RCIS has become a recognized conference on research challenges in Information Science. Organized for the 15th time in a row, RCIS 2021 will be held from May 11 - 14, 2021, in Limassol, Cyprus. RCIS 2021 features a posters & demos track to showcase prototypes and new research ideas in Information Science. This track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their work, interact with conference participants, and obtain feedback on on-going research. We invite two types of submissions:

Posters are intended to convey a research result and are not advertisements for commercial software packages. While posters need not describe completed work, they should report on research for which at least some preliminary results are available.

Demonstrations should directly and actively involve the exhibition and display of tools/prototypes and associated materials that illustrate research work in progress and serve as ground for discussion of research ideas.

RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2021 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned the special theme “Information Science and global crisis”. Global crisis, as the pandemic we are experiencing in these days, natural disasters, wars and international political crisis, are challenging Information Science to help building effective management solutions, to learn from previous experience how to prevent them, and to support Humans keep on performing core activities, as education, and communication. The diversity of crises’ causes, the quality of the collected data as well as the complexity of the underlying mechanisms are among the relevant research challenges.

RCIS welcomes posters and demos submissions from any domain of Information Science. The list of interested topics includes, but is not limited to:

Posters and demonstrations proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 6 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) including references and appendices. Proposals that exceed the limit of 6 pages or that do not conform to the format will be rejected without review. Proposals that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2021. Authors are invited to submit their proposal in English. The submission site is available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2021 where you need to choose the “RCIS2021 Posters & Demos” track.

By submitting a poster or demo paper, authors implicitly agree that at least one of them register to the conference and present the poster or the demo (at least one separate registration for each accepted paper, poster, or demo is required). The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author within the early registration deadline on March 29, 2021 - March 26, 2021.

Posters/Demos/DC/RP Submission Deadline: February 19, 2021

Notification to authors and registration opening: March 12, 2021

Submission deadline only for tutorials: March 19, 2021

Authors registration deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 - March 26, 2021

Camera ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 - March 26, 2021

Conference: May 11-14, 2021

Dominik Bork, TU Wien, Austria
Giovanni Meroni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy