*** Second 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/

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

(Proceedings to be published by Springer)

	
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 .
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 .

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.


IMPORTANT DATES

 Abstract submission deadline for regular papers: January 15, 2021 (AoE)
 Regular paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE)
 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
 Sad 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, Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, France
 Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politcnica de Valncia, Spain
 Jolita Ralyt, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse
 Colette Rolland, Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, France

General Chairs
 George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
 Selmin Nurcan, Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, France

Organising Chair
 Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus

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