CALL FOR PAPERS - 1st International ICST conference on No SQL Databases and Social Applications INOSA 2012
Berlin, Germany
6-8 June 2012
http://inosa.icst.org

Don't miss out on the opportunity to network with international researchers and practitioners and discuss the latest research findings and trends in Non SQL Databases and Social Applications at INOSA 2012 an event connected to the European innovation community through EAI endorsement (http://eai.eu/.)
We welcome you to the heart of Europe and Berlin for the INOSA confernece, co-located with the IT revolutions conference for better opportunities to share experiences and results!

Confernece Scope:
Computer Systems are intertwined with users from its early beginnings. Each software is created for user needs. This process has now reached the private life. The Internet, Web and wireless communication has fundamentally changed our daily communication and how information flows in commercial and private networks. New issues came up with this trend: Non-SQL databases offer better feature for a number of social applications. Semantic systems helps to bridge the gap between words and their meaning. Vocabularies are no longer a scientific problem but means to find people in social networks.

Data mining and inference helps to extract implicit facts. P2P systems are proper answers to an increasing amount of data that shall be exchanged. In 2010, more smart phones than computer are sold worldwide. Mobile devices and context aware systems (e.g. locations based systems) play a major role for social applications. New threats accompany these trends as well, though. Social hacking, lost of privacy, vague or complex copy rights are just one of them.

Topics:
Software has entered the private and social life. This conference shall bring together new technical trends, research and applications. We are looking for new technical approaches, ideas, theories and concepts in research but also for new applications. The conference will focus especially but is not limited on the following topics around Non-SQL and social applications:
*Non-SQL Databases
*Mobile Databases
*Semantic Systems (e.g. Topic Maps, RDF/OWL)
*Data Mining in Social Networks
*Social Applications
*Social and Semantic P2P Systems
*Social Engineering
*Location Based and Spatial Systems
*Open Data, Open Knowledge
*Privacy and Security

Important dates:
Submissions deadline: 15 February
Notification deadline: 31 March
Camera-ready deadline: 30 April

Publishing and indexing:
Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNICST series and will appear in the SpringerLink, one of the largest digital libraries online that covers a variety of scientific disciplines, as well as in the ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus.

Selected papers will be invited to submit extended version in the EAI Transactions on Scalable Information Systems

Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be granted to authors of the best papers.

For submission guidelines please see: http://inosa.icst.org/2012/show/initial-submission
Registrations opens in March 2012

Committee:
Thomas Schwotzer, HTW Berlin (Germany)
Lutz Maicher, Fraunhofer Leipzig (Germany)
Graham Moore, NetworkedPlanet (UK, Norway)
Jie Song, CedInt, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Axel Bruening, IAT / University Leipzig (Germany)
Christian Herta, HTW Berlin (Germany)
Karsten Boehm FH Kufstein (Austria)
Stefan Edlich, Beuth Hochschule Berlin (Germany)
Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin (Germany)
Tomas Kliegr, University of Economics Prague (Czech Republic)
Christian Raeck, VZ Netzwerke Ltd Berlin (Germany)

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