[Ndn-interest] CFP: IEEE ICNP Workshop on Networking Foundations for Autonomous Agents (AgentNet)

[Lan Wang (lanwang)]


We have extended the submission deadline to July 6, 2026.

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Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions to the IEEE ICNP Workshop on Networking Foundations for Autonomous Agents (AgentNet), held in conjunction with the 34th IEEE ICNP in Tempe, Arizona, USA, October 5–8, 2026.

The emergence of AI agents introduces new requirements for networked systems. Agents are increasingly expected to discover services and other agents, delegate tasks, coordinate actions, exchange state, reason over provenance, and operate across administrative and trust boundaries. These interaction patterns go beyond traditional host-centric request-response communication and raise fundamental questions for network protocol design.

Current Internet architectures provide strong foundations for packet delivery, naming, transport, and secure communication channels, but they do not directly provide abstractions for agent identity, capability-based discovery, intent-driven communication, trust delegation, provenance-aware exchange, or accountable multi-agent coordination. As a result, many emerging agent systems rely on application-specific integration frameworks, centralized platforms, or ad hoc protocol conventions.

AgentNet 2026 invites original research, position papers, and early-stage work on the networking foundations of autonomous agent ecosystems. A central question for the workshop is whether large-scale agent ecosystems require a new architectural thin waist: a minimal interoperability substrate that allows heterogeneous agents, tools, models, platforms, and administrative domains to communicate and coordinate without requiring global agreement on application frameworks, reasoning engines, or trust authorities.

The workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from network protocols, distributed systems, security, AI systems, information-centric networking, Web architecture, and federated systems to identify the key protocol abstractions, architectural principles, and deployment models for agent networking.

We encourage the submission of early-stage but promising research, as well as mature system and theoretical contributions that advance the understanding of agent-based networking.

Important Dates (tentative aligned with ICNP workshops):

* Workshop paper submission: July 6, 2026 AoE
* Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2026 AoE
* Camera-ready deadline: August 25, 2026 AoE
* Workshop date: October 5, 2026

For submission details, formatting guidelines, and updates, please refer to the workshop webpage: https://ucla-irl.github.io/agentnet-icnp26/

We look forward to your submissions and to an engaging workshop discussion.

Best regards,
AgentNet Workshop Organizers

<https://ucla-irl.github.io/agentnet-icnp26/>
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Lan Wang
Faudree University Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Memphis
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