The IEEE CiSt Congress is among the most prestigious INTERNATIONAL events held in Morocco and which encompasses focused CONFERENCES that gather the best scientists and world class experts to share leading edge and multidisciplinary research in various fields related to information science and technology. The congress is co-sponsored by the IEEE Morocco Section and the IEEE Morocco Computer & Communication Joint Chapter. The 2018 fifth edition will be held in Marrakesh, Morocco on October 2018. CiSt is indexed by IEEE, Scopus and DBLP. After holding four editions, the IEEE international Congress on Information Science and Technology is emerging as a leading event that aims to serve as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances achieved by IT researchers, IT decision makers, IT managers, application designers and software engineers in the domain of computer based information and communication sciences. Computing challenges, conceptual models, implementation techniques and tools, applications architectures, and IT solutions will be discussed from the perspectives of academia, businesses, industry and government. The 2018 edition will also include tutorials and keynote sessions from world class speakers. CiSt’2018 will also provide a platform for supporting innovative and original contributions. CiSt’2018 will include tutorials, presentations of contributed papers, posters, a research panel, an industrial track and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. The congress sponsors will provide, under special circumstances, grants for IEEE student members who will be applying to attend the technical congress talks and meetings. Congress Main Tracks and Topics: 1. DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS: ANALYSIS, SPECIFICATION AND INTEGRATION - Requirement Engineering and Information Modeling Concepts - Foundations and Concept Formalization for Database Schemas - Distributed Database Systems and Mobile Database Applications - Big Data, Data Warehouses, and Business Intelligence - Knowledge Management Systems, Data mining and Knowledge discovery 2. ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE - Enterprise Engineering, Models and Frameworks - Enterprise Resource Planning and Enterprise Application Integration - Enterprise Knowledge Engineering, Management and Security - Business Modeling and Business Process Management - Governance and Business-IT Alignment - EA and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Measurements, Metrics and Evaluation of EA Artifacts and Processes - Architectures and Design Principles for Enterprise Repositories 3. AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE & SOFTWARE AGENTS AND MOBILE COMPUTING - Mobile Computing - Web Services and cloud computing - Social Networking and Collaborative Computing - Profiling and Recommendation Systems - Semantic Web Technologies and Applications - Ontology Modeling and Deployment - Natural Language Interfaces and Systems - Multi-Agent Systems and Case-Based Reasoning Systems Submissions : Prospective authors should submit by using the online submission platform for IEEE CiSt'18 main congress https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=63186157.zlwKajc8X6fvjO9J a paper of 4 to 6 pages max (including references) in scholarly English, using the IEEE template. Registration fee covers a maximum number of 6 pages. There will be an additional cost for each extra page. Please read the IEEE criterias for the Author Responsibilities before submitting your paper: Author Contact Information http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#author_contact Author Affiliation http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#affiliation Publication Principles on Authorship http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#responsibilities Concurrent/Duplicate Submissions http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#concurrent Preliminary/Conference Version(s) http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#preliminary IEEE Copyright Form http://www.ieee.ma/cist14/files/IEEE_CIST_2014_Copyright_Form.doc Accepted papers will be published in the proceeding and submitted to IEEE Xplore Library, Scopus and DBLP. Furthermore, Authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for potential publication in a special issue/section of an international journal. Accepted papers must be registered; otherwise they will not be considered for indexation. The first author is limited to submit a maximum of 2 papers and at least one of the co-authors of every paper should register. Important Dates: ------------------------------------------ Paper Submission: March 16, 2018 ------------------------------------------ Acceptance Notification: May 19, 2018 ------------------------------------------ Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2018 ------------------------------------------ Author Registration: July 18, 2018 ------------------------------------------ Congress Dates: October 21-24, 2018 ------------------------------------------ Committee: Organizing committee Prof. Mohammed El Mohajir Congress General Chair FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco Prof. Mohammed Al Achhab Congress Chair ENSA, UAE, Tetuan, Morocco Prof. Badr Eddine El Mohajir Congress Industrial Chair FS, UAE, Tetuan, Morocco Prof. Mohammad Essaaidi Congress Advisory Chair ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco Prof. Amal Tmiri Organizing Committee Chair FS, Chouhaib Doukkali Univeristy, El Jadida, Morocco Prof. Ismail Jellouli Program Committee Chair FS, UAE, Tetuan, Morocco Prof. Nasser Assem Keynotes and Panels Chair School of Science & Engineering, Al Akhawayn university, Morocco Prof. Abdul Rahman Bin Ahmad Dahlan & Prof. Shuhaili Talib Asia Liaison Chairs International *ic University, Malaysia Dr. Marouane Sayih European Liaison Chair Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Germany Prof. Abdelkarim Erradi Middle East Liaison Chairs College of Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar Dr. Sandra Moffett UK Liaison Chair School of Computing & Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, UK Prof. Mohamed El Far & Prof. Mohamed Chahhou Conferences Chairs FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco Ing. Zoubida Alaoui Mdaghri & Ing. Zakaria El Maazouzi & Ing Amr Marrakchi Communication and Professional activities Chairs IEEE, MS, Morocco Program committee Ahlame Begdouri, FST, USMBA, Fez, Morocco Btissam Dkhissi, ENSA, UAE, Tétouan, Morocco Ahmad Fatzilah Misman, International *ic University Malaysia Jaber El Bouhdidi, ENSA, UAE, Tétouan, Morocco Karaoglanoglou Konstantinos, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Fatima Zahra Belouadha, EMI, Rabat, Morocco Mountassir Hassan, CNRS FEMTO-ST, France El Hami Norelislam, ENSA Kenitra, Morocco Siti Asma Mohammed, International *ic University Malaysia Karim Afdel, FS, University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA, University of Poitiers, France Rachid Benabbou, FST, USMBA, Fez, Morocco Mohammed El Far, FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco Brahim Ouhbi, ENSAM, Meknes, Morocco Murni Mahmud, International *ic University Malaysia Mohamed Reghioui, ENSA, Tétouan, UAE, Morocco Driss Bouzidi, ENSIAS, Mohammed V-Souissi University, Rabat, Morocco Jacques Calmet, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Mostafa Harti, FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco M. Carmen Carrion Peréz, University of Granada, Spain Loukos Fotis, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece J.-Y. Chung, IBM Watson Research, USA Thierry Comdamine, Université of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France Ahmed Aboutajeddine, FST, Fez, Morocco Jamaludin Ibrahim, Kulliyyah of Information & Communication Technology, IIUM, Malaysia Mohamed Dahchour, INPT, Rabat, Morocco H.-B. Duan, Beihang University, China Papazachos Zafeirios, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bouchra Frikh, EST, Fez, Morocco Abdul Rahman Bin Ahmad Dahlan, Kulliyyah of Information & Communication Technology, IIUM, Malaysia Youness Tabii, ENSA, UAE, Tetouan, Morocco Nour-Eddine El Faddouli, EMI, Rabat, Morocco Francesco Guerra, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Abdelkrim Haqiq, FST, Settat, Morocco Hamid Harroud, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco Dominique Leclet, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France Aicha Majda, FST, Fez, Morocco Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Stavrinides Georgios, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Nasser Assem, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco D. Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Younes Lakhrissi, ENSA, Fez, Morocco Yiannis Moschakis, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece J. A. Sobrino, University of València, Spain Arsalane Zarghili, FST, USMBA, Fez, Morocco Ahmed Zineddine, FSDM, USMBA, Fez, Morocco Yahaya Yusuf, Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire, UK. Mohamed Lazaar, ENSA, UAE, Tetouan, Morocco Mohamed Larbi Ben Maati, FS, UAE, Tetouan, Morocco Zikos Stylianos, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Anouar Abtoy, ENSA, UAE, Tétouan, Morocco Nawel Takouachet, ESTIA, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France Habib Kammoun, Faculty of Science, University of Sfax, Tunisia Shuhaili Talib, International *ic University Malaysia