[IEEE CAI 2026] Special Session on "Foundation and Emerging AI Models for Applications in Finance, Cyber Security, and Life Sciences"

[Francesco CAUTERUCCIO]

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Foundation and Emerging AI Models for Applications in Finance, Cyber Security, and Life Sciences

A special session of the
  IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2026, https://www.ieeesmc.org/cai-2026/)

Granada (Spain), May 8-10, 2026
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== CALL FOR PAPERS ==

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping modern societies, driving innovation in finance, cybersecurity, logistics, and life sciences. With the rise of foundation models and emerging AI architectures, there is both opportunity and urgency to explore how these methods can ensure resilience, trust, and efficiency in critical infrastructures. This special session brings together researchers from diverse domains to discuss methodologies and applications that leverage AI for robustness, security, and sustainability.

The growing complexity of digital ecosystems raises common challenges: how to design infrastructures that remain secure, adaptive, and resilient under uncertainty. In finance, the emergence of digital and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) demands intelligent mechanisms for stability and systemic risk protection. Similar concerns arise in cybersecurity and networked systems, where AI-driven analysis of complex networks and IoT security are key to anticipating threats and ensuring robustness. In life sciences, large-scale biomedical data, genomics, and proteomics require advanced AI and graph mining methods, supported by high-performance and energy-aware computing to enable scalable, sustainable healthcare analytics.

Bridging these domains highlights a shared reliance on AI to analyze and manage complexity—from spatiotemporal graph transformers for logistics, to algorithms for resilience in digital infrastructures, to biomedical network mining. The integration of network science, intelligent systems, and AI optimization underscores both the interdisciplinary nature of today’s challenges and the opportunities for impactful solutions. This special session timely addresses these converging needs, advancing AI models and applications for critical infrastructures.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

- Intelligent systems
- Resilience in Critical Infrastructures - Artificial Intelligence
- Payment systems
- Digital Currency
- CBDC systems
- Spatiotemporal Graph Transformers - Last-Mile Delivery Optimization
- Demand Forecasting & OD Estimation
- Resilience & Robustness of Logistics Networks
- Digital Twins for Urban Logistics
- Energy-/Emission-Aware Routing
- Network Science and Analysis
- Complex Networks
- Internet of Things
- Algorithms and Games
- Data Science
- Cybersecurity
- Data Mining for Biomedical Big Data
- Genomics and Proteomics Analytics
- Graph Mining in Life Sciences
- Parallel and Distributed Algorithms for Healthcare
- Machine Learning and AI for Health
- Energy-Aware Computing in Healthcare HPC
- High-Performance Computing (HPC) in Life Sciences - Biological Network Analysis

== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ==

Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference.

All submissions must conform to the IEEE paper formatting and submission instructions. To help ensure correct formatting, please use the IEEE style files for conference proceedings as a template for your submission, namely, LaTeX (http://conf.papercept.net/conferences/support/files/ieeeconf.zip) or Microsoft Word (http://conf.papercept.net/conferences/support/files/ieeeconf_letter.doc).

Each research paper should have at most 6 pages, while each abstract and industry paper should have at most 2 pages, including figures, tables and references. A maximum of two extra pages per paper is allowed (i. e., up to 8 pages for research paper and 4 pages for abstract and industry paper), but with additional charge).

Please note that IEEE CAI 2026 will pursue a double-blind review process. All submissions must be anonymised and may not contain any identifying information that may violate the double-blind reviewing policy.  This policy applies to any supplementary or linked material as well, including code.

According to IEEE Publications Regarding AI-Generated Text: "The use of artificial intelligence (AI) generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text."

To submit a contribution, please use the Submission Wizard (https://conf.papercept.net/), and in the CAI 2026 conference on the “upcoming conferences” use the "Submit a contribution to CAI 2026"

== IMPORTANT DATES ==

- Paper submission (all papers): October 30, 2025
- Paper Evaluations to Authors: December 15, 2025
- Final Camera Ready & Registration: January 20, 2026
- Congress celebration: May 08, 2026 – May 10, 2026

== ORGANIZERS ==

- Giuseppe Agapito - Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro, Italy
- Francesco Cauteruccio - University of Salerno, Italy (contact person)
- Enrico Corradini – Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
- Andrea Tundis – German Federal Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank), Germany

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Francesco Cauteruccio, Ph.D.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM)

University of Salerno (Italy)
https://francescocauteruccio.info