The Internet and geopolitical crossroads

Call for papers in pdf version can be found here.

INSCI 2019 encourages research papers presenting new and original results   on general aspects of  Internet Science especially those shedding light on the development of practices, platforms and communication channels to promote the integration of  South Europe, Mediterranean, African and Latin America countries in peaceful world.  Research articles that aim at promoting discussion and political freedom, migrant problems, health, citizen participation are very welcome.

Authors are invited to submit research full papers (10-15 pages) as well as  short ones  (6-8 pages)  with provoking ideas and work-in-progress on the   general above mentioned themes. Accepted papers will be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer.

The proceedings of the last edition  INSCI 2018 Conference, published by Springer LNCS (LNCS 11193), is already available online

Important Dates : 

Topics

Sustainability

• Responsible Research and Innovation
• Transnational, and Inter-Cultural Projects
• Environment and Climate Change
• Smart Environments

 Education

• Distance Education and Learning
• Platforms, Applications and Practices for Sustainability, Resilience, Pollution Control, Health and Life Quality, Integration,
• Infrastructures

Openness

• Open Science and access to Scientific Production
• Open Education
• Open Data: Issues, Services and Solutions
• Big Data and Privacy

E-Science

• E-Government
• E-Commerce
• E-Tourism

Engagement

• Citizen Participation,
• Citizen Science,
• Science Shops

Algorithms and computation

• Reinforcement Algorithms and Machine Learning
• Intelligent Systems
• Graph Based Algorithms
• Algorithms for mediation content
• Green Computing
• Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing

Connections

• Network Design and Architecture
• Networking and Communication Protocols
• Wireless Systems and Applications
• Social Networks,
• Network Complexity

Information

• Dark Web
• Information Fusion
• Smart cities

Social analysis, modelling and media

• Online Human Behaviour
• Reputation and Trust Analysis in Social Media
• Efficient Algorithms for Social Computation
• Social Simulations

Economy

• Business, Finance and Management

Proceedings

Proceeding chair : Giovanna Pacini, Center for the Study of Complex Systems and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy

Submission Guidelines

Authors  are invited to submit high-quality, original and unpublished work. All submitted papers must:
 

• Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format;
• Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
• Contain three to five keywords characterizing the paper that should be indicated at the end of the abstract.

Articles  should be  formatted according to the Springer's LNCS article style.  Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs.

The type of paper (technical/empirical or evaluation/experience/exploratory/position paper) should be indicated in the submission. Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages and short paper should not exceed 8 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers and 6 for short papers.

Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, and exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF via the electronic submission system of the INSCI 2019 Conference Management system at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2019
 

Publication:

Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI 2019 and published in the conference proceedings Volume, which is edited by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and indexed in DBLP Conference Proceedings, will be available at the conference date. Only registered authors can have their papers published in LNCS – Springer.

Furthermore, authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in Internet science inter-disciplinary Journal(s).

Review process:

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by 2 or 3 experts that will evaluate its originality,  impact, significance, quality of research, quality of writing, and contribution to the conference scope. Authors whose papers are not selected for publication can submit a rebuttal letter that will be evaluated by 4 members   of the Program Committee.