WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

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-2013 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

  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
• Social multimedia networking
• Social media and mobile technologies
• Monitoring Trends in Social Media
• Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media
• Case studies of innovative social media applications

PAPER SUBMISSION & PROCEEDING

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 conference. Authors should submit a paper with 6-8 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment. 

Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows. 
- Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost : by 8 pages) 

Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. 
Template is available on: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

SocialComNet-2013's submission web site: http://www.editorialsystem.net/socialcomnet2013

Proceedings and Special Issues

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one of Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer (indexed by EI & SCOPUS). 

Instructions for papers in the Springer's LNEE - Note that the paper format of LNEE is the same as that of LNCS. - Prepare your paper in the exact format as the sample paper for LNEE. Failure to do so may result in the exclusion of your paper from the proceedings. Please read the authors' instructions carefully before preparing your papers. - Springer accepts both Microsoft Word and LaTex format in the Lecture Note Series. However, FTRA does not accept the use of LaTex. Therefore, you should use the Microsoft Word instead of using LaTex (The paper will be excluded from the proceeding if you use LaTex). Springer provides the relevant templates and sample files for both PC (sv-lncs.dot) and Mac (sv-lncs) environments. - Please download word.zip. If you need more help on preparing your papers, please visit Springer's LNCS web page.