4^th International Conference IOT, Blockchain and Cryptography (IOTBC 2026)

March 30 ~ 31, 2026, Virtual conference

Scope & Topics

4^th International Conference IOT, Blockchain and Cryptography (IOTBC 2026) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of IoT, Blockchain and Cryptography.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to these topics only.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

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• Access Control and Intrusion Detection
  
• Artificial Immune Systems
  
• Authentication
  
• Authentication and Non-repudiation
  
• Autonomy-Oriented Computing
  
• Biological & Evolutionary Computation
  
• Biometric Security
  
• Blockchain Attacks on Existing Systems
  
• Blockchain Authentication and authorization
  
• Blockchain based security for the IoT
  
• Blockchain Consensus Algorithms
  
• Blockchain Foundations
  
• Blockchain in digital forensic
  
• Blockchain issues and trends
  
• Blockchain New Design
  
• Blockchain Privacy
  
• Blockchain Scalability
  
• Coevolutionary Algorithms
  
• Computational Intelligence in Security
  
• Connectivity and Networking
  
• Cryptographic protocols
  
• Cryptography and Coding
  
• Data & System Integrity
  
• Data Integrity
  
• E- Commerce
  
• Insider Threats and Countermeasures
  
• Intelligent Agents and Systems
  
• Intrusion Detection & Prevention
  
• Intrusion Detection and Vulnerability Assessment
  
• IoT Applications and Services
  
• IoT-enabled Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  
• Key management
  
• Electronics and Signal processing for IoT
  
• Experimental Results and Deployment Scenarios
  
• Fuzzy Systems
  
• Identification and Authentication
  
• Information Hiding
  
• Models for Authentication, Trust and Authorization
  
• Privacy and authentication
  
• Quantum cryptography
  
• Regulation and Trust Mechanisms
  
• Reinforcement & Unsupervised Learning
  
• Secure Cloud Computing
  
• Security and Privacy for IoT
  
• Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems
  
• Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
  
• Security and Privacy in Web services
  
• Security and Privacy Policies
  
• Security Area Control
  
• Security Deployment
  
• Security Engineering
  
• Security for Grid Computing
  
• Security in Distributed Systems
  
• Security Information Systems Architecture and Design and Security Patterns
  
• Security Requirements (threats, vulnerabilities, risk, formal methods, etc.)
  
• Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security
  
• Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security
  
• Software Security
  
• Trust Management
  
• Trust models and metrics
  

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by November 29, 2025. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics (IJCI) (Confirmed).

Selected papers from IOTBC 2026 , after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• EInternational Journal of Game Theory and Technology (IJGTT)
  
• International Journal on Cryptography and Information Security (IJCIS)
  
• The International Journal of Security, Privacy and Trust Management (IJSPTM )
  
• EInternational Journal of Ubiquitous Computing (IJU)
  
• International Journal of Ambient Systems and Applications (IJASA)
  

  Important Dates

  Submission Deadline	:	November 29, 2025
  Authors Notification	:	January 10, 2026
  Final Manuscript Due	:	January 17, 2026

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    ***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to iotbc@iotbc2026.org