After the grand success of past thirteen editions of FICTA Conference with Springer Nature as publication partner, it is a matter of pleasure and pride to announce the Fourteenth Edition of International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications, FICTA-2026 which is being organized by London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom during June 08-09, 2026. The 2026 International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, students and practitioners to exchange and share their theories, methodologies, new ideas, experiences, application in all areas of intelligent computing theories, methodologies and its applications.

The school has a number of research centres and groups, including The AI and Data Science research group (AI&DS) has a long history dating back to 1999 (known then as the Intelligent Systems research group) of fulfilling its aim to improve the quality of products, services and security issues by the incorporation and application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics and visualisation techniques.

The group has improved a wide variety of digital systems, devices, and software in domestic, medical and industrial settings; and provided automated solutions to a variety of complex social challenges.

A recent important research grant challenge that the ISRG has been involved with is the new Horizon 2020 European Grant. The ISRG, as part of a consortium of 17 EU partners, began working on the grant in August 2018. The grant is worth five million euros, distributed between 17 partners.