The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2020) is an interdisciplinary venue that brings together researchers from the computational and social sciences to help fill the gap between the two communities. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum to help practitioners from the two disciplines define common research objectives and explore methodologies. The organizers welcome a broad range of contributions, from those that apply methods from the social sciences to the study of socio-technical systems, to the application of computational methods to the study of complex social processes and the use of social concepts in the design of information systems.

SocInfo2020 offers an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge between the two communities by soliciting presentations of original research papers and experience-based case studies in computer science, sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, economics, linguistics, artificial intelligence, social network analysis, and other disciplines that can shed light on the open questions in the growing field of computational social science.

SocInfo2020 will also offer keynote talks and invited talks that will be tailored to enhance the collaboration between the two research cultures in an era when social interactions are ubiquitous and span offline, online and augmented reality worlds.

Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    New theories, methods and objectives in computational social science
    Computational models of social phenomena, including behavior modeling
    Dynamics of social collaborative systems
    Social network analysis and mining
    Mining big social data
    Social influence and social contagions
    Web mining and its social interpretations
    Quantifying offline phenomena through online data
    Rich representations of social ties
    Security, privacy, trust, reputation, and incentive issues
    Opinion mining and social media analytics
    Credibility of online content
    Health informatics
    Social media and health behaviors
    Algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies
    Equity in social and information systems
    Social choice mechanisms in the e-society
    Social applications of the semantic Web
    Social psychology and personality
    Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.)
    Impact of technology on socio-economic, security, defense aspects
    Urban informatics
    Forecasting of social phenomena
    Socio-economic systems and applications
    Collective intelligence and social cognition
    Ethics of computational research on human behavior
    Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science
    Digital and Computational Demography