20th Research Challenges in Information Science

The 20th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science welcomes proposals for Forum papers. As in previous years, Forum papers should aim to showcase new research ideas and prototypes in information science. This track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their work, interact with conference participants, and obtain feedback on on-going research.

We invite two types of submissions:

• Research idea papers are intended to present new ideas, challenges, and work in progress where at least some preliminary results are available.
• Tool demonstration papers are intended to describe tools or prototypes that are relevant for facing challenges related to information science and topics of interest (see below).

Forum papers must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 12 pages in Springer LNBIP format including references and appendices. The forum papers will be included in post-proceedings (separate from the main RCIS 2026 conference) which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series, together with the Doctoral Consortium track. Papers that exceed the limit of 12 pages will be rejected without review. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS. Authors are invited to submit their paper in English using the conference submission site EasyChair, where they should choose “RCIS 2026 Forum”

The two Forum paper types are intended to be presented during the conference as follows:

Idea Papers Authors of accepted research idea papers will receive an opportunity to present their paper as a poster. Authors should prepare a well-crafted poster that is self-contained. The authors are expected to be available to describe and discuss the poster with the attendees during the Forum. The poster dimensions will be of A0 type, that is 84 cm by 119 cm (33” by 47”), with poster content mounted on the rectangular poster board we will provide. The layout may consist of several individual sheets of paper or a monolithic large sheet.

Tool Demonstration Papers Authors of accepted tool demonstration papers will have a chance to present a demo of their tool. Authors are expected to be available to demonstrate their tool/prototype during the Forum. Authors should bring to the session all hardware they need to present the demo. Any special request should be communicated sufficiently in advance and agreed upon with the conference's local organizing committee. By submitting a paper to the Forum, authors implicitly agree that at least one of them will register for the conference and present their paper (i.e., at least one registration for each accepted paper is required).

Anna Bernasconi
Politecnico di Milano
Italy

Mario Cortes Cornax
Université Grenoble Alpes
France