20th Research Challenges in Information Science

The 20th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2026) welcomes proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. The workshops will aim to promote the exchange, cross-fertilization, and dissemination of new ideas among the members of the RCIS community, both researchers and practitioners.

Apart from traditional paper-based workshops focused on presentations, we encourage discussion and working sessions among the workshop participants to facilitate involvement and interaction. We invite proposals that tackle research challenge ideas in line with conference topics such as data management, information systems engineering, human-centered design, AI, digital transformation, and domain-specific applications. The workshops can be half- or full-day and will take place on May 26, 2026.

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.

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.

Ana León Palacio
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Spain

Nathalie Valles
Université de Pau et Pays de l'Adour
France