20th Research Challenges in Information Science

EasyChair for the management of the workshop submissions (each organizer will be made chair of their own workshop).

Local organizational infrastructure and administrative support (registration, badges, etc.). In particular, all accommodation issues (e.g., rooms, meals) as well as the management of the registrations and the financing/administrative issues will be handled by the RCIS 2026 Organization Board.

Advertisement of the workshop on the RCIS 2026 homepage and mailings.

One free workshop-only registration if more than 10 people are registered for the workshop, and 2 free workshop-only registrations if more than 20. Organizers willing to attend the whole event (main conference) will have to register for the conference at their own expense.

RCIS 2026 welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to:

Information Systems and their Engineering Requirements Engineering Model-Driven Engineering Domain Specific Languages 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 Security and Risk Management Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Knowledge Graphs	Enterprise Management and Engineering Business Process Engineering and Management Enterprise Architecture Process Mining Enterprise Modelling Digital Transformation Complexity Management
Domain-specific IS Engineering E-Health, E-Government, and E-Commerce Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and Digital Twins News and Media Production Digital Humanities Virtual Worlds	Data Science Big Data and Business Analytics Decision Information Systems Machine-Learning and Generative AI Applications Information and Value Management Misinformation and Fake News
Information Infrastructures Information Systems Quality of Service Cyber-Physical Systems Web Information Systems Grid, Cloud, Fog, and Edge Computing Internet of Things Pervasive and Mobile Computing Quantum Computing	Reflective Research and Practice Information Systems Quality Evaluation Methods Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual Information Science Education Research Methodologies in Information Science Design Science and Rationale Action Research and Case Studies in Information Science

Workshop proposals must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2026 ) track “RCIS 206 Workshop Proposals”, in PDF format and must not be longer than six pages in length (LNCS Springer format). The structure of the proposals must include:

• Title of the workshop.
• Contact information for all workshop organisers, including the main contact person.
• Motivation and objectives, which must be clear and justify the relevance of the workshop.
• Topics of the workshop.
• The format of the workshop, which must consider the usual four sessions of an hour and a half for a full-day workshops or two sessions for a half-day one, and include the schedule of paper presentations, discussion sessions, and an invited speaker (if it is the case). When the workshop has an unconventional format, please explain it.
• The necessary equipment and services.
• The target audience, e.g., if it is a mixture of researchers and practitioners, if it is open to the public or only to the authors, and the expected number of attendees.
• Information regarding a previous edition of the workshop in another conference (if this is the case).
• Type and size of the papers that will be accepted (if the workshop is paper-based).
• The evaluation process that will be applied (if the workshop is paper-based).
• A tentative list of PC members with names and affiliation (if the workshop is paper-based).
• Short bios of the organizers.

The workshop proposals will be evaluated by the Workshop Chairs according to a set of criteria: relevance to RCIS, relevance of the workshop topic, and experience of the organizer(s) in the workshop topic. Accepted papers will be published in CEUR proceedings using the 1-column CEUR-ART style (http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). Workshop participants and organizers must register for the workshop. The RCIS organization may cancel workshops that do not have sufficient submissions or registrations.

Workshop proposal submission:	December 1st, 2026
Workshop proposal notification:	December 11th, 2026
Workshop paper submission:	March 22th, 2026
Workshop paper notification:	April 20th, 2026
Workshop paper camera-ready copy:	April 30th, 2026