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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>2015 IEEE Globecom Workshop on Social Collaborative Internet (SCI-2015), 6-10, December 2015/San Diego, CA USA </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>Call for Papers </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>MOTIVATION AND SCOPE</span></strong><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'> </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>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. </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'> </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>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:</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>· How to effectively utilize and evaluate social network and media data for public safety and emergency response?</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>· Visualization and analytics techniques for social network and collaboration data.</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>· How will the introduction of machine-to-machine communication in social networking affect security and privacy?</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>· Performance, effectiveness and efficiency of collaboration through social networks.</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>· Applications of social networks for supporting personalized information and improvement of quality of life (i.e. e-health, e-gov).</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>· Extension of the social network concept, to include non-human participation (i.e. socially inspired paradigm for machine to machine communication).</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>· Prototyping and standardization of interaction over social networks, (i.e. use of terminology, mapping to standards).</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>· Convergence of Internet of things and Social networks towards a Social Internet of Things.</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'> </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></strong><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'> </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, including, but not limited to: </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Social network collaboration paradigms </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Social network use by Law Enforcement Agencies </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Social networks in the Health sector </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Volunteerism in social media </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Social network analysis and mining </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Computational social networks </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Security and privacy in social networks </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Trust management in social networks </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Next generation of social networks </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Social Internet of things / Social network of intelligent objects </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>- Machine to machine social networking </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#252525'> </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>Important dates: </span></b><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>Submission deadline: <i>July 1, 2015</i></span></u><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>Acceptance/rejection notification: <i>September 1, 2015</i> </span></u><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>Final workshop papers due: <i>October 1, 2015</i></span></u><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>Website: </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EL'><a href="http://networklab.teipir.gr/sci-2015/index.html">http://networklab.teipir.gr/sci-2015/index.html</a></span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>Paper submission guidelines: </span></b><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>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: </span><span lang=EL><a href="http://ieee.org/conferences_event" title="Linkification: http://ieee.org/conferences_event"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>http://ieee.org/conferences_event</span></a></span><span lang=EL style='font-size:11.5pt'> </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>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.</span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>PLEASE NOTE</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>: 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. </span><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>Organising Committee</span></b><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EL'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EL'> </span>Charalampos Patrikakis (TEI of Piraeus) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EL'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EL'> </span>George Loukas (University of Greenwich)<span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EL'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EL'> </span>David S. Ebert (Purdue University)<span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EL'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EL'> </span>Veronique Pevtschin (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.P.A.)<span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EL'>Technical Program Committee:</span></b><span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Pete Burnap (Cardiff University)<span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Bent Christensen (Cisco Systems, Inc) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Ed De Quincey (Keele University) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Paolo Falcarin (University of East London) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis (University of Greenwich) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Brian Fisher (Simon Fraser University)<span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Dimitris Kogias (TEI of Piraeus) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Ross Maciejewski (Arizona State University) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Sorin Adam Matei (Purdue University) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Dimitris Metafas (TEI of Piraeus) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Rasmus Nielsen (Cisco systems, Inc) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:34.9pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span>Neeli Prasad (Aalborg University) <span lang=EL><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.45pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.55pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span lang=EL>William Ribarsky (UNC Charlotte)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EL> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EL> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- <a href="http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org</span></a> -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, <a href="http://www.purvac.org"><span style='color:blue'>www.purvac.org</span></a> -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- <a href="mailto:ebertd@purdue.edu"><span style='color:blue'>ebertd@purdue.edu</span></a> <a href="http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd</span></a> -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>