SoMNet 2012 - International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks (SoMNet 2012)

International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks
(SoMNet 2012)

Call for Papers

As part of
The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems
(CTS 2012)

May 21-25, 2012

The Westin Westminster Hotel
Denver, Colorado, USA

Submission Deadline: December 30, 2011

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
Social media, social computing, new media and networks have become major areas of research, applications, and development in recent years. The adoption of social media and their applications have expanded in kind and size to unprecedented levels and continue to grow at accelerated rates. The creation and deployment of Social Media is one of the main forces behind the evolution and expansion of the Internet, the Web, and mobile media. Social media account for the majority of Internet traffic while its content comprises the greater part of the daily published multi media on the Web. These technologies have a profound impact on society and on private life. Furthermore, there is a great diversity in the communities of people interested in social computing: researchers in computing, communications, and social sciences; industrial practitioners; wide range of businesses; software and online game vendors; web entrepreneurs; digital government organizations; political analysts; educational institutions, etc.

You are cordially invited to participate in, contribute to, and attend the International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media, and Networks (SoMNet 2012) to be held as part of CTS 2012 (http://cts2012.cisedu.info/) May 21-25, 2012 in Denver, Colorado, USA. The Symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in the broad multi disciplinary field of social computing and new media. Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all disciplines and specialties (computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies, …).

The Symposium topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
Theories and Methodologies for Social Computing
Architectures and Design of Social Systems
Qualitative and Quantitative Studies of Social Media and Networks
Social Networks Interfaces and Interaction Techniques
Machine Learning Methods for Social Computing
Human Machine Interaction in Social Computing
Community and Organization Multi Media
Social Networks Enablement via Multi-Modality Social Media
New Social Media Applications
Semantic Web for Social Computing
Web Driven Media Creation
Exploration and Analysis of Social Networks
Psychological, Personality-based and Ethnographic Studies of Social Networks
Modeling of Social Behavior
Modeling of Social Media and Networks
Data Modeling for Social Networks
Social Computing and Networking Tools, Techniques and Technologies
Social Networking Software
Discovery, Collection, and Extraction of Social Networks Data
Processing of Social Stream Data
Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation Systems for Social Networks
Text Categorization; Topic Recognition; Demographic/Gender/Age Identification
Subjectivity in Textual Data; Sentiment Analysis; Polarity/Opinion Identification and Extraction
Social Search, Mining and Discovery
Large-scale Social Image and Video Analysis and Retrieval
Collective and Social Intelligence
Emotional and Cultural Dynamics
Trend Identification and Tracking
Security and Risk in Social Contexts
Privacy Policies for Online Social Networks
Privacy and Security Tradeoffs in Social Networks
Access Control in Online Social Networks
Trust, Reputation and Recommendation Systems
Summarization of Massive Social Networks Data
Social Media Tools; Navigation and Visualization
Visualization of Social Networks
Services in Social Networks
Leveraging Social Networks in the Enterprise
Social Network Mapping in the B2B Sphere
Dealing with Sensitive Information
New Technologies and Trends for Social Computing
Social Media: Weblogs, Microblogs, Wikis, Forums, Tweeting, Podcasts, Usenets, …
Performance and Benchmarking for Social Network Analysis
Social Media and Networks Monitoring and Engagement

PAPER SUBMISSION
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to social computing, networks and media. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters (please specify). Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to http://cts2012.cisedu.info/home/posters for the submission details) will also be accepted. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via the Symposium submission Web page at EasyChair.

Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contribution, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the Symposium.

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2012 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed accordingly.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the Symposium, please contact the Symposium organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: December 30, 2011
Acceptance Notification: February 01, 2012
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: March 01, 2012
Conference Dates: May 21 - 25, 2012

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER(S)
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International Program Committee:
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the symposium technical program committee members following similar criteria used in CTS 2012.

TBA

For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://cisedu.us/rp/cts12 or contact one of the Conference's organizers or Co-Chairs: Geoffrey C. Fox at gcf-AT-indiana.edu and Waleed W. Smari at Smari-AT-arys.org.