CALL FOR PAPERS *Extended deadline: February 1st* SPECIAL SESSION ON “Participative technologies as new territories of information” for CODIT’16 April 6-8, 2016 – Malta Session Chair: Prof. Pierre Saurel, SND, University of La Sorbonne, France Session description This special session deals with the problem of the exploitation of data extracted from collaborative digital networks. Participative technologies record digital traces and make possible Social Media creating new layouts of information whose structure and content can be extracted and restructured thus creating new sources of information for analysis purposes and visualization. The goal is to explore the latest technical advancement in social media studies using data mining, semantic web, social data structure and adaptive procedure. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:       

Organization and structure of information extracted from social networks. Collaborative digital networks and the visualization of their territory and layout. Social networks and data mining Social media and social data structure Visualization and reporting Visualization of territorial intelligence Interoperability

SUBMISSION Please submit your full paper choosing the right track on the Conference Management Toolkit (Microsoft’s CMT) site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/CODIT2016/ All papers must be written in English and should describe original work. The length of the paper is limited to a maximum of 6 pages (in the standard IEEE conference double column format). Click on the icon to download the Call For Papers. February 1st, 2015: deadline for paper submission February 7, 2016: notification of acceptance/reject February 20, 2016: deadline for final paper and registration.