2025 International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control (ICNSC)
October 1-3, 2025, Oulu, Finland

Theme: Autonomous Intelligent Systems

The International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC) will be held in Oulu, a multi-cultural city with both modern and traditional features in North Finland. The conference will feature plenary speeches, panel sessions, tutorials, workshops, interactive sessions, and invited/special sessions. Contributions are expected from academia, industry, and management agencies. The conference theme is: Autonomous Intelligent Systems.

Technical topics of the conference include but are not limited to:

• Adaptive systems
• Autonomous agents and multi-agent
• Automobile control and sensor systems big data analytics
• Causal learning and Interpretability
• Collaborative systems
• Complex system management
• Continual learning
• Control of networks
• Cyber-physical systems
• Discrete event systems
• Distributed intelligent systems
• Digital twin
• Edge computing
• Emergency planning
• Fuzzy and neural systems
• Federated learning
• Heterogeneity and decision making
• Heterogeneous wireless networks
• Human/computer interface
• Imbalanced classification
• Intelligent vehicle highway systems
• Internet of things
• Large-scale global optimization
• Medical and patient monitoring
• Wireless technologies and medical devices
• Micro/nano, electro-mechanical sensor systems
• Multi-network integration
• Multi-objective optimization
• Multi-task optimization
• Model predictive control
• Network security
• Network-based computing systems
• Networked control systems
• Objective detection
• Quantum cybernetics
• Digital health innovation
• Novel sensors and bioinformatics
• Medical sensing
• Resilient control systems
• Reinforcement learning
• Sensor design, integration and fusion
• Sensor networks
• Smart car and vehicle control
• Smart and green building
• Smart grids
• Smart civil aviation and aerospace
• Smart vision and image processing
• Social networking
• Soft sensing
• Intelligent healthcare
• Swarm intelligence
• Transfer learning
• Wearable computing

Special Sessions/Workshop

Call for special sessions/workshops: Interested attendees are encouraged to propose special sessions/workshops, each of which consists of five papers providing a focused discussion of new or innovative topics. Each proposal must include the session/workshop title, description, organizers and affiliations. Proposals should be sent to the workshop chairs or special session chairs with the following emails.

Special Session Chair email: ameer-hamz.khan@polyu.edu.hk. Please contact the special session chair if you are interested in organizing a special session.

Special Sessions

Robotic Manipulators Beyond the Lab: Learning-Based Control, Perception, and Decision-Making

Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Autonomous Intelligent Systems

Web Site and Contact Email for Inquires

Web: https://www.oulu.fi/icnsc2025/

Email: juha.roning@oulu.fi

Special Session Chair email: ameer-hamz.khan@polyu.edu.hk

Special session papers will undergo the same intense review process and submission is not a guarantee for acceptance. Special session papers must be clearly indicated when submitted with a copy sent to the designated special session organizer.

Important Dates

→ May 15, 2025: Workshop and Special session proposals deadline

→ June 1, 2025: Full paper submission due

→ June 15, 2025: Special session paper submission due (N.B. only for special session)

August 15, 2025: Notification of acceptance

September 15, 2025: Camera-ready copy due

Two months are dedicated for the review process and decision making.

Dates for the Conference

October 1, 2025 – October 3, 2025

Sponsors

Biomimetics and Intelligent Systems Group (BISG) at the University of Oulu and Jishou University, China

Technical Co-sponsors

IEEE SMC Society and IEEE Finland Section