Advances in Collaborative AI Systems (ACAI)

ACAI (Advances in Collaborative AI Systems) is a workshop co-located with the International Conference on Intelligent Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity (IDFC 2026), held in Trento, Italy. ACAI brings together researchers and practitioners across the full landscape of collaborative AI systems — federated learning, multi-agent systems, foundation models, agentic AI, distributed AI, and trustworthy AI. As machine learning moves from centralized labs into edge devices, hospitals, factories, vehicles, autonomous agents, and consumer products, the systems that train, serve, and coordinate these models are increasingly collaborative by design.

The workshop explores how collaborative AI systems are built, deployed, and evaluated across diverse settings: how agents cooperate and coordinate, how models are trained across distributed parties, how foundation models can be adapted collaboratively, and how applications across domains benefit from collaborative intelligence. ACAI welcomes contributions on methods, systems, applications, and case studies, and explicitly encourages interdisciplinary work spanning federated and distributed learning, multi-agent and agentic AI, collaborative foundation models, and the practical concerns — including privacy, robustness, and trust — that arise when intelligent systems work together.

Submission Types

Abstracted / Indexed in

All accepted papers will appear in the IDFC 2026 proceedings published by IOS Press (Open Access), and indexed in:

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