Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences

6th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and AnalyticsValencia, Spain26 – 28 June, 2024https://carmaconf.org

Scope

The 6th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics focuses on the increasing availability of Internet and Big Data sources of information, and the related need of interdisciplinary approaches. CARMA 2024 is a leading forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and advances on how emerging research methods and sources are applied to different fields of social sciences.

The CARMA 2024 conference will be held on 26 – 28 June 2024 at the Faculty of Business Administration and Management of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), which has been recently ranked as the best technical university in Spain by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2023.

Topics of interest

The program committee encourages the submission of articles discussing challenges related to contemporary issues in Internet and Big Data in economics and social sciences.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topic areas:

Internet and Big Data sources in economics and social sciences

Google Trends and Search Engine data

Social media and public opinion mining

Web scraping

Geospatial and mobile phone data

Open data and public data

Big Data methods in economics and social sciences

Sentiment analysis

Internet econometrics

AI and Machine Learning applications

Information quality and assessment

Crowdsourcing

Natural Language Processing

Explainability and interpretability

Internet and Big Data applications

Politics and social media

Sustainability and development

Finance applications

Official statistics

Forecasting and nowcasting

Bibliometrics and sciencetometrics

Social and consumer behaviour, mobility patterns

eWOM and social media marketing

Labor market

Business analytics with social media

Advances in travel, tourism, and leisure

Digital management

Marketing Intelligence analytics

Data governance

Digital transition and global society

Privacy and legal aspects

Electronic Government

Data Economy

Smart Cities

Industry adoption

Digital Economy Governance

If you are interested in organizing a special session as part of CARMA 2024, please contact the organization at carmaconf@upv.es

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 2 March 2024Acceptance notification: 25 April 2024Camera ready due: 16 May 2024Conference: 26 June – 28 July 2024

Student Grants

Students with accepted papers at CARMA 2024 are eligible for grants covering conference fees and partial travel expenses. We strongly encourage students to submit their papers and take advantage of this opportunity to share their research and engage with the international academic community.

Publications

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings with a DOI and ISBN number. They will be published in open access by UPV Press and submitted to be indexed in major international bibliographic databases. Some previous editions are indexed in the Web of Science (Clarivate).

Submission guidelines

Authors from all over the world are invited to submit original and unpublished papers or extended abstracts, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. All submissions will be peer reviewed by the program committee based on their originality, significance, methodological soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Submissions must be written in English and should be in PDF format. They must follow the instructions in the template file, available in Microsoft Word format at:

https://carmaconf.org/template.docx

Paper length must be between 4 and 8 pages, incorporating all text, references, figures and tables. Submissions imply the willingness of at least one author to register, attend the conference, and present the paper.

CARMA 2024 is using the OCS platform of UPV Press to manage the submissions. This platform provides you with a submissions homepage where you can register your paper submission and make appropriate changes. The submission website is:

Submissions

About the venue

Valencia is the third largest city in Spain and is located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It embraces culture and tradition from the past combined with singular architecture, exciting gastronomy, nightlife, and beautiful white sand beaches. Valencia is the capital city of the Comunitat Valenciana region, which is major tourist destination in summer. More info at:

About Valencia

The organizing committee looks forward to welcoming you all to a fruitful conference with open discussions and important networking across different disciplines.