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, organizations, 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) environments, 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 and design. 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 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 methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources.

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 related original research papers and industrial papers.

Special Issues

Two special issues with extended versions of selected papers will appear in the following journals:

• WWW Journal (Impact factor: 3.0 - Rank: Q1)
• IoT Journal (Impact factor: 5.7 - Rank: Q1)
• Computing Journal (Impact factor: 2.4 - Rank: Q2)

Submission Guidelines

Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the indicated conference topics. Contributions from more applied related fields in industry and commerce are very welcome. 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. 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.

Requirements

All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must register for the conference and pay the fee.

Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism

The authors are requested to avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism in their works. You can find in the Internet numerous guidelines on ethical writing, such as a comprehensive guide prepared by Miguel Roig. In turn, a two-page extract from this guide you can find here. Please note that the members of the Program Committee will give special attention to plagiarism and self-plagiarism while reviewing papers submitted to the conference.

List of Topics

• Data & Knowledge Management
• Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
• 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

Important Dates

• Jan. 15, 2022:     Tack/tutorial proposal deadline
• Jan. 20, 2022:     Notification of track/tutorial submission
• Mar. 01, 2023:     Paper submission deadline
• Apr. 01, 2023:     Notification of acceptance
• Apr. 15, 2023:     Camera-ready submission

Committees

Program Chairs

• Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Ngoc Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science & Technologies, Poland
• Joe Tekli, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

General Chairs

• Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France
• Richard Chbeir, Univ. Pau & Pays Adour, France

Tutorials Chair

• Claudio Silvestri, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Publicity/Social Media Chair

• Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of Thessaly, Greece

Invited Speakers

• Shahram Dustdar
• Marios Dikaiakos
• Ioannis Tsamardinos
• Ernesto Damiani

Publication

MEDES 2023 proceedings will be published in ACM Digital Library.

Venue

The conference will be held in Knossos Royal, Crete, Greece.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to acm.medes@gmail.com