[nmrg] First International Workshop on the Agentic AI Networking (AgenNet2026) - call for papers

[Hesham Moussa <[e-mail]>]

Dear NMRG members,

Please find below a call for papers at NOMS2026

Regards
Hesham
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First International Workshop on the Agentic AI Networking (AgenNet2026)
(Co-located with IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2026)
18-22 May 2026, Rome, Italy.
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https://businessandit.ontariotechu.ca/ants/conferences/agennet26.php

Call For Papers

Agentic Artificial Intelligence (Agentic AI) represents a new generation of AI systems endowed with autonomy, adaptability, and goal-driven decision-making capabilities. Unlike traditional machine learning models that passively execute predefined tasks, agentic AI systems can actively plan, reason, and collaborate with other agents or humans to achieve complex objectives. This paradigm shift introduces new challenges and opportunities across computing and communication infrastructures, particularly when such intelligent agents must interact, negotiate, and coordinate actions in dynamic and distributed environments such as networks and the Internet.

Agentic AI Networking extends these principles to the design and operation of future communication systems and the Internet itself, where networks become active participants in decision-making processes. In such an agentic Internet, network entities, ranging from routers and virtual network functions to end devices and digital twins, are equipped with autonomous capabilities to sense, reason, and act. This transformation raises key research questions concerning interoperability, distributed intelligence, control architectures, trust, and governance in AI-driven networks. This new paradigm also provides an opportunity to revisit the architecture and the design of the Internet itself, and to evaluate whether the current architecture would still be efficient enough in a network where AI agents are the main source of user data exchange and knowledge sharing. This objective would involve the design of new network architectures, protocols, and performance metrics to support agentic AI workflow.

The AgenNet 2026 workshop aims to bring together academic and industry researchers and practitioners to explore foundational models, architectures, protocols and applications enabling agentic AI in the Internet of the future and to discuss technical challenges, state of the art solutions, and research results. Submissions are welcomed on topics including but not limited to:

- Architectures and frameworks for agentic AI networking
- Distributed intelligence and coordination among networked AI agents
- Multi-agent reinforcement learning and autonomous decision-making in networks
- Control, orchestration, and management in agentic network infrastructures
- Trust, safety, and ethical considerations in agentic AI-driven communication systems
- Semantic communication and knowledge exchange among autonomous agents
- Protocols and interfaces for inter-agent collaboration and negotiation
- Agentic Internet architecture design and optimization
- Network performance metrics in Agentic Internet
- Digital twins, intent-based networking, and closed-loop control for agentic systems
- Experimentation platforms, testbeds, and simulations for agentic AI networking
- Use cases and applications (e.g., 6G, IoT, cloud-edge continuum, cyber-physical systems, immersive communications)

Workshop organisers:
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-Shahram Shah Heydari, Ontario Tech University, Canada ([e-mail])
-Mohamed Faten Zhani, University of Sousse, Tunisia ([e-mail])
-Hesham Moussa, Huawei, Canada ([e-mail])
-Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna, Italy ([e-mail])

Submission and Important Dates:
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Paper Submission Deadline: January 19, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: March 2, 2026
Final Camera Ready: March 16, 2026
Conference Date: May 12 or May 16, 2026

Submission site:
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https://jems3.sbc.org.br/noms2026_agennet_workshop

Author Instructions:
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Authors are invited to submit original contributions to the workshop that are written in English and that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Workshop papers must be submitted as PDFs using the IEEE conference double-column format style. (Style templates can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html )

A NOMS workshop paper must not exceed six pages (excluding references). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. For accepted papers, at least one author is expected to register and present the paper in person at the workshop. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.