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CoopIS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) is a well-established international event for presenting and discussing scientific contributions on technical, economic, and societal aspects of distributed and cooperative information systems at scale. The guiding theme of the 32nd edition is: “Information Systems in the AI Era”. The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models and Agentic AI into information systems is transforming how data is processed, decisions are made, and services are delivered. 

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS, DATA ENGINEERING, AND INTELLIGENT KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
2. INDUCTIVE LEARNING, MACHINE LEARNING, AND TRUSTWORTHY AI
3. INTELLIGENT PROCESS ANALYTICS AND AI-DRIVEN AUTOMATION
4. SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY, OPEN STANDARDS, AND DATA ECOSYSTEMS
5. ETHICAL, PRIVACY-PRESERVING, AND SECURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
6. INTERNET OF THINGS, CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, AND DIGITAL TWINS
7. ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, AND MANAGEMENT OF AI-ENABLED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
8. HUMAN-CENTRIC AI AND SOCIO-TECHNICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
9. SERVICES, CLOUD IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DISTRIBUTED AI PLATFORMS
10. APPLICATIONS OF AI-AUGMENTED AND AUTONOMOUS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
11. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR AI ENGINEERING FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS


AREA 1: KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS, DATA ENGINEERING, AND INTELLIGENT KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS


  • Semantic Data Integration
  • Ontology Learning and Engineering
  • Ontology and Schema Matching
  • Knowledge Graph Creation Techniques
  • Evolution and Maintenance of Knowledge Graphs
  • Quality Assessment over Knowledge Graphs

AREA 2: INDUCTIVE LEARNING, MACHINE LEARNING, AND TRUSTWORTHY AI


  • Neuro-Symbolic Systems over Knowledge Graphs
  • Rule and Data Mining
  • Knowledge Graph Embeddings
  • Entity Recognition and Linking
  • Semantic Annotation

AREA 3: INTELLIGENT PROCESS ANALYTICS AND AI-DRIVEN AUTOMATION


  • Performance Measurment
  • Trace Encoding
  • Process Discovery
  • Conformance Analysis
  • Process Improvement
  • IT for work innovation
  • Robotic Process Automation

AREA 4: SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY, OPEN STANDARDS, AND DATA ECOSYSTEMS


  • Querying Graph Data and Query Languages
  • Inference and Reasoning

AREA 5: ETHICAL, PRIVACY-PRESERVING, AND SECURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS


  • Access Control
  • Data Proteciton and Privacy
  • Blockchain-based Approaches

AREA 6: INTERNET OF THINGS, CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, AND DIGITAL TWINS


  • Data Structures for IoT and Digital Twins
  • Storage and Data Management
  • Computing and Processing in IoT Environments
  • Sensors and Actuators

AREA 7: ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, AND MANAGEMENT OF AI-ENABLED INFORMATION SYSTEMS


  • Information Architecture
  • Enterprise Architecture Management
  • Software Design
  • Digital Transformation
  • Monitoring Tools And Techniques

AREA 8: HUMAN-CENTRIC AI AND SOCIO-TECHNICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS


  • Visualization
  • Human-Computer Interaction

AREA 9: SERVICES, CLOUD IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DISTRIBUTED AI PLATFORMS


  • Web Services, APIs
  • Services Science, Engineering, Management
  • Microservice-oriented architecture (MOA), Service Mesh
  • Cloud service management, Cloud workflow management
  • Cloud and fog computing, Edge service orchestration

AREA 10: APPLICATIONS OF AI-AUGMENTED AND AUTONOMOUS INFORMATION SYSTEMS


  • Applications of Knowledge Graphs (e.g., healthcare, industry 4.0, science, energy)
  • Human-centric Information Systems (e.g., healthcare, industry 4.0, science, energy)

AREA 11: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR AI ENGINEERING FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS


  • Software Quality Assurance and Testing in Information Systems
  • DevOps and Continuous Integration for Information Systems
  • Software Maintenance and Evolution in Information Systems
  • Model-Driven Engineering and Low-Code/No-Code Platforms for Information Systems
  • AI-driven Software Engineering for Information Systems
  • Software Engineering for Secure and Resilient Information Systems
  • Software Process Mining and Optimization in Information Systems

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

CoopIS 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not under review for any other conference, workshop, or journal. The contributions should address research questions that relate to one of the topics listed above.

We particularly encourage:

1. Contributions introducing and rigorously evaluating technological innovations (e.g., novel techniques, architectures, tools, or frameworks).
2. Empirical studies evaluating AI-enabled information systems in real-world settings.
3. Interdisciplinary research addressing ethical, legal, and societal aspects of information systems.
4. Systematic surveys on emerging paradigms in AI-driven cooperative information systems.
5. Industrial case studies focusing on trust, privacy, and governance challenges in information systems.

The research questions addressed should both be practically relevant and appealing to the general information systems field, and each paper should include a systematic evaluation of the contribution and relate this contribution to related scientific work.

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Papers are evaluated in terms of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity.

Submissions for full papers must not exceed 15 pages (including the list of references) in the final camera-ready paper style. The program chairs may decide to accept some of the submissions as short papers (which would then need to be shortened to 8 pages).

Submitted papers must be written in English, laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions, and be submitted in electronic form in PDF format.

Each accepted paper must have one of its authors registered for the conference before the camera-ready deadline. The conference organizers reserve the right to remove a paper from the proceedings if no author is officially registered by the camera-ready deadline. Moreover, only papers that have been presented by their authors during the conference will be published in the conference proceedings.

PUBLICATIONS

The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Author instructions can be found at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference.
The proceedings will be abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus and zbMATH. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 26 - 28 October, 2026

Paper Submission: May 19, 2026
Authors Notification: July 17, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: July 31, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: September 14, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: September 14, 2026

SECRETARIAT

CoopIS Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: coopis.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://coopis.scitevents.org

VENUE

The conference will be held in Angers, France, on the campus of ESEO, a graduate school of engineering in IT, electronics, networks and telecommunications.
Angers, the main city of the department of Maine et Loire in the Pays de la Loire region is the capital of the historic province of Anjou and is considered one of the most beautiful cities in France with its old streets, museums, gardens, gastronomic restaurants and art festivals.

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Ladjel Bellatreche, National Engineering School for Mechanics and Aerotechnics, France
Ali Ouni, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS Montreal), Canada

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Brahim Medjahed, The University of Michigan - Dearborn, United States
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Isabel Azevedo, ISEP, Portugal
Eduard Babkin, National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Russian Federation
Ada Bagozi, University of Brescia, Italy
Valerio Bellandi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Salima Benbernou, Université Paris Descartes, France
Mario Luca Bernardi, University of Sannio, Italy
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Francois Charoy, Independent Researcher, France
Richard Chbeir, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), France
Dickson Chiu, The University of Hong Kong, China
Carlo Combi, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Marco Comuzzi, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Christophe Debruyne, Montefiore Institute, University of Liège, Belgium
Joyce El Haddad, Lamsade, Paris-dauphine University, France
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Noura Faci, Computer Science, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Marcelo Fantinato, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Massimiliano Garda, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy
Laura Genga, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
María Teresa Gómez López, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Laura González, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Mohamed Graiet, University of Monastir, Tunisia
Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Lazhar Hamel, ISIM Monastir, Tunisia
Marwan Hassani, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Stefan Jablonski, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Slim Kallel, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Dimitrios Katsaros, University of Thessaly, Greece
Taewoo Kim, Fabric Data Warehouse, Microsoft, United States
Kais Klai, Universit Paris 13, France
Kabul Kurniawan, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Austria
Anelia Kurteva, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Teng Long, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China
Jiangang Ma, Federation University Australia, Australia
Chuangtao Ma, Aalborg University, Denmark
Qizhong Mao, ByteDance, United States
Philippe Merle, Inria, France
Giovanni Meroni, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Sellam Mokhtar, FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES JURIDIQUES, CONOMIQUES ET DE GESTION DE JENDOUBA, RIADI LAB, Manouba, France
Hervé Panetto, University of Lorraine, France
Stamatios Papadakis, University of Crete, Greece
Diego Rincon-Yanez, Schooul of Compute Sicence and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Sonja Ristic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Mattia Salnitri, University of Bergamo, Italy
Sumit Sharma, Independent Researcher, India
Ryan Shaw, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Jacopo Soldani, Università di Pisa, Italy
Zheng Song, University of Michigan - Dearborn, United States
Emanuele Storti, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Ruben Taelman, Ghent University, Belgium
Genoveva Vargas-Solar, CNRS, France
Monica Vitali, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Lena Wiese, Independent Researcher, Germany
Hongji Yang, Leicester University, United Kingdom
Sami Yangui, LAAS-CNRS, France
Jian Yu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Zhangbing Zhou, CUG Beijing, China
Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, Dearborn, United States

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