MIDas4CS 2026 – 4th Workshop on the Modelling and Implementation of Digital Twins for Complex Systems

March 3rd, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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CALL FOR PAPERS 

MIDas4CS 2026 – 4th Workshop on the Modelling and Implementation of Digital Twins for Complex Systems

June 8-9, 2026
Verona, Italy

https://midas4cs.github.io/2026 

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The concept of Digital Twin is becoming increasingly popular since it was introduced in the scope of the Smart Industry (Industry 4.0). A Digital Twin (DT) is a digital representation of a physical twin that is a real-world entity, system, or event. It mirrors a distinctive object, process, building, or human, regardless of whether that thing is tangible or non-tangible in the real world. The DT technology provides benefits such as real-time remote monitoring and control; greater efficiency and safety; predictive maintenance and scheduling; scenario and risk assessment; better intra- and inter-team synergy and collaborations; more efficient and informed decision support system; personalisation of products and services; and better documentation and communication. The ultimate purpose of Digital Twins is to improve decision-making for solving real-world problems, by using the digital model to create the information necessary for decision-making and subsequently applying the decisions in the real world. Nowadays, Digital Twins are not limited to industrial applications but are spreading to other areas as well, such as, for example, in the healthcare domain, in personalised medicine and clinical trials for drug development.

This workshop aims at getting a better understanding of the techniques that can be used to model and implement Digital Twins and their applications in different domains. In this workshop, we welcome contributions that aim at introducing formal definitions of Digital Twin, but also contributions that describe applications of Digital Twins in different domains. Contributions on tooling for Digital Twins are also welcome.

The workshop is co-located with the 38th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’26).

 Topics of Interest
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Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
– Management and Engineering of DT for Complex Systems
– Complex System Architectures for DTs
– Safety and Security in Adopting DTs
– Platforms, Frameworks and Tools for DTs
– Methods and Techniques for the Development of DTs
– Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing for DTs
– Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies of DTs
– Model-driven Engineering for DTs
– Quality Assurance of DTs
– Digital Process Twins
– Collaboration among DTs
– Interaction and cooperation between DTs and Humans
– Artificial Intelligence for DTs
– DT Enhanced Business Processes
– Cognitive Computing for DTs
– Augmented and Virtual Reality for DT
– Practical Validation and Case Studies
– Design patterns for Digital Twins

Important Dates
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– Full paper submissions: March 8th, 2026
– Notification of acceptance: March 30th, 2026
– Camera-ready paper: April 6th, 2026
– Workshop: June 8th-9th, 2026


 Submissions
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The workshop will accept regular papers and short (position) papers. Pieces of ongoing research work are also welcome.

The quality of this workshop will be ensured by having each contribution reviewed by at least three experts in the field. A joint volume for all CAiSE workshops will be organised, which will be published with Springer under the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

Submissions should be made via the CAiSE 2026 EaasyChair submission site by selecting the track  “4th edition of Modelling and Implementation of Digital Twins for Complex Systems”

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2026 

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. All submissions must comply with the Springer‚ LNBIP format. Regular papers must not exceed 12 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages.


Program Chairs
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Pedro Valderas (pvalderas@dsic.upv.es)
Fabrizio Fornari (fabrizio.fornari@unicam.it)
Luís Ferreira Pires (l.ferreirapires@utwente.nl)
Marten van Sinderen (m.j.vansinderen@utwente.nl)
João Moreira (j.luizrebelomoreira@utwente.nl)

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2st CALL FOR PAPERS on the 29th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (deadlines approaching)

March 3rd, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
2st CALL FOR PAPERS

29th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2026)

La Plata, Argentina, August 11 – 13, 2026

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

https://organizacaower.github.io/WER2026/ 


***  IMPORTANT DATES  ***

Regular Research Track (WER-RT) 

Abstract submission: March 9th, 2026

Paper submission (upload): March 16th,  2026 

Notification: May 11th, 2026

Camera-ready: May 30th, 2026

Master's and Doctoral Track (WER-MDT)

Abstract submission: March 31st, 2026

Paper submission (upload): April  6th,  2026

Notification: May 11th, 2026

Camera-ready: May 30th, 2026

Tutorial Track (WER-TT)

Software Requirement Tools Track (WER-SRTT)

Industry Track (WER-IT)

Journal First Track (WER-JFT)

Abstract submission: April 6th, 2026

Paper submission (upload): April 13th, 2026

Notification: May 11th, 2026

Camera-ready: May 30th, 2026

Student Poster Track (WER-SPT) 

Abstract submission: May 18th, 2026

Paper submission (upload): May 25th, 2026

Notification: Jun 22nd, 2026

Camera-ready: July 20th, 2026


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The Workshop on Requirements Engineering 2026 is now in its twenty-ninth edition. This series of workshops on the area started in 1998 as a meeting of the Ibero-American requirements engineering community. Thereafter, it has attracted researchers and practitioners from different countries. The WER format promotes discussion and knowledge exchange between academic and industry members. As in the last editions, it will also include main researchers and practitioners as invited keynote speakers as well as industry presentations.


TOPICS OF INTEREST*

  • Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, management, traceability, prioritization, validation, verification, and negotiation;

  • Requirements engineering education and training;

  • Requirements engineering for specific software development paradigms, e.g., agent-driven, aspect-driven, model-driven, service-driven, software ecosystems, or systems-of-systems;

  • Requirements engineering for specific fields, e.g., safety-critical, web-based, or mobile applications systems;

  • Requirements engineering in agile methodologies;

  • Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools;

  • Model-driven software engineering;

  • Regulatory compliance.

* The topics of interest are not exhaustively listed


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES


Submissions must be written in Portuguese, Spanish, or English, but the abstract must be in English in all cases. All papers must be submitted through the Easychair submission system in PDF, according to the LNCS format.

All accepted papers will be published with Open Access at WERpapers repository:

https://werpapers.dimap.ufrn.br/

Please submit your work in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wer2026 

For further questions, please contact:

organizacao.wer@gmail.com

WER 2026 invites submissions in the field of Requirements Engineering as part of the following tracks:

  *   REGULAR RESEARCH TRACK (WER-RRT)

  *   JOURNAL FIRST TRACK  (WER-JFT) 

  *   MASTER’S AND DOCTORAL TRACK (WER-MDT)

  *   TUTORIAL TRACK (WER-TT)

  *   SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT TOOLS TRACK (WER-SRTT)

  *   INDUSTRY TRACK (WER-IT)

  *   STUDENT POSTER TRACK (WER-SPT)


We encourage authors to consider the papers presented and published at previous editions (https://werpapers.dimap.ufrn.br/) of the workshop when preparing their submissions. This can assist in building and sharing a novel work on top of existing research as well as contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the topic at hand. Additionally, it allows authors to engage with the work of their peers and collaborate with other experts in the field. 


GENERAL CHAIR

Leandro Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, AR


LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR

Juan Enrique Coronel, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, AR


REGULAR RESEARCH TRACK CHAIRS

Marcela Ridao, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, AR

Henrique Sousa, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, BR

Pablo Thomas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, AR


JOURNAL FIRST TRACK CHAIRS

Isabel Sofia Sousa Brito, Instituto Politécnico de Beja, PT

Vera Werneck, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, BR


MASTER'S AND DOCTORAL TRACK CHAIRS

Márcia Lucena, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Norte, BR

Renato Bulcão, Universidade Federal de Goiás, BR


TUTORIAL TRACK CHAIRS

Maria Lencastre, Universidade de Pernambuco, BR

Carla Silva, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR


SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS TOOLS TRACK CHAIRS

Rafael Parizi, Instituto Federal Farroupilha, BR

Victor Santander, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, BR


INDUSTRY TRACK CHAIRS

Fábio Levy Siqueira, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (Poli-USP),  BR

Graciela Hadad, Universidad Nacional del Oeste, AR

Alejandro Oliveros, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, AR

Fernando Pinciroli, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, AR


STUDENT POSTER TRACK CHAIRS

Edgar Sarmiento, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, PE

Marisa Daniela Panizzi, Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham, AR


PROCEEDINGS CHAIRS

Lyrene Fernandes da Silva, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Norte, BR

Roxana Portugal, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, PE


PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Rafael Parizi, Instituto Federal Farroupilha, BR

Marisa Daniela Panizzi, Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham, AR

Rodrigo Santos, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, BR

Anna Beatriz Marques, Universidade Federal do Ceará, BR


STEERING COMMITTEE

Graciela Hadad, Universidad Nacional del Oeste, AR

Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR

Julio Leite, Universidade Federal da Bahia, BR

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MLCC Summer School 2026 in Genoa, Italy | Last call

March 3rd, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise

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Summer School @MaLGa – Machine Learning Crash Course 2026

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Last call for the Summer School Machine Learning Crash Course (MLCC) 2026 https://malga.unige.it/education/schools/mlcc2026/.

The course is organized by MaLGa – the Machine Learning Genoa Center, as part of the ELLIS Genoa unit activities, and is taught by Nicoletta Noceti, Cesare Molinari and Lorenzo Rosasco. MLCC provides an introduction to fundamental concepts and algorithms of Machine Learning. The course presents the statistical learning theory framework with empirical risk minimization and regularization as guiding principles for algorithm design. Linear and nonlinear models will be discussed, including kernel methods and neural networks. The course also covers optimization aspects, discussing and analyzing gradient descent methods and backpropagation. 

Further advanced topics will be covered in a half-day workshop, with invited speakers.

This year we will host Sara Magliacane (UvA and Saarland University), Francesca Crucinio (University of Turin) and Andrea Tacchetti (Google DeepMind)!

The course is suitable for undergraduate/graduate students, as well as professionals.

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CBMI 2026 – Extended deadline – Special Session proposals – March 10th, 2026

March 3rd, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
— Extended deadline : Special sessions proposals at CBMI 2026 conference —
The 23rd edition of CBMI (https://cbmi2026.sciencesconf.org), the conference endorse by IEEE and ACM SIGMM  will be organized by the IRIT laboratory at University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France. CBMI conference aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to the following: audio and visual and multimedia analysis and indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for multimedia indexing, visual content extraction, audio (speech, music, etc.) content extraction, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis, …
CBMI 2026 aims to host special sessions during the conference. Special sessions are mini-venues, each focusing on topic within the content-based multimedia indexing field which is not directly covered by the list of topics for the conference, but which are beneficial to the community. It may cover a theoretical or and application-oriented questions.  
Special session should include four to five papers, which can be invited, or be regular submissions. Special session papers will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of CBMI 2026. In order to ensure the high quality of all conference papers, all papers submitted to special sessions at CBMI 2026 will be peer-reviewed through a standard review process, including invited papers. The organizers of each special session must provide 1-2 reviews per submitted/invited paper, while the regular program committee will provide 1-2 reviews. Final decision on acceptance/rejection will be made in collaboration between the special session chairs (Julien Aligon, University of Toulouse Capitole, France – Jenny Benois Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France – Stefanos Vrochilis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece) and CBMI 2026 TPC chairs (Annamaria Mesaros, Tampere University, Finland – Alain Crouzil, University of Toulouse, France – Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland).
— Deadline — 
Deadline for special session  proposals: 24 February 2026 (AoE).  March 10th, 2026 (AoE)
Notification : 3 March 2026 (AoE) March 17th, 2026 (AoE)
— Submission process —
Proposals must  comprise the list of potential papers and be made using the following template: https://cloud.irit.fr/s/BzYJbHpx5RQ99I5   
and sent to the following contact address: cbmi2026specialsession@irit.fr
— Special session chairs — 

– Julien Aligon, University of Toulouse Capitole, France
– Jenny Benois Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France
– Stefanos Vrochilis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
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LLM-SOA Workshop at CAiSE 2026: Final Call for Papers

March 3rd, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise

Second Workshop on Large Language Models for Service-Oriented Architectures and Systems Design, co-located with CAiSE 2026 (June 8-12, 2026, Verona, Italy)

 

Workshop Website: https://dbwis.gitlab.io/llm-soa/

 

 

Final Call for Papers

 

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a transformative technology, opening new opportunities across various fields, including Information Systems design. While LLMs excel in Natural Language Processing tasks, such as text translation and summarization, their potential in software architecture design and, in particular, in service-oriented solutions, is still underexplored.

 

This workshop aims to provide a forum for innovative proposals striving to integrate LLMs in the landscape of Service-Oriented Architectures and Systems. Of particular interest are the benefits delivered by the adoption of LLMs in improving the design of service-oriented architectural solutions (and their impact on efficiency, accuracy, and scalability) as well as their use in tasks such as service discovery and composition.

 

Topics of Interest (not limited to):

  • Usage of LLMs to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of software architectures, with a particular concern on service-oriented solutions
  • Approaches for service discovery and composition with LLMs
  • Use of LLMs for the improvement of Service-Oriented Architectures and Systems design
  • Interoperability and integration of services in Service-Oriented Architectures and Systems with LLMs
  • Practical implementations and evaluation of LLMs for service interoperability
  • Novel approaches for real-world applications of LLMs in Service-Oriented Architectures and Systems

 

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: March 8, 2026
  • Notification: March 31, 2026
  • Camera-ready: April 7, 2026
  • Workshop: June 8-9, 2026

 

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should present original results not currently under review or published elsewhere. Ongoing research work is also welcome. The workshop accepts:

  • Regular papers (up to 12 pages)
  • Short/position papers (6-8 pages)

 

Page limit includes all text, figures, references, and appendices. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be listed at the end of the abstract. As the review process is not blind, please indicate your name and affiliation when you submit. Submissions must be in PDF and follow Springer LNCS/LNBIP formatting guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

 

Please submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2026

(select the track “Workshops – LLM-SOA”)

 

Workshop Organizers

  • Massimiliano Garda (University of Brescia, Italy)
  • Ada Bagozi (University of Brescia, Italy)
  • Ilche Georgievski (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

 

Advisory Board

  • Massimo Mecella (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)
  • Monique Snoeck (KU Leuven, Belgium)
  • Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • Devis Bianchini (University of Brescia, Italy)

 

For any inquiries, contact: llm-soa2026@easychair.org

 

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