The Eighth International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics

SOTICS 2018

October 14, 2018 to October 18, 2018 - Nice, France

Deadlines

Submission

Jun 28, 2018

Notification

Jul 31, 2018

Registration

Aug 12, 2018

Camera ready

Aug 22, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Publication

Published by IARIA Press (operated by Xpert Publishing Services)

Archived in the Open Access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library

Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal

Indexing Procedure

Affiliated Journals

SOTICS 2018 - The Eighth International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics

October 14, 2018 - October 18, 2018

SOTICS 2018

ISSN: 2326-9294
ISBN: 978-1-61208-673-6

SOTICS 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of SoftNet 2018 Congress:

  • ICSEA 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
  • ICSNC 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications
  • CENTRIC 2018, The Eleventh International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services
  • VALID 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle
  • SIMUL 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation
  • SOTICS 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics
  • INNOV 2018, The Seventh International Conference on Communications, Computation, Networks and Technologies
  • HEALTHINFO 2018, The Third International Conference on Informatics and Assistive Technologies for Health-Care, Medical Support and Wellbeing

Special tracks:

FANPAD: Fake News, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Analysis, Detection and Prevention
Chair and Coordinator: Aviad Elyashar (PhD Student), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel aviade@post.bgu.ac.il

ASMCSI: Applications of Social Media in Communication, Security, and Informatics
Chair: Dr. Swati Agarwal, Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, India swatia@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Coordinators
Dr. Rahul Thakur, Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, India rahult@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Hemant Rathore, Faculty and PhD Candidate, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, India hemantr@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

SOTICS 2018 conference tracks:

Social applications

On-line entertainment; Games and citizens; Social networking and social software; Tagging and micro-blogging; Collaborative filtering and tagging; Social simulation (mobility, groupware, etc.); Very large social networks; Deep web social information; Blogs and mini-blogs; E-books

Social media use and experiences

Social media platforms, tools, and applications; Collaboration tools; Multi-user media-sharing platforms (ideo, images, audio, and text);  Integrated multi-brand networking platforms (for friend/follow, organic groups, calendars/events, direct messaging, tagging, and activity feed); Agile social media platforms; Sharing tools (Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, YouTube, instant messaging, video conferencing, web meetings); Social media work flow tools; Collaborative culture; Learning experiences; Knowledge sharing

Community services

Technologies for building the social media channels; Blogs (private and corporate); Ratings and reviews; Referrals and sharing; Forums; User-created content management; Member profile management (photos, information preferences, linked channels, and privacy settings); Social networking via integrated multi-brand networking platforms; Cross-channel synchronization ( integration of the user experience across all in-house social media channels); API backbones; Spiders; Connectors

Special services and technologies

Mobile social media; Kids-oriented social media; youth-oriented social media; elderly-oriented social media; dedicated games; accessibility-oriented social media; Multi-sensor user interfaces (e.g., tactile, haptic, olfactory)

Digital resource domains

Enterprise social networks; Geo-social networks; Social networks; Digital computing; Digital health care; Digital mapping; Digital human faces; Digital libraries; Informatics environments; Micro-contribution by masses

Social evaluation and metrics

Social media analytics; Text analytics; Metric on quality of experience and satisfaction; Social mobility; Social interactions; Social learning; Social media; Social models; Mutual social credentials; Sentiment analysis

Social mobility

Social mobile networks with the Web 2.0; Mobile social architecture and services; Open service capabilities; Open exposure of telco capabilities; Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP; Interworking strategies; Mobile terminals as sources for User-generated content; Architecture and services for user-generated content; Auto-description and metadata synthesis for telecom-generated for user-generated content; Social mobile networks; User behavior profiling; Social connections (social graphs, contacts, etc); Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services

Mechanisms for social services

Social media advertising and marketing; eSociety; Network growth and dynamics; Accessibility; Social education; Social opinion; Digital eco-systems; Ecology and social justice; eGovernments; Digital economy; eCommerce; Digital cities; Tourism; Democracy and social groups; Patent laws; Social tools; Web enterprises and services

Challenges in social environments

Computational thinking; Natural language processing; eImpact on children knowledge and abilities; Opinion and sentiment analysis; Computing and philosophy; Threats in social networks; Trusted computing; Reputation systems; Pervasive social computing; Real-time ubiquitous social semantic; Social creativity; Privacy preservation in social media; Social trust; Ethics; Legal aspects


Deadlines:

Submission

Jun 28, 2018

Notification

Jul 31, 2018

Registration

Aug 12, 2018

Camera ready

Aug 22, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).