[hpc-announce] 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021): Last Call for Papers

[George Angelos Papadopoulos]

*** Last Call for Papers ***

15th International Conference on
Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021)

Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus

May 12-14, 2021, Limassol, Cyprus

http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/ <http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/>

Abstract submission deadline (recommended): January 15, 2021 (AoE)
Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE) (*** extended! ***)

(Proceedings to be published by Springer; Special Issue in DKE, Elsevier)

	
SCOPE AND TOPICS

RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and
practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide
opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2021 will
continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition,
we solicit submissions aligned with the special theme “Information Science
and global crisis". Global crisis, as the pandemic we are experiencing in
these days, natural disasters, wars and international political crisis, are
challenging Information Science to help building effective management
solutions, to learn from previous experience how to prevent them, and to
support Humans keep on performing core activities, as education, and
communication. The diversity of crises’ causes, the quality of the collected
data as well as the complexity of the underlying mechanisms are among the
relevant research challenges.

RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information
science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to:

Information Systems and their Engineering
* Requirements Engineering
* Software Testing
* Information Security and Risk
* Method Engineering

User-Oriented Approaches
* Social Computing and Social Network Analysis
* User-Centred Design
* Collaborative Computing
* Human Factors in Information Systems 

Data and Information Management
* Databases and Information
* Information Search and Discovery
* Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies

Business Process Management
* Business Process Engineering and Reengineering
* Process Mining
* Enterprise Engineering

Domain-specific IS Engineering
* E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, …
* Web-Based Applications and Services
* Industry 4.0
* Web-Based Applications and Services
* Smart Cities	
* Educational Technologies
* Digital Humanities

Data Science
* Big Data & Business Analytics
* Decision Information Systems
* Knowledge Management
* Knowledge Discovery from Data

Information Infrastructures
* Cyber-Physical Systems
* Web Information Systems
* Grid Computing and Cloud Computing
* Internet of Things
* Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Reflective Research and Practice
* Research Methodologies in Information Science
* Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual
* Lifecycle Models
* Design Science and Rationale

Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos and Research Projects
@RCIS tracks will complement the main conference.


SUBMISSION PROCESS

Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference
proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word):
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines> .
Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for
other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS
2021. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the
following categories:

Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that
are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution
paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and
results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them
in follow-up research. 

Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem
situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by
empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical
proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. 

Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer)
thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice,
elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on
industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall
provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and
explain the lessons learned.

Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant
preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These
papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a
preliminary evaluation of a technique.

Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc.

The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2021> .

By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will
register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper
in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author
within the early registration deadline on March 29, 2021.

We adopt a single-blind review format, meaning that the author
names are included in the paper itself under the paper title. 


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

A selection of the best accepted papers of RCIS 2021, chosen by a dedicated
committee, will be invited to submit an extended version of the RCIS paper 
to the Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal published by Elsevier
(https://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-and-knowledge-engineering <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=CQlDSEkJQ0hJLUFOTk9VTkNFTUVOVFNATElTVFNFUlYuQUNNLk9SRwkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwk1MjUJR2VvcmdlCTEyOQljbGljawl5ZXMJeWVz&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.journals.elsevier.com%2Fdata-and-knowledge-engineering>).
The selection of the papers to invite will be based on the review scores
and arguments, and the potential for extension.


IMPORTANT DATES

* Abstract submission deadline for regular papers: January 15, 2021 (AoE)
* Regular paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE) (extended)
* Notification to authors and registration opening: March 12, 2021
* Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021
* Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021
* Conference: May 12-14, 2021

 
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

Steering Committee
* Said Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France 
* Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom
* Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom 
* Selmin Nurcan, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
* Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* Jolita Ralyte, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse
* Colette Rolland, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
* Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden 

General Chairs
* George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Selmin Nurcan, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France

Organising Chair
* Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus

Program Chairs
* Samira Cherfi, CNAM, France
* Anna Perini, FBK, Italy

Social Media Chairs
* Itzel Morales Ramirez, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Mexico
* Vítor E. Silva Souza, UFES, Brasil

Proceedings Chair
* Raihana Ferdous, FBK, Italy