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The International Conference on e-Social Sciences (ICESS 2008) is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied e-Social Sciences. ICESS 2008 will bring together leading engineers and scientists in e-Social Sciences from around the world.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

e-Social Sciences: Systems, Design and Technologies
Computational Social Sciences
Social Systems Sciences
Applied Social Modeling and Simulation
Sustainable Human and Social Development
Information and Communication Technologies for e-Social Sciences
Benefits and challenges of large scale, distributed, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research facilitated by cyberinfrastructure
Case studies of (e-)Research and (e-)Social Science research practices
Case studies of e-social science in practice
Case studies of e-Social Science research methods and applications
Case studies of social science research methods, applications, and practices enabled by cyberinfrastructures and tools
Case studies of socio-technical issues in the design and development of e-Research methods, technologies, and tools, including usability issues and solutions
Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social Science
Enhancing existing social science research methods through e-social science
Ethical issues, challenges, and solutions raised by cyberinfrastructure for the collection, integration, sharing, and analysis of personal, social, economic, and other data such as medical records or genomics
Infrastructure and tools for e-Social Science
Innovation in research methods through e-social science
Interdisciplinary research and e-Social Science
Middleware for data collection, sharing and integration
Cyberinfrastructure and tools for sociological data integration, sharing, access management and security, data analysis, and curation
Electronic sources and forms of sociological data
Socio-technical issues in the development of e-social science research methods
Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation
Studies of (e-)research and (e-)social science research practices
The benefits and challenges of large scale collaborative research
Tools for data mining, visualisation, analysis, modelling and collaborative research
Understanding requirements for research tools and middleware
Usability issues in the design of research tools and middleware
Designing Internet and Web Based Social Platforms
Open Source Social Platforms
Online and Virtual Communities
Sustainable Design and Development
Distributed e-Social Systems Sciences
e-Knowledge Management and Information Security
e-Education and e-Learning
e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Management