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14th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'2022)
In-cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6
http://medes.sigappfr.org/22/
October 19-21, 2022
Venice, Italy


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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- David Camacho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH-ITI, Greece
- Alexandra Cristea, Durham University, UK


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 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'2022 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.

MEDES 2022 will be organized in a Hybrid mode which allows for both on-site paper presentations and online presentations. The on-site part is the main mode of the hybrid conference. The online part is held for those participants who cannot travel to France or cannot get European visa.

TOPICS
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MEDES seeks contributions in the following areas:
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Data & Knowledge Management
- Computational and Collective Intelligence
- Semantic Computing
- Software ecosystems for software engineering
- Big Data
- Services
- Trust, Security & Privacy
- Software Engineering
- Internet of Things and Intelligent Web
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Social and Collaborative Platforms
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Open Source
- Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.)
- Complex Systems and Networks


PAPER SUBMISSION
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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 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2022

SPECIAL ISSUES
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Selected papers will be invited to be submitted as extended versions for possible publication after a peer review at several well-established and ranked journals.

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission Deadline: July 25th, 2022
- Notification of Acceptance: August 30th, 2022
- Camera Ready: September 15th, 2022
- Paper Registration: September 15th, 2022
- Conference Dates: October 19-21, 2022


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
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- Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE
- Claudio Silvestri, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy
- Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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- Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Richard Chbeir, Univ. Pau & Pays Adour, France


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Please check online: https://medes.sigappfr.org/22/pc/