Scope
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Interdisciplinary thinking and mobility are key success factors for any community. Embracing those principles, the 27th International Conference on Community Services (I4CS 2027) proudly adopts the motto "Navigating Digital Communities". Ranked C-level in CORE, the annual event will be held at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI), Upper Bavaria/Germany, from June 14 to 16, 2027.

I4CS 2027 is dedicated to exploring the challenging frontiers of modern community systems, services, and user-friendly applications. The rapid evolution of web technologies, AI, and smart mobile devices has propelled ICT support for communities to an unprecedented level. To invent novel solutions, multi-disciplinary collaboration among researchers, service providers, and industrial partners is essential.

We warmly invite the academic community to join us in Ingolstadt to share insights and drive innovation. Submit your research contributions and participate actively in shaping I4CS 2027 into a memorable and impactful event.

Conference Topics
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Technology: Emerging Architectures and Frameworks
- Smart architectures and enablers for data sharing
- Cryptography and cryptology
- 5G/6G technologies and ad-hoc wireless networks
- Data models, analytics, and big data management
- Quantum and cloud computing

Applications: Smart Communities on the Move
- Social networks, open data, and distributed coworking
- Barrier-free collaboration, publishing, and eLearning
- Recommender solutions and chat bots
- Virtual & augmented reality, robotics, and mobile e-sports
- Intelligent traffic, logistics, and connected cars

Socialization: Ambient Work and Living
- Distributed work challenges and eHealth-assisted living
- Machine Learning, human-centered AI, and governance
- Smart home, energy control, and public infrastructure
- Internet of things and dynamic sensor networks
- Cyber- and information security

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I4CS invites submissions of unpublished papers presenting research results, industrial experiences, frameworks, and applications, as well as detailed specifications of open problems.

Electronic submission is required. Full papers, written in American English and not exceeding 20 pages in Springer's CCIS format, should be submitted as PDF files via our EasyChair conference management system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i4cs2027.

All submitted papers will undergo a single-blind review process by at least three members of the international program committee. "Single-blind" means that the reviewers know the identities of the authors of a submitted paper, but the authors do not know the identities of the reviewers. In this process, anonymizing submissions is not necessary.

Accepted papers must be presented by a registered author. So please ensure that one author is indicated as the potential presenter at the time of submission.

Publication
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As in the previous years, I4CS plans to publish all accepted contributions in proceedings (print copy and eBook) with Springer in the "Communications in Computer and Information Science" (CCIS) series, https://www.springer.com/series/7899. In addition, the papers will be submitted to indexing libraries e.g., DBLP, Scopus, and for consideration by the Web of Science (WoS) conference proceedings citation index.

Web References
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- Conference URL: https://www.eah-jena.de/i4cs-conference/
- Formatting guide: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
- Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i4cs2027

- Matrix Chat: https://chat.darc.de/#/room/#i4cs-conference:academiccloud.de
- Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/i4csconference/
- Linkedin URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/i4cs/

Your Contacts
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- Sebastian Apel, THI, Ingolstadt, Germany
[progam-chair@i4cs-conference.org]
- Gerald Eichler, Deutsche Telekom, Technology & Innovation, Darmstadt, Germany
[steering-chair@i4cs-conference.org]
- Christian Erfurth, University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany
[conference-chair@i4cs-conference.org]
- Günter Fahrnberger, University of Hagen, Germany
[publication-chair@i4cs-conference.org]

For further details and news, please regularly check our conference URL. If needed, feel free to drop an email to info@i4cs-conference.org.