RCIS 2025 19th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science

Research Projects

RCIS 2025 features a track entirely devoted to presenting future or ongoing research projects (e.g., H2020 or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of information science. This track features a great opportunity for presenters to get feedback before submitting a research project or to disseminate the intermediate results of their projects, and for participants to get an updated view of innovative ongoing research while getting in touch with potential research partners.

The Research Projects @RCIS Track follows a two-step publication process. Firstly, the authors should submit a short paper (5-8 pages) summarizing the project's objectives and relevant results. Each submission will be peer reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of RCIS. If the paper is accepted, the authors must register for the conference to present their work at the “Research Projects @ RCIS” session at RCIS. Furthermore, the accepted short papers will be published by CEUR proceedings using the 1-column CEUR-ART style (http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html).

Beyond the special topic for RCIS 2025, the conference welcomes Research Projects 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 Model-Driven Engineering Data-Driven Evolution Method Engineering Quality Assurance and Testing Software Engineering	User-Oriented Approaches Social Computing and Social Network Analysis User-Centred Design Collaborative Computing Human Factors in Information Systems Technology Acceptance
Data and Information Management Databases and Information Information Search and Discovery Information Security and Risk Management Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Knowledge Graphs	Enterprise Management and Engineering Business Process Engineering and Management Process Mining Enterprise Modelling Digital Transformation Complexity Management Enterprise Architecture
Domain-specific IS Engineering E-Health, E-Government, E-Commerce Web-Based Applications and Services Smart Cities Industry 4.0 Digital Humanities Virtual Worlds Safety-Critical systems	Data Science Big Data for decision making Machine-Learning, AI and Generative AI applications Machine-Learning, AI and Generative AI integration challenges
Information Infrastructures Cyber-Physical Systems Web Information Systems Grid Computing and Cloud Computing Internet of Things Pervasive and Mobile Computing Information Systems Quality of Service Quantum Computing	Reflective Research and Practice Research Methodologies in Information Science Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual Information Systems Quality Evaluation Methods Design Science and Rationale Action Research and Case Studies in Information Science Information Science Education

Eligible Projects

The types of projects that are eligible for presentation in this track are manifold:

Projects funded by the European Union, by national or local funding organizations, or even by individual universities and industries.
Projects focused on fundamental research, applied research, or more industry-oriented.
Projects carried out by an international consortium of partners or projects might involve partners of the same country.
Research statements for future projects concerning Research Challenges in Information Science.

Important Dates

Submission deadline:	March 15, 2025
Notification:	April 12, 2025
Camera ready deadline:	April 19, 2025
Author registration deadline:	April 19, 2025
Conference:	May 20-23, 2025

Review Process

Each submission will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the RCIS scientific committee and should include:

Project full name, acronym, duration (from-to), and URL.
Names of presenter(s) and main contributors.
Summary of project objectives and expected tangible outputs.
The relevance of the project (or one of its work packages) to the Research Challenges in Information Science conference topics.
If the project is ongoing: summary of current project results

Five- to eight-page papers shall be formatted as a 1-column CEUR-ART style (templates can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2025) by selecting the “RCIS 2025 Research Projects” track.

Research Projects Chairs

Isabel Brito
Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal

Irina Rychkova
University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Program Committee

Alessandra Bagnato
Softeam, France

Robert Buchmann
Babes-Bolyai University, Romania

Nelly Condori-Fernández
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Davide Fucci
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Marc Oriol Hilari
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Filippo Lanubile
University of Bari, Italy

Khaled Medini
EMSE, France

Wilfrid Utz
OMiLAB NPO, Germany

Tanja Vos
Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Robert Woitsch
BOC Group, Austria

Xavier Boucher
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France

Dalila Tamzalit
University of Nantes, France

Lidia Lopez
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

19th Research Challenges in Information Science

Advancing Information Science and Information Systems Quality in the Era of Complexity

Seville, Spain, 20 - 23 May, 2025