Editorial Preface for "Selected Papers from the 18th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2024)".

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Jose Luis de la Vara João Araújo 0002 Maribel Yasmina Santos Saïd Assar Editorial Preface for "Selected Papers from the 18th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2024)". 2026 102555 162 Data Knowl. Eng. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2026.102555 db/journals/dke/dke162.html#VaraASA26 streams/journals/dke

Saïd Assar Georgios Koutsopoulos Jolita Ralyté Jelena Zdravkovic Hans-Georg Fill Yves Wautelet Marcela Ruiz Estefanía Serral Asensio Felix Härer Eva Polini Anne Gutschmidt Irina Rychkova Janis Stirna Companion Proceedings of the 18th IFIP Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling: PoEM Forum, Doctoral Consortium, Business Case & Tool Forum, Workshops (PoEM-C 2025), co-located with PoEM 2025, Geneva, Switzerland, December 3-5, 2025. PoEM Companion CEUR-WS.org 2026 CEUR Workshop Proceedings 4171 https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4171 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-4171-x db/conf/ifip8-1/poem2025c.html João Araújo 0002 Jose Luis de la Vara Maribel Yasmina Santos Saïd Assar Research Challenges in Information Science - 18th International Conference, RCIS 2024, Guimarães, Portugal, May 14-17, 2024, Proceedings, Part I RCIS (1) Springer 2024 Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 513 978-3-031-59464-9 978-3-031-59465-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59465-6 db/conf/rcis/rcis2024-1.html João Araújo 0002 Jose Luis de la Vara Maribel Yasmina Santos Saïd Assar Research Challenges in Information Science - 18th International Conference, RCIS 2024, Guimarães, Portugal, May 14-17, 2024, Proceedings, Part II RCIS (2) Springer 2024 Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 514 978-3-031-59467-0 978-3-031-59468-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59468-7 db/conf/rcis/rcis2024-2.html João Araújo 0001 Jose Luis de la Vara Nelly Condori-Fernández Jean-Michel Bruel Maribel Yasmina Santos Saïd Assar Katrien De Moor Mohamad Gharib Tong Li 0001 João Paulo Barros Isabel Sofia Brito Ivan Machado 0001 Dimitris Karagiannis Tiago Prince Sales Camille Salinesi Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2024 Workshops and Research Projects Track co-located with the 18th International Conferecence on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2024), Guimarães, Portugal, May 14-17, 2024. RCIS Workshops CEUR-WS.org 2024 CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3674 https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3674 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-3674-4 db/conf/rcis/rcis2024w.html

Kwansoo Kim Sang-Yong Tom Lee Saïd Assar The dynamics of cryptocurrency market behavior: sentiment analysis using Markov chains. 365-395 2022 122 Ind. Manag. Data Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-04-2021-0232 db/journals/imds/imds122.html#KimLA22

Mouaad Hafsi Saïd Assar Proposal of a visual impact analysis approach based on enterprise modeling: Case of customer experience projects in the banking sector. 27-41 2021 PoEM Workshops https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3031/paper_3.pdf conf/ifip8-1/2021w db/conf/ifip8-1/poem2021w.html#HafsiA21 Beatriz Marín Yves Wautelet Samedi Heng Saïd Assar Petra Maria Asprion Andrea Morichetta 0001 Proceedings of workshops co-organized with the 14th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2021), Online, originally held in Riga, Latvia, November 24, 2021 PoEM Workshops CEUR-WS.org CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3031 2021 https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3031 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-3031-0 db/conf/ifip8-1/poem2021w.html Mouaad Hafsi Saïd Assar Does Enterprise Architecture Support Customer Experience Improvement? Towards a Conceptualization in Digital Transformation Context. 411-427 2020 BPMDS/EMMSAD@CAiSE https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49418-6_28 conf/caise/2020bpmds db/conf/caise/bpmds2020.html#HafsiA20 Samya Dhaiouir Saïd Assar A Systematic Literature Review of Blockchain-Enabled Smart Contracts: Platforms, Languages, Consensus, Applications and Choice Criteria. 249-266 2020 RCIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50316-1_15 conf/rcis/2020 db/conf/rcis/rcis2020.html#DhaiouirA20 Mouaad Hafsi Saïd Assar Does Enterprise Architecture Support the Digital Transformation Endeavors? Questioning the Old Concepts in light of New Findings. 5 2019 MCIS https://aisel.aisnet.org/mcis2019/5 conf/mcis/2019 db/conf/mcis/mcis2019.html#HafsiA19 Kwansoo Kim Sang-Yong Tom Lee Saïd Assar Coin Market Behavior using Social Sentiment Markov Chains. 218 2019 PACIS https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2019/218 conf/pacis/2019 db/conf/pacis/pacis2019.html#KimLA19 Saïd Assar Mouaad Hafsi Managing Strategy in Digital Transformation Context: An Exploratory Analysis of Enterprise Architecture Management Support. 165-173 2019 CBI (1) https://doi.org/10.1109/CBI.2019.00026 conf/wecwis/2019-1 db/conf/wecwis/cbi2019-1.html#AssarH19 Markus Borg Thomas Olsson 0001 Ulrik Franke Saïd Assar Digitalization of swedish government agencies: a perspective through the lens of a software development census. 37-46 2018 ICSE-SEIS https://doi.org/10.1145/3183428.3183434 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8445157 conf/icse/2018seis db/conf/icse/icse2018seis.html#BorgOFA18 Saïd Assar Mouaad Hafsi Towards a Visual Modeling Approach to Manage the Impact of Digital Transformation on Information Systems. 21-31 2018 CBI (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/CBI.2018.10043 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CBI.2018.10043 conf/wecwis/2018-2 db/conf/wecwis/cbi2018-2.html#AssarH18

Markus Borg Thomas Olsson 0001 Ulrik Franke Saïd Assar Digitalization of Swedish Government Agencies - A Perspective Through the Lens of a Software Development Census. 2018 abs/1802.00312 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00312 db/journals/corr/corr1802.html#abs-1802-00312

Haider Abbas Olaf Maennel Saïd Assar Security and privacy issues in cloud computing. 233-235 2017 72 Ann. des Télécommunications 5-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-017-0578-3 db/journals/adt/adt72.html#AbbasMA17

Saïd Assar Oscar Pastor 0001 Haralambos Mouratidis 11th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2017, Brighton, United Kingdom, May 10-12, 2017 RCIS IEEE 2017 978-1-5090-5476-3 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7951529/proceeding db/conf/rcis/rcis2017.html

Saïd Assar Markus Borg Dietmar Pfahl Using text clustering to predict defect resolution time: a conceptual replication and an evaluation of prediction accuracy. 1437-1475 2016 21 Empir. Softw. Eng. 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-015-9391-7 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58811748 db/journals/ese/ese21.html#AssarBP16

Saïd Assar Redouane El Amrani The Fragmentation of Theoretical Contributions in ERP Research: An Exploratory Study. 4707-4716 2016 HICSS https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2016.583 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2016.583 conf/hicss/2016 db/conf/hicss/hicss2016.html#AssarA16 Mouaad Hafsi Saïd Assar What Enterprise Architecture Can Bring for Digital Transformation: An Exploratory Study. 83-89 2016 CBI (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/CBI.2016.55 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CBI.2016.55 conf/wecwis/2016-2 db/conf/wecwis/cbi2016-2.html#HafsiA16

Saïd Assar Carine Souveyet Sana Damak Mallouli Vers une sémantique orientée événement des modèles de processus. Démarche de type IDM. 93-117 2015 20 Ingénierie des Systèmes d Inf. 2 https://doi.org/10.3166/isi.20.2.93-117 db/journals/isi/isi20.html#AssarSM15

Saïd Assar Méthodes de recherche empirique en ingénierie des SI. Principes et applications. 11-33 2015 20 Ingénierie des Systèmes d Inf. 6 https://doi.org/10.3166/isi.20.6.11-33 db/journals/isi/isi20.html#Assar15

Rabia Latif Haider Abbas Saïd Assar Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack in Cloud- Assisted Wireless Body Area Networks: <i>A Systematic Literature Review</i>. 2014 38 J. Medical Syst. 11 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-014-0128-8 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38248856 db/journals/jms/jms38.html#LatifAA14 128

Yaneli Cruz Imed Boughzala Saïd Assar Technology Acceptance and Actual Use with Mobile Leraning: First stage for Studying the Influence of Learning Styles on the Behavioral Intention. 2014 ECIS http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2014/proceedings/track16/12 conf/ecis/2014 db/conf/ecis/ecis2014.html#CruzBA14 Rabia Latif Haider Abbas Saïd Assar Seemab Latif Analyzing Feasibility for Deploying Very Fast Decision Tree for DDoS Attack Detection in Cloud-Assisted WBAN. 507-519 2014 ICIC (1) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09333-8_57 conf/icic/2014-1 db/conf/icic/icic2014-1.html#LatifAAL14 Sana Damak Mallouli Saïd Assar Carine Souveyet Proposition d'une démarche de type IDM pour la construction d'outils d'exécution de processus. 163-179 2014 INFORSID http://inforsid.fr/actes/2014/10_paper_62.pdf conf/inforsid/2014 db/conf/inforsid/inforsid2014.html#MallouliAS14 Saïd Assar Redouane El Amrani A preliminary analysis of theorizing effort in ERP research. 1-6 2014 RCIS https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861032 conf/rcis/2014 db/conf/rcis/rcis2014.html#AssarA14 Sana Damak Mallouli Saïd Assar Carine Souveyet Process behavior meta-modeling for the derivation of enactment engines. 1-2 2014 RCIS https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861088 conf/rcis/2014 db/conf/rcis/rcis2014.html#MallouliAS14 Saïd Assar Model Driven Requirements Engineering: Mapping the field and beyond. 1-6 2014 MoDRE https://doi.org/10.1109/MoDRE.2014.6890820 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MoDRE.2014.6890820 conf/re/2014modre db/conf/re/modre2014.html#Assar14 Imed Boughzala Daniel Lang 0002 Saïd Assar Actes de la 2ème Journée AIM de recherche Serious Games et innovation, Paris, France, September 18, 2014. AIM SG CEUR-WS.org CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1288 2014 https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1288 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-1288-2 db/conf/aim/sg2014.html Saïd Assar Imed Boughzala E-Government Evolution Priorities from a Web 2.0 Perspective: An Exploratory Field Study. 2072-2081 2013 HICSS https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2013.191 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2013.191 conf/hicss/2013 db/conf/hicss/hicss2013.html#AssarB13 Yaneli Cruz Saïd Assar Imed Boughzala Exploring Teacher's Perception and Potential Use of Mobile Learning in a Business School. 2012 AMCIS http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2012/proceedings/ISEducation/26 conf/amcis/2012 db/conf/amcis/amcis2012.html#CruzAB12 Saïd Assar Carine Souveyet Kadan Aljoumaa A Goal-Oriented Perspective on Approaches to Web Service Discovery. 347-352 2012 COMPSAC Workshops https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSACW.2012.69 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/COMPSACW.2012.69 conf/compsac/2012w db/conf/compsac/compsac2012w.html#AssarSA12 Krzysztof Wnuk Markus Borg Saïd Assar Towards Scalable Information Modeling of Requirements Architectures. 141-150 2012 ER Workshops https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33999-8_17 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58811794 conf/er/2012w db/conf/er/erw2012.html#WnukBA12 Yaneli Cruz Imed Boughzala Saïd Assar Opportunities and obstacles for mobile learning in a Business School. 58-61 2012 ICCIT https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCITechnol.2012.6285824 conf/iccit/2012 db/conf/iccit/iccit2012.html#CruzBA12 Sana Damak Mallouli Saïd Assar Carine Souveyet A Model-driven Approach to Process Enactment. 351-354 2012 ICSOFT conf/icsoft/2012 db/conf/icsoft/icsoft2012.html#MallouliAS12 https://doi.org/10.5220/0004083303510354 Saïd Assar Kadan Aljoumaa Matching User Requirements with Query Formulations in Intentional Service Oriented Computing. 476-481 2011 COMPSAC Workshops https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSACW.2011.86 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/COMPSACW.2011.86 conf/compsac/2011w db/conf/compsac/compsac2011w.html#AssarA11 Saïd Assar Imed Boughzala Thierry Isckia eGovernment Trends in the Web 2.0 Era and the Open Innovation Perspective: An Exploratory Field Study. 210-222 2011 EGOV https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22878-0_18 conf/egov/2011ifip db/conf/egov/egov2011.html#AssarBI11 Saïd Assar Sana Damak Mallouli Carine Souveyet A Behavioral Perspective in Meta-modeling. 238-243 2011 ICSOFT (2) conf/icsoft/2011-2 db/conf/icsoft/icsoft2011-2.html#AssarMS11 Sana Damak Mallouli Saïd Assar Carine Souveyet Pour une perspective comportementale dans les méta-modèles de processus. 351-366 2011 INFORSID http://liris.cnrs.fr/inforsid/sites/default/files/2011_75.pdf conf/inforsid/2011 db/conf/inforsid/inforsid2011.html#MallouliAS11 Kadan Aljoumaa Saïd Assar Carine Souveyet Reformulating User's Queries for Intentional Services Discovery Using an Ontology-Based Approach. 1-4 2011 NTMS https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2011.5721075 conf/ntms/2011 db/conf/ntms/ntms2011.html#AljoumaaAS11 Kadan Aljoumaa Saïd Assar Carine Souveyet Publishing intentional services using extended semantic annotation. 1-9 2011 RCIS https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2011.6006842 conf/rcis/2011 db/conf/rcis/rcis2011.html#AljoumaaAS11 Kadan Aljoumaa Saïd Assar Carine Souveyet Publishing intentional services using new annotation for WSDL. 881-884 2010 iiWAS https://doi.org/10.1145/1967486.1967640 conf/iiwas/2010 db/conf/iiwas/iiwas2010.html#AljoumaaAS10

Ana Lidia Franzoni Saïd Assar Student Learning Styles Adaptation Method Based on Teaching Strategies and Electronic Media. 15-29 2009 12 J. Educ. Technol. Soc. 4 http://www.ifets.info/abstract.php?art_id=980 db/journals/ets/ets12.html#FranzoniA09

Hamid El Ghazi Saïd Assar Evaluation orientée coût/valeur du besoin de traçabilité des exigences dans un projet. 345-359 2009 INFORSID conf/inforsid/2009 db/conf/inforsid/inforsid2009.html#GhaziA09 Ana Lidia Franzoni Saïd Assar Bruno Defude Javier Rojas Student Learning Styles Adaptation Method Based on Teaching Strategies and Electronic Media. 778-782 2008 ICALT https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2008.149 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICALT.2008.149 conf/icalt/2008 db/conf/icalt/icalt2008.html#FranzoniADR08 Hamid El Ghazi Saïd Assar A multi view based traceability management method. 393-400 2008 RCIS https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632129 conf/rcis/2008 db/conf/rcis/rcis2008.html#GhaziA08 Saïd Assar Imed Boughzala Younés Boughzala Collaborative features in french public e-procurement. 83-103 2006 conf/aim/2006 AIM Conference db/conf/aim/aim2006.html#AssarBB06 https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/23775 http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings92/article4693.html Saïd Assar Camille Ben Achour Samira Si-Said Un Modèle pour la spécification des processus d'analyse des Systèmes d'Information. 287-301 2000 conf/inforsid/2000 INFORSID db/conf/inforsid/inforsid2000.html#AssarAS00 Haider Abbas Kadan Aljoumaa Redouane El Amrani João Araújo 0001 João Araújo 0002 Petra Maria Asprion João Paulo Barros Markus Borg Imed Boughzala Younés Boughzala Isabel Brito 0001Isabel Sofia Brito Jean-Michel Bruel Samira Si-Said CherfiSamira Si-Said Nelly Condori-Fernández Yaneli Cruz Bruno Defude Samya Dhaiouir Hans-Georg Fill Ulrik Franke Mohamad Gharib Hamid El Ghazi Anne Gutschmidt Mouaad Hafsi Felix Härer Samedi Heng Thierry Isckia Dimitris Karagiannis Kwansoo Kim Georgios Koutsopoulos Daniel Lang 0002 Rabia Latif Seemab Latif Sang-Yong Tom Lee Tong Li 0001 Ivan do Carmo MachadoIvan Machado 0001 Olaf Maennel Sana Damak Mallouli Beatriz Marín Katrien De Moor Andrea Morichetta 0001 Haralambos Mouratidis Thomas Olsson 0001 Oscar Pastor 0001 Dietmar Pfahl Eva Polini Jolita Ralyté Javier Rojas Marcela Ruiz Irina Rychkova Tiago Prince Sales Camille SalinesiCamille Ben Achour Maribel Yasmina Santos Estefanía SerralEstefanía Serral Asensio Carine Souveyet Janis Stirna Jose Luis de la Vara Ana Lidia Franzoni VelázquezAna Lidia Franzoni Yves Wautelet Krzysztof Wnuk Jelena Zdravkovic