[ecrea] Call for papers, The First International Conference on Social Eco-Informatics, Barcelona (Spain), October 23-28, 2011

*The First International Conference on** Social Eco-Informatics*
*SOTICS 2011*
*October 23-28, 2011 - Barcelona, Spain *

*Deadline (full papers) : June 1, 2011.*

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPSOTICS11.html

The systems comprising human and information features form a complex mix 
of social sciences and informatics concepts embraced by the so-called 
social eco-systems. These are interdisciplinary approaches on social 
phenomena supported by advanced informatics solutions.  It is quit 
intriguing that the impact on society is little studied despite a few 
experiments. Recently, also Google was labeled as a company that does 
not contribute to brain development by instantly showing the response 
for a query. This is in contrast to the fact that it has been proven 
that not showing the definitive answer directly facilitates a learning 
process better. Also, studies show that e-book reading takes more times 
than reading a printed one. Digital libraries and deep web offer a vast 
spectrum of information. Large scale digital library and access-free 
digital libraries, as well as social networks and tools constitute 
challenges in terms of accessibility, trust, privacy, and user 
satisfaction. The current questions concern the trade-off, where our 
actions must focus, and how to increase the accessibility to eSocial 
resources.

SOTICS 2011, an inaugural event on social eco-informatics, bridges 
different social and informatics concepts by considering digital 
domains, social metrics, social applications, services, and challenges.  
Academic and industrial contributions are expected on algorithms, 
mechanisms, models, services dealing with challenges in social eco-systems.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, 
position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such 
as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, 
survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the 
above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content 
constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long 
presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are 
encouraged.

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.

*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


*INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS*

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions 
to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Submitted for indexing:
- ISI Thompson Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)
- Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's Engineering Information Index
- DBLP, IET INSPEC, and other relevant specialized indexes.
- Other indexes are being considered

*Important deadlines:*

Submission (full paper)  June 1, 2011
Notification June 25, 2011
Registration July 10, 2011
Camera ready  July 15, 2011

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All 
received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 
4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions 
can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper 
formatting can be found on the here.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be 
provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an 
author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL 
will be included in the letter of acceptance.

*Poster Forum*

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the 
instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" 
button and selecting the contribution type as poster.  Submissions are 
expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the 
Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for 
discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display 
the slides and discuss in an informal manner. The poster slide decks 
will be posted on the IARIA site.

For more details, see the Poster Forum explanation page.
*
Work in Progress*

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the 
contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions 
using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as 
work in progress.  Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text 
manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, 
affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference 
deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the 
areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the 
conference proceedings.

For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and 
positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 
10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the 
slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be 
published in the conference's CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks 
will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to 
(petre /at/ iaria.org).
*
Tutorials*

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals 
should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, 
the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The 
tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send 
your proposals to (petre /at/ iaria.org)
*
Panel proposals:*

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize 
dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and 
paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and 
manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. 
Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating 
their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the 
panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be 
posted on the IARIA's site.

For more information, (petre /at/ iaria.org)

*Workshop proposals
*
We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of 
this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to (petre /at/ iaria.org).