i-ESA'26 accepts submissions of papers and workshops directly connected with the i-ESA'26 topics, but also papers demonstrating industrial case studies in the context of digital and green transition:

• Digital Sovereignty and Data Governance
• Resilient and Sustainable Enterprise Architectures
• Interoperability in Decentralised and Distributed Systems
• AI-Driven Interoperability and Automation
• Human-Centric Interoperability
• Standardisation and Compliance in Interoperability
• Interoperability in Emerging Technologies
• AI and Learning Systems for Sovereign and Adaptive Interoperability
• Interoperability for Sustainable Manufacturing and Green Ecosystems
• Cybersecurity and Trust in Interoperable Ecosystems
• Interoperability for Defense, Security, and Strategic Autonomy
• AI-Powered Green Energy Systems

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Theoretical research papers that provide new concepts in the domain of enterprise interoperability;
• Empirical studies and qualitative case studies that develop new insights;
• System design and development papers that go beyond the pure description of systems and give insight into theory and effectiveness of the approach;
• Verification and validation papers that evaluate the application of solutions.

The i-ESA'26 conference will publish one paper per presenting author only. All accepted papers will be published in the digital conference proceedings provided at the conference, but only if the final papers and a full registration fee of at least one presenting author are received before the deadline and they conform to the layout guidelines. The conference proceedings will subsequently be made available via Springer, but only papers that were presented by an author at the conference will be included.

The Organizing Committee is willing to provide feedback on abstracts from the 22nd of September 2024 on, if you feel uncertain whether the paper fits the conference. All paper/poster presenters and workshop organisers have to register for the full conference.

For any questions please contact the secretariat at email i-esa2026@i-esa.org

Important dates

• Full paper submission deadline: 28 November 2025
• Author notification due: 30 January 2026
• Camera-ready copies due: 14 March 2026
• Conference: 14-16 April 2026

Reviewing Process

Papers will only be accepted for review on the condition that the material is original, that it has not been copyrighted, published, presented or is currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

Please see our i-ESA'26 Author's Kit for detailed instructions about all relevant dates, correct submission of needed documents, and Conference Proceedings.

Review criteria will be:

• The quality of the contribution to the existing body of enterprise interoperability.
• The relevance of the article in regard to the conference topics.
• The scientific/innovation quality of the approach described in the article.
• The redaction quality and clarity.

Based on the recommendations of the reviewers, the editorial committee will allocate submissions for oral presentation of papers and/or for poster presentations.

All accepted, compliant and plagiarism-free papers presented at i-ESA'26 will be published in the proceedings subject to author registration. The papers presented during the conference will be included in the Conference proceedings published by Springer in the book series “Enterprise Interoperability” (see Previous Vols), while those presented during the Workshops will be published in the CEUR Workshops Proceedings (see the previous edition here).

Conference and workshop papers will be indexed in Scopus.

Paper Presentation

Oral Presentation

Speakers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and discussion of their paper. The official language of the conference is English.

PAPERS NOT PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE WILL NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.