Please consider contributing to the Special Track on Case Studies and Methodologies: stCSM 2018 (http://www.iiis-info2018.org/stcsm-s), to be held on July 8 – 11, 2018, in Orlando, Florida, USA, which final papers (after presenting at the event) will be reviewed for their publication in a special issue of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, with no additional cost to the authors.

The deadlines, for this specific call for paper, are the following:

• March 1^st, 2018: Submissions of abstracts (200-400 words). Please, make your submission attached to an email sent to stCSM (at) iiis.org.
• March 7^th, 2018: Notifications of abstract acceptance.
• March 28^th, 2018: Submission of full draft paper (2000-5000 words) via the conference web site.
• May 9^th, 2018: Notifications of full draft paper acceptance.
• June 5^th, 2018: Submission of camera-ready of final versions of the accepted papers.
• December 31^st, 2018, or before: Publication of the Journal's Special Issue. Adaptations and potential extensions would be made after the conference and, consequently, additional editing processes will be made through the Editorial Board of the Special Issue.

Publications:

• stCSM 2018 will be held in the context of the 12^th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2018, to be held on July 8 – 11, 2018, in Orlando, Florida, USA, so the final versions of all the accepted and presented papers (face-to-face or virtual) will be published in the IMSCI 2018 proceedings, which have been indexed by Elsevier's SCOPUS since 2007. The 2018 proceedings will also be sent to Elsevier's SCOPUS.
• A special issue of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI) will be published on Case Studies and Methodologies, if an adequate number of articles are submitted, accepted and, consequently, presented at the conference. Otherwise, the best 25%-30% of the papers will be published in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI). Sessions' best papers (selected by the respective session's audience) are among these best papers and others will be selected from the averages of the quantitative evaluations of the full paper reviewers. The Journal is indexed by several organizations, including DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Cabell, EBSCO, etc. We provide DOAJ with the metadata required for its further indexation. DOAJ affirms that "Many aggregators, databases, libraries, publishers and search portals collect our free metadata and include it in their products. Examples are Scopus, Serial Solutions and EBSCO."

Due 1) to the fact that Case Studies are based on a trans-disciplinary methodology, and 2) to the multi- e interdisciplinary research and communication purpose of the conference, then a case study might be submitted on any of the topics the areas/topics listed below and to any other topic of the collocated events, which are listed in the general call for papers which URL is given below:

• Case Methods and Methodologies
• Case Studies Research
• Case Studies in Education
• Case Studies in STEM Education
• Consulting Case Studies
• Business Case Studies
• Case Studies in Management
• Information Systems Case Studies
• Software Engineering Case Studies
• Engineering Case Studies
• Medical and Health Care Case Studies
• Case Studies in Science
• Ethical Case Studies
• Case Studies or reports related to any of the topics of the collocated events listed in the general call for papers at http://www.iiis-info2018.org/cfp-summer2018.asp

Details about the following issues have also been included at the URLs given above:

• Pre- and post-conference virtual sessions.
• Virtual participation.
• Two-tier reviewing combining double-blind and non-blind methods.
• Access to reviewers’ comments and evaluation average.
• Waiving the registration fee of effective invited session organizers.
• Best papers awards.

Please consider forwarding to the appropriate groups who might be interested in submitting contribution to the above mentioned collocated events. New information and deadlines are posted on the conference and the IIIS web site (especially at the URL provided above).

Best regards,

stCSM 2018 Co-Organizers