2026 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2026) continues the tradition of this flagship interdisciplinary event, bringing together systems scientists, human factors engineers, computational intelligence researchers, and decision-making specialists. SMC 2026 addresses the complex interplay of human cognition, machine intelligence, and organizational systems in an era of accelerating AI adoption. Conference themes encompass adaptive systems, human-machine teaming, cognitive ergonomics, autonomous decision-making, and the ethical dimensions of sociotechnical systems in healthcare, transportation, and defense.

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SMC 2026 invites submissions on systems science and engineering, human factors and ergonomics, cognitive systems and human-machine interfaces, computational intelligence, cybernetics and control, multi-agent systems, autonomous decision-making, neural networks for systems applications, and the social and organizational dimensions of complex systems. Interdisciplinary work connecting human, machine, and systems perspectives is especially valued.