The International Green and Sustainable Computing (IGSC) Conference serves as a platform for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research across a wide spectrum of topics related to sustainable and energy-efficient computing, as well as computing technologies that support a more sustainable planet.

IGSC 2026 will be held in Finger Lakes, NY, USA, June 22-23, co-located with GLSVLSI 2026. IGSC'26 will feature technical papers, panels, and a PhD Forum. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Design and Implementation of HW/SW Platforms

• Self-sustaining sensing and edge computing

• Power-aware middleware solutions

• Efficient circuit design and domain-specific architectures for energy harvesting

• Low-power and thermal-aware systems, circuits, and architectures (e.g., embedded and cyber-physical systems, ASICs, reconfigurable computing, on-chip networks)

• Integrated operation of heterogeneous computing cores

• Low-power memory systems

• Energy-efficient accelerators for AI, ML, and data analytics

• Sustainable packaging, cooling, and 3D integration technologies

Energy-Aware and Thermal-Aware Resource Management Algorithms

• Smart control for reduced energy and power

• Advanced and predictive models for energy, power, and temperature

• Power-aware scheduling for real-time systems

• Software-defined networking for energy-efficient distributed systems

• Data analytics for energy efficiency

• Thermal-aware workload placement and migration

• Energy-efficient orchestration in cloud, edge, and fog systems

• AI-driven resource management for sustainable computing infrastructures

 Application Design and Methodologies

• Sensor networks for climate and ecosystem monitoring

• Self-organized multi-agent systems

• Smart grids, smart cities, and smart manufacturing

• Intelligent transportation systems

• Autonomous and mobile systems

• Renewable energy systems

• Data center optimization and management

• Management of cloud computing systems

• Sustainable IoT and edge intelligence applications

• Computing for environmental modeling and sustainability science

 Emerging Sustainable Computing Paradigms

• Neuromorphic and brain-inspired computing for ultra-low-power intelligence

• In-memory and in-sensor computing architectures

• Probabilistic and stochastic computing for energy-efficient inference

• Approximate computing and precision-scalable systems

• Quantum computing: energy models, control, cryogenic overheads, and sustainability implications

• Cryo-CMOS and supporting hardware for quantum systems

• Analog, mixed-signal, and hybrid computing paradigms

• Non-von Neumann and data-centric architectures

• Compute-near-memory and storage-class memory systems

• Emerging devices and materials for energy-efficient computing (e.g., memristors, spintronics)

• Cross-layer co-design methodologies for sustainable next-generation computing

Energy and Carbon Footprint of Large-Scale Computing

• Energy consumption and carbon accounting of AI/ML training and inference

• Sustainability analysis of large language models (LLMs) and foundation models

• Green AI: efficiency metrics, benchmarking, and reporting standards

• Carbon-aware scheduling and distributed training

• Energy-efficient model architectures and training methodologies

• Model compression, sparsity, pruning, and quantization for sustainability

• Lifecycle analysis of AI hardware and accelerators

• Embodied carbon in semiconductor manufacturing and data centers

• Water usage, cooling technologies, and the environmental impact of AI infrastructure

• Policy, transparency, and governance for sustainable AI

 

Paper submission guidelines:

IGSC 26 welcomes submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by other conferences or journals. All submissions will be rigorously evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees.

The conference accepts two types of technical papers: regular papers and concept/position/WiP papers. The page limit for the regular track submissions is 6 pages. The page limit for the concept/position/WiP track is 2 pages. Page limits include figures, tables, and references. Please refer to the IGSC website (https://www.igscc.org/) for specific instructions related to paper submission. Accepted papers will be allowed up to two extra pages for an additional cost. IGSC bestows the best paper awards as selected by a technical committee.

• Submission Template: The manuscript must be double-columned, in PDF format only, be a readable file and follow the ACM Templates.

• Submission Website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igsc2026
   

Double Blind Policy:

The IGSC uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliations; those that do will not be considered. References to the authors’ prior work should be made in the third person, in the same way one would reference work by others. If necessary to maintain anonymity, citations may be shown as “Removed for blind review,” but consider that this may impede a thorough review if the removed citation is crucial to understanding the submission. When necessary, authors should cite widely available open-source software website(s) without claiming ownership. Grant numbers and other government markings should also be blinded during the review process. Placing a preliminary version of the unpublished paper on arXiv is not disqualifying, but it is also not encouraged. Similarly, if a paper can be unblinded by active search, this is not considered to undermine the spirit of the double-blind review. However, there are resources to blind open-source repositories for review, including: https://github.com/tdurieux/anonymous_github.

If you have questions about how to meet these guidelines, please contact the program chair before the submission deadline.

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Trending Topics and Special Sessions 2026:

IGSC seeks proposals for Trending Topics and/or Special Sessions. Proposals for Special Sessions should include biosketches of the proposers, a brief description of the proposed topic and its importance, and a list of potential speakers/authors in the Special Session. Please submit Special Session proposals to one of the TPC Co-Chairs: Ramtin Zand, ramtin@cse.sc.edu and Arman Roohi, aroohi@uic.edu

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Student Research Forum:

The forum solicits extended abstract submissions from MS and doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing, as well as posters from all researchers, faculty, and students. Please refer to the IGSC website for submission instructions.

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Industrial Partners:

The conference seeks industry partners and sponsors with opportunities for them to showcase their technologies. Please contact one of the General Co-Chairs.

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Important dates:

Conference paper submission: March 16th, 2026

Deadline for submitting Workshop and Special Session proposals: March 16th, 2026

Deadline for submitting to the Student Research Forum: March 16th, 2026

Notifications to authors: April 30, 2026

Camera-ready deadline: May 15, 2026

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ACM Open Access and APCs:

ACM Open Access and APCs: From January 1, 2026, all ACM Publications will be published on a fully Open Access basis and will require participation in ACM Open, the payment of an APC, or a geographic or discretionary waiver to publish with ACM. Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial waiver.

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