Special Session
Special Session on
Secure Autonomy at Scale: Intelligent Control and Coordination of Multi Agent Systems -
SAS
2026
26 - 28 October, 2026 - Angers, France
Within the 23rd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO 2026
CHAIR
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Boumedyen Boussaid
ESEO, Ecole supérieure d'Electronique de l'Ouest
France
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Brief Bio
Boumedyen BOUSSAID is currently professor at ESEO, a school of engineering in Velizy PARIS. He earned his PhD in 2011 from the University of Lorraine, focusing on active fault tolerant control of dynamic system via reference management. In 2012, he obtained an associate professor position at ENIG and joined the MACS research laboratory at the University of Gabes. He continued to develop his core research in fault detection and isolation, fault-tolerant control, nonlinear control, wireless sensor networks, robotics, trajectory planning, cyber-physical systems, and cyber security. In 2016, he served as program chair of IEEE TFIAP’16. More recently, in 2025, he chaired a special session at WINCOM’25.
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SCOPE
This special session aims to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners working on secure, intelligent, and cooperative multi agent systems. With the growing deployment of networked robots, autonomous vehicles, distributed sensors, and cyber physical infrastructures, new challenges arise regarding coordinated control, resilience to cyber threats, and robust decision making in complex environments.
The session welcomes contributions that advance theoretical foundations, algorithmic innovations, and practical applications related to consensus, distributed control, cybersecurity, and intelligent coordination of autonomous agents. Emphasis is placed on cross disciplinary approaches that integrate control theory, AI, robotics, communication networks, and cyber defense strategies to ensure safe, resilient, and trustworthy multi agent operations.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed and decentralized control architectures
- Consensus algorithms and cooperative strategies
- Event triggered and self triggered coordination
- Fault-tolerant and resilient control of agent networks
- Learning based coordination and adaptive multi agent control
- AI driven control for robotic swarms and autonomous vehicles
- Model predictive control (MPC) for multi agent systems
- Multi agent reinforcement learning (MARL)
- Hybrid and nonlinear intelligent control approaches
- Human in the loop and mixed initiative autonomy
- Cyber physical threats, attack detection, and mitigation
- Secure communication and distributed encryption protocols
- Resilient consensus under adversarial attacks
- Security policies and trust management for collaborative robots
- Intrusion tolerant control architectures
- Robotic swarms, UAV networks, and autonomous fleets
- Multi robot task allocation and cooperative mission planning
- Industrial robotics and Industry 4.0/5.0 cyber secure systems
- Smart cities, smart grids, and intelligent transportation systems
- Real world testbeds, simulations, and experimental validation
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:
July 31, 2026
Authors Notification:
September 9, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
September 18, 2026
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Karim Chabir,
MACS, University of Gabes, Tunisia
Nahla Khraief,
RISC Lab, University of Tunis Manar, Tunisia
Yosra Lassoued,
ESEO, Ecole Supérieure d’Electronique de l’Ouest, France
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PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.
PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library