RCIS2021: The 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel Limassol, Cyprus, May 12-14, 2021 |
Conference website | http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 15, 2021 |
Submission deadline | January 22, 2021 |
Submission deadline for Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos and Research Projects | February 9, 2021 |
Notification of acceptance for all submissions except tutorial proposals | March 12, 2021 |
Submission deadline for Tutorial proposals | March 19, 2021 |
Notification of acceptance for tutorial proposals | March 22, 2021 |
Author registration deadline for all paper types | March 29, 2021 |
Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types | March 29, 2021 |
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
- 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
Submission Guidelines for the main track
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, and appendices.
The submission will be via easychair at the following link: 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.
We adopt a single-blind review format, meaning that the author names are included in the paper itself under the paper title.
Submission Guidelines for Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos, Research Projects and Tutorial Proposals
Specific instructions for these types of submissions can be found on the conference web site at the appropriate place:
- Doctoral Consortium: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/callDoctoral.php
- Posters & Demos: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/callPostersDemo.php
- Research Projects: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/researchProjects.php
- Tutorial Proposals: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/tutorials.php
By submitting a contribution in any one of the above categories, 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.
Committees
Steering Committee
- Saïd 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, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
- Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse
- Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
General Chairs
- George Α. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Selmin Nurcan, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Program Chairs
- Samira Cherfi, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
- Anna Perini, FBK, Italy
Organising Chair
- Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus
Proceedings Chair
- Raihana Ferdous, FBK, Italy
Publication
As was the case for RCIS 2020, the proceedings of RCIS 2021 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series. 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.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to George A. Papadopoulos, george@cs.ucy.ac.cy