-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CASoN 2013 - Call for Special sessions - Porto, Portugal Datum: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:35:37 -0800 Von: Ajith Abraham ajith.abraham@ieee.org Antwort an: ajith.abraham@ieee.org An: aisworld aisworld@lists.aisnet.org, dbworld@cs.wisc.edu, agents@cs.umbc.edu

** Call for Special Sessions at CASON 2014 **

CASoN -- 6th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks

30th July to 1st August, 2014 Porto, Portugal

http://www.mirlabs.org/cason14

Previous events: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/cason/index.html

Proposals for Special Sessions are welcome. Special Sessions should addresses innovative research highlighting significant topics and emerging issues which are related to the conference theme. Interdisciplinary session themes are strongly encouraged.

CASON2014 brings together an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of intelligent methods applied to Social Networks, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Session organizer(s) will be responsible for advertising, promoting, and chairing the parallel special session during the conference. Papers will be reviewed by the panel reviewers from the Session Program Committee and approved by the General Conference Program Committee. Each Special Session is expected to have at least 5 papers and at least one author of each paper must register for the paper present during the session. Special Session paper submission will be done through CASON 2014 submission management system and been evaluated with the same standards as the regular conference paper.

All proposal submissions will be reviewed by the CASON 2014 special session chair and the general conference committee. The following criteria will be considered: Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to CASON 2014 attendees. Complementarity to the CASON 2014 program provided by the other tracks. Completeness, clarity, and quality of the session proposal. Qualification of the submitter(s) to organize the Special Session. Likely success of the proposed session. Overlap with other proposal or pre-selected activity. All accepted papers will be included in the CASON 2014 conference proceedings.

** Important dates ** * Special Session Proposal submission: March 15, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2014

** Important information ** * Proposal form (http://www.mirlabs.org/cason14/download/sessionCASONtemplate.doc)

Proposals for special session organization should be submitted electronically to: Amélia Loja (amelialoja@dem.isel.ipl.pt) or/and Eduardo Solteiro Pires (epires@utad.pt)

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