[agents] Call for papers and abstracts, Social Informatics 2020, 6-9 Oct. [Deadline 29 May 2020]

Tue Apr 21 07:50:39 EDT 2020

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Considering the current circumstances, the impact of the pandemic and
ongoing travel bans, organizers of SocInfo2020 are moving forward with
the assumption that SocInfo2020 will be
*a hybrid of an in-person andonline conference* or *a fully online
conference* probably in the
originally scheduled dates of October 6-9, 2020. The exact format and
schedule will be announced in due course. To allow authors to recover
from disruptions, we also give an extension to the submission deadline
for papers and abstract until May 29.We will also announce a revised
registration structure taking into account the new format of the
conference for online participants.

Details of all the exact format of the conference will be announced
later. Meanwhile, please get behind SocInfo2020, support Social
Informatics research, and consider submitting your work to the
conference.

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International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2020)
CALL FOR PAPERS
06-09 Oct. 2020
Pisa, Italy
https://kdd.isti.cnr.it/socinfo2020/
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Important Dates
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* Submission deadline: 29 May 2020
* Notification of acceptance: 27 July 2020
* Camera-ready: 14 August 2020

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socinfo20

About SocInfo2020
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The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2020) is an
interdisciplinary venue that brings together researchers from the
computational and social sciences to help fill the gap between the two
communities. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum to help
practitioners from the two disciplines define common research objectives
and explore methodologies. The organizers welcome a broad range of
contributions, from those that apply methods from the social sciences to
the study of socio-technical systems, to the application of
computational methods to the study of complex social processes and the
use of social concepts in the design of information systems.

SocInfo2020 offers an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge
between the two communities by soliciting presentations of original
research papers and experience-based case studies in computer science,
sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, economics,
linguistics, artificial intelligence, social network analysis, and other
disciplines that can shed light on the open questions in the growing
field of computational social science.

SocInfo2020 will also offer keynote talks and invited talks that will be
tailored to enhance the collaboration between the two research cultures
in an era when social interactions are ubiquitous and span offline,
online and augmented reality worlds.

Topics of interest
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Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science
* Computational models of social phenomena, including behavior modeling
* Dynamics of social collaborative systems
* Social network analysis and mining
* Mining big social data
* Social influence and social contagions
* 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
* Health informatics
* Social media and health behaviors
* Algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies
* Equity in social and information systems
* Social choice mechanisms in the e-society
* Social applications of the semantic Web
* Social psychology and personality
* Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.)
* Impact of technology on socio-economic, security, defense aspects
* Urban informatics
* Forecasting of social phenomena
* Socio-economic systems and applications
* Collective intelligence and social cognition
* Ethics of computational research on human behavior
* Science and technology studies approaches to computational social
science
* Digital and Computational Demography

Submission, Paper Formatting, Length, Double-blind Reviewing, and
Anonymization
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Original manuscripts should be submitted in English in pdf format
through Easychair. All the deadlines are at 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth
Time.

We solicit submission of three types of contribution:
Full papers: should not exceed 12 pages (excluding references and any
appendix), to be presented orally;
Short papers: should not exceed 6 pages (excluding references and any
appendix), to be presented orally;
Abstracts: should be 1 page (excluding references), to be presented as
posters;

Submissions will be reviewed through a double-blind review process
(names of the authors invisible). To ensure a thorough and fair review
process, this year’s conference will rely on a two-tier review process
and we will enforce strict review guidelines to provide even
higher-quality feedback to authors. To further incentivize useful and
detailed feedback to authors, contributions of best reviewers will be
rewarded with special mentions.

Because SocInfo will publish proceedings, manuscripts should be
formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines. Please
ensure that you have anonymized the pdf file for your submission by
removing all author names and affiliations and any other information in
the manuscript which can be used to identify the author(s).

Proceedings, and Special Issues
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As in previous years, accepted papers will appear in Springer's Lecture
Note Series in Computer Science. We will also allow accepted papers to
be presented without publication in the conference proceedings if the
authors choose to do so. Some of the full paper submissions may be
accepted as short papers after review by the Program Committee. A small
set of particularly high quality and important papers will be selected
for journal publication.

Conflict of interest
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Some program committee members may have a potential conflict of interest
that can prevent them from evaluating you fairly (e.g. they are your
colleagues or colleagues of your co-authors). Please declare any
conflict of interest and provide a brief explanation.
Please check the list of our program committee members and mark any
conflicts of interest using the instructions provided below.
If you are making a new submission after the submission is made you will
be asked to mark conflicts of interest.
For existing submissions, you should access the submission and click on
"Declare Conflicts".

Looking forward to receiving your submissions.

Best Regards,

Samin Aref (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

On behalf of the organizing committee and

GENERAL CHAIRS:

Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa, Italy)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:

Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)

Frank Dignum (Umeå University, Sweden)

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