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The Third International Conference on Social
Eco-Informatics
SOTICS 2013
November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal |
SOTICS General Chairs
Philip Davis, Bournemouth and Poole College - Bournemouth, UK
David Newell, Bournemouth University - Bournemouth, UK
SOTICS Advisory Chairs
Petre Dini, Concordia University, Canada & IARIA, USA
Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam, Germany
Abdulrahman Yarali, Murray State University, USA
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Social Networks
Feng Gao, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Lynne Hall, University of Sunderland, UK
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on eGovernment
Jennifer Watkins, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Digital Cities
Tom Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Digital Libraries
Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Media
Claus Atzenbeck, Hof University, Germany / Aalborg University, Denmark
SOTICS Publicity Chairs
Nima Dokoohaki, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) - Stockholm, Sweden
Christine Langeron, Hubert Curien Laboratory, Lyon University, France
Sandra Sendra Compte, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
SOTICS 2013 Technical Program Committee
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Fernando Albuquerque Costa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Mehdi Asgarkhani, CPIT – Christchurch, New Zealand
Liz Bacon, University of Greenwich, UK
Thierry Badard, Centre for Research in Geomatics - Laval University, Canada
Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Western Greece, Greece
Lasse Berntzen, Vestfold University College, Norway
Lukasz Bolikowski, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling - University of Warsaw, Poland
Boyan Bontchev, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
Christos Bouras, University of Patras / Computer Technology Institute & Press «Diophantus», Greece
Anne Boyer, Université de Lorraine, France
Félix Brezo Fernández, University of Deusto, Spain
Piotr Bródka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Erik Buchmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germnay
María Luisa Carrió-Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Aspassia Daskalopulu, University of Thessaly, Greece
Guillermo De Ita, Universidad Politécnica de Puebla, Mexico
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Petra Deger, PH Heidelberg, Germany
Matteo Dell’Amico, EURECOM, France
Sebastian Dennerlein, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Giuliana Dettori, Institute for Educational Technology - National Research Council, Italy
Nima Dokoohaki, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) - Stockholm, Sweden
Prokopios Drogkaris,University of the Aegean - Karlovasi, Greece
Arianna D'Ulizia, Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies - National Research Council (IRPPS - CNR), Italy
Wael M. El-Medany, University Of Bahrain, Bahrain
Szilard Enyedi, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Thomas Erickson, IBM's Watson Labs, USA
Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada
M. Caremen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain
Michael Fire, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Jean Vincent Fonou-Dombeu, Vaal University of Technology, South Africa
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
Jose Jesus García Rueda, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Paolo Garza, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Rimantas Gatautis, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Chris Geiger, Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Christos K. Georgiadis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Lilia Georgieva, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Apostolos Gkamas, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Vella of Ioannina, Greece
William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Adrian Groza, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Richard Gunstone, Bournemouth University, UK
Panos Hahamis, University of Westminster – London, UK
Lynne Hall, University of Sunderland, UK
R. Gy Hashim, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) - Shah Alam, Malaysia
Patrick Hoefler, Know-Center GmbH, Austria
Yun Huang, Northwestern University, USA
Omar S. Hujran, Princess Sumaya University for Technology – Amman, Jordan
Colette Hume, University of Sunderland, UK
Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Carlos E. Jiménez, IEEE Technology Management Council Spain, Spain
Maria João Simões, Universidade da Beira Interior - Covilhã, Portugal
Nina Kahnwald, University of Siegen, Germany
Michail Kalogiannakis, University of Crete, Greece
Georgios Kapogiannis, Coventry University, UK
Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Jarmo Kärki, National Institute for Health and Welfare Information Structures and Classifications Unit, Finland
Zinayida Kensche (Petrushyna), RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Babak Khosravifar, Concordia University, Canada
Christian Kittl, evolaris next level GmbH, Germany
Dave Kocsis, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Dimitris Kotzinos, TEI of Serres, Greece
Tewart Kowalski, Stockholm University, Sweden
Peter Kraker, Know-Center, Austria
Dimosthenis Kyriazis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Renaud Lambiotte, FUNDP - Namur, Belgium
Christine Largeron, Lyon University, France
Shou-de Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Xumin Liu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Richard Lucas, University of Canberra, Australia
Paul Lukowicz, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) - Kaiserslautern, Germany
Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Italy / Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (Canton), P. R. China
Philippe Mathieu, Université Lille 1, France
Radosław Michalski, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
Muhanna Muhanna, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
Darren Mundy, School of Arts and New Media / University of Hull, UK
Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys, King's College London, UK
Peter Mutschke, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences - Köln, Germany
Cuong Nguyen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Michel Occello, University of Grenoble, France
Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Economics and Technology University - Ankara, Turkey
Tatyana Pashnyak, Bainbridge College, USA
Kiriakos Patriarcheas, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Fernando Pereñíguez García, University of Murcia, Spain
Jürgen Pfeffer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mick Phythian, De Montfort University – Leicester, UK
Spyros Polykalas, TEI of the Ionian Islands, Greece
Elaheh Pourabbas, National Research Council - Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica "Antonio Ruberti", Italy
Juwel Rana, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
Miguel Rebollo Pedruelo, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Yongli Ren, Deakin University, Australia
Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA
Carla Rodríguez, Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Jia (Jackie) Rong, Deakin University - Melbourne, Australia
Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, Sicaman Nuevas Tecnologías S.L. | University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
Marcello Sarini, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Peter Smith, University of Sunderland, UK
Sofia Stamou, Ionian University - Corfu, Greece
Johann Stan, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France
Dalibor Stanimirovic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Emmanouil Stiakakis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Kåre Synnes, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Jacqui Taylor, Bournemouth University, UK
Maurice Tchuente, ENS-Lyon, France
Marten Teitsma, Hogeschool van Amsterdam / University for Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Katya Toneva, Middlesex University - London, UK
Raquel Trillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Gabriel Valerio, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Natalie van der Wal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rudi Vansnick, Internet Society Belgium, Belgium
Nikos Vrakas, University of Piraeus, Greece
Fang Wang, UMASS - Amherst, USA | Nankai University - Tianjin, China
Jiang Wei, Missouri University of Science and Technology - Rolla, USA
Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia