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Call for Papers

16th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES-2024)
November 18-20, 2024,
Naples, Italy
https://conferences.sigappfr.org/medes2024/
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-2024 will be via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2024

** TOPICS **
MEDES seeks contributions in the following areas:
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Data & Knowledge Management
- Computational and Collective Intelligence
- Semantic Computing
- Software ecosystems for software engineering
- Big Data
- Services
- Trust, Security & Privacy
- Software Engineering
- Internet of Things and Intelligent Web
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Social and Collaborative Platforms
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Open Source
- Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.)
- Complex Systems and Networks
MEDES-2024 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.
The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP.

** IMPORTANT DATES **
• Workshop proposal deadline: June 30, 2024
• Notification of workshop submission: July 10, 2024
• Paper submission deadline: September 1, 2024
• Tutorial proposal deadline: September 15, 2024
• Notification of tutorial submission: September 20, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2024
• Registration Deadline: October 20, 2024
• Conference pre-final version: October 30, 2024
• Camera-ready submission: January 15, 2024


** CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS **
MEDES-2024 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)

** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS **
Claudia d’Amato, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Maurizio Lenzerini, University of La Sapienza, Italy
Mérouane Debbah, Khalifa University, UAE
Minos Garofalakis, University of Crete, Greece

** VENUE **
The conference will take place at the Partenope Congress Center, https://www.centrocongressi.unina.it/via-partenope/


** CONFERENCE CHAIRS **
General Chairs
Elio Masciari, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

Program Chairs
Antonio M. Rinaldi, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Workshop/Special Tracks Chairs
Claudio Silvestri, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy

Tutorial Chair
Nikolaos Polatidis, University of Brighton, UK