18th Research Challenges in Information Science

The 18th. International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science welcomes proposals for Forum papers.

As in previous years, Forum papers should aim to showcase new research ideas and prototypes 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:

Research idea papers are intended to present new ideas, challenges, and work in progress where at least some preliminary results are available.

Tool demonstration papers are intended to describe tools or prototypes that are relevant for facing information science challenges.

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 2024 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned to the special theme Information Science: Evolution or Revolution? to be in the center of its reflections and discussions. RCIS welcomes forum papers from any domain of information science. The list of interested topics includes, but is not limited to:

Forum papers must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 8 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format including references and appendices. The forum papers will be included in the proceedings of RCIS 2024 which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series. Papers that exceed the limit of 8 pages will be rejected without review. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS. Authors are invited to submit their paper in English using the conference submission site EasyChair, where they should choose “RCIS 2024 Forum”.

The two Forum paper types are intended to be presented during the conference as follows:

Research Idea Papers Authors of accepted research idea papers will receive an opportunity to present their paper as a poster. Authors should prepare a wellcrafted poster that is self-contained. The authors are expected to be available to describe and discuss the poster with the attendees during the Forum. The poster dimensions will be of A0 type, that is 84 cm by 119 cm (33” by 47”), with poster content mounted on the rectangular poster board we will provide. The layout may consist of several individual sheets of paper or a monolithic large sheet.

Tool Demonstration Papers Authors of accepted tool demonstration papers will have a chance to present a demo of their tool. Authors are expected to be available to demonstrate their tool/prototype during the Forum. Authors should bring to the session all hardware they need to present the demo. Any special request should be communicated sufficiently in advance and agreed upon with the conference’s local organizing committee.

By submitting a paper to the Forum, authors implicitly agree that at least one of them will register for the conference and present their paper (i.e., at least one registration for each accepted paper is required).

Paper submission deadline	January 26 February 2, 2024
Notification to authors	March 11, 2024
Camera-ready submission	March 20, 2024
Author registration deadline	March 20, 2024
Conference:	May 14-17, 2024

Dominik Bork, TU Wien, Austria

Jānis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Clara Ayora, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain

Judith Barrios Albornoz, University of Los Andes, Venezuela

Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Istvan David, McMaster University, Canada

Victoria Döller, University of Vienna, Austria

Simon Hacks, Stockholm University, Sweden

Abdelaziz Khadraoui ISS, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, France

Elena Kornyshova, CNAM, France

Emanuele Laurenzi, FHNW, Switzerland

Dejan Lavbič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Patricia Martin-Rodilla, Spanish National Research Council, Spain

Beatriz Marín, Universitat Politècnica de València, Chile

Giovanni Meroni, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

João Moura-Pires, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Mark Mulder, Netherlands

Christoforos Ntantogian, Ionian University - Department of Informatics, Greece

Michalis Pavlidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom

Francisca Pérez, Universidad San Jorge, Spain

Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel

Ben Roelens, Open Universiteit, Ghent University, Netherlands

Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Natalia Stathakarou, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Gianluigi Viscusi, Linköping University, Sweden

Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria