Multimedia 2012 - Semantic Analysis in Social Media and Social Networks

Semantic Analysis in Social Media and Social Networks
Call for Papers
Wide-spread mobile devices and growing social websites have led to
information explosion. Every minute, huge amount of multimedia
contents are produced and uploaded to those websites, and this brings
great challenge for effective and efficient indexing, browsing, and
recommendations.
Currently, researchers start to make some progress in efficiently
modeling and representing the multimedia contents, which are very
crucial to the management of semantics in social media. The next more
interesting step is to understand what semantics users are interested
in, producing, storing, and exchanging, so that social websites can
better communicate with users.
The goal of this special issue is to collect cutting-edge research
work in semantic analysis for social media and social networks,
providing us a vision on the developing direction of next-generation
social network.
We invite researchers to submit original research as well as review
articles that cover all aspects of semantic analysis in social media
and social networks. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
? Semantic data mining in social media/models for semantic analysis/
statistics in social network
? Semantics in cloud computing/mobile devices/smart data center/cyber-
physical systems
? Semantic in social media content analysis tagging/content control/
retrieval/index/distribution
? Semantic distance metric learning/similarity measurement in social
network
? Semantics representations/feature extraction for social content
analysis
? Semantics in user interests/app recommendation/human-computer
interaction (HCI)
? Application to network security/biometrics/medication/education/arts/
business
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's
Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/am/guidelines/.
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at
http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
Manuscript Due Friday, 13 April 2012
First Round of Reviews Friday, 6 July 2012
Publication Date Friday, 31 August 2012
Lead Guest Editor
? Lei Wu, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Guest Editors
? Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Redmond, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
? Qi Tian, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
78249, USA
? Liangliang Cao, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA
? Hanqing Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, China
? Steven C. H. Hoi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798