Click here to download the CFP of MEDES 2025: 
MEDES seeks contributions in the following areas:
DATA TRACK
- Big data management
- Smart Computing data management
- Data integration, heterogeneous and federated databases
- Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction
- Data-centric AI
- Data provenance, publishing, and citation
- Data visualization
- Data warehousing
- Keyword-based and natural language access to structured data
- Integration of large language models with databases and supporting services
- Ontology-based data management
- Data privacy, security, and trust management
- Social networks and graph databases
- Transaction and workflow management
- Interoperability and web services
- Responsible data management
SOFTWARE TRACK
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Digital Ecosystems self-properties management
- Software engineering for Digital Ecosystems
- Digital Ecosystems for software engineering
- Computational and collective intelligence for Digital Ecosystems
- Intelligent and self-adaptive Digital Ecosystems
- Semantic computing techniques for Digital Ecosystems
- IoT and intelligent web Digital Ecosystems
- Digital twins Ecosystems
- Digital Ecosystems across the computing continuum
- Service design, specification, discovery, customization, composition, and deployment in Digital Ecosystems
- Trust, Security & Privacy in Digital Ecosystems
- Social and collaborative Digital Ecosystems
- Human-Digital Ecosystems interaction and relationships
- Maintenance and evolution of Digital Ecosystems.
- Green and sustainable Digital Ecosystems
- Digital Ecosystems with emerging technologies (quantum, membrane, neuromorphic)
- Digital Ecosystems in practice
- Industrial Digital Ecosystems (logistics, energy, healthcare, environment, smart cities, robotics)
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 length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. 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.
All paper submissions for MEDES-2025 will be via Easychair.
The conference Proceedings will be published and indexed by the Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer CCIS) .
Selected presented papers will be invited for submission to two Special Issues:
- WWW Journal (Impact factor: 3.0 – Rank: Q1)
- SN Computer Science (Impact factor: 3.78 – Rank: Q2)
- Regular paper submission deadline :
15 July, 202505 September, 2025 - Notification to authors:
15 August, 202525 September, 2025 - Camera-ready and copyright submission deadline :
16 September, 202501 October, 2025 - Authors registration deadline:
16 September, 202501 October, 2025
Requirements
All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period.
Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the indicated conference topics.
Contributions from more applied related fields in industry and commerce are very welcome.
All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must register for the conference and pay the fee.
Only personally presented papers can be nominated for the Best Paper competition and considered for publication in an expanded form in special issues of prestigious journals.
Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism
The authors are requested to avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism in their works.
You can find in the Internet numerous guidelines on ethical writing, such as a comprehensive guide prepared by Miguel Roig.
In turn, a two-page extract from this guide you can find here.
Please note that the members of the Program Committee will give special attention to plagiarism and self-plagiarism while reviewing papers submitted to the conference.
We are glad to announce that MEDES will be back to an in-person conference! We look forward to welcoming the participants to Ho chi minh.
