following the IEEE instructions available on the website of the conference. Each paper will undergo a rigorous peer reviewed process involving at least two reviewers.

The main conference theme is to strengthen ICT to support different digital ecosystems, especially focusing on the architectural triangle between industries, human endeavours and advanced ICT. It includes conceptual frameworks, architectures, self-organising infrastructures, swarm intelligence, ambient intelligence, autonomous agents, e-humanities, social networks, and service-oriented collaborative platforms. A special theme of this conference is collaboration instead of unbridled competition and ICT based catalyst effect in a number of domains to produce networked enriched communities.

We are interested in papers, work-in-progress reports, and industrial experiences describing advances in all areas of digital business applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Infrastructure for Digital Ecosystems
* Digital Business Ecosystems
* Self Organisation of Digital Ecosystems
* Intelligent Digital Ecosystems and Technologies
* Digital Business Ecosystems for Small Medium Enterprises
* Digital Business Ecosystems for Large Enterprises
* Trust and Risk in Digital Ecosystems
* Security and Privacy in Digital Ecosystems
* Emerging Concepts in the field of Ecosystems
* Collaborative Technologies for Digital Ecosystems
* Performance and Evaluation of Digital Ecosystems
* Social Networks and Sociology of Ecosystems
* Social Science Research in Digital Ecosystems
* Political and Economic Impact of Digital Ecosystems
* Service-oriented Collaborative Platforms
* e-Learning Ecosystems
* e-Humanities
* Interdisciplinary Research
* Students' Track