18^th International Conference on Web services & Semantic Technology (WeST 2026)

November 27 ~ 28, 2026, Zurich, Switzerland

Scope & Topics

18^th International Conference on Web services & Semantic Technology (WeST 2026) will act as a major forum for the presentation of innovative ideas, approaches, developments, and research projects in the areas of eb services & Semantic Technology.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the Conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

• Collaboration and Social Networks
  
• Collaborative Systems Techniques
  
• Communication, Multimedia Applications Using Web Services
  
• Data Integration and Mash ups
  
• Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
  
• Developing Semantic Applications
  
• Federated Identity Management Systems
  
• Information Discovery and Retrieval in Semantic Web
  
• Internet and Web-based Applications and Services
  
• Interoperability and Standards
  
• Knowledge Engineering and Management
  
• Linked Data, Taxonomies
  
• Ontologies (Creation, Merging, Linking and Reconciliation)
  
• Semantic Advertising and Marketing
  
• Semantic Brokering, Semantic Interoperability, Semantic Web Mining
  
• Semantic Case Studies
  
• Semantic Integration, Rules
  
• Semantic SOA (Service Oriented Architectures)
  
• Semantic Web and Web 2.0/AJAX, Web 3.0
  
• Semantic Web For E-Business, Governance and E-Learning
  
• Semantic Web Inference Schemes
  
• Semantic Web Services (Service Description, Discovery, Invocation, Composition)
  
• Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
  
• Semantics for Enterprise Information Management (EIM)
  
• Social and Legal Aspect of Internet Computing
  
• Unstructured Information
  
• Virtualization
  
• VLSI Design
  
• Web Languages & Web Service Applications
  
• Web Services Foundation, Architectures and Frameworks
  
• Web Services-Driven Business Process Management
  
• Semantic Query & Search
  

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by September 12, 2026 . Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from WeST 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• International Journal on Web Service Computing (IJWSC)
  
• International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Systems (IJDPS)
  
• International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology (IJWesT)
  
• Information Technology in Industry (ITII)
  
  

Important Dates

Co - Located Event

• 17^th International Conference on VLSI (VLSI 2026)
  
• 16^th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Networks and Trust Management (P2PTM 2026)
  
• 16^th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing and Applications (AIAA 2026)
  
• 16^th International Conference on Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (DPPR 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Data Science and Applications (DSA 2026)
  
• 13^th International Conference on Computer Networks & Data Communications (CNDC 2026)
  
• 12^th International Conference on Software Security (ICSS 2026)
  
• 16^th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ACITY 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Internet of Things & Embedded Systems (IoTE 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on NLP Techniques and Applications (NLPTA 2026)
  

***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to west@nlpta2026.org