(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) 2015 IEEE Globecom Workshop on Social Collaborative Internet (SCI-2015), 6-10, December 2015/San Diego, CA USA Call for Papers MOTIVATION AND SCOPE Beyond a platform for casual social interaction and for marketing research and broadcasting, social networks are also rapidly becoming a powerful tool for collaboration, innovation, coordination and problem solving. Social networks are now used to report crimes to law enforcement agencies, monitor health epidemics, issue community warnings and, lately, also to connect devices in a social network-based Internet of Things. We refer to the augmented use of social networks for collaboration between people, as well as between machines, as the Social Collaborative Internet. This international workshop on Social Collaborative Internet (SCI-2015) focuses on the crossroads between scientists, researchers, industry practitioners and students from diverse domains in social networking, communications and the Internet of Things. Its purpose is to attract novel contributions on the analysis, design, modeling, implementation and evaluation of technologies that can support the Social Collaborative Internet. The workshop will focus on the following (not limited) issues: - How to effectively utilize and evaluate social network and media data for public safety and emergency response? - Visualization and analytics techniques for social network and collaboration data. - How will the introduction of machine-to-machine communication in social networking affect security and privacy? - Performance, effectiveness and efficiency of collaboration through social networks. - Applications of social networks for supporting personalized information and improvement of quality of life (i.e. e-health, e-gov). - Extension of the social network concept, to include non-human participation (i.e. socially inspired paradigm for machine to machine communication). - Prototyping and standardization of interaction over social networks, (i.e. use of terminology, mapping to standards). - Convergence of Internet of things and Social networks towards a Social Internet of Things. TOPICS OF INTEREST Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, including, but not limited to: - Social network collaboration paradigms - Social network use by Law Enforcement Agencies - Social networks in the Health sector - Volunteerism in social media - Social network analysis and mining - Computational social networks - Security and privacy in social networks - Trust management in social networks - Next generation of social networks - Social Internet of things / Social network of intelligent objects - Machine to machine social networking IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: July 15, 2015 Acceptance/rejection notification: September 1, 2015 Final workshop papers due: October 1, 2015 Website: http://networklab.teipir.gr/sci-2015 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are required to submit fully formatted, original papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication. Authors are required to submit fully formatted, original papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication, not submitted to any other conference/workshop at the same time. All final submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10 -point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length page charge of USD100 if accepted). Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted at EDAS. Only timely submissions through EDAS will be accepted for review. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are found at here: http://ieee.org/conferences_event You may also use one of the following templates for Microsoft Word: A4, US letter. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be done through EDAS. PLEASE NOTE: To be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop at the FULL (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the workshop unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non- refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication- ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one FULL or LIMITED registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore(r). ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Charalampos Patrikakis (TEI of Piraeus) * George Loukas (University of Greenwich) * David S. Ebert (Purdue University) * Veronique Pevtschin (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.P.A.) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Pete Burnap (Cardiff University) * Bent Christensen (Cisco Systems, Inc) * Ed De Quincey (Keele University) * Paolo Falcarin (University of East London) * Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis (University of Greenwich) * Brian Fisher (Simon Fraser University) * Dimitris Kogias (TEI of Piraeus) * Ross Maciejewski (Arizona State University) * Sorin Adam Matei (Purdue University) * Dimitris Metafas (TEI of Piraeus) * Rasmus Nielsen (Cisco systems, Inc) * Neeli Prasad (Aalborg University) * William Ribarsky (UNC Charlotte) * Georgia Sakellari (Middlesex University) - Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 - - Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability - - Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence - - <http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org> http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org - - Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, <http://www.purvac.org> www.purvac.org - - <mailto:ebertd@purdue.edu> ebertd@purdue.edu <http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd> http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------