CFP: IWSG2026 (International Workshop on Science Gateways) submissions due by 31 March 2026
Fabio Roberto Vitello
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* IWSG 2026
* 18th International Workshop on Science Gateways
* 16-19 June, 2026, Catania, Italy
* Website: https://iwsgateways.github.io/iwsg2026
* Co-chaired by
* Eva Sciacca, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Catania, Italy
* Fabio Roberto Vitello, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Catania, Italy
* Sandra Gesing, San Diego Supercomputer Center, SGX3 – The Center of Excellence for Science Gateways and US Research Software Engineer Association, USA
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Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 31, 2026
Paper Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: May 19, 2026
Registration deadline for authors: May 26, 2026
Early-Bird registration deadline May 26, 2026
Registration deadline for regular fees June 12, 2026
IWSG2026 Workshop: June 16-19, 2026
Science Gateways or virtual research environments support scientists throughout the stages of the research cycle, including data collection and annotation, processing and analysis of complex scientific data, visualization and publication of research data. They bridge community and domain-specific expertise with modern information technologies such as the Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and hybrid Cloud and HPC environments. Through collaborative work, scientists are able to tap the full potential of their scientific data. Further, they facilitate the access to compute and storage resources improving science through the employment of reproducible workflows.
We invite the submission of papers related to Science Gateways. Topics include, but are not limited to:
AI and ML for science gateways
Social research on science gateways
E-infrastructures hosting and supporting science gateways
Architectures, frameworks and technologies for Science Gateways
Science Gateways sustaining collaborative communities
Research data management and Big Data visual analytics through Science Gateways
Support for scalability and data-driven methods in Science Gateways
Improving the reproducibility of science in Science Gateways
Science Gateway usability, portals, workflows and tools
Software engineering approaches supporting scientific work
Aspects of Science Gateways, such as security and stability
We particularly encourage submissions from application scientists and community members reporting their firsthand experiences with science gateways. There are three forms of presentation:
Talks
Lightning talks
Demonstrations
Submission of a full paper may result in a talk, while submission of an abstract may result in a lightning talk or demonstration. Presenters of full papers will be allotted a 30-minutes time slot (25 min talk, 5 min questions) to provide a summary and update on their work. Meanwhile, presenters of abstracts will be given a 15-minutes (10 min talk, 5 min questions) time slot.
All contributions will be subject to standard peer review for quality, relevance, and novelty, which will determine acceptance and the form of presentation. All submissions will be kept confidential prior to publication in the proceedings. Full papers must not exceed six A4 pages and must be written in clear and readable English. Abstracts must not exceed 500 words and may include a diagram. They should also be written in clear, readable English. Authors of abstracts should include the word “Abstract:” in the title.
Papers and abstracts will only be accepted electronically in PDF format and must be submitted through our EasyChair website. Please find templates for papers and abstracts at IWSG Paper and Abstract Templates.
It is anticipated to publish accepted full papers at Zenodo.
Accepted abstracts will be published online on the IWSG webpage.
The final day of the workshop will be dedicated to invited presentations of Science Gateways and Scientific Visualization in Astronomy particularly focussed to the Square Kilometre Array. This event is sponsored by the SKA Visual Analytics (SKAVA) project funded by INAF under the Astrophysics Fundamental Research Grant (Techno Grant).
Dr. Fabio Vitello
INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania
Dr. Fabio Vitello
INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania