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.

Submission Guidelines

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 14 printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with the length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three peer reviewers. 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. You can find the CCIS templates on this link https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines All paper submissions for MEDES-2025 will be via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2025

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 TRACK

• Big data management
• Smart Computing data management
• Data integration, heterogeneous and federated databases
• Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction
• Data-centric AI
• Data provenance, publishing, and citation
• Data visualization
• Data warehousing
• Keyword-based and natural language access to structured data
• Integration of large language models with databases and supporting services
• Ontology-based data management
• Data privacy, security, and trust management
• Social networks and graph databases
• Transaction and workflow management
• Interoperability and web services
• Responsible data management

SOFTWARE TRACK

• Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
• Digital Ecosystems self-properties management
• Software engineering for Digital Ecosystems
• Digital Ecosystems for software engineering
• Computational and collective intelligence for Digital Ecosystems
• Intelligent and self-adaptive Digital Ecosystems
• Semantic computing techniques for Digital Ecosystems
• IoT and intelligent web Digital Ecosystems
• Digital twins Ecosystems
• Digital Ecosystems across the computing continuum
• Service design, specification, discovery, customization, composition, and deployment in Digital Ecosystems
• Trust, Security & Privacy in Digital Ecosystems
• Social and collaborative Digital Ecosystems
• Human-Digital Ecosystems interaction and relationships
• Maintenance and evolution of Digital Ecosystems.
• Green and sustainable Digital Ecosystems
• Digital Ecosystems with emerging technologies (quantum, membrane, neuromorphic)
• Digital Ecosystems in practice
• Industrial Digital Ecosystems (logistics, energy, healthcare, environment, smart cities, robotics)

Special Issues

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

• WWW Journal (Impact factor: 3.0 - Rank: Q1) 
• Computing Journal (Impact factor: 2.4 - Rank: Q1)
• SN Computer Science (Impact factor: 3.78 - Rank: Q2)

Important Dates

• Workshop proposals due: 16 April, 2025 
• Notification of acceptance: 20 April, 2025

• Regular paper submission deadline : 15 July, 2025 
• Notification to authors: 15 August, 2025 
• Camera-ready and copyright submission deadline: 16 September, 2025 
• Authors registration deadline: 16 September, 2025

Committees

General Chairs

• Richard Chbeir, Université de Pau et des Pays del’Adour, France
• Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

Program and Workshop Chairs

• Elio Masciari, University Federico II of Naples, Italy 
• Juan Manual Murillo Rodriguez, University Extremadura, Spain 
• Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Tutorial Chairs

• Nikolaos Polatidis, University of Brighton, UK 
• Claudio Silvestri, University Federico II of Naples, Italy

Invited Speakers

• Antonio Ruiz Cortés, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
• Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH-ITI, Greece 

Publication

MEDES-2025 proceedings will be published by the Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer CCIS) journal (https://www.springer.com/series/7899).

Venue

The conference will be hosted by FPT University and held in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Contact

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

Sponsors