** The Last Call for Late-breaking Papers !!
We invite short papers on late-breaking developments in the field of social informatics. The late-breaking paper submission deadline is Aug. 24, 2015 (accepted only as short or poster papers). For details, please visit the conference website.

All late-breaking papers should be submitted to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialinformatics20150 (Choose topic: Late-breaking paper)

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ASE SocialInformatics 2015 Call for Papers
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The Fourth ASE International Conference on Social Informatics
(jointly with the Fifth ASE International Conference on Big Data)
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
OCT. 7-9, 2015
http://socialinformatics2015.scienceengineeringacademy.org/?page_id=92

ASE BigData 2015: http://bigdata2015.scienceengineeringacademy.org/
The ASE weblink: http://www.scienceengineeringacademy.org/asesite/

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Highlights
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* The proceeding this year will be published by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS), which is EI indexed.

* Six special issues of journals including
- Soft Computing (SCI)
- Journal of Universial Computer Science (SCI)
- Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (SCI)
- Intelligent Data Analysis (SCI)
- Review of Socionetwork Strategies (Springer)
- International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity (InderScience)

* Six international well-known scholars will give their keynotes in the conferences
- Prof. Salil Vadhan (Harvard University, USA)
- Prof. Yi-Bing Lin (Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
- Prof. Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
- Prof. Justin Z. Zhan (North Carolina A&T State University, USA)
- Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)
- Prof. Reda Alhajj (University of Calgary, Canada)

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Important Dates
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Workshop & Special Session proposal submission: June 7, 2015
Electronic submission of full papers: July 28, 2015 (extended)
Notification of paper acceptance: August 21, 2015
Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 7, 2015
Conference: October 7-9, 2015

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Topics of Interest
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Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
•Computational Social Science
•Human Dynamics
•Social Signal Processing
•Social Behavior Modeling
•Social Informatics Theories
•Social Intelligence and Social Cognition
•Social media analytics and social media intelligence
•Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design
•Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, Influence Process
•Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Contexts
•Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts

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Paper Submission
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All paper submissions will be done electronically, as indicated in the instructions on the conference web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialinformatics20150
All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the ASE Open Access Scientific Digital Library.

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History
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The conferences were held in Washington D.C. in 2012, in Orlando, Florida in 2013, and at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA in 2014. This year is the first time for the conference to be held outside USA. It will be hosted by National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan from Oct. 7th to 9th, 2015, and held jointly with the Fifth ASE International Conference on Big Data.

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Contact
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General Chairs:
Tzung-Pei Hong: tphong@nuk.edu.tw
Xu Jeffrey Yu: yu@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Shusaku Tsumoto: tsumoto@med.shimane-u.ac.jp

Program Chairs:
I-Hsien Ting: iting@nuk.edu.tw
Shou-De Lin: sdlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw
Wen-Yang Lin: wylin@nuk.edu.tw
Raymond Chi-Wing Wong: raywong@cse.ust.hk

Contact:
Min-Thai Wu: jimmywmt@nuk.edu.tw