* Co-Located with Asonam 2012 (Istambul, Turkey), 26-29 August 2012
* Workshop day: 26 August 2012
* All papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the Workshop Proceedings of Asonam 2012
* The workshop accepts original research and is open to position papers and application-oriented papers
* The workshop welcomes submission from PhD students, at the beginning of their research work

Background and Objectives

In recent years, Online Collaborative Environments, e.g. Social Content Sites (i.e. sites that encourage users to share social information and engage in interactions, e.g. Twitter or Facebook have significantly changed the way people organize, share information an interact with peers. These platforms have become the primary common environment for people to communicate about their activity and their information needs, to maintain and create social ties. So called status updates or microposts emerged as a convenient way for people to share content frequently without a long investment of time. Some social content sites even limit the length of a post. A post generally consists of a single sentence (e.g. news, a question), it can include a picture, a hyperlink, tags or other descriptive data (metadata). Contrarily to traditional documents, posts are informal (with no controlled vocabulary) and don’t have a well established structure.

Mainly because of the simplicity of use, Social Content Sites can become so popular (huge number of users and posts), that it becomes then difficult to find relevant information in the flow of activity notifications. Therefore, organizing this huge quantity of social information is one of the major challenges of such collaborative environments. Traditional information retrieval techniques are not well suited for querying such corpus, because of the short size of the shared content, the uncontrolled vocabulary used by authors and because these techniques don’t take in consideration the ties in-between people. More concretely, these techniques are not tailored to systems that integrate both content and social information.
Topics (not limited to)
- semantic analysis of microposts (e.g. tweets, status updates in social platforms)
- the role of Linked Data in semantic social network analysis
- advanced recommendation strategies in social platforms bases on shared content
- information overload in social platforms (e.g. clustering, summarization of shared content)
- design challenges for distributed social networks
- object-centered social networks (e.g. smart city scenarios)
- people recommendation and user modeling based on shared content in social platforms
- knowledge management in social platforms
- interesting applications on top of social content sites, that leverage the shared content
- semantic web technologies for knowledge management in social content sites

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2012
Notification: May 5, 2012
Camera Ready Deadline: May 15, 2012
Registration Deadline: May 20, 2012
Workshop date: August 26-29, 2012 (Subject to the arrangement of the main conference)
Organizing Committee
Johann Stan (Université Jean-Monnet)
Dominikus Heckmann (DFKI)
I-Hsien Ting (Kaohsiung University, Taiwan)

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. New full paper submission deadline is April 1, 2012. These papers will follow an academic review process. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages (using the IEEE two-column template).

Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page.

If Web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to johann.stan@univ-st-etienne.fr by April 1, 2012. The attachment must be in PDF or Word .doc format.

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/policies

Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new previously unpublished work. Paper submission implies that the intent is for one of the authors to present the paper if accepted and that at least one of the authors register for a full conference fee.

The page limitation for workshop paper is also 8 pages, figures, references included.

Submit via Easychair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssnad2012