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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="ember-view">Deadline extended until February 9 due to several requests. You have time to submit a paper to RCIS
<b>conference</b>, <b>doctoral consortium</b>, <b>poster and demo session</b>!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://rcis-conf.com/"><span lang="EN-US">http://rcis-conf.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS for the 12th IEEE International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">29-31 May 2018, Nantes, France</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Extended paper submission deadline: February 9th, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://rcis-conf.com/ <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">co-located with the 36th French conference INFORSID </span><a href="http://www.inforsid.fr/Nantes2018/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.inforsid.fr/Nantes2018/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Regular paper submission deadline: February 9th, 2018 (23:59 Central European Time)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Author notification: March 28th, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Camera-ready deadline: April 13th, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Author registration deadline: April 13th, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• RCIS’2018 Conference: May 29-31, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Information Systems and their Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Requirements Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Software Engineering and Testing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Model-Driven Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Information Systems Development Methods and Method Engineering </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">User-Oriented Approaches</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Human-Computer Interaction</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Social Computing and Social Network Analysis</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• User-Centered Approaches</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Collaborative Computing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Information Science and the Wisdom of the Crowd</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Data and Information Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Databases and Information</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Information Search and Discovery</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Conceptual Modeling and Ontologies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Information Security and Risk Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Big Data, Right Data </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Enterprise Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Business Process Engineering and Reengineering</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Process Mining</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Enterprise Modeling</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Information Science within Reengineering Scenarios</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Context-aware Organizations</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Applications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• E-Health</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• E-Government</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• E-Commerce</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Web-Based Applications and Services</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Smart Cities </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Business Intelligence</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Big Data & Business Analytics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Decision Information Systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Knowledge Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Knowledge Discovery from Data</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Information and Value Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Information Infrastructures</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Cyber-Physical Systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Web Information Systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Grid Computing and Cloud Computing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Internet of Things</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Pervasive and Mobile Computing </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Reflective Research and Practice</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Research Methodologies in Information Science</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Lifecycle Models</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Design Science and Rationale</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Action Research and Case Studies in Information Science</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos will complement the main conference.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">An updated version of this call can always be found at </span><a href="http://rcis-conf.com/"><span lang="EN-US">http://rcis-conf.com/</span></a><span lang="EN-US">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION PROCESS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The submission site address is </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2018"><span lang="EN-US">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2018</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US">). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CONFERENCE COMMITTEES</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">General Chair: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Marko Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Program chairs: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Benedicte Le Grand, University Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Organization chairs: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dalila Tamzalit, AeLoS, University of Nantes France </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Alain Bernard, IS3P, Centrale Nantes, France</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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