Welcome to IMAACA 2026!

Dear Sir/Madam,

innovations and improvements are required to react quickly to the new trends of the global economy. Over the years, Modeling & Simulation (M&S) has proved to be one of the most effective, beneficial and successful methodologies to investigate and study complex systems belonging to various sectors/areas. Nevertheless, to take full advantage of this technology there are relevant issues that keep challenging the researchers towards even more advanced solutions and approaches where emerging and cutting-edge technologies are absorbed into. M&S is widely and successfully applied in many application domains, ranging from industry to social sciences, from logistics to military, from energy to healthcare; in this sense M&S provides a multidisciplinary perspective where theory and data from different fields can be used to build models and simulations that provide insights in to the system considered.

The 2026 International Conference on Integrated Modeling and Analysis in Autonomous Control and Cognitive Agents (IMAACA) will be a platform for knowledge exchange, the review and discussion of theoretical advances, research results, and industrial experiences, among scientists, researchers, decision makers, practitioners and students dealing with the topics under the umbrella of multidisciplinary modeling & simulation.

Therefore, we would like to kindly invite you to take an active part in this conference and in the co-located events that will be held at Genova, Italy on September 21-23, 2026 and explore with us the latest news, views and developments in the exciting world of multidisciplinary modeling & simulation.

Sincerely,

I3M 2026 Organization Committee

Topics & Tracks

Authors are kindly invited to include in their papers and presentations all the research works, case studies and application both theoretical and applied. Topics of interests include the following topics, however different ones concerning Modeling & Simulation in Industry are welcome.

Autonomous Control and Cognitive Systems
  • Digital Transformation towards Autonomous Control and Cognitive Systems
  • Advanced Autonomous Control & Self Organizing Systems
  • Simulation and Modeling of Cognitive Processes
  • Cognitive Architectures and Cognitive Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Robotics, Automation, and Industrial Applications
  • Industrial Mechatronics and Robotics
  • Production and Supply Chain Automation
  • Intelligent Intralogistics and Autonomous Warehousing
  • Energy Management and Mobility in Autonomous Systems
  • Sustainability in autonomous manufacturing systems
Multi-Agent Systems, Learning, and Decision Making
  • Distributed intelligence and problem solving
  • Continual Learning and Adaptive interaction with Cognitive Agents
  • Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Perception, Multi Sensor Fusion, and Environmental Awareness
  • Multi-Agent Communication and Protocols
Human-Agent Interaction and Ethics
  • Swarm Intelligence and Collective Intelligence
  • Ethics, Explainability, and Trust in Human-Agent Interaction
  • Human-machine interaction for Autonomous and Cognitive Systems
  • Emotional intelligence, Empathic interaction, Affect, and Social Cognition
  • Human-Agent Communication and Natural Language Processing
Knowledge Management and Business Strategies
  • New Business Models in Autonomous Systems
  • Knowledge Management & Strategies for Autonomous Systems
  • Memory Systems and Knowledge Representation
  • Explainable AI for Business Decision Support
  • Self-Learning and Evolutionary Knowledge Management

Tracks

An Open Track addresses specific, well-defined subjects and has no upper limit on the number of papers that can be submitted to it. Contributions to open tracks can be either regular papers or short papers (min 3 pages length) and they will appear in the conference proceedings. The organizer(s) of an Open Track will be inviting contributions but the tracks are open to everyone is willing to contribute. If at least 4 papers are submitted to the track, one (or more) Invited Sessions, including those papers, will be part of the conference program.

Chair: (a)Tamás Ruppert(b)Abdulrahman K. Eesee(c)Tuan-anh Tran

Affiliation: (a)(c)University of Pannonia (Hungary), (b)Northern Technical University (Iraq)

Track Description: This track focuses on simulating human behaviors and actions as a core element in collaboration with autonomous control, cognitive agents, and decision-support systems within the context of socio-technological complex systems.
We invite contributions that attempt to collect data, compute, model human physical/physiological/mental states, cognition, decision-making processes, behaviors, actions, and interactions, enabling simulations of predicting individual-, group-, and system-level outcomes, thus informing design choices or system monitoring and management.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Accumulation and adaptation of human knowledge, skill, habit, and mental model
  • Cognitive and affective architectures
  • Agent-based and system-dynamics social simulation
  • Human digital twin
  • Data-driven and hybrid behavior models (including personalization)
  • Detection of accumulation and changes in human status, in physical/physiological/mental aspects
  • Decision-making process under uncertainty, workload, stress, and fatigue
  • Modelling communication and coordination in team collaboration
  • Dynamics of mixed human-technology-automated agent decision-making
  • Explainability, trust, and ethics in human-agent interaction
  • Effect of contexts such as social norms, cultural differences, values, and individual capabilities on team collaboration
  • Multimodal data collection and model calibration (such as interaction logs, eye tracking, physiology, motion)
  • Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification for behavior models

Submit an Open Track Proposal

Are you willing to propose an open track and collect papers focusing on a specific subject? Fill the form and send it to f.longo@unical.it and antonio.padovano@unical.it.

Key Dates

Paper Submission Deadlines

Registration Deadlines

Committees

IMAACA 2026 Organization Board

Geneviève Dauphin-Tanguy

IMAACA Honorary Chair
France

Antonio Padovano

IMAACA General Co-Chair
University of Calabria, Italy

Hassan Noura

IMAACA General Co-Chair
LIS Aix-Marseille University, AMU

Tamás Ruppert

IMAACA Program Co-Chair
University of Pannonia, Hungary

IMAACA 2026 Organization Staff

Vittorio Solina – DIMEG, University of Calabria, Italy

Antonio Padovano – University of Calabria, Italy

Letizia Nicoletti – CAL-TEK S.r.l., Italy

Mohaiad Osman Elbasheer – MSC-LES, University of Calabria, Italy

Cataldo Russo – CAL-TEK S.r.l., Italy

Caterina Fusto – MSC-LES, University of Calabria, Italy

Alessandro Chiurco – DIMEG, University of Calabria, Italy

Virginia D’Augusta – DIMEG, University of Calabria, Italy

Simone Talarico – DIMEG, University of Calabria, Italy

Marco Vetrano – CAL-TEK S.r.l., Italy

Kirill Sinelshchikov – Simulation Team, Italy
Antonio Cimino, University of Salento, Italy

Alessio Baratta – MSC-LES, University of Calabria, Italy

Pierpaolo Veltri – MSC-LES, University of Calabria, Italy
Karen Althea Manfredi – MSC-LES, University of Calabria, Italy
Antonio Nervoso – MSC-LES, University of Calabria, Italy
Chiara Sammarco – University of Calabrria, Italy
Martina Cardamone – University of Calabrria, Italy

IMAACA 2026 International Program Committee

Vincenzo Cutrona – SUPSI, Switzerland
Bharath Gadupuri – MIPET, Italy
Bartłomiej Gładysz – Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Alex Kummer – University of Pannonia, Hungary
Ugljesa Marjanovic – University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Sandra Mattsson – RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
Khalid Mekouar – ESISA, Marocco
Amar Missoum – Samtech, China
Andrey Morozov – University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hassan Noura, LIS Aix-Marseille University, AMU)
Mustapha Ouladsine – LIS, France
Ian Pratt – Hangzhou Scientia-IoT, China
Andrea Salfinger – University of Udine, Italy
Sara Scheffer – TU Wien, Austria
Kirill Sinelshchikov – Simulation Team
Kang Taeho – TU-Wien, Austria
Tuan-anh Tran – University of Pannonia, Hungary
Vera Varga – University of Pannonia, Hungary
Cecilia Zanni-Merk, Icube, INSA, France

Matías Nacusse – FCEIA, UNR, Argentina

Rachid Outbib – LSIS, Marseille, France

Pushparaj Mani Pathak – IIT, Roorkee, India

Ricardo Pérez Correa – PUC, Chile

Mónica Romero – FCEIA, UNR, Rosario, Argentina

Christophe Sueur – Centrale Lille, France

Armand Toguyeni – Centrale Lille, France

Costas Tzafestas – NTUA, Greece

Jorge Vega – CIESE (UTN-FRSF) and INTEC (CONICET-UNL), Argentina

Daniel Viassolo – Schlumberger, Houston, TX, USA

Belkacem Ould-Bouamama – Polytech Lille, France

Aníbal Zanini – Fac. de Ingeniería, UBA, Argentina

Norberto Nigro – CIMEC, UNL, S. Fe, Argentina

Mourad Benoussaad- ENI Tarbes, France.

Get on board the team now!

Are you willing to join the Organization Committee or the International Program Committee? Discover the benefits and opportunities now and submit your proposal. Please feel free to contact f.longo@unical.it; massei@itim.unige.it