SocInfo 2020 : 12th International Conference on Social Informatics

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

INFORMATION ABOUT SUBMISSION

We solicit submission of three types of contribution:

• Full papers:should not exceed 12 pages (exclfpruding 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.

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.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Original manuscripts should be submitted in English in pdf format through Easychair.

• Submission deadline: April 20th, 2020
• Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2020.
• Camera ready: July 15, 2020.

All the deadlines are at 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth Time.

FORMATTING AND ANONYMIZATION

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 you submission by removing all author names and affiliations and any other information in the manuscript which can be used to identify the author(s).

CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS.

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 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 interests.
For existing submissions, you should access the submission and click on "Declare Conflicts".