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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** Last Mile for Paper Submission! ***<br></b><br>15th International Conference on<br>Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021)<br><br>May 12-14, 2021, Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus<br><br><A HREF="http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/">http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/</A><br><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'>Abstract submission deadline (recommended): January 25, 2021 (AoE)<br>Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2021 (AoE)</font><font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br>(Proceedings to be published by Springer; Special Issue in DKE, Elsevier)<br><br> <br>SCOPE AND TOPICS<br><br>RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and<br>practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide<br>opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2021 will<br>continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition,<br>we solicit submissions aligned with the special theme “<b><u>Information Science<br>and global crisis</u></b>". Global crisis, as the pandemic we are experiencing in<br>these days, natural disasters, wars and international political crisis, are<br>challenging Information Science to help building effective management<br>solutions, to learn from previous experience how to prevent them, and to<br>support Humans keep on performing core activities, as education, and<br>communication. The diversity of crises’ causes, the quality of the collected<br>data as well as the complexity of the underlying mechanisms are among the<br>relevant research challenges.<br><br>RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information<br>science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to:<br><br><u>Information Systems and their Engineering</u><br>• Requirements Engineering<br>• Software Testing<br>• Information Security and Risk<br>• Method Engineering<br><br><u>User-Oriented Approaches</u><br>• Social Computing and Social Network Analysis<br>• User-Centred Design<br>• Collaborative Computing<br>• Human Factors in Information Systems <br><br><u>Data and Information Management</u><br>• Databases and Information<br>• Information Search and Discovery<br>• Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies<br><br><u>Business Process Management</u><br>• Business Process Engineering and Reengineering<br>• Process Mining<br>• Enterprise Engineering<br><br><u>Domain-specific IS Engineering</u><br>• E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, ...<br>• Web-Based Applications and Services<br>• Industry 4.0<br>• Web-Based Applications and Services<br>• Smart Cities <br>• Educational Technologies<br>• Digital Humanities<br><br><u>Data Science</u><br>• Big Data & Business Analytics<br>• Decision Information Systems<br>• Knowledge Management<br>• Knowledge Discovery from Data<br><br><u>Information Infrastructures</u><br>• Cyber-Physical Systems<br>• Web Information Systems<br>• Grid Computing and Cloud Computing<br>• Internet of Things<br>• Pervasive and Mobile Computing<br><br><u>Reflective Research and Practice</u><br>• Research Methodologies in Information Science<br>• Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual<br>• Lifecycle Models<br>• Design Science and Rationale<br><br>Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos and Research Projects<br>@RCIS tracks will complement the main conference.<br><br><br>SUBMISSION PROCESS<br><br>Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference<br>proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word):<br><A HREF="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</A> .<br>Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for<br>other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS<br>2021. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the<br>following categories:<br><br>Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that<br>are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution<br>paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and<br>results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them<br>in follow-up research. <br><br>Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem<br>situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by<br>empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical<br>proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. <br><br>Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer)<br>thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice,<br>elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on<br>industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall<br>provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and<br>explain the lessons learned.<br><br>Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant<br>preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These<br>papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a<br>preliminary evaluation of a technique.<br><br>Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc.<br><br>The submission site is <A HREF="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcis2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2021 </A> .<br><br>By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will<br>register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper<br>in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author<br>within the early registration deadline on March 29, 2021.<br><br>We adopt a single-blind review format, meaning that the author<br>names are included in the paper itself under the paper title. <br><br><br>JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE<br><br>A selection of the best accepted papers of RCIS 2021, chosen by a dedicated<br>committee, will be invited to submit an extended version of the RCIS paper <br>to the Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal published by Elsevier</font><font face='Lucida Grande' color='#E6FEFF'><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'>(<A HREF="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-and-knowledge-engineering">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-and-knowledge-engineering</A>).<br>The selection of the papers to invite will be based on the review scores<br>and arguments, and the potential for extension.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>• Abstract submission deadline for regular papers: January 25, 2021 (AoE)<br>• Regular paper submission deadline: February 1, 2021<br>• Notification to authors and registration opening: March 12, 2021<br>• Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021<br>• Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021<br>• Conference: May 12-14, 2021<br><br> <br>CONFERENCE COMMITTEES<br><br><u>Steering Committee</u><br>• Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France <br>• Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia<br>• Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom<br>• Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom <br>• Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France<br>• Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain<br>• Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse<br>• Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France<br>• Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden <br><br><u>General Chairs</u><br>• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br>• Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France<br><br><u>Organising Chair</u><br>• Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus<br><br><u>Program Chairs</u><br>• Samira Cherfi, CNAM, France<br>• Anna Perini, FBK, Italy<br><br><u>Social Media Chairs</u><br>• Itzel Morales Ramirez, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Mexico<br>• Vítor E. Silva Souza, UFES, Brasil<br><br><u>Proceedings Chair<br></u>• Raihana Ferdous, FBK, Italy<br></font>
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