Thank you all for coming and see you next year in Kefalonia, Greece!

Congratulations to all authors, especially to the following award-winning papers:

• Best Paper Award given to “A TinyMoE Approach for Embedded Mixture-of-Experts in Driver Support Systems”, by Thommas Kevin Sales Flores, João Carlos N. Bittencourt, Thiago C. Jesus, Ivanovitch Silva & Daniel G. Costa.
• Best Runner Up Paper Award given to “LWHM-AI: An Adaptive Lightweight Multimodal Framework for Energy-Efficient on-Board Inference in Satellite Edge Networks”, by Sadman Sakib & Salimur Choudhury.
• Best Student Paper Award given to “Deployment-Aware Lightweight Machine Learning for Security Monitoring in Slice-Enabled 5G and 6G Networks”, by Rhayane da Silva Monteiro, Leonardo Sampaio Rocha, Miguel Franklin de Castro & Dario Vieira.
• Best Local Paper Award given to “A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Malicious Activity Verification in Legacy Systems”, by Nuno Teixeira Gomes (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); João Rafael Almeida and José Luís Oliveira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

Welcome to the 31st IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). The first IEEE ISCC was held in 1995 in response to the growing interaction between the fields of computers and communications. Since then, ISCC takes place annually, usually in the Mediterranean region, and in locations such as Egypt, Greece, France, Tunisia, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Italy, and Brazil. In 2026, the Symposium will take place in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.

IEEE ISCC sessions will include presentations on new research results and tutorials. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the computer and communications areas mentioned in the Call for Papers. Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ISCC 2026 conference proceedings, which will be subject to independent peer-review procedures for quality, and may be eligible for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library. Merit, relevance, and originality will guide paper acceptance. Best Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Awards will be presented.