Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit a contribution to the 19th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS 2026), which will take place at the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Milan in Milan on July 14-16, 2026.
Conference Topics
The conference aims to promote interactions among scholars and professionals across different fields, including classification and clustering, complex data analysis, network and spatio-temporal methodologies, machine learning and deep learning techniques.
Keynote Speakers
- Krzysztof Jajuga (Wrocław University of Economics and Business)
- Laura Sangalli (Politecnico di Milano)
- Brendan Murphy (University College Dublin)
- Mohamed Nadif (Université Paris Cité)
Important Dates
- Pre-conference proceedings (Springer Volume with peer review):
- Deadline: January 18, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2026
- Deadline for the revised version: March 15, 2026
- Pre-conference abstracts:
- Deadline: March 15, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026
Submission Guidelines for Proceedings
Authors are invited to submit a short paper (6-8 pages) following the Springer template. Accepted papers, after peer review, will be published in an open-access eBook in the Springer Series "Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization". More details can be found at https://ifcs2026.unimib.it/publications-2/ .
Special issues
Awards
IFCS provides scientific awards to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young and senior researchers, who will be awarded during the conference. More details are available at https://ifcs2026.unimib.it/awards/.
We look forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you to Milan.
Best regards,
The Local Organizing Committee of IFCS 2026
Francesca Greselin, Luca Brusa, Andrea Cappozzo, Alessandro Casa, Francesca De Battisti, Francesco Denti, Sónia Dias, Andrea Marletta, Marta Nai Ruscone, Giorgia Zaccaria, Mariangela Zenga