IMPORTANT NEWS
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INTRODUCTION
Century 21 brings new challenges for information systems, and it provides a new technology era. New Information Technology (IT) artefacts are embedded in more than one place. They provide innovative services in ways unthinkable in the last century. The constant need for faster and more accurate transactions and, in some cases, it is imperative having information anywhere and anytime driven the information system towards the use of innovative technologies and practice.
This shift in the viewpoint of Information Systems (IS) is commonly referred to as pervasive computing.
Pervasive computing deals with non-traditional computing devices that merge seamlessly into the physical environment.
Pervasive Information Systems (PIS) brought new challenges and constitute an emerging class of Information Systems. IT is gradually diffused in the physical environment, capable of accommodating the user needs and desires. This trend led to the development of new information appliances. Nowadays the IT (irrespective whether it comprises of computers, small sensors, or other communication means) is focused in monitoring the activities of humans, processing and communicating this information to other sources and in omnipresent intervention inside the society. This new class of IS enables new interaction, and the introduction of new elements in multiple dimensions covering different IS domains and features, such as human-computer interaction, sensoring, ubiquity and software.
In fact, PIS redefine the way we interact with computers by introducing a new system's capabilities and input features. PIS support a multitude of heterogeneous device types that differ in terms of size, shape (more diverse, ergonomic, and stylistic) and functionality (mobile phones, laptops, PDAs, sensors, and so on), providing continuous interaction which moves computing from a localized tool to a constant presence. Furthermore, the participating elements of a pervasive system are highly embedded in the physical environment. This implies that they will inevitably interact with the existing architecture of the environment.
A pervasive environment is rich in information which can be used by its occupants to enhance the quality of their work and life. By adopting PIS, the information can be created, managed, distributed and consumed more effectively, leading to more advanced interactions among users and the environment anywhere and anytime. These new artefacts are embedded in the physical space, working together to sense and communicate user-related and environmental information and in an unobtrusively way, support the decision process, user tasks and activities.

PIS extend this paradigm by introducing a set of novel characteristics into society. This workshop aims to discuss topics related to PIS, evaluate the importance for the society and the creation of new knowledge overcoming temporal and local barriers. Scientifically, this workshop should be focused in demonstrating how it is possible to take advantages from this new sort of information systems and which kind of solutions can be developed to support the decision-making process anywhere and anytime.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

• Chatbots;
• Decision Support Systems;
• Interoperability and Pervasiveness;
• IOT – Internet of Things
• Life-styling pervasive solutions;
• Mobile and ubiquitous solutions;
• Pervasive Business Intelligence;
• Pervasive environments and software architectures;
• Pervasive Information Systems Applied to society solutions (e.g. Healthcare, Finances, Education, Government);
• Pervasive Intelligent Decision Support Systems;
• Pervasive Intelligent Systems;
• Pervasive Systems Based on Cloud Computing;
• Pervasiveness and Security in Information Systems;
• Progressive Web Apps
• Sensor-based systems;
• Ubiquitous Data Mining;
• Ubiquitous devices in the storage, update, and transmission of data.
• Usability and acceptability of pervasive system;
• Web 3.0 and Web 4.0

 
PAPER SUBMISSION
Submissions must be of one of two types:
• Full paper: Finished and consolidated R&D works. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit;
• Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit.
All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least two/three members of the Program Committee.
All papers should be submitted using the EasyChair system, available in the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worldcistworkshops2021

PUBLICATION and INDEXING
To ensure that a full paper or short paper is published, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 2nd of January 2021, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version.

No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra fee must be paid for the publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference.

Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI Web of Knowledge, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others. They will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library.

The authors of the best-selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in top international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others -
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/pervasive_intelligent_systems


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal
* Manuel Filipe Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
* Kostas Kolomvatsos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece


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