-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Social Network 2008 Datum: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:15:35 +0200 Von: Arnošt Svoboda asvobod@gmail.com An: Arnošt Svoboda asvobod@gmail.com
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C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N
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SOCIAL NETWORKS AND APPLICATION TOOLS (SoNet-08)
International Workshop September 19-21, 2008, Skalica, Slovakia
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Dear Colleagues,
The University of Central Europe and its SoNet Research Center, Skalica, Slovakia (European Union), would like to invite you to a special International Workshop "Social Networks and the Application Tools" devoted to practically oriented lectures about applications of modern informatics methods and software tools to Social Networks.
- DATE and PLACE: September 19-21, 2008, in Skalica, Slovakia (EU). - ACCESS: FREE for registered participants (no workshop fee). - REGISTRATION: http://sonet.webnode.cz/events/registration/ or <SoNet.RC@gmail.com mailto:SoNet.RC@gmail.com>. - ACCOMMODATION: Via the registration, the workshop organizers can book a hotel room. Skalica is a small town with a limited number of hotels, so the interested people should register soon. Participants pay their own accommodation.
- MAIN TOPICS: ------------------------------ * Computer Technologies of IBM * Urban and Regional Problems * Medical Applications * Data Mining * Natural Language Processing ------------------------------
Social networks are structures made of individuals or organizations tied by specific types of interdependency. The real-world structures are usually very complex, containing hidden, inapparent information and knowledge waiting for being revealed.
The workshop will provide lectures, survey presentations, research results, and practical demonstrations of software tools by prominent scientific and research experts as well as Ph.D. students from various social areas and leading research and educational institutions. The lectures will be available in the workshop proceedings. Among our invited lecturers, there are experts from the Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The workshop includes lectures and tutorials by leading developers from the IBM Dublin Center for Advanced Studies.
The workshop topics cover areas interesting for scientists, students, industrialists, businessmen, computer linguists, security-area specialists, environmentalists, culture workers, people solving urban and regional problems, health care experts, and all researchers and executives in the area of complex relations among various entities.
Please, find the list of lecturers and their topics on the poster available at these URLs:
<http://sonet.webnode.cz http://sonet.webnode.cz/>, <http://www.sevs.sk http://www.sevs.sk/>
- CONTACT: <SoNet.RC@gmail.com mailto:SoNet.RC@gmail.com>
- SKALICA <http://www.skalica.sk http://www.skalica.sk/> is located ca 80 km from Bratislava (Slovakia), 85 km from Brno (Czech Republic), 120 km from Vienna/Wien (Austria).
With the best regards,
Jan Zizka (Program Committee Chair) University of Central Europe SoNet Research Center Kralovska 386/11 909 01 Skalica Slovakia (EU)