to encourage articles that implement concepts and methodologies from multiple scientific disciplines. Indeed, many research questions today require expertise from several scientific fields, including, among other, astrophysics, molecular chemistry, biology, and the social sciences, in interaction with computer science. Artificial intelligence, big data analytics, as well as optimization or decision-support algorithms often form the cornerstones of this interdisciplinarity. With respect to general application domains, our aim is to get original papers on applied use-cases that make intensive application of one or several of the previous topics, using preferably the most recent results of research.
Topic A: Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models
- Explainable AI models
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Data Mining and knowledge discovery
- Constraints Programming and Satisfiability
- Social Networks and AI-based recommandations
- Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems
- Ethics, Trust and Fairness of AI Systems
- AI serving other disciplines as an accelerator of discovery
Topic B: Operational Research and Decision Support Systems
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Mathematical Programming
- Algorithms and Graph Theory
- Heuristics and Metaheuristics
- Planning and Scheduling
- Game theory
- Supply Chain modeling and optimisation
Topic C: Big Data
- Big Data Management Systems (e.g., storage, indexing, query optimization)
- Data Clouds, Distributed, Decentralized, and Parallel Data Management
- Data Analytics: Warehousing and OLAP, AI-based analytics
- Data Uncertainty in pretraining ML
- Data quality, data trust, secure data
- Energy-efficient Techniques
Topic D: Privacy and Cybersecurity
- IoT and Sensor Networks
- Information and Network Security
- Dynamic Networks (e.g., Ad hoc, WSN, VANETS)
- Data Privacy and data protection
- Detection of Fake News, impact of AI hallucinations
Topic E: Applications Domains
- Interdisciplinary and cross fertilisation approaches
- Digital Twins, modeling, simulation, analytics and real-time monitoring of complex systems
- Environment and Sustainable Development
- Agriculture and Food Industry
- Healthcare and Biology
- Transport and Logistics
- Banking and Retail