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<p class="MsoNormal">Considering the current circumstances, the
impact of the pandemic and<br>
ongoing travel bans, organizers of SocInfo2020 are moving forward
with<br>
the assumption that SocInfo2020 will be <u>a hybrid of an
in-person and<br>
online conference</u> or <u>a fully online conference</u>
probably in the<br>
originally scheduled dates of October 6-9, 2020. The exact format
and<br>
schedule will be announced in due course. To allow authors to
recover<br>
from disruptions, we also give an extension to the submission
deadline<br>
for papers and abstract until May 29.We will also announce a
revised<br>
registration structure taking into account the new format of the<br>
conference for online participants.<br>
<br>
Details of all the exact format of the conference will be
announced<br>
later. Meanwhile, please get behind SocInfo2020, support Social<br>
Informatics research, and consider submitting your work to the<br>
conference.<br>
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International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2020)<br>
CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
06-09 Oct. 2020<br>
Pisa, Italy<br>
<a href="https://kdd.isti.cnr.it/socinfo2020/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">https://kdd.isti.cnr.it/socinfo2020/</a><br>
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Important Dates<br>
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* Submission deadline: 29 May 2020<br>
* Notification of acceptance: 27 July 2020<br>
* Camera-ready: 14 August 2020<br>
<br>
Submission link: <a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socinfo20"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socinfo20</a><br>
<br>
About SocInfo2020<br>
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The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2020)
is an<br>
interdisciplinary venue that brings together researchers from the<br>
computational and social sciences to help fill the gap between the
two<br>
communities. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum to
help<br>
practitioners from the two disciplines define common research
objectives<br>
and explore methodologies. The organizers welcome a broad range of<br>
contributions, from those that apply methods from the social
sciences to<br>
the study of socio-technical systems, to the application of<br>
computational methods to the study of complex social processes and
the<br>
use of social concepts in the design of information systems.<br>
<br>
SocInfo2020 offers an opportunity for the dissemination of
knowledge<br>
between the two communities by soliciting presentations of
original<br>
research papers and experience-based case studies in computer
science,<br>
sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, economics,<br>
linguistics, artificial intelligence, social network analysis, and
other<br>
disciplines that can shed light on the open questions in the
growing<br>
field of computational social science.<br>
<br>
SocInfo2020 will also offer keynote talks and invited talks that
will be<br>
tailored to enhance the collaboration between the two research
cultures<br>
in an era when social interactions are ubiquitous and span
offline,<br>
online and augmented reality worlds.<br>
<br>
Topics of interest<br>
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Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
<br>
* New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social
science<br>
* Computational models of social phenomena, including behavior
modeling<br>
* Dynamics of social collaborative systems<br>
* Social network analysis and mining<br>
* Mining big social data<br>
* Social influence and social contagions<br>
* Web mining and its social interpretations<br>
* Quantifying offline phenomena through online data<br>
* Rich representations of social ties<br>
* Security, privacy, trust, reputation, and incentive issues<br>
* Opinion mining and social media analytics<br>
* Credibility of online content<br>
* Health informatics<br>
* Social media and health behaviors<br>
* Algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies<br>
* Equity in social and information systems<br>
* Social choice mechanisms in the e-society<br>
* Social applications of the semantic Web<br>
* Social psychology and personality<br>
* Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming,
etc.)<br>
* Impact of technology on socio-economic, security, defense
aspects<br>
* Urban informatics<br>
* Forecasting of social phenomena<br>
* Socio-economic systems and applications<br>
* Collective intelligence and social cognition<br>
* Ethics of computational research on human behavior<br>
* Science and technology studies approaches to computational
social<br>
science<br>
* Digital and Computational Demography<br>
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Submission, Paper Formatting, Length, Double-blind Reviewing, and<br>
Anonymization<br>
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Original manuscripts should be submitted in English in pdf format<br>
through Easychair. All the deadlines are at 23:59:59 Anywhere on
Earth<br>
Time.<br>
<br>
We solicit submission of three types of contribution:<br>
Full papers: should not exceed 12 pages (excluding references and
any<br>
appendix), to be presented orally;<br>
Short papers: should not exceed 6 pages (excluding references and
any<br>
appendix), to be presented orally;<br>
Abstracts: should be 1 page (excluding references), to be
presented as<br>
posters;<br>
<br>
Submissions will be reviewed through a double-blind review process<br>
(names of the authors invisible). To ensure a thorough and fair
review<br>
process, this year’s conference will rely on a two-tier review
process<br>
and we will enforce strict review guidelines to provide even<br>
higher-quality feedback to authors. To further incentivize useful
and<br>
detailed feedback to authors, contributions of best reviewers will
be<br>
rewarded with special mentions.<br>
<br>
Because SocInfo will publish proceedings, manuscripts should be<br>
formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines.
Please<br>
ensure that you have anonymized the pdf file for your submission
by<br>
removing all author names and affiliations and any other
information in<br>
the manuscript which can be used to identify the author(s).<br>
<br>
Proceedings, and Special Issues<br>
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As in previous years, accepted papers will appear in Springer's
Lecture<br>
Note Series in Computer Science. We will also allow accepted
papers to<br>
be presented without publication in the conference proceedings if
the<br>
authors choose to do so. Some of the full paper submissions may be<br>
accepted as short papers after review by the Program Committee. A
small<br>
set of particularly high quality and important papers will be
selected<br>
for journal publication.<br>
<br>
Conflict of interest<br>
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Some program committee members may have a potential conflict of
interest<br>
that can prevent them from evaluating you fairly (e.g. they are
your<br>
colleagues or colleagues of your co-authors). Please declare any<br>
conflict of interest and provide a brief explanation.<br>
Please check the list of our program committee members and mark
any<br>
conflicts of interest using the instructions provided below.<br>
If you are making a new submission after the submission is made
you will<br>
be asked to mark conflicts of interest.<br>
For existing submissions, you should access the submission and
click on<br>
"Declare Conflicts".<br>
<br>
Looking forward to receiving your submissions.<br>
Best Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Samin Aref (Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">
On behalf of the organizing committee and<br>
GENERAL CHAIRS:<br>
Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy)<br>
Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa, Italy)<br>
<br>
<br>
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:<br>
Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)<br>
Frank Dignum (Umeå University, Sweden)<br>
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<a href="https://kdd.isti.cnr.it/socinfo2020/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">https://kdd.isti.cnr.it/socinfo2020/</a><br>
<a href="https://twitter.com/socinfo20" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">https://twitter.com/socinfo20</a><br>
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Med vänlig hälsning/Best regards,
Frank Dignum *
Professor Socially Aware AI *
Department of Computer Science *
Umeå University *
Sverige * Knowledge is only one point,
e-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:frank.dignum@umu.se">frank.dignum@umu.se</a> * the ignorant have multiplied it
telephone: +46-90-7869101 *
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