The 9th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2016) will be held in the city of Atlanta, GA, USA during October 8-10, 2016. SocialCom was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas. SocialCom2016 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of social computing and networking.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Fundamentals of social computing
Modelling of social behaviour
Social network analysis and mining
Big social media data
Social media infrastructure and cloud computing
Computational models of social simulation
Web 2.0 and semantic web
Innovative HCI and touch-screen models
Modelling of social conventions and social contexts
Social cognition and social intelligence
Social media analytics and intelligence
Group formation and evolution
Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts
Social system design and architectures
Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology
Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling
Handheld/mobile social computing
Service science and service oriented interaction design
Cultural patterns and representation
Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process
Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets
Connected e-health in social networks
Social policy and government management
Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum
Business social software systems
Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments
Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction
Social computing applications and case studies

Extended versions of most papers from the conference will be published in the special issues of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (IEEE), Information Fusion (Elsevier and SCI indexed), Journal of Computational Science(Elsevier and SCI indexed), Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier and SCI indexed), Sensors (MDPI and SCI indexed), or International Journal of Sensor Networks (Inderscience, SCI indexed).

Paper submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: May 1
Notification Date: June 15
Registration Deadline: July 10
Conference Dates: October 8-10

Paper Submission
The submission web site is https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?timeout=1;key=34495978.re3Vjeb1Ct5G7Ot9