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Call for Papers
IRCDL 2026
22nd Conference on Information and Research Science
Connecting to Digital and Library Science
Deadline Extended:
December 12, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE)
Modena, Italy
February 19-20, 2026
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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Since 2005, the Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science (IRCDL) has been an annual event for researchers on Digital Libraries and related topics. IRCDL has become a key forum on digital libraries and associated issues. It covers various aspects, including new forms of information institutions, digital content management, and theoretical models of information media. The conference welcomes participants from academia, government, industry, and other sectors. It draws from diverse research areas such as computer science, digital humanities, information science, librarianship, archival science, museum studies, technology, social sciences, cultural heritage, and humanities.
IRCDL 2026 features two distinct tracks, each with an associated special issue:
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Track 1: Computer Science Foundations for Digital Libraries: Algorithms, Systems, and Applications
This track examines core computer science concepts essential for digital libraries. It covers algorithms for information retrieval and data management, system architectures for large-scale digital collections, and practical applications in areas such as academic research and cultural heritage preservation.
Special Issue: published in International Journal on Digital Libraries
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Track 2: Digital Humanities: The Science and Foundation of Modern Humanities Libraries
This track explores the intersection of digital technologies and humanities research. It examines computational methods for analyzing and preserving cultural artifacts, text mining techniques for large-scale literary analysis, and digital platforms for collaborative scholarship.
Special Issue: published in Umanistica Digitale
TOPICS
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Submissions are welcome on theory, architectures, data models, tools, services, and infrastructures. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
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Open data
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Open science: models, practices, mandates, and policies
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Information retrieval and access
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Information extraction from tables and figures in scientific literature
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Machine learning and data mining for digital libraries
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Generative AI and foundation models for digital libraries
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Responsible and ethical AI in digital libraries
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Ontologies
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Knowledge discovery, representation, and reasoning in digital libraries
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Knowledge acquisition from scientific papers
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Document analysis (layout, text, images)
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Services for digital arts and humanities
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Cultural heritage access and analysis
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Metadata (definition, management, curation, integration)
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Digital manuscript analysis
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Data repositories and archives
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Data citation, provenance and pricing
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Data and information lifecycle (creation, store, share and reuse)
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Semantic web technologies and linked data for digital libraries
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Digital epigraphy
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Digital preservation and curation
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Quality and evaluation of digital libraries
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Digital scholarship
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Citation analysis and scientometrics
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Research infrastructures
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User participation
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Human-computer interaction and user experience
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Multimodal and multimedia information management
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Applications of digital libraries
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: November 28, 2025 December 12, 2025
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Notifications of acceptance: January 23, 2026
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Camera-ready deadline: February 6, 2026
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Conference: February 19-20, 2026
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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All submissions will be handled electronically via the conference CMT website:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IRCDL2026
Research papers, describing original ideas on the listed topics and on other fundamental aspects of digital libraries and technology, are solicited. Moreover, short papers on early research results, new results on previously published works, and extended abstract on previously published works are also welcome:
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Research papers: should be in the 10-12 pages range.
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Short papers: should be in the 6-7 pages range.
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Extended abstracts: should be 5 pages long.
For all the submission types, references are not counted in the page limit.
The accepted papers will be part of the IRCDL 2026 Proceedings, published by CEUR-WS.
ORGANIZERS
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General Chairs:
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Lorenzo Baraldi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
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Marcella Cornia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Program Chairs:
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Fabio Carrara (ISTI-CNR)
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Vittorio Cuculo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
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Marilena Daquino (University of Bologna)
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Stefano Marchesin (University of Padua)
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Marina Paolanti (University of Macerata)
Publication Chair:
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Sara Sarto (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Publicity Chairs:
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Emanuele Balloni (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
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Davide Caffagni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
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Beatrice Portelli (University of Udine)
Local Organization Chairs:
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Davide Bucciarelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia & University of Pisa)
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Evelyn Turri (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
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Leonardo Zini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Special Issue Chairs:
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Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padua)
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Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padua)
CfP – Elsevier COMCOM – Special Issue on Intelligence and Service Orchestration in Next-Generation Mobile Networks
December 4th, 2025 
Daniela Lopez de Luise CALL FOR PAPERS
Elsevier Computer Communications
Special Issue
“Intelligence and Service Orchestration in Next-Generation Mobile Networks”
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Mobile communication and computing infrastructures are undergoing a profound transformation, moving toward highly dynamic, service-centric ecosystems. Fundamental to this evolution is a novel paradigm for the infrastructure and service management for 5G-and-beyond networks.
Indeed, the architectural paradigm of 5G is shifting toward Open Radio Access Network (RAN), which introduces RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) for network overseeing and reconfiguring through Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications able to enhance the overall performance. The shift from monolithic components to virtualized functions through Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and the adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) allow the deployment of innovative solutions that demand flexible orchestration methods.
In this context, Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) and Network and Service Orchestration (NSO) play a crucial role by enabling real-time automation and optimization across highly dynamic and heterogeneous network environments, whilst integrating radio, transport, and core domains under a single control plane. These solutions are apt to tackle key challenges including service provisioning, resource allocation, power consumption, and quality of service. Central to this scenario is the role of AI, which enables closed-loop network automation and control, predictive management, automated fault detection, and intent-based service delivery. As such, network intelligence is essential for resilient, scalable, and adaptive orchestration techniques capable of meeting the stringent latency, reliability, and performance requirements of future mobile networks.
This Special Issue aims to collect innovations proposed by the research community in the field of Intelligence and Service Orchestration in next-gen mobile networks. These topics and challenges have recently been investigated by researchers, telco stakeholders, government agencies, and international organizations (e.g. NextGenerationEU, CAMARA).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Management and orchestration architectures and techniques for next-gen networks
- Automation, coordination, management and optimization of network resources and services
- Placement and resource allocation for VNFs
- Resource monitoring and service analytics
- Orchestration solutions for control plane, core, and RAN
- Orchestration in Transport and Multi-Domain Networks
- Enabling technologies for network orchestration
- AI-based network orchestration
- Closed-loop automation engines in NSO
- Zero-Touch and intent-driven Open RAN orchestration, optimization, control, and management
- QoS in network orchestration
- NSO for sustainability
- Resilience, scalability, and adaptability of next-gen networks
- Industry-supported efforts for network optimization
- Integrated Sensing and Communications
- Privacy in orchestration frameworks
- Energy-aware and Sustainable Network Management
- Testbeds, emulators and benchmarking for orchestration solutions
***Manuscript submission information***
The journal's submission platform (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to this Special Issue from October 26, 2025. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of “VSI: Intelligent Orchestration in Next-Generation Networks” when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computer-communications
The impact of SI contributions should be clearly demonstrated in the context of the theme of the special issue. Papers that do not directly address this theme are considered out of scope and are subject to immediate rejection.
***Timeline***
Submission Open Date 26/10/2025
Final Manuscript Submission Deadline 28/02/2026
Editorial Acceptance Deadline 15/09/2026
***Guest editors***
Prof. Abderrahim Benslimane
University of Avignon, France
Email: abderrahim.benslimane@univ-avignon.fr
Prof. Cristiano Bonato Both
University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Prof. Giang T. Nguyen
Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Email: giang.nguyen@tu-dresden.de
Prof. Giovanni Stanco
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Email: giovanni.stanco@unina.it
Prof. Stefania Zinno
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Email: stefania.zinno@unina.it
AAMAS 2026: Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award
December 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise |
*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award ***
The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2026)
May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award
The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS)
in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html .
This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference.
Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop).
The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are:
1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS;
2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals;
3. Broadly inspired the community;
4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field.
To nominate a publication for this award, please send by December 10, 2025 the full
reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini@umn.edu).
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CFP OLA’2026 Int. Conf. Optimization & Learning @Creta (Greece)
December 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise International Conference on Optimization and Learning
28-30 April 2026
Chania, Crete, Greece
http://ola2026.sciencesconf.org/
SCOPUS Springer Proceedings
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OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization
and/or machine learning methods and their applications. The conference
OLA'2026 will provide an opportunity to the international research
community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research
results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and
relaxed atmosphere.
OLA'2026 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization
and/or machine learning research such as big optimization and learning,
optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and
learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications,
parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision,
hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling,
high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and
learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization …
Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions:
– S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers
of a maximum of 3 pages
– S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 12 pages
– S3: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last
year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication
Important dates:
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Paper submission deadline extension Dec 19, 2025
Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published
in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be
published for accepted long papers. Proceedings will be available at the
conference.
AIces 2026: early registration December 13
December 4th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise