- May 1, 2026 // Paper Submission Opens
- June 8, 2026 // Submission Deadline
- July 1, 2026 // Author Notification
- September 15 – September 18, 2026 // Conference Dates
Regular papers up to a maximum length of eight 8.5” x 11” pages (including tables, figures,
and references) in standard two-column IEEE format are solicited. Accepted and presented
papers can be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted and
presented papers are required to submit the final manuscript (in the same format as above)
before the final paper deadline. The papers must report original work that has not been presented at prior conferences or published in other journals.
Invited speakers have the option to, but are not required to, upload a paper by the final paper deadline. An abstract needs to be submitted on the portal before the submission deadline. For the final paper upload, all guidelines for regular papers apply, including those on the format, deadline, and originality of work. These papers will be included in the conference proceedings.
**FINAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Final versions of papers to be presented at the conference are required to be submitted electronically by Sunday, September 25, 2026, 11:59 p.m. PDT in order to appear in the Conference Proceedings.
***FINAL MANUSCRIPTS are *not* automatically generated from your original submission, and it is the author’s responsibility to upload both the initial and the final manuscript.
Papers presenting original research are solicited in the areas of:
adaptive control and automation
biological information systems
coding techniques and applications
coding theory
complex networked systems
data analytics
data storage
decentralized control systems
detection and estimation
distributed and large-scale systems
dynamic games
information theory
intrusion/anomaly detection and diagnosis learning and inference
machine learning and learning theory
multi-user detection and estimation
network coding
network games and algorithms
network information theory
optimization performance analysis
power system control and optimization
pricing and congestion control
quantum computing
quantum communications
reliability, security and trust
robotics
robust and nonlinear control
sensor networks
sensor networks in communications
signal acquisition, coding, and retrieval
signal models and representations
statistical signal processing
wireless communication systems
Allerton Conference Technical Proceedings
The Allerton Proceedings will be hosted by the University of Illinois Library System, IDEALS This is a return to how the proceedings were hosted the first 40 years of the conference. The direct link to where the proceedings will be hosted: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/units/547
IDEALS, the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship, collects, disseminates, and provides persistent and reliable access to the research and scholarship of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.