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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">13th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'2021)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">In-cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><a href="http://medes.sigappfr.org/21/">http://medes.sigappfr.org/21/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">November 1-3, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">Hammamet, Tunisia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the
Web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organisations, services, software, and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational
intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration), thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are
properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying Web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex
to study, design, and develop. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information and Communication Technologies has the potential
to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models, and methods for fields
such as big data management, Web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organising systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories, and industries interested in exploring
the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches, techniques, and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES</span>’<span style="font-family:DengXian">2021 calls for full papers
presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and
preferably include a system demonstration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">MEDES'2021 seeks contributions in the following areas:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Data & Knowledge Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Computational and Collective Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Semantic Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Software ecosystems for software engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Big Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Trust, Security & Privacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Software Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Internet of Things and Intelligent Web<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Cyber Physical Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Social and Collaborative Platforms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Human-Computer Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Open Source<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Complex Systems and Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Payam Barnaghi, Imperial College London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Johann Gamper, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Georgios N. Yannakakis, University of Malta, Malta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">PAPER SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to
comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback,
reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions
on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Kindly submit your papers
by clicking <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2021</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">SPECIAL ISSUES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">Selected papers will be invited to be submitted as extended versions for possible publication after a peer review at:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- SN Computer Science (Springer)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS Consortium)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Digital Open Access Journal (MDPI)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">(Please check online <a href="https://medes.sigappfr.org/21/special-issues">
https://medes.sigappfr.org/21/special-issues</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Submission Deadline: 30th of June 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Notification of Acceptance: 30th of July 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Camera Ready: 5th of September 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Paper Registration: 5th of September 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Conference Dates: 1-3 November 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus | e-mail:
<a href="mailto:yannis.manolopoulos@ouc.ac.cy">yannis.manolopoulos@ouc.ac.cy</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Ladjel Bellatreche, LIAS/ISAE-ENSMA, France | e-mail:
<a href="mailto:bellatreche@ensma.fr">bellatreche@ensma.fr</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France | e-mail:
<a href="mailto:djamal.benslimane@liris.cnrs.fr">djamal.benslimane@liris.cnrs.fr</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia | e-mail:
<a href="mailto:mira@dmi.uns.ac.rs">mira@dmi.uns.ac.rs</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">- Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE | e-mail:
<a href="mailto:zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae">zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:DengXian">Please check online: <a href="https://medes.sigappfr.org/21/committees">
https://medes.sigappfr.org/21/committees</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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