Banner
Home      Log In      Contacts      FAQs      INSTICC Portal
 
Documents

Call for Papers

ICSBT is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

SCOPE

Conference Theme: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of GenAI in Business

The International Conference on Smart Business Technologies (ICSBT) brings together leading academics, researchers, and practitioners to explore cutting-edge advancements in smart technologies shaping the future of business. This year's theme, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of GenAI in Business,” emphasizes the transformative power of Generative AI and its integration into intelligent, data-driven, and sustainable business ecosystems.

While the spotlight is on GenAI, the conference welcomes contributions across a broader spectrum of smart technologies that enable digital transformation, enhance decision-making, and support innovation across industries. The conference covers five major areas:

  • Smart Business Transformation & Innovation – focusing on digitalization, intelligent enterprise systems, smart manufacturing, IoT-enabled platforms, and cloud-native business architectures.
  • AI & Decision Intelligence – addressing AI for forecasting, decision support, customer experience, explainable and responsible AI, and ethical governance.
  • Fintech, Blockchain & Digital Trust – covering blockchain in business and finance, DeFi, CBDCs, smart contracts, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance.
  • Sustainability & ESG Technologies – promoting research on green technologies, ESG analytics, carbon tracking, and smart urban innovations.
  • Operations Research & Business Performance – focusing on optimization, supply chains, decision analytics, performance benchmarking, and strategic operational technologies.

ICSBT encourages diverse methodological approaches, including empirical, theoretical, computational, and design science research. Submissions may address a wide range of industries—such as manufacturing, services, finance, energy, healthcare, and logistics—and explore how smart technologies are shaping their transformation.

We particularly welcome interdisciplinary research with strong practical implications and innovative solutions that connect theory to real-world impact. Join us to share your expertise, foster collaboration, and shape the evolving landscape of smart business technologies.


CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SMART BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION
2. AI & DECISION INTELLIGENCE
3. FINTECH, BLOCKCHAIN & DIGITAL TRUST
4. SUSTAINABILITY & ESG TECHNOLOGIES
5. OPERATIONS RESEARCH & BUSINESS PERFORMANCE


AREA 1: SMART BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION


  • Digitalization of Business Processes and Models
  • Intelligent Enterprise Architecture and Automation
  • Digital Twins, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Smart Manufacturing
  • IoT-Enabled Business Models and Platform Economy

AREA 2: AI & DECISION INTELLIGENCE


  • AI for Forecasting, Decision Support, and Customer Experience
  • Explainable and Generative AI in Business
  • Data Governance, Ethics, and Responsible AI
  • Privacy, security and smart systems risks

AREA 3: FINTECH, BLOCKCHAIN & DIGITAL TRUST


  • Blockchain Applications in Business and Finance
  • Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Regulatory Compliance

AREA 4: SUSTAINABILITY & ESG TECHNOLOGIES


  • Green Tech and Sustainable Business Models
  • ESG Analytics, Carbon Tracking, and Reporting

AREA 5: OPERATIONS RESEARCH & BUSINESS PERFORMANCE


  • Smart Supply Chain and Operational Optimization
  • Decision Analytics and OR Techniques
  • Performance Benchmarking and Multi-cloud Strategies

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICSBT 2027 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations and an excessive number of co-authors.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published by Springer in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference.
The proceedings will be abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus and zbMATH. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 22 - 23 July, 2027

Paper Submission: February 16, 2027
Authors Notification: April 9, 2027
Camera Ready and Registration: April 21, 2027

Paper Submission: March 25, 2027
Authors Notification: May 17, 2027
Camera Ready and Registration: June 1, 2027

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: March 1, 2027

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: March 1, 2027

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: March 1, 2027

Demos
Demo Proposal: March 1, 2027

Panels
Panel Proposal: March 1, 2027

Abstracts
Abstract Submission: May 13, 2027
Authors Notification: June 2, 2027
Camera Ready and Registration: June 11, 2027

SECRETARIAT

ICSBT Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: icsbt.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://icsbt.scitevents.org/

VENUE

Our event will take place at the Barceló Aran Mantegna Hote Hotel, strategically located in the city of Rome due to the proximity with the city center and the International Airports Fiumicino and Ciampino.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Ali Emrouznejad, Business Analytics, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Slimane Hammoudi, ESEO, ERIS, France
Rebecca Bulander, Pforzheim University of Applied Science, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Witold Abramowicz, Independent Researcher, Poland
Saadat M Alhashmi, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Elarbi Badidi, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
Claudio Biancalana, Roma Tre University, Italy
Zorica Bogdanovic, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia
Alexandros Bousdekis, Information Management Unit, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Mohamed Amine Chaâbane, ISAAS/, Tunisia
Chun-Liang Chen, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan, Republic of China
Dickson Chiu, The University of Hong Kong, China
Flavio S. Correa da Silva, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cristina Chuva Costa, CISUC/IPC, Portugal
Michael Decker, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Karlsruhe, Germany
Valerio Frascolla, Intel, Germany
Keith A. Harman, Liberty University, United States
Amin Jalali, Stockholm University, Sweden
Jae-Yoon Jung, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea
Dimitrios G. Katehakis, FORTH, Greece
Benn R. Konsynski, Information Systems and Operations Management, Emory University, United States
Bálint Molnár, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary
Ali Reza Montazemi, Mcmaster University, Canada
Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, United States
Malgorzata Pankowska, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Wilma Penzo, University of Bologna, Italy
Galena Pisoni, Université Côte d'Azur, France
Charmaine Du Plessis, University of South Africa, South Africa
Jarogniew Rykowski, The Poznan University of Economics (PUE), Poland
Peter Weber, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jinhui Yao, Xerox Research, United States

(list not yet complete)

footer