Con4AP Workshop

UbiComp / ISWC 2026 Workshop

Ubiquitous Connectivity for Agentic and Physical AI

Con4AP brings together pervasive computing, communications, networking, robotics, and AI researchers to co-design connected embodied agents for real-world deployment.

UbiComp / ISWC 2026
UbiComp / ISWC 2026 October 11-15, 2026 Shanghai, China Open in-person workshop
Call for Papers View Schedule
6 pages Regular research papers
4 pages Position and vision papers
30-40 Expected attendees
Double-blind Peer review

About the Workshop

Connectivity as a first-order constraint for embodied intelligence

As artificial intelligence bridges digital reasoning and physical execution, agentic and physical AI increasingly depends on pervasive devices such as wearables, ambient sensors, smart-home actuators, autonomous robots, AR/VR headsets, and connected vehicles. In these settings, connectivity is no longer a background utility: latency, bandwidth, reliability, energy use, mobility, and intermittent links directly bound what agents can perceive, decide, and control.

Con4AP focuses on the symbiosis between agentic planning and network reliability. The workshop aims to surface deployment-time constraints, seed collaboration across AI, robotics, communications, networking, and UbiComp/ISWC communities, chart a shared research roadmap, and create direct opportunities for early-career researchers.

Call for Papers

Topics of interest

We invite regular research papers up to 6 pages plus references and position or vision papers up to 4 pages plus references. Submissions should follow the UbiComp/ISWC 2026 template and will be reviewed double-blind by at least three program committee members.

Connected Agents

  • Goal-oriented and semantic communication for embodied agents
  • Multi-agent reinforcement learning under realistic network constraints
  • Networked control and consensus for swarm robotics and connected vehicles
  • Telesurgery, AR/VR, smart-home, and on-body assistant workloads

Computing and Sensing

  • Distributed inference, split computing, and on-device foundation models
  • End-edge-cloud partitioning for continuous health monitoring
  • Wearable and pervasive sensing pipelines for agentic models
  • Datasets, benchmarks, and testbeds for connectivity and embodied AI

Networks, Trust, and Co-Design

  • Joint communication-computation-control co-design for 6G and body-area networks
  • Cross-layer wireless and wired protocols for latency-sensitive agents
  • Trustworthy, privacy-preserving, and resilient connected-agent architectures
  • Human-in-the-loop oversight for sensitive on-body and ambient data

Invited Speakers

TBA soon

Invited speaker details will be announced after confirmation for the public website.

Workshop Schedule

Indicative full-day program

In-person workshop schedule in Shanghai, following the submitted proposal.

Time Session Format
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and workshop overview Organizers
09:15 - 10:15 Invited talks, block 1 2 talks x 30 min
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break and Poster Session 1 Posters
10:45 - 11:45 Oral session: best-selected papers 6 x 10 min
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch break Break
13:00 - 14:00 Invited talks, block 2 2 talks x 30 min
14:00 - 14:30 Student pitch session 3-min lightning talks
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break and Poster Session 2 Posters
15:00 - 16:00 Round-table panel: Ubiquitous Connectivity for Pervasive Agentic AI Open problems and roadmap
16:00 - 16:15 Closing remarks, best-paper award, and next steps Organizers

Accepted Papers

Accepted paper list

Accepted papers will be added after double-blind review and author notification.

# Title Authors Decision
1 Paper title to be announced Author list Oral / Poster
2 Paper title to be announced Author list Oral / Poster

Paper, Poster, and Oral Instructions

Author instructions

Accepted papers will be published in the UbiComp/ISWC 2026 Companion Proceedings. Slides and recorded talks, with speaker consent, will be archived on this website.

Paper

Use the UbiComp/ISWC 2026 template. Regular papers may be up to 6 pages plus references; position and vision papers may be up to 4 pages plus references.

Poster

Poster sessions will be used to connect authors with UbiComp/ISWC, communications, networking, and AI/robotics attendees.

Oral

Best-selected papers will be presented in a 60-minute oral session, with six 10-minute presentations.

Organizers

Organizing team

The organizing committee spans academia and industry across Singapore, Hong Kong SAR, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Jihong Park

Jihong Park

Associate Professor

Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Profile
Zihan Chen

Zihan Chen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Profile
Qijia Shao

Qijia Shao

Assistant Professor

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China Profile
Xuehai He

Xuehai He

Researcher, Microsoft AI Superintelligence Team

Microsoft, United States Profile
Yansha Deng

Yansha Deng

Professor of Intelligent Communication Systems

King's College London, United Kingdom Profile

Program Committee

Committee members

Add confirmed reviewers in alphabetical order.