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Call for Papers

16th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES-2024)

November 18-20, 2024, Naples, Italy 

https://conferences.sigappfr.org/medes2024/

In collaboration with ACM SIGAPP

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The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories, and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to web technologies and resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers, and proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.

** SUBMISSIONS **

All paper submissions for MEDES-2024 will be via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2024

** TOPICS **

MEDES seeks contributions in the following areas:

    Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure

    Data & Knowledge Management

    Computational and Collective Intelligence

    Semantic Computing

    Software ecosystems for software engineering

    Big Data

    Services

    Trust, Security & Privacy

    Software Engineering

    Internet of Things and Intelligent Web

    Cyber Physical Systems

    Social and Collaborative Platforms

    Human-Computer Interaction

    Open Source

    Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.)

    Complex Systems and Networks

MEDES-2024 will also include special tracks/targeted sessions on current topics of interest to the community.

** GUIDELINES **

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 14 printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with the length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three peer reviewers. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.

You can find the CCIS templates on this link https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

** SUBMISSION **

All paper submissions for MEDES-2024 will be via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2024

** CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS **

MEDES-2024 proceedings will be published by the Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer CCIS) journal(https://www.springer.com/series/7899).

** SPECIAL ISSUES **

Selected presented papers will be invited for submission to two Special Issues:

WWW Journal (Impact factor: 3.0 - Rank: Q1) (https://link.springer.com/journal/11280)

SN Computer Science (Impact factor: 3.78 - Rank: Q2) (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979/updates/17470758)

** IMPORTANT DATES **

Workshop proposal deadline: June 30, 2024

Notification of workshop submission: July 10, 2024

Special Track proposal deadline: June 30, 2024

Notification of special track submission: July 10, 2024

Tutorial proposal deadline: September 15, 2024

Notification of tutorial submission: September 20, 2024

PhD Student Tracks paper submission deadline: September 1, 2024

Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2024

Conference pre-final version: October 30, 2024

Camera-ready submission: January 15, 2024

Paper submission deadline: September 1, 2024

Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2024

Registration Deadline: October 20, 2024

Conference pre-final version: October 30, 2024

Camera-ready submission: January 15, 2024

** PARTECIPATION MODES **

We are glad to announce that MEDES will be back to an in-person conference! We look forward to welcoming the participants to Naples.

** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS **

Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy

Maurizio Lenzerini, University of La Sapienza, Italy

Mérouane Debbah, Khalifa University, UAE

Minos Garofalakis, University of Crete, Greece

** VENUE **

The conference will take place at the Partenope Congress Center, https://www.centrocongressi.unina.it/via-partenope/

** CONFERENCE CHAIRS **

General Chairs

Elio Masciari, University Federico II of Naples, Italy

Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE

Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

Program Chairs

Antonio M. Rinaldi, University Federico II of  Naples, Italy

Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece

Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Workshop/Special Tracks Chairs

Claudio Silvestri, University  Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy

Tutorial Chair