Cloud computing, as the seamless integration of physical, digital, and cognitive spaces, continues to evolve rapidly, playing a transformative role across sectors such as education, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and public services. As we approach 2026, the fusion of cloud technologies with Artificial Intelligence (AI)—particularly Large Language Models (LLMs)—is reshaping how data, services, and intelligence are delivered at scale.

While cloud platforms have become essential for scalable and flexible computing, they also present critical challenges related to trust, autonomy, data privacy, security, latency, and sustainability. The rapid advancement of generative AI and foundation models introduces both new capabilities and complex ethical and technical concerns when deployed in cloud and edge environments.

The 13th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2026) will serve as a dynamic platform to explore these developments. It aims to bring together researchers, engineers, and industry leaders to share cutting-edge innovations, identify pressing research questions, and discuss the roadmap for AI-empowered, cloud-native ecosystems.

We invite original contributions across a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

• • Cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and emerging abstractions
  • LLMs and generative AI as cloud-native services
  • Integration of AI/LLMs with cloud orchestration, automation, and observability
  • Trustworthy and explainable AI in cloud infrastructures
  • Edge–cloud–fog continuum and decentralized AI frameworks
  • Federated learning, privacy-preserving AI, and secure multi-party computation
  • Real-time inference, model optimization, and deployment pipelines in the cloud
  • Resource scheduling, autoscaling, and energy-efficient AI in multi-cloud systems
  • Cloud-based digital twins, autonomous agents, and decision-making systems
  • Governance, compliance, and ethical considerations for AI-cloud systems
  • Serverless computing, microservices, and containerization for AI workloads
  • Quantum and neuromorphic computing integration with cloud platforms
  • Benchmarks, performance evaluation, and reproducibility in AI-cloud research
  • Cloud Computing, Edge Computing and Edge-to-Cloud Adoption
  • Computer Law and Privacy, Digital Forensics and Cyber Security Monitoring, Analysis and Management for Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Scalability, Configuration, Storage and Cloud Security

(CMs should pick if LNICST or EAISICC, and update the journals section)

EXAMPLE:

Springer – LNICST series

All registered and presented papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer – LNICST series and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: SecureComm proceedings. This series is indexed in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Inspec, SCImago and Zentralblatt MATH.

Springer – EAISICC series

All registered and presented papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer – EAISICC series and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: ARTEP Conference Proceedings. This series is indexed in leading indexing services, such as Scopus, Ei Compendex, and zbMATH.

Available journals

The article’s publication is subject to the following requirements:  

• It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
• The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
• The article will be processed using the fast-track option.

Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at [email protected] with the details of their article to begin processing.

Additional publication opportunities

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
  (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

EAI is an open community dedicated to creating an environment where every member receives the same opportunities and benefits to develop and grow their research mission and career. As the largest free professional research society in the world, EAI offers a complete range of conference proceedings publication opportunities. Based on the qualification of the conference and the conference scope, EAI provides the possibility to publish the proceedings for every sponsored conference. Consistent with its mission to support developing communities, all EAI sponsored conferences appear in EUDL, the European Union Digital Library (EUDL). EUDL is Open Access and free for EAI members, reaching a community of 250,000 subscribers and providing the visibility that allows the conference organisers to develop the conference into a fully fledged indexed proceedings publication in subsequent years.

1. Go to Confy+ website.
2. Log in or sign up as a new user.
3. Select your desired track.
4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions.

• All papers must be submitted in English. 

• Submitted PDFs should be anonymized.

• Previously published work cannot be submitted, nor can it be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. These papers will be rejected without review. 
• Papers must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (available in the Author’s Kit section). 
• Authors must read and agree to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
• As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images should have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text)

HOW TO WRITE GOOD ALT TEXT

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

• Regular papers should be up to 12-15+ pages in length.
• Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here.

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive file (e.g. zip, tar.gz) containing the both a PDF copy of your paper and LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.