The FRUCT conference will be held on 28-30 April 2026 in a hybrid format, combining online participation with an in-person meetup in Helsinki (Finland). Download CFP in PDF
Please upload 8-10 min video presentation of your accepted paper(s) via CMT system (as a supplementary file), or send it to info@fruct.org by 3 April 2026 at latest. Video files over 20Mb shall be submitted only via CMT platform. Videos should include your slides synchronized with an audio narration. Please use MP4 or WMV formats for compatibility with the conference platform. If you use MS PowerPoint you might use instructions from the following link to prepare your video https://support.office.com/en-us/article/record-a-slide-show-with-narrat… We welcome you to submit your papers to FRUCT39.
Online sessions will consist of two components:
- Pre-recorded presentations - Participants may watch uploaded talks via the conference YouTube playlist, which will be listed in the program.
- Live Q&A sessions via MS Teams - Questions and discussions with authors will take place. Due to varying internet connectivity, we recommend that MS Teams sessions be conducted in audio-only mode.
About FRUCT
FRUCT is a cooperation framework that promotes open innovation between academia and industry. FRUCT conference is a high-quality scientific event for meeting academia and business people and setting projects. The average conference is attended by over 120 participants from more than 20 countries. You can read more about the FRUCT in the About Us section.
FRUCT conferences are organized twice a year. It is the reason why submission and acceptance notification deadlines are so close to the conference dates. If you need more time for visa and travel arrangements, we recommend submitting your paper before the Early-bird submission deadline. Then you will get a decision one month earlier.
We welcome you to submit your papers, participate in the conference, and consider joining the FRUCT community. FRUCT traditionally offers a low registration fee and many discounts. Make the early-bird registration to get the best fee and most advantages of your participation in the conference.
All conference papers and abstracts will be published Open Access in FRUCT proceeding at no additional cost (available for free under a CC BY-ND license download from FRUCT proceedings catalog).
The conference attracts most active and talented students to present their R&D projects, meet people alike, create new teams, and find employers and investors. The conference invites the world-class academic and industrial experts to lecture on the hottest topics. Traditionally the program consists of FRUCT work groups meetings and 3 days of the main conference.
Traditionally FRUCT pays a lot of attention to the Open Source and supports the corresponding activities and communities. The conference Demo session will include a lot of demos. The conference is supported by the local mobile Linux community and we welcome all mobile Linux and other apps developer to attend this event.
We welcome patrons/sponsors to join the conference team. Please refer to the overview of patrons’ packages and contact us in case of any questions and proposals.
Background and motivation
The distinctive feature of modern IT and Telecommunications industries is in dramatic shortening of the period when technology remains commercially viable. On the one hand, this is due to the competition between key market players that are pushing all manufacturers to accelerate innovations; on the other hand, this is due to technological progress speed up caused by the growing expansion of intellectual resource invested into R&D and design activities. This trend is an important call and challenge for the leading educational and research institutions around the globe. In the FRUCT we believe that it is crucial to support practical cooperation between universities and industrial research. We also target in increasing visibility of involved research teams and set direct personal contacts between academic and industrial experts.
Call for papers and presentations
Authors are invited to submit to one of the following categories:
- Full Papers: minimum 6 pages and maximum 12 pages (submission deadline: 2 March 2026)
- Short Papers: minimum 2 pages and maximum 6 pages (submission deadline: 2 March 2026)
- Poster / Demo Summaries: minimum 200 words and maximum 4 pages (submission deadline: 17 April 2026)
Traditionally FRUCT doesn’t provide deadline extension, as instead we have early-bird submissions mechanism. But if authors need couple of extra days to finalize a paper, please send in advance email to info@fruct.org and we will try to arrange it so that you can finalize your work.
The review process is organized as follows:
- Full papers get at least 3 reviews by the Technical Committee
- Short papers and Poster/demo summaries get at least 2 reviews by the Technical Committee
- The review process is organized as the single-blind review
- The acceptance rate is 40% (5 years)
- Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to be published in partner journals.
Please note that some papers submitted as Full Papers can be recommended for publication in Work in Progress (WiP) section of the proceedings. The WiP section includes papers that have passed the quality check, but didn’t get in top 40% of the papers based on the average score. This will be a normal publication, but with less guaranteed indexing, read more. To increase your chance to get your paper accepted as Full Paper, we recommend to submit it by the Early bird submission deadline, as this way you always will have a second chance to improve the paper and get another round of review. The conference language is English.
The Early bird submission deadline: 2 February 2026.
Please note that one person can be a coauthor of at maximum 3 accepted papers, unless you have a special permission from the organizing team: SUBMIT
- Conference dates: 28-30 April 2026
- Conference location: a hybrid format, combining online participation with an in-person meetup in Helsinki (Finland)
- Short Paper submission deadline: 2 March 2026
- Full Paper Submission deadline: 2 March 2026
- Notification of acceptance date: 27 March 2026
- Camera-ready submission deadline: 3 April 2026
- Authors registration deadline: 3 April 2026
- Demos/Posters submission deadline: 17 April 2026
All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by the Technical Committee. Please download the paper templates for MS Word and LaTeX, or you can use online LaTeX template on OverLeaf service. Please note the following major changes in the templates: The size of page should be Letter (21.59 cm × 27.94 cm). If you are using Word margins must be: top - 1.9 cm, bottom - 1.6 cm, left - 1.57 cm and right - 1.57 cm. Please note that all Full Paper submissions shall have at least 6 full pages and the last page cannot contain only Acknowledgments and References (at least some text of the main paper, e.g., part of Conclusions, shall be on page 6). The paper type is updated automatically in the CMT system, if your submission doesn’t meet the formal criteria of the Full paper, so if your paper lenght is on the edge of the length restrictions, we recommend to check your submission type couple of days after start of the review process.
The list of conference topics (we welcome you to propose new R&D topics):
- Algorithms and Modeling
- Artificial Intelligence in Text Analysis and Generation
- Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation
- Big Data, Data Mining, Data Storage and Management
- Bioinformatics, e-Health and Wellbeing
- Blockchain Technology and Applications
- Cloud Computing Systems, Networks and Applications
- Cloud Computing, Data Driven Applications and Systems
- Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing
- Context Awareness and Proactive Services
- Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence
- Database Efficiency, Database Analytics, Optimization in Databases
- Databases and Ad-hoc Networks, Cloud Database Environment
- Design of Distributed Applications
- Drone-based Environmental and Infrastructure Monitoring
- Drones and IoT Convergence
- Drones in Deep-learning Loops
- History of Science and Technologies
- Intelligence, Social Mining and Web
- Internet of Things and Enabling Technologies
- Knowledge and Data Managements Systems
- Location Based Services: e-Tourism/Logistics/Navigation
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligent in Database Systems
- Natural Language Processing, Speech Technologies
- Next Generation Networks, Wireless Technologies, 5G and beyond
- Open Source Mobile OS: Architectures and Applications
- Relational Databases, Autonomous Databases in Cloud
- Relational databases, Spatial databases, SQL tuning
- Robotics, Movement, Cognition
- Security and Privacy: Applications and Coding Theory
- Sensor Design, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking
- Simulation Platforms for Drone and Robotics Apps
- Smart Spaces, Linked Data and Semantic Web
- Smart Systems and Embedded Networks
- Software Design, Innovative Applications
- Software Engineering: Paradigms, Methodologies, Models
- SQL tuning, Spatial Databases, Temporal Databases
- Teaching Methodology in Computer Science
- Wearable-Computing Novel Architectures and Solutions
All conference papers and abstracts will be published Open Access in FRUCT proceeding (available for free download from FRUCT proceedings catalog). Accepted Full papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. In addition, Full papers will be submitted for indexing to Scopus, WoS, ACM, DBLP, RSCI, Google Scholar, etc. Proceedings of FRUCT conference Full Papers are included into Scimago Journal Rank, AMiner, and CORE. The selected papers get invitations to publish extended papers in the partner journals. In case of successful presentation and recommendation by the session chair some papers will be invited to publish an extended version of the paper (all partner journals are indexed by Scopus).
FRUCT conference is a recognized high quality scientific event. FRUCT has good rating in national systems, e.g., Finnish (JUFO=1, JufoID: 72707), Norwegian (NSD=1), Danish (BFI=1, ID: 8782540).
N.B. Please note that we cannot guaranty indexation in Scopus for Short Papers and papers from Work in Progress section. If Scopus indexing is mandatory for you then make sure that your paper is accepted as Full Paper. Authors of all accepted papers must register to the conference, pay registration fee by author’s deadline and present paper at the conference, as otherwise the paper will get technical reject.
Authors of top Short or Work in Progress papers get invite to make extended versions of the paper in the partner journal, which is included in all major indexes.
Contact information
We welcome you to join our Telegram channel https://t.me/fructorg where you can ask questions and will receive the latest announcements and updates.
Alternatively, your questions about the conference can be emailed to info@fruct.org.