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

SCOPE

Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) facilitate the cooperation between individuals, organisations, smart devices, and systems of systems, by providing flexible, scalable and intelligent services to enterprises, public institutions and user communities. As a result, people and smart devices can interact, share information and work together across physical barriers. The domain of CIS integrates research results from different related computing areas, such as: distributed systems, coordination technologies, collaborative decision making, enterprise architecture, business process management and conceptual modelling.

In recent years, several innovative technologies have emerged: Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Computing, the Internet of Things, Linked Open Data, Semantic Systems, Collective Awareness Platforms, Block Chain, Processes as a Service, etc, that enable the next generation of CISs.

In developing the next generation CISs, research is needed towards (1) the applicability and use of the above mentioned innovative technologies, (2) approaches to develop CISs in particular catering towards the multitude of stakeholders involved in the development of socio-cyber-physical systems, and (3) associated modelling techniques to express and analyse the different aspects of these systems in cohesion.

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, INFORMATION, AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
2. INDUCTIVE LEARNING, MACHINE-LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
3. PROCESS ANALYTICS AND TECHNOLOGY
4. SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY AND OPEN STANDARDS
5. HUMAN-CENTRIC SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
6. INTERNET OF THINGS AND DIGITAL TWINS
7. ARCHITECTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
8. HUMAN ASPECTS AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
9. SERVICES AND CLOUD IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
10. APPLICATIONS OF HUMAN-CENTRIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN A DIGITAL WORLD
11. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS


AREA 1: KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS, DATA, INFORMATION, AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING


  • 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 KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY


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

AREA 3: PROCESS ANALYTICS AND TECHNOLOGY


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

AREA 4: SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY AND OPEN STANDARDS


  • Vocabularies for the Semantic Web
  • Formalisms and Syntaxes
  • Querying Graph Data and Query Languages
  • Inference and Reasoning
  • Open Data Architectures and Ecosystems

AREA 5: HUMAN-CENTRIC SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS


  • Access Control
  • Data Proteciton and Privacy
  • Blockchain-based Approaches
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Information Entropy
  • Certified Distributed Access and Management
  • Privacy over Knowledge Graphs

AREA 6: INTERNET OF THINGS AND DIGITAL TWINS


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

AREA 7: ARCHITECTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS


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

AREA 8: HUMAN ASPECTS AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS


  • Economics of Cooperative Information Systems
  • Visualization
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Incentives and User Contributions
  • Reputation Management

AREA 9: SERVICES AND CLOUD IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS


  • 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 HUMAN-CENTRIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN A DIGITAL WORLD


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

AREA 11: SOFTWARE 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 2025 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 that introduce and evaluate technological innovations (e.g., new techniques, tools, methods or software).
2. Empirical studies (e.g. quantitative data on the effects of novel approaches in technical, social, or economical terms).
3. Systematic surveys of emerging technologies and competing paradigms.
4. Case studies of the trustworthiness of information systems in various application areas.


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 18 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 11 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.

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

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers 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. LNCS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 20 - 22 October, 2025

Paper Submission: July 7, 2025
Authors Notification: September 4, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: September 12, 2025

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

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Mohamed Sellami, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Télécom SudParis, SAMOVAR, France
Ali Ouni, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS Montreal), Canada

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Olaf Hartig, Linkoeping University, Sweden

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Mehdi Acheli, Telecom SudParis, France
Bader Alkhazi, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Mahi Begoug, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
Saoussen Cheikhrouhou, ReDCAD, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Raula Gaikovina Kula, University of Osaka, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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