NOTE: Based on several requests, the submission deadline has been postponed from February 1 to February 20. If you intend to submit a contribution, please already upload an abstract to EasyChair. Prior the deadline, you can always update information, keywords, abstract and the paper itself independently

Scope
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Interdisciplinary thinking is a key success factor for any community. "Crossing Digital Borders" is the motto of the 24th I4CS, to be held in Maastricht/The Netherlands from June 12 until 14, 2024. It is dedicated to challenging aspects around modern community systems, services, and applications.

We would like to invite the academic community to Maastricht, a famous place for Europe, located at the banks of the River Maas. The University of Maastricht will offer the I4CS 2024 an excellent venue to meet.

Due to the rapid evolution of web technologies and rich mobile Internet devices, ICT support for communities is possible on the next quality level. In search of innovative solutions, multi-disciplinary collaboration among researchers, service providers, and industry partners is essential to invent novel Internet Community Services.

I4CS is a direct follower of the former IICS/I2CS (International Conference on Innovative Internet Community Systems). Please, become part of this great community with your contribution.

Conference Topics
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Technology: Distributed Architectures and Frameworks
- Data architectures and enablers for community services
- Cryptography and decentralized secure computation
- 5G/6G technologies and ad-hoc mobile networks
- Data models, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics
- Distributed and hybrid quantum computing

Applications: Communities on the Move
- Social networks, news, and mobile work
- Open collaboration and eLearning didactics
- Recommender solutions and context awareness
- VR/AR, robotics, and location-based gaming
- Intelligent transportation, logistics, and connected cars

Socialization: Ambient Work and Living
- Remote work challenges and eHealth-assisted living
- Chat bots and open AI models
- Smart home, energy control, city, and infrastructure
- Internet of things and sensor networks
- Cybersecurity and privacy concerns

Submission
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I4CS solicits submissions of unpublished papers presenting research results, industrial experiences, and applications, as well as detailed specifications of open problems.

Electronic submission is required. Full papers of no more than 20 pages, in Springer's CCIS-format, written in English should be submitted as PDF file using the EasyChair conference management system. Submitted papers will be subject to a single-blind review process by at least three members of the International program committee. Formatting guide: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Publication
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As in the previous years, I4CS 2024 will publish their proceedings with Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science" (CCIS) series. In addition, the papers will be submitted to indexing libraries e.g., DBLP and Scopus.

Participation fees (excl. VAT)
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- Author rate (max one paper per person): € 425
- Non-Author rate: € 350
- Student Author rate (max one paper per person): € 350
- Additional proceedings: € 65

All rates include the I4CS 2024 proceedings. For more details and terms of condition, please refer to I4CS web pages.