[SocialComNet 2012 Call for Papers]

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** Important Notices **

1. Submission due: Mar. 15, 2012 (Extended for Post-Processing of LNEE)

2. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer CCIS proceedings (EI and ISTP), which will be indexed by the following services: EI Compendex(Since 2010), ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, DBLP and Scopus.

3. All accepted and presented papers in SocialComNet 2012, after further revisions,
will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:

1) The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
2) Wireless Personal Communications - Springer (SCIE)
3) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer (SCIE)
4) Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications - Springer (SCIE)
5) Human-Centric Computing and Information Science (HCIS) - Springer
6) International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
7) International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) - Inderscience
8) Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing

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WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
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Recently, social computing and networking has been driving dramatic evolution in the way people communicate and interact with each other, attracting great attention from the research community as well as the business world. Social computing not only includes Web 2.0 elements such as blogs, twitter, and wikis, etc, but also stands for a collection of the technologies that gather, process, compute, and visualize social information and the studies that model and analyze dynamics of participants in social networks.

With the advent of the social computing era, SocialComNet-2012 aims at reporting the most recent progresses, trends, and concerns in this rapidly growing area. This workshop will provide a forum for participants from the computing and social science communities and publish state-of-art research papers. Furthermore, we expect that the workshop and its publications will trigger related research and technology innovation in this important subject.



TOPICS
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Original contributions are solicited in all social computing and network researchs. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Social Computing Theories
Data Mining and Machine Learning for Social Computing
Information Retrieval for Social Computing
Artificial Intelligence for Social Computing
Social Behavior Modeling
Social Intelligence and Cognition
Collaborative and Multi-Agent Systems for Social Computing
Information Diffusion in Social Networks
Peer-to-Peer System
Cloud computing for Social Computing
Grid, Cluster, and Internet Computing
Semantic Web Technologies and Their Applications for Social Network
Context-Awareness and Context Sharing
Search and Discovery Techniques for Social Network
RFID and Internet of Things
Human Computer Interactions
Smart Object, Space/Environment & System
Social Network and Smart-phone Services
Ubiquitous Sensing with Inputs from Social Sensors
Location Aware Services for Social Network
Social Computing and Entertainment
E-Learning, Edutainment, and Infotainment in Social Network
Social Computing for E-Commerce and E-Society, etc
Video Distribution (IPTV, VoD) in Social Network
Developing and Managing Web2.0 Services
Use of Social Networks for Marketing
Web Page Ranking Informed by Social Media
Collaborative Filtering
Social Recommender Systems
Social System Design and Architectures
Social Media Business Models
Social Computing Services and Case Studies
Privacy and Security Issues in Social Networks
Social and Ethical Issues of Networked World



PAPER SUBMISSION & PROCEEDING
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There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this workshop.

Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows.

- Full Paper: 8 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost)
- Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost)
- Poster Paper: 2 pages (FTRA Publishing Proceeding with ISBN)

Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

SocialComNet-2012's submission web site: http://www.editorialsystem.net/socialcomnet2012

All accepted papers will be published in the Springer CCIS proceedings (EI and ISTP), which will be indexed by the following services: EI Compendex(Since 2010), ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, DBLP and Scopus.

All accepted and presented papers in SocialComNet 2012, after further revisions,
will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:

1. The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
2. Wireless Personal Communications - Springer (SCIE)
3. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer (SCIE)
4. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications - Springer (SCIE)
5. Human-Centric Computing and Information Science (HCIS) - Springer
6. International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
7. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) - Inderscience
8. Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing