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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Apologies for multiple copies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b>You still have 1 week to submit a paper to IEEE RCIS conference, doctoral consortium, poster and demo session! </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b>(3 weeks for a tutorial proposal)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span><a href="http://rcis-conf.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">http://rcis-conf.com/</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS for the 12th IEEE International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">29-31 May 2018, Nantes, France</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Paper submission deadline:
<b>February 2nd, 2018</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">http://rcis-conf.com/
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">co-located with the 36th French conference INFORSID </span></span><a href="http://www.inforsid.fr/Nantes2018/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.inforsid.fr/Nantes2018/</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">RCIS has become a recognized conference on research challenges in information science. The goal of RCIS is to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners
from a wide range of information science fields and provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. Organized for the 12th time in a row, RCIS 2018 will be held from May 29-31, 2018. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l8 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Regular paper submission deadline: February 2nd, 2018 (23:59 Central European Time)</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l8 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Author notification: March 28th, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l8 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Camera-ready deadline: April 13th, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l8 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Author registration deadline: April 13th, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l8 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">RCIS’2018 Conference: May 29-31, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span lang="EN-US">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">At RCIS 2018, among other regular topics a particular attention will be given to the special topic: “Enterprise of the future”. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">This theme is intended to explore how Information Science, in terms of methods and tools, can help enterprises and organisations face a wide range of challenges, thanks to
the power of Information. Indeed, enterprises need to be able to continually innovate as fast as (or faster than) their highly fluctuating environments and markets. However, complexity of information representation and exploitation, decision-making processes
at multiple levels and their important –often unforeseen - effects, drastically impact enterprises agility and innovation. How does Information Science currently influence the future of enterprises and how can it influence it in a more efficient and innovative
way? What are the main strategic challenges? How can Information Sciences strengthen and become an unavoidable and fundamental pillar of the Enterprise of the Future?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">RCIS welcomes submissions from a diverse spectrum: the list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to, the following themes and topics:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Information Systems and their Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Requirements Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Software Engineering and Testing</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Model-Driven Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Information Systems Development Methods and Method Engineering </span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">User-Oriented Approaches</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Human-Computer Interaction</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Social Computing and Social Network Analysis</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">User-Centered Approaches</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Collaborative Computing</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Information Science and the Wisdom of the Crowd</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Data and Information Management</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Databases and Information</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Information Search and Discovery</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Conceptual Modeling and Ontologies</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Information Security and Risk Management</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Big Data, Right Data </span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Enterprise Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo5"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Business Process Engineering and Reengineering</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo5"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Process Mining</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo5"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Enterprise Modeling</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo5"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Information Science within Reengineering Scenarios</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo5"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Context-aware Organizations</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Applications</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">E-Health</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">E-Government</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">E-Commerce</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Web-Based Applications and Services</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Smart Cities </span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Business Intelligence</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Big Data & Business Analytics</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Decision Information Systems</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Knowledge Management</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Knowledge Discovery from Data</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Information and Value Management</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Information Infrastructures</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Cyber-Physical Systems</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Web Information Systems</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Grid Computing and Cloud Computing</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Internet of Things</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Pervasive and Mobile Computing </span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Reflective Research and Practice</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l7 level1 lfo9"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Research Methodologies in Information Science</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l7 level1 lfo9"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l7 level1 lfo9"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Lifecycle Models</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l7 level1 lfo9"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Design Science and Rationale</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l7 level1 lfo9"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Action Research and Case Studies in Information Science</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos will complement the main conference.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">An updated version of this call can always be found at </span></span><a href="http://rcis-conf.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">http://rcis-conf.com/</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION PROCESS</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2018. Papers should be
in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo10"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Technical solution papers present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing solutions. 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 later research. Maximum page count is 12.</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo10"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Evaluation papers 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. Maximum page count is 12.</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo10"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, describe success or failure stories, or
report on industrial practice. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given. Maximum page count is 12.</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo10"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Work in progress papers present relevant preliminary results that may not have been fully validated yet. The work presented should be advanced
enough as to show its contribution and significance. Maximum page count is 6.</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">The submission site address is </span></span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2018"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2018</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">By submitting a paper, authors implicitly agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. It is expected that at least one author will
register for each accepted paper. Only papers that have been presented by their authors during the conference will be published as part of the IEEE Proceedings.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE for publication in IEEE Xplore digital library using the IEEE 2-column format (</span></span><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">). </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span lang="EN-US">CONFERENCE COMMITTEES</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span lang="EN-US">General Chair: </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Marko Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span lang="EN-US">Program chairs: </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Benedicte Le Grand, University Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span lang="EN-US">Organization chairs: </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Dalila Tamzalit, AeLoS, University of Nantes France </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-US">Alain Bernard, IS3P, Centrale Nantes, France</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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