The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo) is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from informatics and the social & management sciences to come together to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work. The goal is to create an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge between the two communities, as well as to enable mutual critical discussion of current research.

The conference solicits original research and experience based case study papers, as well as proposals for demonstrations. It welcomes interdisciplinary papers on methods from the social sciences in the study of information systems, applying information technology in the study of social phenomena, or applying social concepts in the design of information systems.

The analysis, modeling and simulation of complex social phenomena, including Web2.0 applications, using well-established models such as social networks, is of particular interest to SocInfo2011. Enhancement of established social models may lead to breakthroughs in the design of algorithms or information systems that rely on social participation and social mechanisms. Behavioral game theory and realistic social simulation may be the road to the development of new social models for social information systems.

Web mining, text mining, natural language processing, opinion mining and sentiment analysis are the domains that attempt to exploit information available in the World Wide Web for a better understanding of social phenomena. Such research can benefit from the state-of-the-art knowledge in the social sciences, and is therefore solicited for SocInfo.

Applications of social concepts in concrete information systems such as web enterprises, enterprise management, e-governance and service sector, virtual environments such as multiplayer online games, multi-agent systems, e-commerce (including trust management and reputation systems) environments for support of teamwork, argumentation and debate, or creative work, will be of interest. The extensions of established knowledge in recommendation systems, collaborative applications (including collaborative filtering and tagging), distributed AI or multi-agent systems for the purpose of incorporating social mechanisms are also of interest to the conference.

Finally, the implications of such influence of technology on our society at large, including its security implications on individual’s privacy and identity, as well as on cyber infrastructure and homeland security are of interest to the conference.

Detailed research topics of interest for this conference include, but are not limited to:

Computational models of social phenomena and social simulation
Social networks: discovery, evolution, analysis and applications
Web mining and its social interpretations
Security, privacy, trust, reputation and incentive issues
Design and analysis of Web2.0 applications (social or collaborative Web applications)
Algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies
Mechanisms for providing fairness in information systems
Social choice mechanisms in the e-society
Recommendation systems and social applications of the semantic Web
Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.)
Impact of technology on socio-economic, security, defense aspects
Visualization of dynamic social networks
Submission guidelines:
The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag. All submitted papers must be in Springer format. The conference invites research paper, poster and demo submissions.

Research papers should not contain author names for purpose of double-blind review. They should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed the page limit of 14 pages. Paper acceptance can be regular paper, short paper or poster.

Poster and demo submissions do not go through double-blind review. A poster/demo paper should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed the page limit of 4 pages. The accepted poster/demo papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

mportant dates:

Research papers:
Abstract submission: April 7, 2011
Full paper submission: April 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011
Submission of final version: July 15, 2011

Poster/Demonstration Papers:
Poster/Demo submission: April 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011
Submission of final version: July 15, 2011

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News & Announcements
21 Feb 2011
Selected papers from SocInfo2011 will be invited for SNAM Journal submission.
16 Feb 2011
Professor Noshir Contractor from Northwestern University is a keynote speaker of SocInfo2011.
Check out the important dates to submit tutorial proposals for SocInfo2011.
14 Feb 2011
Check out the updates to the Program Committee.
31 Jan 2011
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and The Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD) are the sponsors of SocInfo2011.
28 Jan 2011
Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) is a supporting organization of SocInfo2011.
Dion Hoe-Lian Goh from Nanyang Technological University is one of the Organizing Committee: Tutorial Co-Chair.
25 Jan 2011
Professor Jaideep Srivastava from University of Minnesota is a keynote speaker of SocInfo2011.
14 Jan 2011
Check out the submission guidelines and important dates to submit papers for SocInfo2011.
13 Jan 2011
Professor Hsinchun Chen from University of Arizona is a keynote speaker of SocInfo2011.
7 Jan 2011
Professor Michael Macy from Cornell University is a keynote speaker of SocInfo2011.

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Honorary General Chairs:
Rajendra K. Srivastava, Provost, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Steven Miller, Dean, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore

General Co-Chairs:
Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, USA
Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Programme Co-Chairs:
Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam, Netherland

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Lin Qiu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Angela Leung, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Tutorial Chair:
Do Quoc Anh, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Poster/Demo Co-Chairs:
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Shoude Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Sponsorship/Exhibition Co-Chairs:
David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Jin-Cheon Na, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publications Co-Chairs:
Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Leonard Bolc, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland

Registration Chair:
Feida Zhu, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:
Hady Wirawan Lauw, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Chei Sian Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China (CHINA)
Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Italy (EUROPE)
Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia (AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND)
Vineet Chaoji, Yahoo! Research, India (INDIA)
Dmitri Williams, University of South California (USA)
Eun Ju Lee, Seoul National University (KOREA)
Giorgos Cheliotis, National University of Singapore (SINGAPORE)
Tsuyoshi Murata, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (JAPAN)