36th Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems CECIIS 2025

September 17th - 19th 2025, Varaždin, Croatia
Special emphasis - Designing innovation through productive disruptions

Disruption has emerged as an important cornerstone of contemporary scientific research and technological evolution, challenging established paradigms while forging new paths for progress. In a rapidly evolving global landscape, productive disruption is not merely an incidental occurrence but a deliberate strategy—one that compels researchers and practitioners to rethink boundaries, embrace uncertainty, and design innovation systems that thrive on complexity.

CECIIS 2025 aims to gather the brightest minds across disciplines to explore how disruptive phenomena can be systematically understood, modelled, and harnessed to drive innovation. By focusing on the interplay between disruptive forces and the mechanisms that transform these forces into productive outcomes, the conference provides a platform for advancing cutting-edge theories, methodologies, and applications that redefine innovation in science, technology, and society.

Submissions are invited on a broad range of topics that explore the intersections of disruption and innovation. We are particularly interested in scientifically rigorous contributions addressing challenges, opportunities, and methodologies in:

  1. The Science of Disruption
  • Theoretical foundations of disruptive processes: understanding thresholds, tipping points, and system-level perturbations.
  • Complexity theory and nonlinear dynamics in disruption-driven innovation systems.
  • Mechanisms for balancing stability and creative chaos within evolving ecosystems.
  1. Designing Innovation Systems
  • Frameworks for embedding productive disruptions in organizational and technological design.
  • Disruption-driven strategies for accelerating discovery in interdisciplinary research.
  • Co-evolution of technology and society: predictive models and real-world applications.
  1. Emerging Technologies as Disruptive Forces
  • Disruptive potential of AI, quantum computing, biotechnology, and renewable energy technologies.
  • Case studies on how emerging technologies reshape traditional sectors (e.g., healthcare, transportation, finance).
  • Ethical implications and governance challenges of disruptive technologies.
  1. Disruptions in Social and Environmental Systems
  • Sociocultural responses to disruptions: resistance, adaptation, and transformation.
  • Climate change and environmental disruptions as opportunities for sustainable innovation.
  • Addressing global inequities through disruption: inclusion and resilience in innovation.
  1. Metrics, Measurement, and Decision-Making
  • Quantifying the impact of disruptions on innovation trajectories.
  • Decision-making under uncertainty: tools, techniques, and computational approaches.
  • Evaluating trade-offs between innovation, risk, and sustainability.
  1. Educational Paradigms for Disruption
  • Redesigning academic curricula to foster a culture of innovation and resilience.
  • Disruption in scientific publishing: open science, collaboration, and knowledge democratization.
  • Strategies for equipping the next generation with skills to navigate and lead through disruption.

We encourage original, high-quality research contributions that challenge conventional wisdom, propose novel frameworks, or present transformative case studies. Submissions should be grounded in rigorous methodologies and address the theoretical, empirical, or practical implications of designing innovation through productive disruptions. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome, as are studies that integrate diverse perspectives from science, engineering, social sciences, and the humanities.

Together, we will explore how the deliberate design of productive disruptions can open new frontiers of discovery and pave the way for more resilient, adaptive, and equitable futures.

Paper submission in Croatian language

Authors who also want to publish the translation of their paper in Croatian, need to upload both the English and Croatian version of the paper (in the same document) for review. English and Croatian versions need to be in parallel columns (side by side). Left column is the paper in English and right column is the paper in Croatian. A camera-ready full paper should be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors and submitted following all the stages of the Paper Submission Process.

Paper publishing

Compliant submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. Only the papers that are submitted on time, are reviewed positively and for which the registration fee is paid can be presented and published. Papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings with ISBN and distributed at the Conference.
Selected papers will be invited to be extended and published in the Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences (JIOS).
The previous conference proceedings were indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC). All papers published in the proceedings are available in open access.

Paper Presentations

All accepted papers must be presented in order to be included in the CECIIS 2025 proceedings. At CECIIS 2025, authors can choose one of the following ways to present their paper:

  1. In-person presentation: Attend the conference in person and present your paper in the appropriate scientific section, according to the schedule that will be published later.
  2. Online presentation: Submit your paper to the relevant scientific section that corresponds to your research theme and present it in a single online section. The schedule for the online section will be published later.

During registration, you will be asked to choose your preferred mode of participation – in person or online.
 

Best paper certificate

The best paper will be selected at the conference, and the authors will receive certificate for it.

Conference papers indexing

Conference Proceedings will be sent for indexing in: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), INSPEC, Proquest and WoS. The previous conference proceedings were published in Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC). All papers are published in open access without charge.