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Call for Papers

18th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES-2026)
November 23-25, 2026, Coruña, Spain 
https://conferences.sigappfr.org/medes2026/
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-2026 will be via CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MEDES2026/

** TOPICS **
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)

MEDES-2026 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-2026 will be via https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MEDES2026/

** CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS **
MEDES-2026 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)
Digital by MDPI (Rank: Q2) (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/digital)

** IMPORTANT DATES **
Regular paper submission deadline : 15 July, 2026 
Notification to authors: 15 August, 2026 
Camera-ready and copyright submission deadline: 02 February, 2027 
Authors registration deadline: 15 September, 2026

** CONFERENCE CHAIRS **
General Chairs
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Luaces, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Richard Chbeir, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

PC Chair
Yannis Manolopoulos, University of York, Europe Campus, Greece

Tutorial Chair
Nikolaos Polatidis, University of Brighton, UK