CFP: Special Issue on Future Internet Systems with LLMs and Agents

Important Dates

Submissions Due: 15 September 2026

Publication: March/April 2027

We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute to our forthcoming special issue on Future Internet Systems with LLMs and Agents.

Large language models (LLMs) and the autonomous agents built on them are rapidly reshaping how people and machines interact with the Internet. Agents now browse the web, call APIs, complete transactions, coordinate with one another, and act on users’ behalf, turning the Internet from a network of documents and services consumed by humans into one increasingly navigated, mediated, and acted upon by intelligent software. As this shift moves from prototype to deployment, there is a growing need for interdisciplinary research that bridges machine learning, distributed systems, networking, security, and human computer interaction.

This special issue of IEEE Internet Computing will spotlight advances in the design, implementation, and application of LLM and agent powered Internet systems. We invite submissions that explore theoretical models, system architectures, protocols, software platforms, and real-world deployments that contribute to building scalable, secure, and interoperable agentic Internet infrastructures.

Topics of interest are organized into four themes and include, but are not limited to: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Protocols, standards, and interoperability for agent-to-agent communication and tool/API in vocation.
• LLM-powered web agents for browsing, navigation, task automation, and service composition.
• Multi-agent coordination, negotiation, collaboration, and consensus over networked environments.
• Scalable serving infrastructure for LLM and agent workloads, including inference serving, caching, scheduling, and resource management.
• Edge–cloud architectures, orchestration, and placement for LLMs and autonomous agents.
• Network behavior, workload characterization, observability, and performance modeling of agentic Internet traffic.
• Security, authentication, authorization, and identity for agents, tools, APIs, and services.
• Prompt injection, adversarial robustness, safety, and reliability of agentic web systems.
• Privacy, consent, confidentiality, provenance, attribution, and trust in agent-driven data access and exchange.
• Retrieval-augmented generation, grounding, memory, and knowledge access over the web 1.
• Human–agent interaction, transparency, accountability, and user control in agentic Internet systems.
• Applications and ecosystem studies, including agentic commerce, autonomous transactions, payments, marketplaces, and broader impacts on Internet infrastructure and incentives.

Submission Guidelines

For author information and guidelines on submission criteria, visit the Author’s Information Page. Please submit papers through the IEEE Author Portal, system, and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the IEEE Author Portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by email to the guest editors directly.

Questions?

Contact the Guest Editors at:

• Yue Dai, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Bingyao Li, University of California-Riverside, USA
• Xulong Tang, University of Pittsburgh, USA