ICIDCA 2026

Communication Intelligence is an expeditiously growing and promising interdisciplinary field of research that introduces revolutionary paradigms in various communication models and applications. It is derived from electronic intelligence and focuses on developing communication mediums that ensure more secure and reliable transmission between users. The convergence of communication intelligence and data computing has produced the latest trends and technologies in the research field. Advanced data computing and data analysis methods help in understanding and solving various real-world complexities.

Recently, the development of various cognitively inspired computing models and smart interactive algorithms has gained the potential to enable a large scale of smart computing applications. Hence, the recent advances in computing technologies have opened up new avenues for research in the domains of data computing and communication intelligence.

The goal is to bring together recent advances in communication intelligence, data computing models, algorithms, and simulations to analyze and optimize various complex problems. This conference aims to establish a new discipline in communication intelligence and data computing by combining contemporary computational methods, data communication, software engineering, machine learning, simulations, and ancillary technologies. The objective is to address complexities in advanced computing applications in a smart way, going far beyond the scope of traditional data computing methods and technologies.

The International Conference on Innovative Data Communication Technologies and Applications (ICIDCA 2026) is an international forum on the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. We solicit papers in all areas of distributed computing. Submissions from all perspectives—including theory, practice, and experimentation—are welcome. The common goal of the conference is to enhance understanding of the principles underlying distributed computing.

Expected Outcomes

Opportunities to build international research network and increase awareness on new research trends happening in the particular area of interest.

International networking will lead the scholars to a new perspective on the important elements of their study.

Valuable theoretical approaches and simulation techniques will be discussed, allowing the delegates to gain state-of-the-art research knowledge.

Delegates may learn about the techniques/tools that experts in their field prefer for solving the research challenges.

Collaboration of industry and academia will have a beneficial impact on the teaching/learning process since academia will get more familiar with current developments in a variety of fields.

Benefits

Scholars can acquire an extensive network of contacts.

Strengthen the knowledge base for enhancing the research career of the delegates.

Conference delegates can gain critical insights on recent findings in their area of expertise.

Enlightening keynote sessions offer participants the right exposure to meet the right group of people.

Interacting with successful people will offer crucial insights on how to achieve a research success.

Woldia University

Woldia University is one of the public universities established by the Government of Ethiopia following its plan to expand higher education institutions in the country’ to increase access and shore up its economic development and social transformation. Education coverage of Ethiopia so minimal even compared to the Sub-Saharan Africa. The Government of Ethiopia exerted its effort in expansion of education in the country to increase its educated human capital that meets the labor market demand of the nation. With this intention, the University was established in 2011 in Woldia town, North Wollo Zone, Amhara National Regional State on a 201-hectare. Currently the university has three campuses: Woldia Campus (main), Mersa Agricultural College, and St. Lalibela Institute of Heritage and Tourism Studies. Woldia is located in a cross-sectional geographic location which interconnects Samara (Afar), Mekele (Tigray) and Bahir Dar (Amhara), Dessie (Amhara) and in a distance of 520 KMs north of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

When the University began its teaching-learning process in 2011, it enrolled 573 regular undergraduate students in four faculties of twelve departments, and 156 week end (extension) undergraduate students in two departments, having 115 academic and 117 administrative staffs. Currently, the university has two institutes, two colleges, four faculties and six schools. Extensive work is being done in the community service sectors. The university has 1,285 teachers and technical assistants, 958 permanent administrative staffs, and 983 members of service providing Associations to whom campus cleaning, security, catering and cafeteria, and many other services are outsourced. The Federal democratic republic of Ethiopia, ministry of Education tried to differentiate higher education institutions to play a great role on the national development agenda. Higher education institution in Ethiopia has been differentiated based on their generations, facilities, geographic location and the natural resource they have in their mandate area. The differentiation reform planned for the higher education sector has been focused on thematic areas including access, equity, and unity with diversity, quality, relevance, efficiency, research, technology transfer and community services, and the financing of higher education. Since its establishment by the Government of Ethiopia, in 2011 G.C. the university had passed through a noticeable development progress for the past ten (12) years. Laboratories, workshops, libraries, offices, student services, ICT infrastructures, staff residence, guesthouses, electrical and water supply infrastructures, teacher’s residence, etc. were all up to par. The university has competitive advantages in the area of tourism, agriculture, technology and health. So in our 5 years strategic plan we identified tourism, agriculture, technology and health as a major area of excellence. Thus the departure mainly started from the listed center of Excellences of the university.

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Shajulin Benedict

Guest Professor of TUM-Germany & Faculty-InCharge (R&D and International Affairs), Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottayam, India.

Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas

Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Director of the Department of International Relations, Head of the Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Romania.

Organizing Committee

Chief Patron

Dr Abebe Girma Demissie

President
Woldia University, Ethiopia

Patron

Dr Marye Belete Alemayehu

Vice President
Woldia University, Ethiopia

Conference Chair

Dr Getnet Zeleke Tessera

Woldia University, Ethiopia

Publication Chair

Dr Prince Thomas

Woldia University, Ethiopia

Technical Program Chairs

Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas

Professor, Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania

Dr. Khaled A. Kamel

Professor, Computer Science Department, Texas Southern University, Houston, USA

Pr. Pascal LORENZ

University of Haute Alsace, France

Dr. M Sai Prashanth

Chair, Student Activities, IEEE ComSoc Member Services Board.

Dr. Paolo Bellavista

Università di Bologna, Italy.

Dr. Joy Iong Zong Chen

Da-Yeh University, Taiwan

Dr. Xavier Fernando

Ryerson University, Canada

Dr. Pavel Lafata

Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Dr. Robert Bestak

Czech Technical University, Prague

Dr. Zubair A. Baig

Deakin University, Australia

Technical Program Committee

Dr. Abdul M. Iliyasu

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Mr. Virginia Ebere

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria

Dr. V. Suma

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, India

Dr. Vinicius Coelho

Universitário Darcy Ribeiro Gleba Faculdade De Tecnologia, Brasil

Dr. Muhammad Suryanegara

Universitas, Indonesia

Dr. Subarna Shakya

Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Mr. Yuwa Igbinosa

Howard College Campus, South Africa

Dr. P. Radhakrishnan

Emirates College for Management and Information Technology, UAE

Mr. Taslim Reza

Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh

Dr. Pradeep Kumar

University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Dr. Vivek Kumar Singh

University of Coimbra, Portugal

Prof. Dr. Kuan Yew Wong

Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia

Dr. Anand Nayyar

Duy Tan University, Vietnam

Call for Paper

ICIDCA aims to report the engineering features of big data communication technologies that are setting off upsurges in the exploration of algorithms, raising challenges on big data, and its development integration; and novel paradigms in the cross–disciplinary field that need to be constructed by implementing complex innovative ideas from various fields.

Track - 1

DATA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Big Data collection in Communication Networks

Big Data for Network Service Intelligence

Adaptive Techniques for Increased Network Performance

Big Data and Network Security

Distributed Data Analytics

Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency

Mobile and Data Communication Systems

Visualization Analytics for Big Data

Mobility and Big Data

Multimedia and Multi-structured Data

Data Mining and Data Pre-processing

Optimization and Big Data

Mobile and Data Communication Systems

Stream data mining

Data Analysis and Decision Making

Real-world and large-scale practices of big data

Track - 2

DATA COMPUTING

Computational Models for Big Data

Advanced Big Data Learning and Predictive Analytics

Knowledge Extraction, Discovery, and Analysis

Big Data as a Service and Application

Big Data and Machine Learning Applications

Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

Security and Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics

Social Data Mining and Analytics

Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining

Blockchain data management

Sustainable big data computing platforms

Computation in memory/storage/network

High Performance/Parallel Computing for Big Data

Multi-level Data Processing

Intelligent Data Management

Track - 3

NEXT-GENERATION NETWORKING AND INTERNET (NGNI)

Future Internet Architectures and Protocols

Next-Generation Network Design and Optimization

Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

5G/6G and Beyond Communication Networks

Edge, Fog, and Cloud Networking

Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Network Systems

AI/ML for Network Automation and Management

Network Slicing and Virtualized Network Services

Low-Latency and Ultra-Reliable Communication (URLLC)

Intelligent and Autonomous Networks

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Next-Generation Networks

Green and Sustainable Networking

Distributed and Decentralized Network Architectures

Internet Services and Applications for Smart Cities

Submission

We welcome high-quality articles reporting novel and unpublished results of conceptual, creative, experimental, and theoretical work or study in any of the topic areas mentioned in Call For Papers. When a manuscript is submitted, it indicates that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Send full manuscript via,
◈ Email: icidca.conf@gmail.com

Language:

The text should be in English, wherein the author should not mix both American and British usage.

Authors are instructed to proofread the article before submission in order to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to ensure the usage of correct scientific English.

Page Limit:

The maximum page count is 10, and the minimum page count is 3.

Submission:

The conference has two different tracks:
Track 1: DATA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Track 2: DATA COMPUTING

Submission Method:

Papers should only be submitted to the conference Email The Email subject should clearly include the TRACK [The Email subject line should be “New paper submission to Track-1 / Track-2 ”] to which the author is submitting the paper.

Paper Structure:

The full paper should contain the following details of the proposed research work:

Title of the Paper
Abstract
Key Words (Not more than Five Key Words)
Design/ Methodology/ Approach
Purpose
Major Research Findings
Practical Implications
Research Limitations/ Implications
Originality/Value
Conclusion & Future Research Work

All submissions must be written in English, either in an MS Word format or in a Latex format, and must use standard manuscript templates that can be downloaded below:

to be updated...

Review Process:

All articles will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind manner. Relevancy, structure, research technique, ethical conduct, language standard, inventiveness, references, hypothesis, result presentation, proficiency, format, and a variety of other aspects are all taken into account throughout the process of assessment.

Papers that are accepted will be published in the Conference Proceedings and further it will be published in the author selected publication track.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by three international program committees. ICIDCA takes the protection of intellectual property very seriously. All submissions will be screened for plagiarism and similarity check. By submitting your work, you agree to allow ICIDCA to screen your work for plagiarism.

The paper will be evaluated based on their novelty and innovative research contribution.

Decision:

There are three possible decisions for a submitted full-paper

Accepted with Official Acceptance Letter as a mail attachment to proceed with the registration.
Major Revision, the papers should be revised according to reviewer comments to obtain the Official Acceptance Letter.
Rejected. This means the paper will not be considered for the next process even if it is revised.

NOTE: Author should register to the conference only after obtaining the Official Acceptance Letter from the conference.

Plagiarism Policy for the Publication:

All articles submitted to ICIDCA will first undergo a plagiarism check before being sent to our technical program committee for review.

Note that plagiarized articles will be rejected (Must be 15% below excluding references).

Copying of contents from other articles is strictly prohibited. However, it is allowed with proper quotations and citations.

Only articles with 80% original content should be submitted with the expectation of being accepted for ICIDCA 2026 proceedings.

ICIDCA keenly discourages plagiarism in research articles, proposals and survey articles submitted to us.

Articles failing plagiarism check will be subjected to rejection without any review.

Instructions for the oral presentation:

The presentation should last about 15 minutes. You may use whatever type of presentation and number of slides you prefer. Please arrive early for your presentation to verify that all essential equipment is available.

Registration

General Guidelines

Fee payment is required in order to attend the conference.
The authors of accepted submission must register for the conference and pay the registration fee before the deadline.
Due to the proceeding work, the last date of registration for accepted papers was earlier. So kindly follow the registration date mentioned in the acceptance mail.
Each paper should have at least one author who pays the registration fee and attends the conference.
Corresponding authors are encouraged to complete a thorough review of the article before the final submission date; this will be the last chance to make any revisions, amendments, or acknowledgements. Requests to update, edit, change, or add information to the paper after final submission will not be accommodated after the final submission deadline.

Authors should forward the following documents to complete the registration to the conference:

Final camera ready paper (It should be in editable format either word or latex file)
Copyright agreement form (It should be duly signed by the corresponding author with date)
Payment Proof (Anyone of the author can pay - Registration fee per paper only)
Permission Request form(Obtain a signature from a third-party user if any third-party material is used)

Cancellation/Refund Policy

After the registration process has been finalized, it is not possible to cancel or withdraw.

Publication

to be updated...

Contact

Dr. Prince Thomas

Woldia University, Ethiopia

icidca.conf@gmail.com

Venue

Woldia University

PO.Box 400
RH4X+GM, A2,
Weldiya, Ethiopia