QCNS 2026

Schedule — Monday, June 22

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    Registration
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    Session #1 - Chair: Claudio Cicconetti (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
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    Welcome and introduction
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    Keynote speech
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    Solving Currency Arbitrage Problems using D-Wave Advantage2 Quantum Annealer
    Lorenzo Mazzei, Giada Beccari, Mirko Laruina and Marco Cococcioni (University of Pisa, Italy)
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    Coffee break
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    Session #2 - Chair: Mansur Ziiatdinov (University of Messina, Italy)
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    Explainable Quantum Machine Learning for IoMT Security: Evaluating Quantum Advantage
    Vincenzo Spadari and Alfredo Nascita (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy); Idio Guarino (University of Bologna, Italy); Domenico Ciuonzo (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Antonio Pescapé (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
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    Assessing the Feasibility of Quantum Autoencoders for Real-World Visual Anomaly Detection
    Farida Farsian (INAF-Osservatorio astrofisico di Catania); Attilio Azzarelli and Fabrizio De Vita (University of Messina, Italy); Giovanni Merlino (University of Messina & National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI), Italy); Francesco Schilliro (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Italy)
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    Federated Variational Quantum Neural Networks for Privacy-Preserving Anomaly Detection in Smart IoT Networks
    Radhakrishnan Delhibabu (VIT Vellore, India); Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, Russia); Salvatore Distefano (University of Kazan, Italy)
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    A Recipe for Data-driven Medicine: Data Encoding, Machine Learning, and Quantum Computing
    Mansur Ziiatdinov (University of Messina, Italy); Salvatore Distefano (University of Kazan, Italy)
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  • Lunch
    Lunch
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    Session #3 - Chair: M Arif Khan (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
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    Invited talk: Towards Quantum Networks: Characterizing Raman Noise over Metropolitan scale Fiber Network
    Marcello Caleffi, Laura d’Avossa, Italo Ignacio Machuca Flores, Marco Grillo, Elena Montella and Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
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    Traveling Salesman Problem with a preprocessing method for classical and quantum optimization
    Alessia Ciacco (University of Calabria, Italy); Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese (ICAR - CNR, Italy); Francesca Guerriero (University of Calabria, Italy)
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    QAIRAS: A Resource-Bounded Hybrid Quantum-Inspired Architecture for Secure Smart Systems
    Patrick Hamilton, M Arif Khan and Rafiqul Islam (Charles Sturt University, Australia); Fendy Santoso (AI and Cyber Futures Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia)
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    Integrating Classical and Quantum PUF with QKD for Secure IoT Networks
    Franco Cirillo, Maria Caterina D’Aloia and Christian Esposito (University of Salerno, Italy)
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    Quantum k-means based on Quantum Local Sensitive Hashing with Application to Irrigation Machine Sensors Data Clustering
    Kamil Khadiev and Aliia Khadieva (Kazan Federal University, Russia)
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    Q2NS Demo: A Quantum Network Simulator Based on ns-3
    Francesco Mazza, Adam Pearson, Marcello Caleffi and Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
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    Concluding remarks
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  • Cocktail
    Welcome cocktail