Author Instructions for Full Papers

Papers submissions must be made through the paper submission site.  Authors MUST remove personal and institutional identification information throughout the paper.  Please email any questions to the Publications Chairs: Grace Leung (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Gurvirender Tejay (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Topics:

Please see the Call for Papers tab on this website or download the Call for Papers here for possible topic areas.

Formatting:

All papers must be written in English.  Paper length for submission can be at most 14 pages long including reference and appendices, formatted according to:

• https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
• Templates are available here:
  
  • LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
  • Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)
  • Microsoft Word 2003 Proceedings Templates (zip, 229kb)

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration.

Submission:

1.  Papers must be submitted using the conference management site at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wise2026

2.  Submission and Acceptable Formats:  Please submit your paper in either MS Word or PDF.  Abstracts are not being accepted for review. Authors must submit full papers by the deadline for their papers to be considered.  (For working group proposals, please submit the abstract in MS Word or PDF.)

3.  Blind Review and Conflict of Interest

Publication:

The conference proceedings will be published in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series by Springer (with ISBN and indexed in Scopus) in the same manner as WISE12 onwards. Earlier conference proceedings (WISE11 and before) were published in the IFIP AICT series.

Program Committee

Conference Chair: Jacques Ophoff
Program Chairs: Lynette Drevin and Erik Moore
Publications/Logistics Chairs: Grace Leung and Gurvirender Tejay
Web Chair: Michael De Jager
Conference Secretariat:  Matt Bishop

WISE Reviewers:
Stefan Alfredsson, Karlstad University, Sweden
Maria Bada, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis, USA
Nathan Clark, University of Plymouth, UK
Michael de Jager, North-West University, South Africa
Lynette Drevin, North-West University, South Africa
Steven Furnell, University of Nottingham, UK
Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Ram Herkanaidu, University of Plymouth, UK
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Konstantin Knorr, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Wai Sze Leung, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Dan Likarish, Regis University, USA
Sascha Löbner, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Leonardo Martucci, Karlstad University, Sweden
Herbert Mattord, Kennesaw State University, USA
Stig Mjølsnes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Erik Moore, Seattle University, United States of America
Noluntu Mpekoa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Jacques Ophoff, Abertay University, UK
Jarred Orfao, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Suzanne Prior, Abertay University, UK
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Carlos Rieder, isec ag, Switzerland
Leo Robert, Laboratory of Informatics, Modelling and Optimization of the Systems, France
Rudi Serfontein, North-West University, South Africa
Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA
Alireza Shojaifar, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Frederic Tronnier, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Manfred Vielberth, University of Regensburg, Germany
Suné von Solms, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK