IS4SI 2025

1. The International Summit for The Study of Information

The IS4SI Summit 2025 objective was to present and discuss current achievement in the fields of the Study of Information. It was considered here not only as a pure theoretical discipline.

While matter and energy are the foundation of material world, information is the foundation of the mental world as well as of the interactions in alive beings and within their communities. It is the leading factor in evolution and genetics. It is the basis of intellectual activity. Studying intelligence, we should take broader approach discovering the role of information, generally speaking, in life. The time has come to work out more uniform and general, deeper understanding of information processes which support the noosphere.

In this, broader sense, we should again and again turn our attention to the philosophy, interrelations between material and mental, correlate the notion of information in communication, biology, humanitarian areas and the physics of micro world.

The IS4SI Summit 2025 was dedicated to this broad issue.

The IS4SI 2025 Summit was composed of International Scientific Events. Each event had its own Steering Committee, as well as a Program Committee approved by the Summit Steering Committee.

The 2025 International Summit of Study of Information was planned to take place in two formats:

– Online meetings for all presentations and discussions (June 02-15, 2025);

– Hybrid meetings (in-person and online, June 23 – 30, 2025,Varna, Bulgaria)

The official language of IS4SI Summit 2025 was English.

2. The Theme of the IS4SI’2025 Summit

The Key Role of Information Interaction

In the contemporary digital age, the synergy between information and interaction plays a pivotal role in shaping our understanding of the world, influencing decision-making processes, and fostering innovation.
The term “inforaction,” an amalgamation of information and interaction, encapsulates the dynamic relationship between individuals and the vast sea of data that surrounds them.
The theme of the IS4SI’2025 Summit explores the fundamental importance of inforaction and its multifaceted impact on various aspects of our lives.

3. Call for Contributions

All colleagues and friends interested in the study of information were welcome to submit to the Summit their manuscripts. The manuscripts  were peer reviewed by the Program Committees of the Summit and preferred manuscripts were selected for oral presentation.

Only unpublished manuscripts were accepted for the IS4SI 2025 Summit. The type of manuscripts could be any kind of scientific publication and depends on the decision of the Event Steering Committees. The formatting of the manuscripts depended on the selected publisher and must follow their publication rules.

The IS4SI Summit 2025 took place from June 02, 2025, to June 30, 2025.
The Summit was spited into two segments – online and in-person.
Conference room presentations are usually not delivered well with the technical background available. Because of this, it was assumed that all presentations will be online, and that in-person meetings mainly will help to develop cooperation within IS4SI.

The online segment of the Summit
The Summit commenced with an online segment on Monday, June 02, 2025. It last till June 15, 2025.
Online participation in the Summit was complimentary.

The in-person segment of the Summit
The in-person segment of the Summit occured from June 23 to 30, 2025, in Varna, Bulgaria.

 

4. The Summit 2025 Steering Committee

Pedro Marijuán (Spain) – FP; P 2021 – 2023
Kang Ouyang (China) – FP
Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Austria) – FP; P 2013 – 2015, VP
Konstantin Kolin (Russian Federation) – P 2011 – 2013
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Sweden) – P 2015 – 2017, VP
Terrence Deacon (United States of America) – P 2017 – 2019
Marcin Schroeder (Japan) – P 2019 – 2021, VP
Yishin Zhong (China) – P 2021 – 2023
Krassimir Markov (Bulgaria) – P 2023 – 2025
José María Díaz Nafría (Spain) – PE 2025 – 2027, VP
Teresa Guarda (Portugal) – PE 2025 – 2027, VP
Daniel Boyd (Netherlands) – VP
Jorge Navarro López (Spain) – VP
Shigeo Kawashima (Japan) – VP
Wu Kun (China) – VP
Xueshan Yan (China) – VP
Yagmur Denizhan (Turkey) – VP
Zhicheng Chen (China) – VP
Annette Grathoff (Austria) – GS
Legend
FP : IS4SI Founding President;
P : IS4SI President;
PE : IS4SI President Elect;
VP : IS4SI Vice President 2023 -2025;
GS: S4SI General Secretary

5. The Scope of the Summit

The scope of information science and technology and their potential applications is extraordinarily broad.

The IS4SI 2025 Summit consisted of International Scientific Events. The scope of the 2025 Summit was covered by the scopes of the next events (click on title to see details):

– Global Forum on Artificial Intelligence  – GFAI Preliminary Program
– International Conference “Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence”
– Social Information Gatherings (SIG 2025) – SIG GAN 2025 Preliminary Program
– 7th International Conference on Philosophy of Information (ICPI 2025) – ICPI Preliminary Program