The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI), next-generation networking, edge/cloud computing, and smart devices is giving rise to a transformative paradigm: the Internet of Intelligence (IOI). In this paradigm, intelligence is no longer confined to isolated models or systems, but is distributed, connected, and continuously coordinated across humans, machines, networks, services, and applications. This transformation is enabling a broad range of emerging applications and industrial sectors, including smart manufacturing, autonomous transportation, digital healthcare, immersive communications, robotics, and cyber-physical systems. Data, models, knowledge, and intelligence generated across these interconnected ecosystems are becoming critical assets for improving system efficiency, service quality, resilience, adaptability, and user experience. However, how to effectively orchestrate, share, and trust intelligence over highly distributed and heterogeneous environments remains a fundamental research challenge. It has attracted growing interest from both academia and industry, yet significant innovations are still needed to realise a scalable, secure, efficient, and trustworthy Internet of Intelligence.

IOI-2026 aims to address the key challenges and opportunities arising from distributed intelligence, dynamic networked systems, massive data-model collaboration, and increasingly diverse application demands. The conference provides a premier international forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to exchange ideas, present breakthroughs, and discuss the latest advances and ongoing work on all aspects of the Internet of Intelligence. It seeks to foster interdisciplinary collaboration on theories, architectures, algorithms, systems, and applications that will shape the future of intelligent interconnected worlds.

IOI-2026 will be hosted in Exeter, UK. It was previously held as SmarCNS-2024 (Chengdu, China, December 2024), SmarCNS-2023 (Chengdu, China, December 2023), SmarCNS-2022 (Chongqing, China, December 2022), SmartCNS-2021 (Exeter, UK, December 2021), SmartCNS-2019 (Shenyang, China, October 2019).

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to IOI-2026. All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and will be submitted for indexing by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Foundations and Architectures of Internet of Intelligence

• Internet of Intelligence architectures and frameworks
• Distributed and collaborative intelligence
• Edge intelligence and cloud-edge-device collaboration
• Foundation models for networked intelligent systems
• Agentic AI and multi-agent systems
• Knowledge-centric and semantic intelligence networking
• Intelligent orchestration across heterogeneous systems
• Scalable intelligence infrastructure
• Interoperability and standardisation for IOI
• Digital twins for intelligent interconnected systems

• AI-native networking
• 6G and future networks for intelligence connectivity
• Intelligent resource allocation and optimisation
• Network automation and self-evolving networks
• Software-defined and virtualised intelligent networks
• Space-air-ground-sea integrated intelligent networking
• Internet of Things and Internet of Agents
• Edge computing and edge intelligence systems
• Real-time intelligence sharing and coordination
• Green and sustainable intelligent networking systems

• Trustworthy and responsible AI for IOI
• Security, privacy and resilience in distributed intelligence
• Federated, decentralised and privacy-preserving learning
• Secure model sharing and collaborative inference
• Explainable, interpretable and human-centred intelligence
• Robustness, safety and reliability of intelligent systems
• Blockchain and decentralised trust mechanisms for IOI
• Authentication, access control and intelligent defence
• Energy-efficient intelligence and sustainable AI systems
• Governance, ethics and regulation of interconnected intelligence

• Intelligent transportation and autonomous mobility
• Smart healthcare and digital medicine
• Smart manufacturing and Industry 5.0
• Smart cities and urban intelligence
• Robotics and autonomous systems
• Human-AI collaboration and hybrid intelligence
• Immersive services including AR, VR and XR
• Intelligent cyber-physical systems
• Intelligent agriculture, environment and energy systems
• Emerging IOI applications and real-world deployments

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ioi/) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts).

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the conference proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services (submitted for indexing by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.