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Call for Papers

17th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES-2025)
November 24-26, 2025, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
https://conferences.sigappfr.org/medes2025/
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-2025 will be via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2025

** 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-2025 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.

You can find the CCIS templates on this link https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

** SUBMISSION **
All paper submissions for MEDES-2025 will be via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2025

** CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS **
MEDES-2025 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)

** IMPORTANT DATES **
Regular paper submission deadline : 15 July, 2025
Notification to authors: 15 August, 2025
Camera-ready and copyright submission deadline: 16 September, 2025
Authors registration deadline: 16 September, 2025

** PARTECIPATION MODES **
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.

** CONFERENCE CHAIRS **
General Chairs
Richard Chbeir, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

PC Chairs
Elio Masciari, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
Juan Manual Murillo Rodriguez, University Extremadura, Spain
Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Tutorial Chair
Nikolaos Polatidis, University of Brighton, UK
Claudio Silvestri, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy