RCIS2024- Call for Workshop Proposals

Call for Workshop Proposals *** RCIS2024 - 18th. International Conference
on Research Challenges in Information Science ***

May 14-17, 2024
Guimarães, Portugal
https://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2024/index.php

The 18th. International Conference on Research Challenges in Information
Science (RCIS 2024) welcomes proposals for workshops to be held in
conjunction with the main conference. The workshops will aim to promote the
exchange, cross-fertilization, and dissemination of new ideas among the
members of the RCIS community, both researchers and practitioners.

Apart from traditional paper presentations, we encourage discussion and
working sessions among the workshop participants to facilitate involvement
and interaction. We invite proposals that tackle research challenge ideas
in the scope of information science and are in line with the conference
theme (Information Science: Evolution or Revolution?) and topics. The
workshops can be half- or full-day and will take place on May 14, 2024.

***Important Dates***
Workshop proposal submission: December 1, 2023
Workshop proposal notification: December 12, 2023
Workshop paper submission: March 15, 2024
Workshop paper notification: April 12, 2024
Workshop paper camera-ready copy: April 19, 2024
Workshop paper author registration: April 19, 2024
Workshop: May 14, 2024

***Submission Instructions***

Workshop proposals must be submitted via:
EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2024), track “RCIS
2024 Workshop Proposals”, in PDF format and must not be longer than six
pages in length (LNCS Springer format). The structure of the proposals must
include:

• Title of the workshop;
• Contact information for all workshop organisers, including the main
contact person;
• Motivation and objectives, which must be clear and justify the relevance
of the workshop;
• Topics of the workshop;
• The format of the workshop, which must consider the usual four sessions
of an hour and a half for a full-day workshop or two sessions for a
half-day one, and include the schedule of paper presentations, discussion
sessions, and invited speaker (if it is the case);
• The necessary equipment and services;
• The target audience, e.g., if it is a mixture of researchers and
practitioners, if it is open to the public or only to the authors, and the
expected number of attendees;
• Information regarding a previous edition of the workshop in another
conference (if this is the case);
• Type and size of the papers that will be accepted;
• The evaluation process that will be applied;
• A tentative list of PC members with names and affiliation;
• Short bios of the organisers.
The workshop proposals will be evaluated by the Workshop Chairs according
to a set of criteria: relevance to RCIS, relevance of the workshop topic,
and experience of the organiser(s) in the workshop topic.
Accepted papers will be published in CEUR proceedings using the 1-column
CEUR-ART style (http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html).

***Services Provided by RCIS***

• EasyChair for the management of the workshop submissions (each organizer
will be made chair of its own workshop);
• Local organizational infrastructure and administrative support
(registration, badges, etc.). In particular, all accommodation issues
(e.g., rooms, meals) as well as the management of the registrations and the
financing/administrative issues will be handled by the RCIS 2024
Organization Board;
• Advertisement of the workshop on the RCIS 2024 homepage and mailings;
• One free workshop-only registration if more than 10 people are registered
for the workshop, and 2 free workshop-only registrations if more than 20.
Organizers willing to attend the whole event (main conference) will have to
register for the conference at their own expense.

Workshop participants and organisers must register for the workshop. The
RCIS organization may cancel workshops that do not have sufficient
submissions or registrations.

***Workshop Chairs***
Bruel Jean-Michel, University of Toulouse, France
Nelly Condori-Fernandez, CITIUS-University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain