MULTIMEDIA 2013 - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA Special Issue on Social Media as Sensors

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
Special Issue on “Social Media as Sensors”
Summary
Web 2.0 applications and social media have transformed
the Web into an interactive sharing platform where users
upload data and media, comment on and share this content
within their social circles. Each content item is associated
with an abundance of metadata and related information
such as location, tags, comments, favourites, access
patterns and logs etc. At the same time all this information
is implicitly or explicitly interconnected based on various
properties such as social links between users, groups,
communities, etc. These properties transform social media
to data sources of an extremely dynamic nature that reflect
topics of interests, events, and the evolution of community
opinion and focus. Social media offer a unique opportunity
to structure and extract information and to benefit multiple
areas ranging from computer vision to sociology and
marketing.
Scope
This special issue targets a mixed audience of researchers
from several communities, i.e. computer vision, multimedia
analysis, data mining, machine learning, information
extraction, social networks, complex systems, and information
retrieval. The emphasis of the special issue is on recognition,
discovery, and detection of topics and real-world events,
as well as on monitoring and prediction of trends and events
using social media sites as sensors. Both theoretical
contributions and applications validated on large-scale social
media datasets are welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Scalable and multimodal social media analysis
(Near) real-time social media analysis
Data mining and knowledge extraction from social media
Community detection and clustering in social media
Spatio-temporal analysis for event discovery and detection
Social media applications for prediction and monitoring
Behaviour analysis in social media
Analysis of world events from social media streams
Social media systems applied to political analysis, emergency
management, and news generation
Social media as a source for sensing reality
Social media enabled applications (e.g. tourism, augmented
reality, e-participation, etc)
Other applications of social media as sensors
Submission Procedure
Prospective authors should submit high quality, original
manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under
consideration, in any other journals. Manuscripts should be
submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript
submission system at (http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/).
All papers will be reviewed by at least three independent
reviewers. Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia guidelines for authors (please visit:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/tmm/auth...).
Important dates
Submissions deadline: 16-Aug-2012
First notification: 1-Nov-2012
Revised manuscript: 30-Jan-2013
Notification of acceptance: 15-Mar-2013
Final Manuscript: 15-Apr-2013
Publication date: August 2013