*** Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals ***

19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023)

October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus

https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/



eScience 2023 provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, developers, and users of
eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Its objective is to promote and encourage
all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, algorithms, and tools,
with a strong focus on practical solutions and open challenges. The conference welcomes
conceptualization, implementation, and experience contributions enabling and driving
innovation in data- and compute-intensive research across all disciplines, from the physical
and biological sciences to the social sciences, arts, and humanities; encompassing artificial
intelligence and machine learning methods; and targeting a broad spectrum of architectures,
including HPC, Cloud, and IoT.

The overarching theme of the eScience 2023 conference is “open eScience”. This year, the
conference is promoting four additional key topics:
• Computational Science for sustainable development
• FAIR
• Research Infrastructures for eScience
• Continuum Computing: Convergence between Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things
(IoT)


CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference is soliciting two types of contributions:
• Full papers (10 pages) presenting previously unpublished research achievements or
eScience experiences and solutions
• Posters (2 pages) showcasing early-stage results and innovations

Submitted papers should use the IEEE 8.5×11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text
using single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5×11-inch pages. Templates are available from
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html .

Submissions should be made via the Easy Chair system using the submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2023 .

All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. Selected full papers will receive a slot for
an oral presentation. Accepted posters will be presented during a poster reception. Accepted
full papers and poster papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Rejected full
papers can be re-submitted for a poster presentation. At least one author of each accepted
paper or poster must register as an author at the full registration rate. Each author registration
can be applied to only one accepted submission.


Awards

eScience 2023 will host the following awards, which will be announced at the conference.
• Best Paper Award
• Best Student Paper Award
• Best Poster Award
• Best Student Poster Award
• Outstanding Early Career Contribution – this award is associated with poster submissions
and short presentations of attendees in their early career phase (i.e., postdoctoral researchers
and junior scientists).


CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The eScience conference has a long history of hosting well-attended workshops broadly
related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. These workshops share the goal
of bringing together international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and
users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies.

Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers
and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to
have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. Workshops may be
focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to interdisciplinary and
translational research, continuum computing infrastructures, data science, sustainability, and
education.

eScience 2023 invites authors of workshop proposals to consider a diverse group of
organizers, paper reviewers, and keynote speakers in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, and
geographic areas.

eScience 2023 accepts two types of workshop proposals:
(1) workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and
(2) workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings.


Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings

The proceedings of workshops with peer-reviewed papers will be included in the eScience
2023 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available
online through the IEEE Digital Library, if the following criteria are followed:
• The solicitation for papers must be open.
• All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee.
• The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for the expected number
of submissions.
• The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers at a length of at least 6 pages and no
longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format.
• For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to
eScience 2023 to present the paper in person.

Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a Program Committee and a paper
submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or
rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected
papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and
objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized.

Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops@escience-conference.org
and not exceed 5 pages in length.

Proposals should include the following information:
• Workshop name and acronym.
• Workshop description, including its focus and goals (max. 500 words).
• Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committee (we
invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee
members in terms of e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, geographic areas, etc.).
• Expected number of submissions/accepted papers.
• Prior history of this workshop, if any.


Workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings

Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due
time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals
gathering experts in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized.

Each speaker must be registered to eScience 2023 to present in a session.

Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops@escience-conference.org
and not exceed 5 pages in length.

Proposals for workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks only should include the
following information:
• Workshop name and acronym
• Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words)
• Names and affiliations of the organizers
• Expected number of talks and their length
• Tentative list of speakers and talk titles
• Prior history of this workshop, if any

Contact Information for Workshops and Submission of Workshop Proposals

Workshop Chairs (contact: workshops@escience-conference.org):
• Iraklis Klampanos, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece
• Fred Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA


KEY DATES

• Paper Submissions Due: Friday, May 26, 2023 (AoE)
• Notification of Paper Acceptance: Friday, June 30, 2023
• Poster Submissions due: Friday, July 7, 2023 (AoE)
• Poster Acceptance Notification: Monday, July 24, 2023
• All Camera-ready Submissions due: Monday, August 14, 2023

• Workshop Submissions due: Friday, February 10, 2023 (AoE)
• Workshop Acceptance Notification: Friday, February 24, 2023
• All Workshop Papers Camera-ready Submissions due: Friday, July 21, 2023
• Final list of talks / agenda for no-proceedings workshops: Friday, July 21, 2023

• Author Registration Deadline: Monday, August 14, 2023


ORGANISATION

General Chair
• George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Technical Program Co-Chairs
• Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK

Organisation Committee
https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers

Steering Committee
https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee

Email contact: Technical-Program@eScience-conference.org