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Call for Papers

15th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES-2023)
May 5-7, 2023
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
https://conferences.sigappfr.org/medes2023/

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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-2023 will be via Easychair at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=medes2023

** 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-2023 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 8 ACM single-space 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: Jan. 30, 2023
Notification of workshop submission: Feb. 10, 2023
Paper submission deadline: March. 1, 2023
Tutorial proposal deadline: Mar. 15, 2023
Notification of tutorial submission: Mar. 20, 2023
Notification of acceptance: Apr 1, 2023
Camera-ready submission: April 15, 2023


** CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS **
MEDES-2023 proceedings will be published by the Association for Computing Machinery in their ACM Digital Library and the bibliography website DBLP.

** SPECIAL ISSUES **
Selected presented papers will be invited for submission to two Special Issues:
WWW Journal (Impact factor: 3.0 - Rank: Q1)
IoT Journal (Impact factor: 5.7 - Rank: Q1)
Computing Journal (Impact factor: 2.4 - Rank: Q2)

** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS **
Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE
Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Shachram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Ioannis Tsamardinos, University of Crete, Greece

** VENUE **
The conference will take place at Knossos Royal Beach Resort 5*, https://www.aldemarknossosroyal.gr/

** CONFERENCE CHAIRS **
General Chairs
Michalis Zervakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France
Richard Chbeir, Univ. Pau & Pays Adour, France

Program Chairs
Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Ngoc Nguyen, Wroclaw Univ. of Science & Technology, Pl
Joe Tekli, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Tutorial Chair
Claudio Silvestri, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Workshops and Special Tracks Chairs
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Ejub Kajan, State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia