Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

Conference Date: 18 - 20 September, 2018

Jorge Bernardino, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra - ISEC, Portugal
Ana Carolina Salgado, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Tri A. Kurniawan, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
Marie-Helene Abel, HEUDIASYC CNRS UMR, University of Compiègne, France
Miriam C. Bergue Alves, Institute of Aeronautics and Space, Brazil
Rangachari Anand, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States
Mukhammad Andri Setiawan, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia
Katarzyna Anna Kuzmicz, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
Michel Avital, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Joachim Baumeister, denkbares GmbH, Germany
Kelly Braghetto, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Frada Burstein, Monash University, Australia
Uwe Cantner, University of Jena, Germany
Elsa Cardoso, ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Barbara CATANIA, DIBRIS-University of Genoa, Italy
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Ritesh Chugh, Central Queensland University, Australia
Silvia Dallavalle de Pádua, Universidade de São Paulo - Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Brazil
Wanchun Dou, Nangjing University, China
Júlio Duarte, University of Minho, Portugal
Alan Eardley, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Nour El Mawas, National College of Ireland (NCI), Ireland
Madjid Fathi, University of Siegen, Germany
Michael Fellmann, Universität Rostock, Germany
Joan-Francesc Fondevila-Gascón, CECABLE (Centre d'Estudis sobre el Cable), UPF, URL, UdG (EU Mediterrani) and UOC, Spain
Anna Goy, University of Torino, Italy
Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo - UFES, Brazil
Anne Håkansson, KTH, Sweden
S. Hammadi, Lagis (ec-lille), France
Felix Hamza-Lup, Armstrong Atlantic State University, United States
Jennifer Harding, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Mounira Harzallah, LINA, France
Anca Daniela Ionita, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Abdeslam Jafjaf, Sorbonne University - PARIS 1, France
Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras & CTI, Greece
Radoslaw Katarzyniak, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Mieczyslaw Klopotek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Michael Koenig, Long Island University, United States
Veit Koeppen, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
Helmut Krcmar, Technische Universität München, Germany
Inaya Lahoud, Galatasaray University, Turkey
Dominique Laurent, ETIS Laboratory CNRS UMR 8051 - Cergy-Pontoise University - ENSEA, France
Michael Leyer, University of Rostock, Germany
Antonio Lieto, University of Turin and ICAR-CNR, Italy
Xiaobing Liu, Dalian University of Technology, China
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Heide Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Xiaoyue Ma, Univesrity of Xidian, China
Carlos Alberto Malcher Bastos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Federica Mandreoli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Italy, Italy
Nada Matta, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Rodney McAdam, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Brahami menaouer, National Polytechnic School of Oran (ENPOran), Algeria
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
Christine Michel, INSA-Lyon, Laboratoire LIRIS, France
Michele M. Missikoff, Institute of Sciences and Technologies of Cognition, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Owen Molloy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Wilma Penzo, University of Bologna, Italy
José de Jesus Pérez-Alcázar, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
Erwin Pesch, University Siegen, Germany
Filipe Portela, Centro ALGORITMI, University of Minho, Portugal
Mette Praest Knudsen, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark
Arkalgud Ramaprasad, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Canada
Marina Ribaudo, Università di Genova, Italy
Colette Rolland, Université De Paris1 Panthèon Sorbonne, France
Ana Roxin, University of Burgundy, France
Masaki Samejima, Osaka University, Japan
Christian Seel, University of Applied Sciences Landshut, Germany
Tijs Slaats, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jo Smedley, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Malgorzata Sterna, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Norris Syed Abdullah, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Jeff K.T. Tang, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong
Tan Tse Guan, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia
Shu-Mei Tseng, I-SHOU University, Taiwan
Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
J.M. Versendaal, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht; Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Martin Wessner, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Uffe K. Wiil, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, Dearborn, United States