IEEE ICDCS 2026 are hosting the following workshops (in conjunction with the IEEE ICDCS 2026 main conference), which will be held on June 25, 2026.
Organizers:
- Professor Seng W. Loke (primary contact), Deakin University, Australia, seng.loke@deakin.edu.au
- Dr. Stephen DiAdamo, Qoro Quantum, stephen@qoroquantum.de
- Professor Yufei Ding, University of California, San Diego, USA, yufeiding@ucsd.edu
- Professor David Q. Liu, Purdue University, USA, dqliu@purdue.edu
- Dr. Raymond P.H. Wu, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, s225026183@deakin.edu.au
- Professor Jinho Choi, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia. jinho.choi@adelaide.edu.au
Workshop DisQIC 2026 Program: Day 4, June 25 (Thursday), 9:00 – 12:30, Room: Peacock
9:00 – 9:05 Welcoming and introducing invited speaker (by workshop co-organizer Dr. Raymond Wu)
9:05 – 9:45 Invited speaker: Jiwon Yune， Founder and CEO at SDT Inc. (on QuREKA)
Title: The Commercial Quantum Landscape: Hardware Trends and the Path to Distributed Systems
9:45 – 10:30 Paper presentations (15minutes per presenter):
- Maria Gragera-Garces and Majid Haghparast. Distributed Quantum Circuit Optimisation: Evaluating Global and Local encodings
- Shusen Liu, Pascal Jahan Elahi and Ugo Varetto. HPC-vQPU: Exporting Device-Aware Quantum Simulation from Batch-Scheduled HPC as an Interactive Service
- Edric Matwiejew, Pascal Elahi and Ugo Varetto. Distributed Variational Quantum Optimisation via Entanglement-Selective Transport
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Paper presentations (15minutes per presenter):
- Jorge Vázquez-Pérez, F. Javier Cardama, Tomás F. Pena and Andrés Gómez. Emulating NetQMPI applications with CUNQA: A Decoupled Architecture for HPC Environments
- Akihisa Takahashi, Yuhsaku Nakai and Yoshito Tobe. Towards a Hierarchical Entanglement Access Control
- Maria Gragera Garces. On the Distortion of Partitioning Performance by Random Quantum Circuits
11:45 – 12:30 Discussions (led by Dr. Raymond Wu)
3rd Workshop on Engineering Techniques for Distributed Computing Continuum Systems (EDCCS)
Organizers:
- Prof. Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien. dustdar@dsg.tuwien.ac
- Dr. Ilir Murturi (primary contact), Mechatronics, University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosova, ilir.murturi@uni-pr.edu
- Dr. Praveen Kumar Donta, Stockholm University, Sweden, praveen@dsv.su.se
- Dr. Victor Casamayor Pujol, UPF Barcelona, Spain, victor.casamayor@upf.edu
- Dr. Reza Farahani, Department of Information Technology (ITEC), University of Klagenfurt, Austria reza.farahani@aau.at
Workshop EDCCS Program: Day 4, June 25 (Thursday), 9:00 – 12:30, Room: Crane
09:00 – 10:30 Session 1: Intelligent Edge Systems and Distributed Resource Management
- 09:00 – 09:10 Opening Remarks
- 09:10 – 09:30 Deployment-Aware Causal Root Cause Analysis in Distributed Computing Continuum Systems Zhenghao Wu, Ruihai Dong and Hadi Tabatabaee Malazi
- 09:30 – 09:50 Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization with Dual Queues for Dynamic Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Zixuan Wang and Mingzhou Yang
- 09:50 – 10:10 Intent-Based Web Application for Managing SDN Research Clusters Walid Nouicer, Jani Launonen, Lauri Loven and Dinesh Sah
- 10:10 – 10:30 SpectralShard: Lightweight Partitioning under Dynamic Interaction Patterns Yujin Pang, Clément Burgelin, Antoine Murat and Rachid Guerraoui
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: AI-Driven Continuum Computing and Performance Optimization
- 11:00 – 11:20 Edge-Native Environmental Sensor Interpretation Using Lightweight Large Language Models Dires Fente and Cassio Prazeres
- 11:20 – 11:40 Continuum-Aware End–Cloud Offloading for Collaborative Inference Shangyang Wu, Xingwei Wang, Yuhai Zhao, Yingyou Wen, Zhijiang Wang and Cong Wei
- 11:40 – 12:00 Quantifying Inter-City Network Latency in Europe: A Measurement based Study for Time-Critical Cloud Services Thomas Schleicher, Kurt Horvath, Dragi Kimovski, Bernd Spiess and Oliver Hohlfeld
- 12:00 – 12:20 Fair Comparison of Scheduling Algorithms on Heterogeneous Edge Clusters: A Continuous Adaptive Benchmark Zihang Wang, Boris Sedlak, Juan Luis Herrera and Schahram Dustdar
- 12:20 – 12:30 Closing Remarks and Next-Year Workshop Plans
Federated Foundation Models at the Edge (FFM@Edge)
Organizers:
- Dr. Christopher G. Brinton, Purdue University, USA, cgb@purdue.edu
- Dr. Xianhao Chen (primary contact), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, xcheneee@hku.hk
- Dr. Bing Luo, Duke Kunshan University, China, bing.luo@dukekunshan.edu.cn
- Dr. Ahmed M. A. Sayed, Queen Mary University of London, UK, ahmed.sayed@qmul.ac.uk
- Dr. Shiqiang Wang, University of Exeter, UK, S.Wang9@exeter.ac.uk
Workshop FFM@Edge Program: Day 4, June 25 (Thursday), 8:55 – 11:30, Room: Swan
Invited talk session:
- 08:55 – 09:00 am Welcome remarks
- 09:00 – 09:35 am Invited Talk 1: Dr. Yan Gao (Research Scientist at Flower)
- 09:35 – 10:10 am Invited Talk 2: Dr. Mingyue Ji (Associate Professor at University of Florida)
Paper presentation session:
- 10:10 – 10:30 am: Pablo Espinosa-Campos, Lucas Liebe, Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Nhat-Quang Tau, Yuheng Wu and Dongman Lee. AdaS-LoRA: Efficient Federated LLM Tuning in Edge Systems by Decoupling Compute and Network
- 10:30 – 10:50 am: Saul Urso, Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi and Matteo Mordacchini. A communication cost model for Federated Mask-Voting
- 10:50 – 11:10 am: Andy Yuen-Khai Khoo, Yen-Hsun Meng, Cheng-Hou Chou, Chia-Hsuan Wu, Mu-Chun Su and Yi-Zeng Hsieh. Federated Digital Twin-Driven Foundation Models for Energy-Aware Scheduling in Edge Data Centers
- 11:10 – 11:30 am: Shan Huang, Zhijing Ye, Zhaorui Zhang, Sheng Di, Jiamin Wang, Wendy Hui Wang and Xiaodong Yu. Noise-Calibrated Lossy Compression for Privacy Leakage Reduction in Federated Learning