Dear colleagues,
we do hope this Call for Papers may be of your interest.
We do apologize if this CfP reaches you more than once.
Yours sincerely
HEAD Organizers
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Healthcare Evolution through AI and Digital twins
HEAD 2026
18 - 21 May, 2026 - Sydney, Australia
https://www.head.icar.cnr.it/
in conjunction with the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster,
Cloud and Internet
Computing (CCGrid 2026) and in-cooperation with ACM SIGHPC
Submit your paper by using the link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/submission_new?a=35863199
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MISSION:
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All over the world, the number of investments in Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) for healthcare and wellbeing (eHealth) is
rapidly increasing. GLOBE NEWSWIRE has predicted that the Global eHealth
market is expected to reach $123.78 billion by 2030. This means that
digital health is of considerable interest worldwide, as it has the
potential to improve both the quality of services and users’ access to
health information, while also saving time and reducing the workload and
associated costs for health service providers in the long term.
In this context, an increasing interest is growing around eHealth and
ICT technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins,
Cloud computing, Edge and Fog computing, and Internet of Things (IoT),
which are at the basis of revolutionising healthcare by bringing
innovative network applications and services. In fact, modern healthcare
applications are becoming increasingly dependent on heterogeneous
infrastructures, including IoT and edge medical devices, as well as
High-Performance Computing (HPC) backends, to support the execution of
AI-driven models and patient-specific Digital Twins.
The HEAD workshop would explore the open challenges and current issues
surrounding the application of these technologies, while bridging the
gap between healthcare innovation and the hardware and software systems
that support scalable and reliable computing. HEAD aims to encourage
interdisciplinary discussion about how technologies such as HPC,
distributed systems and performance optimisation can facilitate the
deployment of reliable and scalable Digital Twins for healthcare. The
workshop will highlight the role of computing infrastructures as key
enablers of future digital medicine by linking algorithmic advances with
architectural and systems-level innovations.
TOPICS:
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■ AI Algorithms and Learning Frameworks for Healthcare
■ Modeling and Simulation Methodologies for Healthcare
■ Programming Techniques and Architectures for Healthcare
■ Data Management, Analytics, and Knowledge Extraction
■ ICT Infrastructure and Tools for Healthcare Digital Twins
■ Cloud Computing, Edge and Fog Computing for Healthcare
■ Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Wearable Devices for Healthcare
■ Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of ICT for Healthcare
■ Accelerator-based architectures (GPUs, NPUs, FPGAs and DPUs) for
Healthcare
■ Parallel and Distributed Training and Multi-GPU/Multi-Node Execution
for Healthcare Applications
■ Energy-Efficient, Sustainable, and Optimization-Oriented Computing for
AI in Healthcare
IMPORTANT DATES:
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• Submission deadline: February 01, 2026
• Notification of paper acceptance: February 28, 2026
• Submission of camera-ready papers: March 15, 2026
• Registration: March 15, 2026
PAPER SUBMISSION:
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Manuscripts should describe original work and should be formatted
according to the IEEE conference proceedings format.
Papers will be submitted through the CCGrid 2026 submission system.
Submit your paper here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/submission_new?a=35863199
All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Each paper
will be reviewed by at least three members of the Technical Program
Committee. Reviews will be double-blind.
Accepted papers will be published in the CCGrid 2026 workshop
proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore.
BEST PAPER AWARD:
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A Best Paper Award certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a
paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based on
scientific significance, originality, and technical quality, as
evaluated by the Program Committee.
Please visit https://www.head.icar.cnr.it/ for more information and if
you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email
Kind regards,
HEAD 2026 Organizers
