CALL FOR PAPERS for the 12th IEEE International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE

29-31 May 2018, Nantes, France
Paper submission deadline: February 2nd, 2018
http://rcis-conf.com/ 

co-located with the 36th French conference INFORSID http://www.inforsid.fr/Nantes2018/

RCIS has become a recognized conference on research challenges in information science. The goal of RCIS is to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. Organized for the 12th time in a row, RCIS 2018 will be held from May 29-31, 2018. 

IMPORTANT DATES
* Regular paper submission deadline: February 2nd, 2018 (23:59 Central European Time)
* Author notification: March 28th, 2018
* Camera-ready deadline: April 13th, 2018
* Author registration deadline: April 13th, 2018
* RCIS 2018 Conference: May 29-31, 2018

TOPICS OF INTEREST
At RCIS 2018, among other regular topics a particular attention will be given to the special topic: Enterprise of the future. 
This theme is intended to explore how Information Science, in terms of methods and tools, can help enterprises and organisations face a wide range of challenges, thanks to the power of Information. Indeed, enterprises need to be able to continually innovate as fast as (or faster than) their highly fluctuating environments and markets. However, complexity of information representation and exploitation, decision-making processes at multiple levels and their important often unforeseen - effects, drastically impact enterprises agility and innovation. How does Information Science currently influence the future of enterprises and how can it influence it in a more efficient and innovative way? What are the main strategic challenges? How can Information Sciences strengthen and become an unavoidable and fundamental pillar of the Enterprise of the Future?
RCIS welcomes submissions from a diverse spectrum: the list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to, the following themes and topics:

Information Systems and their Engineering
* Requirements Engineering
* Software Engineering and Testing
* Model-Driven Engineering
* Information Systems Development Methods and Method Engineering       

User-Oriented Approaches
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Social Computing and Social Network Analysis
* User-Centered Approaches
* Collaborative Computing
* Information Science and the Wisdom of the Crowd

Data and Information Management
* Databases and Information
* Information Search and Discovery
* Conceptual Modeling and Ontologies
* Information Security and Risk Management
* Big Data, Right Data       

Enterprise Engineering
* Business Process Engineering and Reengineering
* Process Mining
* Enterprise Modeling
* Information Science within Reengineering Scenarios
* Context-aware Organizations

Applications
* E-Health
* E-Government
* E-Commerce
* Web-Based Applications and Services
* Smart Cities        

Business Intelligence
* Big Data & Business Analytics
* Decision Information Systems
* Knowledge Management
* Knowledge Discovery from Data
* Information and Value Management

Information Infrastructures
* Cyber-Physical Systems
* Web Information Systems
* Grid Computing and Cloud Computing
* Internet of Things
* Pervasive and Mobile Computing              

Reflective Research and Practice
* Research Methodologies in Information Science
* Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual
* Lifecycle Models
* Design Science and Rationale
* Action Research and Case Studies in Information Science

Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos will complement the main conference.
An updated version of this call can always be found at http://rcis-conf.com/.

SUBMISSION PROCESS
Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2018. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: 
- Technical solution papers present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing solutions. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in later research. Maximum page count is 12.
- Evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Maximum page count is 12.
- Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, describe success or failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given. Maximum page count is 12.
- Work in progress papers present relevant preliminary results that may not have been fully validated yet. The work presented should be advanced enough as to show its contribution and significance. Maximum page count is 6.

The submission site address is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2018  
By submitting a paper, authors implicitly agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. It is expected that at least one author will register for each accepted paper. Only papers that have been presented by their authors during the conference will be published as part of the IEEE Proceedings.
Accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE for publication in IEEE Xplore digital library using the IEEE 2-column format (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). 

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
General Chair: 
Marko Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Program chairs: 
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK 
Benedicte Le Grand, University Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Organization chairs: 
Dalila Tamzalit, LS2N, University of Nantes France 
Alain Bernard, LS2N, Centrale Nantes, France