8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Industrial IoT Security (AIoTS 2026)

Call for Papers

With the rapid advancement and convergence of the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the integration of AI into IIoT (AIoT) has emerged as a transformative frontier with tremendous potential. This rapidly evolving field is reshaping economic and social domains by enabling intelligent, autonomous, and adaptive systems that go far beyond traditional digitization and connectivity. By embedding AI into IIoT ecosystems, industries are entering a new era of intelligence-driven innovation.

The accelerated adoption of AIoT also introduces critical cybersecurity challenges. The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data in AIoT applications are paramount, as IIoT systems frequently interact with physical environments, human users, and critical infrastructures. Consequently, security incidents may result in severe disruptions, physical hazards, and even societal risks.

The intersection of AI and cybersecurity represents a two-fold relationship. On the one hand, AI techniques can strengthen state-of-the-art security mechanisms by enabling intelligent threat detection, anomaly analysis, and proactive defense strategies. On the other hand, the security of AI itself has become a pressing concern, as adversarial machine learning, model poisoning, and data manipulation highlight new vulnerabilities. Ensuring robust, trustworthy, and resilient AIoT systems requires advancing research that bridges both perspectives.

This workshop aims to open a space where new research ideas from different areas converge into the intersection of AI, IIoT, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and cybersecurity. We encourage researchers and experts in the fields of AI, embedded systems, CPS, and cybersecurity to take the opportunity to use this workshop to share their work and open the discussion of new ideas on this always-evolving topic.

Topics of Interest

AIoTS aims to cover various fields of application in the area of security and privacy within Artificial Intelligence and IIoT. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Formal Security and Resilience Analysis on AI and IIoT/CPS
• Risk Management and Governance for AI and IIoT-based Applications
• AI-Assisted Critical Infrastructure Security
• (Federated) Adversarial Machine Learning
• AI for Detection, Prevention, Response, and Recovery against Potential Threats
• AI for Wide-Area Situational Awareness and Traceability
• Applied Cryptography for AI and IIoT
• Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems and/or IIoT
• Applications of Formal Methods to IIoT Security
• Blockchain for Trustworthy IIoT/CPS-based applications
• Embedded Systems Security
• Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
• Cyber Threat Intelligence for AI and IIoT/CPS

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be original and must not duplicate work that any authors have published elsewhere or submitted in parallel to any other venue with formally published proceedings.

Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Each submission must begin with a title, short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader.

All submissions must follow the original LNCS format (Springer LNCS guidelines) with a page limit of 18 pages (incl. references) for the main part (reviewers are not required to read appendices) and 30 pages in total. LaTeX is strongly encouraged.

Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop by a registered author.

Important Dates (AoE time zone)

Organization

Program Co-Chairs

• Sudipta Chattopadhyay, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA (website)
• Zeyu Yang, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore (website)

Publicity & Web Chair

• Linkang Du, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi'an, China (website)