Call For Contributions

We are happy to invite you to participate in NCA 2025 - 5-7 November, 2025 at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.

NCA 2025 serves as a large international forum for presenting and sharing recent research results and technological developments in the fields of Network and Distributed Computing. NCA, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, reaches out to both researchers and practitioners, and to both academia and industry. All papers presented at the main conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and indexing.

Topics of Interest

The International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA) is seeking articles concerning fundamental research and practical experience reports. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theory of Network Computing
• Autonomic Network Computing
• Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• High Speed Networks/Protocols and Middleware
• Routing Mechanisms
• Overlay Networks/Peer-to-Peer Systems
• System Area Networks (SAN)/Clusters
• Performance Modeling/Quality of Services (QoS) Issues
• Web Caching and Switching
• Dependable Wide, Local, and System Area Networks
• Network Security
• Intrusion-Tolerant Networked Systems
• Scalable and Dependable Servers and Data Centers
• Middleware for Dependable Network Computing
• Self* (Configuring, Healing, Optimizing, Protecting, Organizing, Aware)
• Platforms for Network Computing
• Network Protocols: Verification and Validation
• Autonomic Network Computing for Achieving Self* Properties and Applications Availability
• Seamless and Virtual Capabilities for Implementing Self* Properties
• Software Defined Networking (SDN): Principles and Implementation
• Designing Highly-Available and Secure SDN
• Network Functions Virtualization (NFV): Design and Optimization
• Network Cloud Computing
• Machine Learning Techniques for Networks and Cloud Resources Management
• Big Data in Clouds for IoT
• Future Internet and Communicating Objects
• Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET)
• New services and applications for network sensor systems
• Fog/Edge Computing (including Compute Continuum)
• Energy-Efficient Computation and Communication
• Applications to Real and/or Complex Problems, Practical Experiences and Prototypes
• Algorithms, Framework, and Programming Environments for Distributed Systems
• Blockchain
• Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• Web and Mobile Security
• Social Networks
• Systems, Architecture, and Network for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Distributed Quantum Computing and Quantum Network Protocol
• Federated Learning

Best Paper Awards

The NCA2025 Program Committee will select Best Paper and Best Student Paper. The first author of the Best Student Paper must be a BSc/MSc/PhD student.

Important Dates

1. Manuscript Due: August 15th, 2025 (AoE)
2. Acceptance Notification: October 7th, 2025

Manuscript Submission

• Submission Platform: Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair. The submission link will be available soon.
• Manuscript Page Limit:
  • Regular Papers: 8 pages, including all figures, tables, and references.
  • Short Papers: 4 pages, including all figures, tables, and references.
• Purchasing Extra Pages:
  • Regular Papers: Up to 2 extra pages may be purchased at €100 (EUR) per extra page.
  • Short Papers: Up to 1 extra page may be purchased at €100 (EUR).
• Authors can submit full papers longer than 8 pages (up to 10 pages) before the reviewing process. These longer papers, if accepted as full papers, cannot be shrunk when preparing camera-ready versions.

Accepted Papers and Publication Policies

• Every regular paper accepted must have attached to it at least one registration at the full rate. For manuscripts where all authors are students, one student author must register at the full registration rate.
• No-show papers are defined as papers submitted by authors who did not present the paper at the technical meeting. All presentations will be given in person.
• No-show papers that were not withdrawn and were published in the Proceedings must be identified as "No-Show" in the files submitted to the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will not be available on IEEE Xplore.
• IEEE CPS discourages changes and withdrawals of papers once submitted and included in the program. Requests to withdraw or change a paper must come directly from the author, and the author will be held liable for all incurred costs.

Authors' Kit and Templates

• The author kit is provided on the conference website.
• LaTeX Template: Be sure to use the template's conference mode. Check that the bibliography is properly formatted according to IEEE specifications.
• While other systems like MS-Word can be used, it is discouraged.

Contact Us

• Address: Instituto Superior Técnico, Avenida Rovisco Pais, Nº1 - 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
• Phone: (+351) 213 100 335
• Email: joao.barreto@tecnico.ulisboa.pt