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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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