|  | The Fourth  International Conference onSocial Eco-Informatics
 SOTICS   2014  October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France  | 
     
     
     
     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 2014 Technical Program Committee 
     Witold  Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
       Fernando  Albuquerque Costa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
       Mehdi  Asgarkhani, CPIT – Christchurch, New Zealand
       Simon  Reay Atkinson, University of Sydney, Australia 
       Liz  Bacon, University of Greenwich, UK
       Thierry  Badard, Centre for Research in Geomatics - Laval University, Canada
       George  Barnett, University of California, USA
       Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Patras, 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
       Te-Shun  Chou, East Carolina University, USA
       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
       Bogdan  Gliwa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
       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
       Hana Horak,  University of Zagreb, Croatia
       Yuh-Jong  Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
          Yun Huang, Northwestern University, USA
       Omar  S. Hujran, Princess Sumaya University for Technology – Amman, Jordan
       Darko  Huljenic, Ericsson Nikola Tesla d. d., Croatia
       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
       Dima  Kagan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
       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
       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
       Shou-de Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
       Xumin  Liu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA 
       Jinhu  Lu, RMIT University, Australia
       Sultana  Lubna Alam, University of Canberra, Australia
          Richard  Lucas, University of Canberra, Australia
       Paul  Lukowicz, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) -  Kaiserslautern, Germany
       Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Italy
       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
       Andrea  Nanetti, Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore / Shanghai JiaoTong  University, China
       Federico  Neri, SyNTHEMA Language & Semantic Intelligence, Italy
          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
       Andry  Rakotonirainy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
       Juwel Rana, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
       Pedro  Rangel Henriques, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
       Barbara  Re, University of Camerino, Italy
       Miguel  Rebollo Pedruelo, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
       Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA
       Carla Rodríguez,  Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
       Jia (Jackie) Rong, Deakin University - Melbourne, Australia
       Azim  Roussanaly, LORIA/University of Lorraine, France
       Luis  Enrique Sánchez Crespo, Sicaman Nuevas Tecnologías S.L. | University of  Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
       Marcello  Sarini, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Italy
       Sonja  Schmer-Galunder, Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT), USA
       Peter  Smith, University of Sunderland, UK
       Günther  Specht, University of Innsbruck, Austria
       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
       Jacqui Taylor, Bournemouth University, UK
       Maurice.Tchuente, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon
       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
       Rudi  Vansnick, Internet Society Belgium, Belgium
       Nikos Vrakas, University of  Piraeus, Greece
       Fang  Wang, UMASS - Amherst, USA | Nankai University - Tianjin, China
       Liqiang  Wang, University of Wyoming, USA
       Jiang  Wei, Missouri University of Science and Technology - Rolla, USA
       Huadong  Xia, Microstrategy Inc. / Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory  - Virginia Tech, USA
       Levent  Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA
       Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
       Ryan  Zammit, Middlesex University, UK
       Weining  Zhang, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
       Wenbing  Zhao, Cleveland State University, USA
       Xingquan Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA