Advances in Agentic and Generative AI for Secure Software Systems and Cyber-Resilience in Future Internet
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Cybersecurity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2026 | Viewed by 256
Editors
Interests: generative AI; cybersecurity; secure software systems; spatial computing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Generative AI is quickly becoming an essential element in all the different phases of the software development life cycle. Agentic and generative AI applications are capable of secure code generation, vulnerability detection, automated testing and adaptive defenses. At the same time, there are new vulnerabilities to exploit the next-gen resilience of digital ecosystems. Simultaneously, the growing AI adversaries and the increasing complexity of cyber-attacks demand intelligent, resilient and proactive solutions to safeguard the critical infrastructures and trust in the future internet.
The Special Issue, titled Advances in Agentic and Generative AI for Secure Software Systems and Cyber Resilience in the Future Internet, aims to solicit the contributions of the application of agentic and generative AI technologies in secure software systems and cybersecurity. We invite submissions of high-quality original research articles, surveys and systematic literature reviews covering the topics associated with AI practices in cybersecurity and software engineering. By bringing together researchers and practitioners from industry, this Special Issue aims to advance knowledge and foster innovative solutions that strengthen cyber-resilience and shape trustworthy and secure systems for the future internet.
Special Issue Topics:
The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Agentic AI in software development
- Agentic AI in software engineering
- Generative AI for secure coding and system design
- AI-driven threat modeling and simulation
- Adversarial attack detection and defense
- Design of AI agents for software and security applications
- AI agents for secure coding and system design
- AI agents for automated testing
- AI agents for adaptive defense
- AI agents for vulnerability detection
- AI agents for cyber-resilience in the Future Internet
Dr. Ajay Bandi
Dr. Zhengrui Qin
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- agentic AI
- generative AI
- secure software development
- cyber-resilience
- AI-driven threat modeling
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