<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Colleagues</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Apologies for cross posting, please forward to anyone who may be interested!</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">********* Call for Workshops - CGC2013 & SCA2013 *********</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> **** DEADLINE EXTENDED - FEB 28th 2013 ****</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/" target="_blank">http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/CGC2013/" target="_blank">http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/CGC2013/</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The organizers of the International Conference on Social Computing and</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Its Applications (SCA) and the International Conference on Cloud and</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Green Computing (CGC) call for workshop proposals to be co-located with</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
SCA and CGC 2013, held in Karlsruhe, Germany between September 30 and</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">October 2 2013. Workshops will be held on September 30.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All workshop proposals that focus on fields related to Social Computing,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Applications, Cloud Computing and Green Computing are invited. Proposals</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">that focus on new and emerging topics or on application and industry</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">contributions are particularly encouraged. The purpose of these</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">workshops is to provide a focused forum for researchers to present and</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">discuss their work within a particular community. Workshop organizers</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">may structure programs as they like, for example including invited talks</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and panel discussions. Workshops should be scheduled for either half-day</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">or full-day programs.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshop organizers are responsible for setting up a workshop website,</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">establishing a program committee, distributing the call for papers and</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">participation, establishing a paper submission system, reviewing papers,</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">notifying authors of acceptance and rejection, and organizing papers</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">into appropriate sessions. Workshop submission and notification</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">deadlines may be set by workshop organizers; however, the general SCA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and CGC 2013 camera ready and author registration deadlines must be</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">followed.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Each paper selected for presentation must be presented in person by at</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">least one author. At least one author for every paper requires a full</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">conference registration.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Proceedings of all workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Press, in the same proceedings as SCA and CGC 2013. All workshop papers</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">********* Workshop Proposals *********</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">A workshop proposal should contain:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Title of workshop and workshop acronym.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">A description of the workshop, its focus, and its goals (<1 page).</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Topics of interest.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Names and affiliations of workshop organizers.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Prior history of this workshop, if any. Include information about number</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">of submissions, acceptance rate, and number of participants.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Brief biography of organizers including information about any other</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">workshops or conferences organized.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Tentative composition of the committees. Include names and affiliations.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">********* Workshop Proposal Submission *********</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please email workshop proposals in PDF format to both workshop chairs:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, <a href="mailto:kyle@ci.uchicago.edu" target="_blank">kyle@ci.uchicago.edu</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Omer Rana, Cardiff University, <a href="mailto:o.f.rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk" target="_blank">o.f.rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">********* Important Dates *********</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Workshop proposals due - EXTENDED DEADLINE: 28/2/2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Camera Ready Deadline: 12/08/2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshops: 30/9/2013</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Conference: 30/9/2013 – 2/10/2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For more information, please see the conference websites:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/" target="_blank">http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/CGC2013/" target="_blank">http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/CGC2013/</a></div>
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