“Innovation boards the T-Center” is the motto of the 16th I4CS, to be held June 27 till 29, 2016 in Vienna/Austria, dedicated to challenging aspects around modern community systems. With prudent meeting facilities in the T-Center, T-Mobile Austria will be an excellent conference host.
Due to the rapid evolution of web technologies and rich mobile Internet devices, ICT support for communities is possible on the next quality level. In search of innovative solutions, multi-disciplinary collaboration among researchers, service providers and industry partners is essential to invent novel Internet Community Services.
Conference Topics
Technology – Distributed architectures and frameworks
Infrastructure and models for community services
Data structures and management in community systems
Community self-organization in ad-hoc environments
Search, information retrieval and distributed ontologies
Smart world models and big data analytics
Applications – Communities on the move
Social networks and open collaboration
Social and business aspects of user generated content
Recommender solutions and expert profiles
Context and location awareness
Browser application and smartphone app implementation
Socialization – Ambient work and living
eHealth challenges and ambient assisted living
intelligent transport systems and connected vehicles
Smart energy and home control
Social gaming and cyber physical systems
Security, identity and privacy protection
I4CS solicits submissions of unpublished papers presenting research results, industrial experiences and applications, as well as detailed specifications of open problems.
Electronic submission is required. Full papers of no more than 8 pages in double-column IEEE format and written in English should be submitted as PDF files using the EasyChair conference management system. All submitted papers will be subject to a double reviewing process by the program committee.