Call for Workshop Proposals
Workshops are held in conjunction with the main conference on May 18, 2027.
- Workshop dayMay 18, 2027
- FormatHalf- or full-day
- Proposals dueDecember 1, 2026
The 21st International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2027) 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 18, 2027.
Services provided by RCIS
EasyChair
EasyChair for the management of the workshop submissions (each organizer will be made chair of their own workshop).
Local infrastructure and support
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 2027 Organization Board.
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for workshops with more than 10 participants
for workshops with more than 20 participants
Organizers willing to attend the whole event (main conference) will have to register for the conference at their own expense.
Topics of interest
21st RCIS 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 Engineering
- Requirements Engineering
- Model-Driven Engineering
- Domain Specific Languages
- Method Engineering
- Quality Assurance and Testing
- Software Engineering
- AI-Aware IS Engineering
- Systems Thinking in IS
User-Oriented and Social Challenges
- User-Centred Design and Human Factors
- Information Systems Adoption and Diffusion
- Collaborative and Social Computing
- Social Network Analysis and Online Communities
- Responsible and Inclusive Information Systems
- Digital Exclusion and Online Harms
- Human-AI Interaction and Future of Work
- Sustainability and Digital Ecosystems
Data and Information Management
- Databases and Information
- Information Security and Risk Management
- Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies
- Knowledge Graphs
- Data Governance and Data Quality
- Data Integration and Interoperability
Enterprise Management and Engineering
- Business Process Management and Digitalization
- Enterprise Architecture
- Process Mining
- Enterprise Modelling
- AI-Enabled Business Transformation
- Complexity Management
Domain-specific IS Engineering and Applications
- E-Health, E-Government, and E-Commerce
- Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and Digital Twins
- News, Media, and Digital Content Production
- Digital Humanities
- Virtual Worlds and Immersive Environments
- Green Systems and Software
- Dynamic Socio-Technical Systems
- Decision Support Systems
Data Science
- Big Data and Business Analytics
- Machine Learning and Generative AI Applications
- Explainable and Trustworthy AI
- Information and Value Management
- Hybrid Qualitative-Computational Methods
Infrastructures
- Information Systems Quality of Service
- Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things
- Web Information Systems
- Grid, Cloud, Fog, and Edge Computing
- Pervasive and Mobile Computing
- Quantum Computing and Algorithms
- Generative AI Integration and Agentic Systems
- Smart Environments and Autonomous Systems
- Federated, Distributed, and Decentralised Architectures
- Human-in-the-Loop Systems
- Green Computing
Reflective Research and Practice
- Information Systems Quality Assessment
- Information Systems Impact 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
- Information Systems Innovation
Ethics, Governance, Regulation, and Policy
- Human Autonomy, Agency, and Control
- Information Integrity, Misinformation, and Polarization
- Ethics and Governance of AI and Algorithmic Systems
- AI and Digital Sovereignty, and Cross-Border Data
- Regulatory Compliance and Accountability
- Human Responsibility in Socio-Technical Systems
- Responsible Computing and Ethical Requirements
- Fairness, Bias, and Discrimination in AI Systems
Submission instructions
Workshop proposals must be submitted via EasyChair Workshop track at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcis2027, 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 for RCIS community.
- 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.
Workshop organizers can decide whether to include their papers in the Springer proceedings or arrange an alternative publication option independently. If they choose the first option, their papers must follow the Springer LNBIP formatting guidelines.
Workshop participants and organizers must register for the workshop. The RCIS organization may cancel workshops that do not have sufficient submissions or registrations.
Important dates
- Workshop proposal submission
- Workshop proposal notification
- Workshop paper submission
- Workshop paper notification
- Author registration deadline
- Camera-ready deadline for Springer proceedings
- Post-conference camera-ready deadline for Springer proceedings
Workshop Chairs
- Beatriz MarínUniversidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
- Konstantinos TserpesNational Technical University of Athens, Greece