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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** C A L L F O R P A P E R S The CityLab Workshop (collocated with the 10th Intl. Conference on Web Social Media) 17 May, 2016, Cologne, Germany http://citylab16.sis.pitt.edu AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST: This workshop aims into bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss and explore the research challenges and opportunities in applying the web, the mobile, the pervasive and the social computing paradigm to understand cities and, crucially, engage their citizens in an effort to reclaim urban space for improving their quality of life. Our goal is to create a better understanding of cities and a living lab for understanding both technological and social phenomena. The interdisciplinary focus aims into attracting and welcomes diverse researchers from social sciences and information systems. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Registration: February 27, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: March 11, 2016 Camera-ready Version Due: March 17, 2016 Workshop Date: May 17, 2016 URBAN BEERS The workshop will include an "Urban Beers" evening session, which will bring together the local community interested in urban matters (e.g., entrepreneurs, artists, designers) with the global network of researchers that will participate in the workshop and allow for a productive idea exchange. The "Urban Beers" session will take place in a location outside the traditional academic environment, likely a bar. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS We solicit 6-pages research papers that will present original, previously unpublished, research. All of the submissions should be in PDF format and conform to theAAAI formatting guidelines. All of the submissions will be handled electronically. Each paper will be reviewed by several members of the program committee. WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Daniele Quercia Bell Labs Cambridge, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] * Konstantinos Pelechrinis School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh, USA E-mail: [log in to unmask] PROGRAM COMMITTEE • Clio Andris (Penn State) • Francesco Calabrese (IBM Research) • Licia Capra (University College London) • Justin Cranshaw (Microsoft Research) • Theodoros Damoulas (University of Warwick) • Rosta Farzan (University of Pittsburgh) • Aliso Heppenstall (University of Leeds) • Renaud Lambiotte (University of Namur) • Ed Manley (University College London) • Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) • Mirco Musolesi (University College London) • Anastasios Noulas (Lancaster University) • Kerstin Sailer (University College London) • Raz Schwartz (Facebook) • Alex Singleton (University of Liverpool) • Max Sklar (Foursquare) For any questions please e-mail contact the PC chairs. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.