{"id":3763,"date":"2022-11-30T05:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/?page_id=3763"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:47:54","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Click here to download the CFP of MEDES 2026: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3809\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"..\/..\/inista2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pngegg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"27\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pngegg.png 1784w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pngegg-263x300.png 263w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pngegg-896x1024.png 896w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pngegg-768x877.png 768w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pngegg-1345x1536.png 1345w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pngegg-600x685.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 24px) 100vw, 24px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3810\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"..\/..\/inista2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/txt-file.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"26\" height=\"26\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/txt-file.png 512w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/txt-file-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/txt-file-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/txt-file-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/txt-file-85x85.png 85w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/txt-file-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/txt-file-400x400.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 26px) 100vw, 26px\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Topics&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1669785090648-608172ee-d777&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p class=\"aLF-aPX-K0-aPE\">MEDES seeks contributions in the following areas:<\/p>\n<p><strong>DATA TRACK<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big data management<\/li>\n<li>Data integration, heterogeneous and federated databases<\/li>\n<li>Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction<\/li>\n<li>Data-centric AI<\/li>\n<li>Data privacy, security, and trust management<\/li>\n<li>Data provenance, publishing, and citation<\/li>\n<li>Data visualization<\/li>\n<li>Data warehousing<\/li>\n<li>Generative AI<\/li>\n<li>Keyword-based and natural language access to structured data<\/li>\n<li>Integration of large language models with databases and supporting services<\/li>\n<li>Interoperability and web services<\/li>\n<li>Ontology-based data management<\/li>\n<li>Responsible data management<\/li>\n<li>Smart Computing data management<\/li>\n<li>Social networks and graph databases<\/li>\n<li>Transaction and workflow management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SOFTWARE TRACK<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computational and collective intelligence for Digital Ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Digital Ecosystems across the computing continuum<\/li>\n<li>Digital Ecosystems for software engineering<\/li>\n<li>Digital Ecosystems in practice<\/li>\n<li>Digital Ecosystems self-properties management<\/li>\n<li>Digital Ecosystems with emerging technologies (quantum, membrane, neuromorphic)<\/li>\n<li>Digital twins Ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Green and sustainable Digital Ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Human-Digital Ecosystems interaction and relationships<\/li>\n<li>Industrial Digital Ecosystems (logistics, energy, healthcare, environment, smart cities, robotics)<\/li>\n<li>Intelligent and self-adaptive Digital Ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>IoT and intelligent web Digital Ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Maintenance and evolution of Digital Ecosystems.<\/li>\n<li>Semantic computing techniques for Digital Ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Service design, specification, discovery, customization, composition, and deployment in Digital Ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Social and collaborative Digital Ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Software engineering for Digital Ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Trust, Security &amp; Privacy in Digital Ecosystems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -2px; top: 54.6667px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Paper Submission Guidelines&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1669785090648-f7ad8cd8-c890&#8243;][vc_column_text]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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Submission&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1669785447595-1c1d0f03-fbd3&#8243;][vc_column_text]All paper submissions for MEDES-2026 will be via <a href=\"https:\/\/cmt3.research.microsoft.com\/MEDES2026\/\">Microsoft CMT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Publication&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1669785475566-0693b539-58c8&#8243;][vc_column_text]The conference Proceedings will be published and indexed by the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ffbb00; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/series\/7899\">Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer CCIS)<\/a>\u00a0.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Special Issue&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1701251831915-da6b28e0-2580&#8243;][vc_column_text]Selected presented papers will be invited for submission to two Special Issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"color: #ffbb00; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/journal\/11280\">WWW Journal<\/a>\u00a0(Impact factor: 3.0 \u2013 Rank: Q1)<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #ffbb00; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/42979\/updates\/17470758\">SN Computer Science<\/a>\u00a0(Impact factor: 3.78 \u2013 Rank: Q2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Important Dates&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1669785352215-8e3485c4-ec7d&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Regular paper submission deadline : 15 July, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Notification to authors: 15 August, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Camera-ready and copyright submission deadline: 02 February, 2027\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Authors registration deadline: 15 September, 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Policies&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1701251795904-152fe4f1-05ba&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period.<br \/>\nPapers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the indicated conference topics.<br \/>\nContributions from more applied related fields in industry and commerce are very welcome.<br \/>\nAll accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must register for the conference and pay the fee.<br \/>\nOnly 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.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"brazowy\">Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism<\/h4>\n<p>The authors are requested to avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism in their works.<br \/>\nYou can find in the Internet numerous guidelines on ethical writing, such as a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ffbb00;\" href=\"https:\/\/aciids.pwr.edu.pl\/2021\/download\/Avoiding_plagiarism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comprehensive guide prepared by Miguel Roig<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn turn, a two-page extract from this guide you can find\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ffbb00;\" href=\"https:\/\/aciids.pwr.edu.pl\/2021\/download\/Extract_from_Avoiding_plagiarism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nPlease note that the members of the Program Committee will give special attention to plagiarism and self-plagiarism while reviewing papers submitted to the conference.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Participation Modes&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1699369177324-39e153e8-c8b9&#8243;][vc_column_text]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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">To be announced!<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Click here to download the CFP of MEDES 2026: [\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Topics&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1669785090648-608172ee-d777&#8243;][vc_column_text] MEDES seeks contributions in the following areas: DATA TRACK Big data management Data integration, heterogeneous and federated databases Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction Data-centric AI Data privacy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3763","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":87,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5531,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3763\/revisions\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.sigappfr.org\/medes2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}