Analyzing and Improving Collaborative eScience with Social Networks (eSoN 13)

Call for Papers

Analyzing and Improving Collaborative eScience with Social Networks (eSoN 13)

October 22, Beijing, China (http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/eson2013/)

Co-Located with eScience 2013, October 22-25, Beijing, China

(http://escience2013.csp.escience.cn)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submissions Due: July 5, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: July 26, 2013
Camera Ready Versions Due: August 5, 2013
Workshop: October 22, 2013

OVERVIEW

Social networking is profoundly changing the way that people communicate
and interact on a daily basis. As eScience is inherently collaborative,
social networks can serve as a vital means for supporting information and
resource sharing, aiding discovery of connected researchers, improving
communication between globally dispersed individuals, and even measuring
scientific impact. Consequently, eScience systems are increasingly
integrating social networking concepts to improve collaboration. For
example, researcher profiles and groups exist in publication networks,
such as VIVO, Google Scholar and Mendeley, and eScience infrastructures,
such as MyExperiment, NanoHUB and GlobusOnline all utilize social
networking principles to enhance scientific collaboration. In addition to
incorporating explicit social networks, eScience infrastructures can also
leverage implicit social networks extracted from relationships expressed
in collaborative activities (e.g. publication authorship or!
citation networks).

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from a diverse range of
areas to establish a new community focused on the application of social
networking to analyze and improve scientific collaboration. There are two
complementary areas of focus for this workshop 1) how to efficiently share
information, infrastructure and software resources, such as data and tools
through social networks, and 2) how to analyze and enhance scientific
collaboration through implicit and explicit social networks, for example
analyzing scientific impact through citation networks or improving
collaboration by associating data and tools with networks of publications
and researchers.

WORKSHOP SCOPE

The topics of interest are, but not limited to, the use of social networks
to analyze and improve collaborative eScience:
· The use of social networks and social networking concepts in eScience
· Social network applications used for eScience
· Social network based resource sharing and collaboration architectures
· New forms of collaborative computing and resource sharing
· Crowdsourcing of scientific applications using social media
· Social Cloud computing
· Novel applications of digital relationships and trust
· Definition of novel principals, models and methodologies for harnessing
digital relationships
· Extraction of implicit social networks from scientific activities (e.g.
publication, citation and grants)
· Analysis of collaborative scientific activity through social networks

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit papers containing unpublished, original work
(not under review elsewhere) of up to 8 pages of double column text using
single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11
manuscript guidelines.
Templates are available from:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm
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Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer.
Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the
workshop's paper submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eson2013
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop
and all workshop participants must pay the eScience 2012 registration fee.
It is expected that all accepted papers will be published by the IEEE in
the same volume as the main conference. All papers will be reviewed by an
International Programme Committee (with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper).
Papers submissions should be performed using the easychair system, by the
date mentioned above.

ORGANIZERS
· Kyle Chard, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Tanu Malik, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
· Wei Tan, IBM T.J. Watson Lab, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE
· Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
· Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University, USA
· Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
· Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
· Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
· Justin Cappos, Polytechnic Institute of New York, USA
· Zhen Chen, Tsinghua University, China
· Nicolas Kourtellis, University of South Florida, USA
· Xitong Li, MIT, USA
· Xuanzhe Liu, Peking University
· Nicholas Loulloudes, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
· Iman Saleh Moustafa, University of Miami, USA
· Victoria Stodden, Columbia University, USA
· Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
· Michela Taufer, University of Deleware, USA
· Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
· Wenjun Wu, Beihang University, China
· Hui Zhang, Bejing University, China