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Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions

4th International Conference on e-Social Science
Manchester, June 18th-20th, 2008
Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions

The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading international representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new research methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond.

We invite contributions from members of the social science, e-Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities with experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new methods, practices, and tools afforded by new infrastructure technologies - such as the Grid and Web 2.0 - in order to further social science research; and 2) studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-Research.

Submission categories include: posters, demos, workshops, tutorials and panels.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

  • Case studies of the application of e-Social Science research methods to substantive social science problems
  • Case studies of (e-)Research and (e-)Social Science research practices, including benefits and challenges of collaboration (both small and large scale) across disciplinary and geographical boundaries
  • Advances in tools and techniques for quantitative and qualitative e-Social Science, including statistical analysis, simulation, data mining, text mining, social network analysis and collaborative environments
  • Infrastructure and services for e-Social Science, including data collection, discovery, sharing and integration, standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation
  • Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social Science, including ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal data
  • The e-Research technical roadmap, including grids, web 2.0 and their future (co-evolution)
  • Socio-technical issues in the development of e-Research, including usability challenges for the design of research tools and middleware, factors influencing the wider adoption and sustainability of e-Infrastructure

Submission Guidelines

To submit a workshop, panel or demo, you must first register at the submission website and then follow the instructions.

Please indicate the category of your submission: poster, workshop, panel or demo. Demo submissions should include a statement of technical requirements.

Workshop, demo, tutorial and panel organisers must submit a one page outline of the topic, format, likely audience, special requirements.

Submissions (poster abstracts, workshop, panel and demo outlines) will be subject to independent review and a final decision will be made by the conference programme committee. Authors of submissions not accepted as long papers may be invited to submit a short paper or poster instead.

Paper authors will be informed of the programme committee’s decision during the week commencing 31st March, 2008.

Workshop, panel, poster and demo authors will be informed of the programme committee's decision during the week commencing 18th April 2008.

Accepted long and short papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Templates for the camera-ready copies of long and short papers are available here. The maximum length for Long Papers is 10 pages and the maximum length for Short Papers is 6 pages.

Guidelines for posters and demos are here

Submission Deadlines

Workshop, tutorial and panel outlines: April 21st, 2008.
Poster and demo abstracts: April 21st, 2008.
Final versions of long and short papers: 28th May 2008