Introduction
Social Computing can be broadly defined as computational facilitation of social studies and human social dynamics as well as design and use of information and communication technologies that consider social context. Social computing has recently become one of the central themes across a number of information and communication technology fields and attracted significant interest from not only researchers in computing and social sciences, but also software and online game vendors, web entrepreneurs, political analysts, digital government practitioners. The Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2010) provides a key forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of social computing.
Scope and Interests
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

* Social Computing Theories
* Social System Design and Architectures
* Social Network Analysis and Mining, Semantic web
* Social Behavior Modeling
* Social Intelligence, Social Cognition
* Social Computing Applications such as collaborative filtering, bookmaking, tagging, and multi-agent systems
* Human Machine Interactions
* Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, Influence Process
* Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence in Social Contexts
* Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts
* Social Engineering, Tools, and Case Studies
* Services Science, Quality, Architecture, Management, and Tools

Important Dates
Workshop Proposal: March 1, 2010
Submission Deadline: April 01, 2010
Authors Notification: June 01, 2010
Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2010
Conference Date: August 20-22, 2010
Note: All days end Midnight Central Standard Time.