Nov 10, 2014 – Nov 13, 2014
Barcelona, Spain
Submission Deadline: Aug 8, 2014
Notification Due: Oct 3, 2014
Final Version Due: Oct 10, 2014
The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo) is an interdisciplinary venue that brings together researchers from informatics and social sciences to help fill the gap between the two communities. The goal of the conference is to contribute to the definition and exploration of common methodologies and research goals that encompass the objectives and motivate the two disciplines. The venue welcomes contributions on methods from the social sciences applied to the study of socio-technological systems but also about the application of information technology to the study of complex social processes, and the use of social concepts in the design of information systems.
Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* New theories, methods and objectives in computational social science
* Computational models of social phenomena and social simulation
* Social behavior modeling
* Social communities: discovery, evolution, analysis, and applications
* Dynamics of social collaborative systems
* Social network analysis and mining
* Mining social big data
* Social Influence and social contagion
* Web mining and its social interpretations
* Quantifying offline phenomena through online data
* Rich representations of social ties
* Security, privacy, trust, reputation, and incentive issues
* Opinion mining and social media analytics
* Credibility of online content
* Algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies
* Mechanisms for providing fairness in information systems
* Social choice mechanisms in the e-society
* Social applications of the semantic Web
* Social system design and architectures
* Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.)
* Impact of technology on socio-economic, security, defense aspects
* Real-time analysis or visualization of social phenomena and social graphs
* Socio-economic systems and applications
* Collective intelligence and social cognition
Original manuscripts should be submitted in English in pdf format to the EasyChair submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socinfo2014). They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines (https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). The length of the full papers should not exceed 14 pages (excluding references).
Important dates
- Full paper submission: August 8, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
- Notification of acceptance: October 3, 2014
- Submission of final version: October 10, 2014
- Conference dates: November 10-13, 2014