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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to SOTICS 2015.

Note that we are few days away from the submission deadline of July 6, 2015.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== SOTICS 2015 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

SOTICS 2015, The Fifth International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics

November 15 – 20, 2015 – Barcelona, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SOTICS15.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPSOTICS15.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitSOTICS15.html

Contributions:

– regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

– short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

– ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

– presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

– demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]

– doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

– mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html

– workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

– tutorials:  [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

– panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: July 6, 2015

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Please note the Poster 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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 2015 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

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 media use and experiences

Social media platforms, tools, and applications; Collaboration tools; Multi-user media-sharing platforms (ideo, images, audio, and text);  Integrated multi-brand networking platforms (for friend/follow, organic groups, calendars/events, direct messaging, tagging, and activity feed); Agile social media platforms; Sharing tools (Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, YouTube, instant messaging, video conferencing, web meetings); Social media work flow tools; Collaborative culture; Learning experiences; Knowledge sharing

Community services

Technologies for building the social media channels; Blogs (private and corporate); Ratings and reviews; Referrals and sharing; Forums; User-created content management; Member profile management (photos, information preferences, linked channels, and privacy settings); Social networking via integrated multi-brand networking platforms; Cross-channel synchronization ( integration of the user experience across all in-house social media channels); API backbones; Spiders; Connectors

Special services and technologies

Mobile social media; Kids-oriented social media; youth-oriented social media; elderly-oriented social media; dedicated games; accessibility-oriented social media; Multi-sensor user interfaces (e.g., tactile, haptic, olfactory)

Digital resource domains

Enterprise social networks; Geo-social networks; Social networks; Digital computing; Digital health care; Digital mapping; Digital human faces; Digital libraries; Informatics environments; Micro-contribution by masses

Social evaluation and metrics

Social media analytics; Text analytics; Metric on quality of experience and satisfaction; Social mobility; Social interactions; Social learning; Social media; Social models; Mutual social credentials; Sentiment analysis

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

Social media advertising and marketing; eSociety; Network growth and dynamics; 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; Privacy preservation in social media; Social trust; Ethics; Legal aspects

Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ComSOTICS15.html

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