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AI-driven Management and MLOps for Networks and Services: Call for Papers for a Special Issue in the International Journal of Network Management

📢 **Call for Papers: Special Issue on AI-driven Management and MLOps for Networks and Services**

🚀 New: Accepted papers are published online immediately after acceptance through Wiley’s continuous publication model, ensuring rapid visibility and impact.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming the operational core of modern communication systems. From cloud-native infrastructures and edge computing to 6G, IoT, and critical infrastructures, AI is transforming how networks and services are monitored, optimized, secured, and operated.

At the same time, the growing deployment of AI introduces new challenges: How do we manage AI models in production? How do we ensure trustworthiness, explainability, security, resilience, and governance of operational AI systems?

To address these challenges, we are pleased to invite submissions to the Special Issue:

📖 **AI-driven Management and MLOps for Networks and Services**
📍 *International Journal of Network Management (Wiley)*
📅 **Submission Deadline (with CONTINUOUS PUBLISHING UNTIL9: 31 October 2026**

🔗 CFP: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991190/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2026-000414

This Special Issue follows the successful AIMLOps 2026 Workshop at IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2026 in Rome. The quality of the papers, presentations, and discussions demonstrated that AI-driven management and the operational management of AI itself are becoming defining challenges for future communication systems.

We particularly encourage authors to submit work on:
🔹 AI-driven network and service management
🔹 AIOps, MLOps, and LLMOps
🔹 Large Language Models for operations and troubleshooting
🔹 Autonomous and zero-touch networks
🔹 AI for cloud-native, edge, 5G/6G, and IoT environments
🔹 Explainability, transparency, and trust in AI-driven operations
🔹 Security, privacy, and governance of operational AI
🔹 Monitoring, observability, and lifecycle management of AI systems
🔹 Benchmarks, datasets, and operational experiences

For authors of AIMLOps 2026 papers, this is an excellent opportunity to extend your workshop contribution into a mature archival journal publication with deeper evaluation, broader validation, and additional scientific contributions.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and advancing the future of AI-driven networks and services together.

#CallForPapers #AI #AIOps #MLOps #LLMOps #NetworkManagement #ServiceManagement #GenerativeAI #AutonomousNetworks #ZeroTouchNetworks #CloudComputing #6G #IoT #Cybersecurity #ExplainableAI #DigitalSovereignty #CriticalInfrastructures #NOMS2026 #AIMLOps #Research

Industrial Networking Beyond Connectivity: Key Scientific and Cybersecurity Challenges Discussed at NOMS 2026

Industrial networking is reaching a turning point.

We are moving from isolated PLC-centric systems toward distributed AI-assisted cloud-edge infrastructures running industrial protocols over IP networks.

But here is the uncomfortable question:

Can probabilistic IT and cloud infrastructures ever truly satisfy deterministic industrial requirements?

At our NOMS 2026 panel on *“Next Steps of Industrial Communications and Networks”*, we debated topics such as:

* industrial protocols over Layer 3/IP,
* strict SLA enforcement,
* virtualized PLCs,
* AI-driven operational management,
* cloud-edge continuums,
* and the growing cybersecurity risks of converged IT/OT infrastructures.

One insight from the discussion stayed with me:

**Risk = Probability × Impact**

In industrial systems:

* the probability of failures or attacks on complex IP-based infrastructures is non-negligible,
* while the impact can be catastrophic.

That fundamentally changes the networking equation.

My conclusion:
Industrial networking is no longer merely a connectivity problem.
It is becoming a **trustworthy autonomy and resilience problem**.

And perhaps the most controversial question:
Will AI become the only realistic way to manage the operational complexity we are creating ourselves?

I summarized the key scientific debates, disagreements, and cybersecurity implications from the panel in a longer article below.

I would genuinely love to hear different opinions from academia and industry:
Are today’s IP/cloud-native architectures sufficient for future industrial systems — or do we need fundamentally new networking paradigms?

#NOMS2026 #IndustrialNetworking #Industry40 #Industry50 #Cybersecurity #IndustrialAI #CloudNative #EdgeComputing #OTITConvergence #Resilience #AI

With:Xinze Li (Southeast University, China), Renwei “Richard” Li (Southeast University, China), Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy), Marc-Oliver Pahl (IMT Atlantique, France), Stefano Salsano (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy), Jose Fontalvo-Hernandez (Siemens AG, Germany), Xipeng Xiao (Huawei Germany, Germany), Luis Miguel Contreras Murillo (Telefónica, Spain)

Wed, Nov 25, 2021, 17 CET I Mohammad Hamad (TU München, DE) – A Multilayer Cybersecurity Framework for the Internet of Vehicles

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