CALL FOR PAPERS

The 18th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2026)

Location: Coruña, Spain
Dates: November 23–25, 2026

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Extended Submission Deadline: September 4, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: September 28, 2026
Authors Registration: October 5, 2026

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DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
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The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories, and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to web technologies and resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end.

The conference seeks original research papers, industrial papers, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshop proposals.

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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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MEDES 2026 proceedings will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer CCIS) series.

https://www.springer.com/series/7899

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SPECIAL ISSUES
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Selected presented papers will be invited to submit extended versions to:

- WWW Journal (Q1)
- SN Computer Science (Q2)
- Digital by MDPI (Q2)

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DATA TRACK
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- Big Data Management
- Smart Computing Data Management
- Data Integration, Heterogeneous and Federated Databases
- Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Information Extraction
- Data-Centric AI
- Data Provenance, Publishing and Citation
- Data Visualization
- Data Warehousing
- Keyword-Based and Natural Language Access to Structured Data
- Integration of Large Language Models with Databases and Supporting Services
- Ontology-Based Data Management
- Data Privacy, Security and Trust Management
- Social Networks and Graph Databases
- Transaction and Workflow Management
- Interoperability and Web Services
- Responsible Data Management

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SOFTWARE TRACK
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- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Digital Ecosystems Self-Properties Management
- Software Engineering for Digital Ecosystems
- Digital Ecosystems for Software Engineering
- Computational and Collective Intelligence for Digital Ecosystems
- Intelligent and Self-Adaptive Digital Ecosystems
- Semantic Computing Techniques for Digital Ecosystems
- IoT and Intelligent Web Digital Ecosystems
- Digital Twins Ecosystems
- Digital Ecosystems Across the Computing Continuum
- Service Design, Specification, Discovery, Customization, Composition and Deployment in Digital Ecosystems
- Trust, Security and Privacy in Digital Ecosystems
- Social and Collaborative Digital Ecosystems
- Human–Digital Ecosystems Interaction and Relationships
- Maintenance and Evolution of Digital Ecosystems
- Green and Sustainable Digital Ecosystems
- Digital Ecosystems with Emerging Technologies (Quantum, Membrane, Neuromorphic)
- Digital Ecosystems in Practice
- Industrial Digital Ecosystems (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Robotics)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
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Yannis Manolopoulos
University of York, Greece

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GENERAL CHAIRS
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Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Luaces
Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Richard Chbeir
Université Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France

Schahram Dustdar
TU Wien, Austria

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SUBMISSION
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https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MEDES2026/

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GUIDELINES
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Submissions must be in PDF format and uploaded through the conference website.

Papers must not exceed 14 pages.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

Preference will be given to papers addressing emerging and challenging topics related to Digital Ecosystems.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the paper at the conference.

Springer CCIS templates:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines