The IEEE CiSt Congress is among the most prestigious INTERNATIONAL events held in Morocco and which encompasses focused CONFERENCES that gather the best scientists and world class experts to share leading edge and multidisciplinary research in various fields related to information science and technology. The congress is co-sponsored by the IEEE Morocco Section and the IEEE Morocco Computer & Communication Joint Chapter. The 2018 fifth edition will be held in Marrakesh, Morocco on October 2018. CiSt is indexed by IEEE, Scopus and DBLP.

After holding four editions, the IEEE international Congress on Information Science and Technology is emerging as a leading event that aims to serve as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances achieved by IT researchers, IT decision makers, IT managers, application designers and software engineers in the domain of computer based information and communication sciences. Computing challenges, conceptual models, implementation techniques and tools, applications architectures, and IT solutions will be discussed from the perspectives of academia, businesses, industry and government. The 2018 edition will also include tutorials and keynote sessions from world class speakers. CiSt’2018 will also provide a platform for supporting innovative and original contributions. CiSt’2018 will include tutorials, presentations of contributed papers, posters, a research panel, an industrial track and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers.

The congress sponsors will provide, under special circumstances, grants for IEEE student members who will be applying to attend the technical congress talks and meetings.


Congress Main Tracks and Topics:

1. DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS: ANALYSIS, SPECIFICATION AND INTEGRATION
- Requirement Engineering and Information Modeling Concepts
- Foundations and Concept Formalization for Database Schemas
- Distributed Database Systems and Mobile Database Applications
- Big Data, Data Warehouses, and Business Intelligence
- Knowledge Management Systems, Data mining and Knowledge discovery

2. ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
- Enterprise Engineering, Models and Frameworks
- Enterprise Resource Planning and Enterprise Application Integration
- Enterprise Knowledge Engineering, Management and Security
- Business Modeling and Business Process Management
- Governance and Business-IT Alignment
- EA and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Measurements, Metrics and Evaluation of EA Artifacts and Processes
- Architectures and Design Principles for Enterprise Repositories

3. AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE & SOFTWARE AGENTS AND MOBILE COMPUTING
- Mobile Computing
- Web Services and cloud computing
- Social Networking and Collaborative Computing
- Profiling and Recommendation Systems
- Semantic Web Technologies and Applications
- Ontology Modeling and Deployment
- Natural Language Interfaces and Systems
- Multi-Agent Systems and Case-Based Reasoning Systems


Submissions :

Prospective authors should submit by using the online submission platform for IEEE CiSt'18 main congress https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=63186157.zlwKajc8X6fvjO9J a paper of 4 to 6 pages max (including references) in scholarly English, using the IEEE template.

Registration fee covers a maximum number of 6 pages. There will be an additional cost for each extra page.

Please read the IEEE criterias for the Author Responsibilities before submitting your paper:

Author Contact Information http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#author_contact
Author Affiliation http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#affiliation
Publication Principles on Authorship http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#responsibilities
Concurrent/Duplicate Submissions http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#concurrent
Preliminary/Conference Version(s) http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#preliminary
IEEE Copyright Form http://www.ieee.ma/cist14/files/IEEE_CIST_2014_Copyright_Form.doc

Accepted papers will be published in the proceeding and submitted to IEEE Xplore Library, Scopus and DBLP. Furthermore, Authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for potential publication in a special issue/section of an international journal.

Accepted papers must be registered; otherwise they will not be considered for indexation. The first author is limited to submit a maximum of 2 papers and at least one of the co-authors of every paper should register.


Important Dates:

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Paper Submission: March 16, 2018
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Acceptance Notification: May 19, 2018
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Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2018
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Author Registration: July 18, 2018
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Congress Dates: October 21-24, 2018
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Committee:

Organizing committee

Prof. Mohammed El Mohajir
Congress General Chair
FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco

Prof. Mohammed Al Achhab
Congress Chair
ENSA, UAE, Tetuan, Morocco

Prof. Badr Eddine El Mohajir
Congress Industrial Chair
FS, UAE, Tetuan, Morocco

Prof. Mohammad Essaaidi
Congress Advisory Chair
ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco

Prof. Amal Tmiri
Organizing Committee Chair
FS, Chouhaib Doukkali Univeristy, El Jadida, Morocco

Prof. Ismail Jellouli
Program Committee Chair
FS, UAE, Tetuan, Morocco

Prof. Nasser Assem
Keynotes and Panels Chair
School of Science & Engineering, Al Akhawayn university, Morocco

Prof. Abdul Rahman Bin Ahmad Dahlan & Prof. Shuhaili Talib
Asia Liaison Chairs
International Islamic University, Malaysia

Dr. Marouane Sayih
European Liaison Chair
Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Germany

Prof. Abdelkarim Erradi
Middle East Liaison Chairs
College of Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar

Dr. Sandra Moffett
UK Liaison Chair
School of Computing & Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, UK

Prof. Mohamed El Far & Prof. Mohamed Chahhou
Conferences Chairs
FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco

Ing. Zoubida Alaoui Mdaghri & Ing. Zakaria El Maazouzi & Ing Amr Marrakchi
Communication and Professional activities Chairs
IEEE, MS, Morocco


Program committee

Ahlame Begdouri, FST, USMBA, Fez, Morocco
Btissam Dkhissi, ENSA, UAE, Tétouan, Morocco
Ahmad Fatzilah Misman, International Islamic University Malaysia
Jaber El Bouhdidi, ENSA, UAE, Tétouan, Morocco
Karaoglanoglou Konstantinos, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Fatima Zahra Belouadha, EMI, Rabat, Morocco
Mountassir Hassan, CNRS FEMTO-ST, France
El Hami Norelislam, ENSA Kenitra, Morocco
Siti Asma Mohammed, International Islamic University Malaysia
Karim Afdel, FS, University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco
Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA, University of Poitiers, France
Rachid Benabbou, FST, USMBA, Fez, Morocco
Mohammed El Far, FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco
Brahim Ouhbi, ENSAM, Meknes, Morocco
Murni Mahmud, International Islamic University Malaysia
Mohamed Reghioui, ENSA, Tétouan, UAE, Morocco
Driss Bouzidi, ENSIAS, Mohammed V-Souissi University, Rabat, Morocco
Jacques Calmet, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Mostafa Harti, FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco
M. Carmen Carrion Peréz, University of Granada, Spain
Loukos Fotis, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
J.-Y. Chung, IBM Watson Research, USA
Thierry Comdamine, Université of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
Ahmed Aboutajeddine, FST, Fez, Morocco
Jamaludin Ibrahim, Kulliyyah of Information & Communication Technology, IIUM, Malaysia
Mohamed Dahchour, INPT, Rabat, Morocco
H.-B. Duan, Beihang University, China
Papazachos Zafeirios, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Bouchra Frikh, EST, Fez, Morocco
Abdul Rahman Bin Ahmad Dahlan, Kulliyyah of Information & Communication Technology, IIUM, Malaysia
Youness Tabii, ENSA, UAE, Tetouan, Morocco
Nour-Eddine El Faddouli, EMI, Rabat, Morocco
Francesco Guerra, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Abdelkrim Haqiq, FST, Settat, Morocco
Hamid Harroud, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
Dominique Leclet, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
Aicha Majda, FST, Fez, Morocco
Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Stavrinides Georgios, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Nasser Assem, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
D. Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Younes Lakhrissi, ENSA, Fez, Morocco
Yiannis Moschakis, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
J. A. Sobrino, University of València, Spain
Arsalane Zarghili, FST, USMBA, Fez, Morocco
Ahmed Zineddine, FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco
Yahaya Yusuf, Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Mohamed Lazaar, ENSA, UAE, Tetouan, Morocco
Mohamed Larbi Ben Maati, FS, UAE, Tetouan, Morocco
Zikos Stylianos, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Anouar Abtoy, ENSA, UAE, Tétouan, Morocco
Nawel Takouachet, ESTIA, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France
Habib Kammoun, Faculty of Science, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Shuhaili Talib, International Islamic University Malaysia