Download the Call for Tutorials

RCIS has become a recognised conference on research challenges in information sciences. Organised for the ninth time in a row, RCIS 2015 will be held from May 13-15, 2015.

RCIS will feature several tutorials. Tutorials are 90 minutes free format sessions, where the presenter(s) share(s) a specific and top of the art practical know-how to conference attendees that are willing to participate. Tutorials run in parallel with other conference tracks, and participation is included in the attendees’ conference fee. We invite proposals for tutorials that may address one or more of the above listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them.

At RCIS 2015, among other regular topics a special attention will be given to the special topic “Information is all around us”. Now more than ever before in human history, information about almost everything is available somewhere. The only reason people do not have the proper pieces of information is because they either do not care to know or they are overwhelmed by the amount of data they have to filter out to get what they need. This situation poses great challenges to the field of Information Science.

Besides the works on “Information is all around us” and the implications of this fact in the field of Information Science, which is the special topic of this edition, RCIS welcomes tutorial submissions from any domain of Information Science. The list of interested topics includes, but is not limited to:

Information Systems and their Engineering Requirements Engineering Method Engineering Software Testing Information Security and Risk	User-Oriented Approaches Human-Computer Interaction Social Computing and Social Network Analysis User-Centred Approaches Collaborative Computing
Data and Information Management Databases and Information Information Search and Discovery Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies	Business Process Management Business Process Engineering and Reengineering Process Mining Enterprise Engineering
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

Tutorial proposals are limited to 5 pages. They must include:

1. A title;
2. A 150 words abstract;
3. Value of the tutorial for the attendees;
4. Learning objectives aligned with the value statement;
5. Description of how the activities in the tutorial support the learning objectives and how the proposer will pass his/her messages onto the attendees;
6. Expected background of the attendees;
7. A concise description of material(s) that will be provided to attendees;
8. Timetable that clearly indicates how the interaction with the audience will develop over time;
9. A short bio of the presenter(s);
10. A history of the tutorial: has this tutorial (or any derived version of it) already been given? If so, detail where and when, and how it has been received. Proven track record has to be balanced with the innovative aspect of the tutorial.

In preparing your proposal, you are encouraged to include some creative techniques to teaching and learning. Any teaching approach that ensures active interaction would be greatly appreciated by the RCIS audience. We encourage you to craft a tutorial that can deliver high quality content in an enjoyable way.

Please also consider including printed or online take away material for attendees. For example, templates, checklists, frameworks… that attendees can employ in their own settings.

We finally encourage authors to optionally include a 1 or 2 minutes video of the speakers teasing their tutorial.

Tutorial submission:	February 22, 2015 (23:59 Central European Time) February 28, 2015 (23:59 Central European Time)
Tutorial notification	March 31, 2015
RCIS’2015 Conference:	May 13-15, 2015, Athens, Greece

Sergio España, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Email: Sergio.Espana@dsic.upv.es
Dejan Lavbic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Email: Dejan.Lavbic@fri.uni-lj.si

Tutorial speakers will receive a fixed honorarium of 350 Euros per tutorial (i.e., multiple speakers must share the honorarium). Additionally, free registration for the conference will be offered to the main presenter (one speaker, unless he is the only paying author of a paper presented at the conference).