Workshop @ IEEE Big Data 2026

Building Trustworthy AI Pipelines for Big Data

Verification, Provenance, and Reproducibility in Shared AI-Augmented Data Pipelines

Co-located with IEEE Big Data 2026 · December 14–17, 2026

Paper Submission
Oct 31, 2026
Acceptance Notice
Nov 14, 2026
Camera-Ready
Nov 23, 2026
Workshop Dates
Dec 14–17, 2026

Why TrustAI-BD?

Modern big data pipelines do not operate in isolation — they increasingly span teams, institutions, and organizational boundaries. Datasets, intermediate artifacts, trained models, and downstream decisions flow across organizational boundaries, between teams, and through multi-institution collaborations, as seen in federated healthcare analytics, financial risk platforms, and large-scale scientific consortia.

Unlike traditional deterministic query engines, learned models are inherently stochastic. When an AI-augmented pipeline flags a fraudulent transaction, recommends a treatment plan, or triggers an infrastructure response, the inability to audit the chain of data, model versions, and intermediate decisions is not an academic limitation — it is an operational risk.

This workshop addresses the foundational question: in a world of shared, AI-augmented data pipelines, how do we verify that results are correct, and how do we ensure they can be reproduced?

Research Topics

Data Provenance and Lineage in Shared Big Data Pipelines

Reproducibility of AI/ML Model Decisions at Scale

Verification of Cross-Organizational Data and Model Artifacts

Model Drift and Pipeline Staleness Detection

Auditing and Accountability Across Multi-Party and Cross-Organizational Workflows

Federated Auditing and Privacy-Preserving Verification

Explainability and Auditability of Black-Box Pipeline Components

Versioning Strategies for Data, Models, and Code in Multi-Party Workflows

Trust Propagation and Accountability Across Pipeline Stages

Reproducibility Challenges in Foundation-Model, RAG, and Agentic Data Workflows

Benchmarking and Evaluation Under Real-World Deployment Conditions

Case Studies in Deployed Systems: Failures, Reproducibility Incidents, and Lessons Learned

Key Deadlines

October 31, 2026
Full Paper Submission Deadline
Submit via the online submission system
November 14, 2026
Notification of Acceptance
Authors notified of paper acceptance decisions
November 23, 2026
Camera-Ready Submission
Final version of accepted papers due
December 14–17, 2026
Workshop @ IEEE Big Data 2026
Workshop sessions held at the conference

People

Program Chairs

Program Committee

  • Ted BedwellCisco Systems Inc.
  • Changxue DengCisco Systems Inc.
  • John HalloranLeidos Inc.
  • Shaswata MitraUniversity of Alabama

How to Submit

Submission Guidelines

  • Full-length papers up to 10 pages (IEEE 2-column format)
  • References counted within the 10-page limit
  • IEEE Computer Society Proceedings formatting required
  • All accepted papers included in IEEE Big Data Proceedings

Submit Your Paper

  • Submit through the official online system
  • Deadline: October 31, 2026
  • Notifications sent by November 14, 2026
  • Camera-ready due November 23, 2026