TOPICS OF INTEREST

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Tutorial proposals must be written in English with no more than 5 pages LNCS style and must provide a sense of both the scope of the tutorial and depth within the scope (see for style files and details).

Tutorial proposals must identify the intended audience and its assumed background.

Tutorials are typically 90- or 180-minutes long lectures given by an expert on a highly focused topic of interest to cooperative information systems practitioners.

It should also be stated how a high-quality presentation will be delivered within the time frame specified.

Tutorial proposals must include:

• Tutorial title;
• The presenter(s) name, affiliation, contact information, and a short bio;
• Five-line abstract;
• Goals and objectives:
  • The overall goal of the tutorial and the concrete objectives to be achieved;
• Audience:
  • Intended audience
  • level (basic or advanced)
• Topic relevance and novelty:
  • Relevance to the scope of CoopIS 2026;
  • the relevance to practice;
  • the novel aspects that would make this tutorial appealing to CoopIS participants.
• Projected benefits:
  • list of the targeted knowledge outcomes;
• Detailed outline and timetable;
• Tutorial method, including teaching method(s) and technology requirements for presentation (beyond standard equipment, such as pc projector);
• References:
  • references to papers, books, etc. that your tutorial builds on. Please specify previous venues at which similar tutorials have been presented by you and indicate the difference between the proposed tutorial and previous ones;
• A 3-5 minute "teaser video" of the tutorial, which provides a brief overview of the planned tutorial to attract the intended audience.

TUTORIALS’ SELECTION

Tutorials will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Fit with Coopis audience (please see topics of interest to the conference);
• Interestingness: People who attend Coopis will want to learn what is offered by the tutorial?
• Projected benefit: Will people be likely to leave the tutorial more informed about a specific topic than before?
• Clarity of activity and outcomes: Do we know what the tutorial presenter will do? Is it clear that what the presenter will do will lead to interestingness?
• Ability to sustain audience attention: Incorporate new, innovative teaching methods, ideally using hands-on experience;
• For all accepted proposals, Coopis will take care of all local arrangements.

SERVICES PROVIDED

• Tutorials will benefit from the local organizational infrastructure (registration, badges, refreshments, screens, etc.);
• Participation in tutorials will be available to all registered participants, at no extra costs;
• Advertisement of the tutorial on the Coopis 2026 homepage and mailings;
• Accepted tutorials will have the opportunity to write a short 5-page paper that will be published within the Proceedings Coopis satellite events (LNCS, Springer).

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