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<b>Call for Papers</b></div>
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<b>Trustworthy and Responsible Federated Learning</b></div>
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Special Issue in Discover Artificial Intelligence (<b>Q1</b> Springer Nature)</div>
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<b>Open for submissions - Submission deadline: 15 December 2026</b></div>
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Dear colleagues,</div>
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We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the Special Issue / Collection on "Trustworthy and Responsible Federated Learning" in Discover Artificial Intelligence (Springer Nature).</div>
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We warmly invite you to submit your work and kindly encourage you to share this call with colleagues and interested researchers.</div>
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<b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></div>
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Submission deadline: 15 December 2026</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Status: Open for submissions</li></ul>
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<b>ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUE</b></div>
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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for privacy-preserving and collaborative machine learning, enabling the training of models across distributed data sources without sharing raw data. FL has shown strong potential in sensitive domains such
as healthcare, finance, public services, and industrial systems.</div>
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However, recent research highlights that performance alone is insufficient to ensure responsible deployment. Federated systems raise critical challenges related to fairness, robustness, transparency, interpretability, accountability, and regulatory compliance,
particularly under adversarial conditions, data and system heterogeneity, and decentralized governance structures.</div>
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This Collection focuses on Trustworthy and Responsible Federated Learning, aiming to advance methodological, system-level, and governance-oriented research that ensures FL systems are not only accurate, but also reliable, fair, transparent, and socially aligned.</div>
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Building on international frameworks such as the European Commission Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework, the Collection emphasizes the extension of trustworthiness
principles to decentralized and collaborative learning settings. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to shape the foundations and future directions of trustworthy federated learning.</div>
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<b>TOPICS OF INTEREST</b></div>
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Fairness-aware and bias-mitigating FL methods</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Privacy- and security-enhancing techniques</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Robustness to adversarial and system-level threats</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Explainability and interpretability of federated models</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Explainable AI in federated learning</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Accountability and transparency mechanisms</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Compliance with regulatory frameworks such as the European AI Act</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Human-in-the-loop and participatory FL</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Trust metrics and uncertainty estimation</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Decentralized and peer-to-peer FL architectures</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Real-world deployment, evaluation, and sustainability considerations</li></ul>
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<b>SUBMISSION DETAILS</b></div>
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Participating journal: Discover Artificial Intelligence</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
Submissions are handled through the Springer Nature Collection page</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt 18pt;">
More information and submission instructions: <span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" role="presentation">
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We look forward to receiving your contributions and to building a strong collection of research on trustworthy and responsible federated learning.</div>
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