Call for Papers - 2026 Special Issue
Special Issue on Emerging Cyber-Physical Systems in the Era of Intelligent Space, LLM and Agentic AI
The Journal of Cyber-Physical-Social Intelligence invites submissions to a special issue dedicated to emerging cyber-physical systems in the era of intelligent space, large language models, and agentic AI.
Scope
Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) form a foundation for bridging digital and physical worlds, aiming to coordinate perception, cognition, decision-making, and execution in complex open environments. Traditional ICPS research has relied heavily on symbolic reasoning, knowledge representation, rule-driven decision-making, and conventional data analysis. As application scenarios grow more complex, these approaches face increasing pressure in large-scale information processing, coordinated control, and adaptive optimization.
Recent progress in intelligent spaces, large language models, and AI agents is pushing ICPS from a single-domain cyberspace focus toward deeper integration among humans, machines, and physical entities. Human-machine-physical integrated intelligent systems can combine physical entities, digital resources, and human behavioral activities to support environmental perception, semantic understanding, task planning, collaborative decision-making, and autonomous execution.
This special issue seeks high-quality research on intelligent cyber-physical systems, with particular attention to intelligent space construction, multi-agent collaboration, LLM-driven analysis and optimization, and practical deployment in domains such as intelligent manufacturing, smart cities, smart medical systems, smart transportation, and autonomous unmanned systems.
Topics of Interest
- Bidirectional mapping mechanisms between physical space and cyberspace
- Architectures and construction methods for intelligent spaces
- Edge-cloud-end collaborative mechanisms for intelligent spaces
- Autonomous agents and multi-agent collaboration technologies
- Complex task planning and autonomous execution mechanisms
- Human-machine collaborative and collective intelligence decision-making
- Cross-device, cross-platform, and cross-modal resource orchestration and scheduling
- Trustworthiness, reliability, and security assurance mechanisms for agents
- Large language model-driven semantic understanding and contextual reasoning
- Large language model-assisted task planning and operational optimization
- Industrial applications and large-scale deployment of intelligent cyber-physical systems
Submission Instructions
Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the journal publication guidelines and submit through the JCPSI submission system. During submission, please select Special Issue under Manuscript Category.
Guest Editors
- Liming Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China
- Mohand T. Kechadi, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Chris Nugent, Ulster University, United Kingdom
Inquiries
Abbas Touqeer: abastouqer@mail.dlut.edu.cn
Wenhao Bai: bwhmail@qq.com
Official CFP
The official call for papers is available below through the journal's online PDF viewer.
