Special Session
Special Session on
Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations in the Digital Age -
ISODA
2027
20 - 22 April, 2027 - Rome, Italy
Within the 29th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2027
CO-CHAIRS
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Kecheng Liu
The University of Reading
United Kingdom
www.henley.ac.uk/people/person/professor-kecheng-liu/
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Short Bio
Professor Kecheng Liu is a leading scholar in applied informatics and organisational semiotics, currently serving as Professor of Applied Informatics at Henley Business School, University of Reading. A Fellow of the British Computer Society and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he has shaped the field through more than three decades of academic leadership and research. He is the founding Head of the School of Business Informatics, Systems and Accounting and the Honorary Director of the Informatics Research Centre, both of which he established to advance interdisciplinary research in business informatics and digital transformation. Professor Liu’s work spans business IT strategy, intelligent information systems, pervasive informatics, and digital leadership, with over 50–60 PhD graduates under his supervision—reflecting his influence on the next generation of scholars. His international engagement includes visiting professorships at leading Chinese universities such as Renmin University, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
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Qi Li
Henley Business School, University of Reading / University of Oxford
United Kingdom
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Short Bio
Dr Qi (Lecky) Li is a Lecturer in Digital Business and Business Informatics at Henley Business School, University of Reading, where he also serves as Curriculum Development Manager for the Digital Talent Academy (DTA). His work bridges digital education, organisational semiotics, and industry aligned talent development, reflecting a career dedicated to strengthening the digital capabilities of both students and professionals. Dr Li completed his PhD in Business Informatics at Henley in 2020, specialising in intelligent data analytics, interactive data visualisation, and organisational semiotics. He also holds master’s degrees in Accounting and Finance from Queen’s University Belfast and Business Information Management from Henley. His current research focuses on digital leadership, organisational transformation, business informatics, and the development of digital competences in education and industry.
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SCOPE
ISODA 2027 is an international forum for advancing organisational semiotics as a distinctive theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding, designing, and transforming organisations in an increasingly digital world. The conference welcomes rigorous conceptual, methodological, empirical, and applied research that develops semiotic perspectives on organisational practices, information systems, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation. It also encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and complementary contributions from the wider field of business informatics where they extend, challenge, or provide relevant context for the conference’s core focus on organisational semiotics. We particularly welcome work that advances theory, introduces innovative methods, generates robust empirical insights, or demonstrates the practical value of organisational semiotics in addressing contemporary organisational and technological challenges.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Organisational Semiotics: Theories, Methods and Techniques
- Artificial Intelligence in Business Transformation and Innovation
- Digital Leadership
- Digital Business Ecosystem
- Normative Approaches for Trustworthy AI
- Norms and Agentic AI
- Digital Assets Value Co-Creation
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:
February 16, 2027
Authors Notification:
March 2, 2027
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 10, 2027
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available soon.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.
PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library