The International Web Information Systems Engineering conference (also known as the WISE conference) has established itself, and consolidated its position over the years, as among the top conferences in the research areas around the Web. It provides an international forum for scholars, researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their scientific innovations, knowledge and insights in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies, and applications to create today the future Web.

The WISE 2026 edition will be held in Venice, Italy.

The WISE 2026 Research Track solicits high quality, original papers focusing on important research problems and issues around the Web as a universal platform connecting people, machines and systems. We are particularly interested in submissions focusing on research areas that aim to maximize the positive impact of the Web (and its underlying information systems) on the society and touch the lives of people in important ways.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• AI and Web Analytics
• Clickstream Analytics
• Crowdsourcing
• Data Science and AI technology
• Deep/Hidden Web
• E-learning
• Graph data management, RDF, social networks
• Human Factors and Social Issues
• Knowledge extraction and management
• Linked Open Data
• LLM Web-based applications
• Machine/Deep Learning for the Web
• Rich Web UI and HCI
• Semantic Web and Ontology
• Social Web Models and Analysis
• Web advertising and community analysis
• Web computing
• Web Mining
• Web Agents and Web Intelligence
• Web Mobile Applications
• Web Big Data Techniques and Mining
• Web Data Models
• Web information quality and fusion
• Web Information Retrieval and Text Analytics
• Web Information Systems
• Web Metrics and Performance
• Web Warehousing
• Web Security and Trust Management
• Web service management
• Web Tools and Visualization
• Web-based Applications (e.g., Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning, etc.)
• Web-based Business Processes and Web Services
• Web-scale Distributed and Cloud Computing
• XML and semi – structured data


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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline 17 June 2026
Authors Notification 20 July 2026
Final Manuscript Due 25 August 2026
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Paper Submission

All submissions must be written in English and conform to the Springer LNCS proceedings format with the following page limits: 15 pages for regular papers including references. Submitted papers will undergo a “double-blind” review process, coordinated by the Program Committee. To ensure anonymity of authorship, authors must ensure that authors’ names, affiliations, funding, and any other identifying information of authorship do not appear on the title page or elsewhere in the paper. The submissions rejected in the 1st round cannot be resubmitted for the 2nd round. Authors must provide the complete and final list of authors at the submission stage. No addition, removal, or change in the order of authors is allowed after submission.
Please use one of the following templates for the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

All paper submissions for WISE 2026 will be via Microsoft CMT (under the “Research Papers” Track): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WISE2026


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PUBLICATION

The proceedings of the main conference and workshops of APWeb-WAIM 2026 will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) respectively. Additionally, the Best Paper and the Best Student Paper will be awarded to recognize outstanding contributions.
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SPECIAL ISSUES

Furthermore, the best papers accepted to WISE 2026 will be invited to special issues of some prestigious journals, including:
• Data Science Engineering (IF 5.1, JCR Q1)
• WWW Journal (IF 3.7, JCR Q2)
• SN Computer Science (IF 3.78, JCR Q2)
• ARRAY (IF 2.7, JCR Q2)


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POLICIES

Dual Submission: It is not appropriate to submit papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published, accepted for publication, or submitted in parallel to other conferences or journals. Such submissions violate our dual submission policy, and the organizers have the right to reject such submissions, or to remove them from the proceedings.

Changes of Title / Abstract / Authorship: Authors should include a full title for their paper, as well as a complete abstract by the abstract submission deadline. Submission titles should not be modified after the abstract submission deadline, and abstracts should not be modified by more than 50% after the abstract submission deadline. Submissions violating these rules may be deleted after the paper submission deadline without reviewing. The author list at the submission deadline will be considered final, and no changes in authorship will be permitted for accepted papers.

Double-Blind Review: All submitted papers must be anonymous. WISE is following the double-blind peer review principle. That is, the authors do not know who reviews their paper and the PC members do not know who the authors of a given paper. Thus, the submitted document should not include the author information and should not include citations or discussion of related work that would make the authorship apparent.

Reviewing Criteria: Accepted papers must contain significant novel results. Results can be either theoretical or empirical. Results will be judged on the degree to which they have been objectively established and/or their potential for scientific and technological impact. Reproducibility of results and easy availability of code will be taken into account in the decision-making process.

Requirements: All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the indicated conference topics. Contributions from more applied related fields in industry and commerce are very welcome.
All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must register for the conference and pay the fee. Only personally presented papers can be nominated for the Best Paper competition and considered for publication in an expanded form in special issues of prestigious journals.

Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism: The authors are requested to avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism in their works. You can find in the Internet numerous guidelines on ethical writing, such as a comprehensive guide prepared by Miguel Roig. In turn, a two-page extract from this guide you can find here. Please note that the members of the Program Committee will give special attention to plagiarism and self-plagiarism while reviewing papers submitted to the conference.