Session 1: Privacy and Trust,

Session 2: Social Aspects of Virtual Collaboration,

Session 3: Social Networks: Theory and Analysis,

Session 4: Social Recommendations and Social Network in Practice,

Session 5: Fairness Management,

Session 6: Team Recommendation,

Tutorial 1: Practical Trust Management With the uTrust library,

Tutorial 2: Rapid Hypothesis Verification With the Repast Symphony Framework.

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• A student must be the first or only author.
• The work should reflect, primarily, the student 's efforts.
• Working models can be presented at the conference, or experimental work is demonstrably relevant to the goals of CSSS.
• The conference submission is sufficiently detailed to allow adequate committee evaluation.

Awardees will present their work on Saturday November 6, at the conference luncheon. Presentations will consist of a 20 minute talk (and demonstration if applicable) followed by 10 minutes for questions. Each award winner will receive a certificate signifying this honor plus $100.00.

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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the topics of the constituent conferences. Submitted papers must be original and not currently under review by another conference or journal. They should stimulate the development of the information society and incorporate recent developments. Submitted papers should not be too technical in nature.

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SATSU is an internationally recognised social science research centre exploring the dynamics, practices, and possibilities of contemporary science and technology. Its principal focus is on the biosciences, health, digital media and social networking including new forms of democratic governance, and the broader regulatory universe within which these are found. Our approach is to provide both theoretical and empirically-grounded critical analyses of these fields, and to undertake interdisciplinary and policy-relevant research informed by both conventional and novel methodological techniques.

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• Information and Knowledge society
• Network and Information Technologies
• e-Learning

For the 2011 edition of the Doctoral Programme in the Information and Knowledge Society, a total of 20 doctoral positions are being offered, distributed as follows:

• 10 positions for full-time, attending students benefiting from a competitive predoctoral grant, such as the IN3-UOC grants for doctoral theses or grants from other bodies (such as the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Catalan Agency for the Management of University and Research Grants [Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca de Catalunya] through the Fundació Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (FUOC).
• 10 positions for students who will take the doctoral research programme course on a distance learning-based system.

IN3 welcomes applications from students from Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Engineering, Law and Political Science, Media, Science Education or Social Sciences in general, strongly motivated to undertake an interdisciplinary research. Applicants having a minimum of 300 ECTS credits (60 must be at postgraduate level) can access directly the PhD programme with a 3-year scholarship.

Deadline for application: 13th June 2010.

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The deadline for applications is 3 May, 2010.

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The conference solicits interdisciplinary papers on methods from the social sciences in the study of information systems, applying information technology in the study of social phenomena, or applying social concepts in the design of information systems. Each paper will be reviewed by at least one expert in the domain of social sciences. The modeling and simulation of complex social phenomena, including Web2.0 applications, using well-established models such as social networks, is of particular interest to SocInfo’2010.

Applications of social concepts in concrete information systems such as web enterprises or services, games, multi-agent systems, e-commerce (including trust management and reputation systems) environments for support of teamwork, argumentation and debate, or creative work, will be of interest. The extensions of established knowledge in recommendation systems, collaborative applications (including collaborative filtering and tagging), distributed AI or Multi-agent systems for the purpose of incorporating social mechanisms may be a contribution to the conference.

Submission deadline: June 7th, 2010.

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