CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
SOTICS 2011: The First International Conference on Social Eco-Informatics
October 23-28, 2011 – Barcelona, Spain
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SOTICS11.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPSOTICS11.html
– regular papers
– short papers (work in progress)
– posters
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SubmitSOTICS11.html
Submission deadline: June 1st, 2011
Technical Co-Sponsors:
– The Bournemouth & Poole College
– Bournemouth University
– Los Alamon National Laboratory
– University of Sunderland
– San Jose State University
– Cisco Systems, Inc.
– Murray State University
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
SOTICS 2011 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
Digital resource domains
Social networks; Digital computing; Digital health care; Digital mapping; Digital human faces; Digital libraries; Eco-informatics; Micro-contribution by masses
Social evaluation and metrics
Metric on quality of experience and satisfaction; Social mobility; Social interactions; Social learning; Social media; Social models; Mutual social credentials
Social applications
On-line entertainment; Games and citizens; Social networking and social software; Tagging and micro-blogging; Collaborative filtering and tagging; Social simulation (mobility, groupware, etc.); Very large social networks; Deep web social information; Blogs and mini-blogs; E-books
Social mobility
Social mobile networks with the Web 2.0; Mobile social architecture and services; Open service capabilities; Open exposure of telco capabilities; Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP; Interworking strategies; Mobile terminals as sources for User-generated content; Architecture and services for user-generated content; Auto-description and metadata synthesis for telecom-generated for user-generated content; Social mobile networks; User behavior profiling; Social connections (social graphs, contacts, etc); Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services
Mechanisms for social services
eSociety; Accessibility; Social education; Social opinion; Digital eco-systems; Ecology and social justice; eGovernments; Digital economy; eCommerce; Digital cities; Tourism; Democracy and social groups; Patent laws; Social tools; Web enterprises and services
Challenges in social environments
Computational thinking; Natural language processing; eImpact on children knowledge and abilities; Opinion and sentiment analysis; Computing and philosophy; Threats in social networks; Trusted computing; Reputation systems; Pervasive social computing; Real-time ubiquitous social semantic; Social creativity; Social trust; Ethics
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SOTICS General Chairs
Philip Davis, Bournemouth and Poole College – Bournemouth, UK
David Newell, Bournemouth University – Bournemouth, UK
SOTICS Advisory Chairs
Petre Dini, Concordia University, Canada & IARIA, USA
Magdalini Eirinaki, San Jose State University, USA
Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam, Germany
Abdulrahman Yarali, Murray State University, USA
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Social Networks
Feng Gao, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Lynne Hall, University of Sunderland, UK
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on eGovernment
Jennifer Watkins, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Digital Cities
Tom Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Digital Libraries
Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Media
Claus Atzenbeck, Hof University, Germany / Aalborg University, Denmark
SOTICS Publicity Chairs
Nima Dokoohaki, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) – Stockholm, Sweden
Christine Langeron, Hubert Curien Laboratory, Lyon University, France
Sandra Sendra Compte, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ComSOTICS11.html