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27 - 29 October, 2026 - Angers, France

In conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST 2026

CO-CHAIRS

	Francesco Buccafurri University of Reggio Calabria Italy
Short Bio Francesco Buccafurri is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Calabria in 1995. In 1996, he was a visiting researcher at the Database and Knowledge Representation Group at the Vienna University of Technology. His research interests include cybersecurity, privacy, digital identity, applied cryptography, e-government, blockchain, social networks, deductive databases, knowledge representation and non-monotonic reasoning, model checking, data compression, data streams, intelligent agents, and peer-to-peer systems. He has published more than 220 papers in top-tier international journals and conference proceedings. He regularly serves as a referee for international journals and is a member of numerous conference program committees. Francesco Buccafurri is Associate Editor of the Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier), Information Sciences (Elsevier), and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He also serves on the editorial boards of several other international journals and has acted as program chair or committee member for many international conferences. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society.

	Carmen Licciardi DIIES – Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria Italy
Short Bio Carmen Licciardi is a PhD candidate in Computer Engineering at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy. She received her Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity Curriculum, at the University of Calabria in 2024. Her research interests include secure digital identity, privacy-preserving authentication mechanisms, trust services, and information security within the eIDAS framework. She co-authored a number of scientific papers published in international conferences and top-level journals. She is involved in the program/review committee of international workshops and conferences.

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