ISMIS 2012 - Special Session on Social Recommender Systems

Special Session on Social Recommender Systems (http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/ISMIS/?category=par...)
Recommender systems have been recognized as a promising way to solve the information overload problem, whose main task is to find out what their users might like. Recent evidence demonstrates the significance of social influence and indicate that recommendations made by advanced techniques and algorithms are often less appreciated than those coming from our friends or acquaintances. The emergence of large-scale social network services, such as Facebook and Twitter, is facilitating the development of social recommendation. Beyond theoretical interests, academic studies on social recommender systems can immediately find industrial applications.
We seek high-qualified, original submissions of reports on research covering all the aspects of designs, techniques, algorithms, experiments, and empirical analyses on social recommender systems.
The topics include but are not limited to the following:
Offline Social Recommender Systems
Empirical Analyses of Social Influence
Designs and Techniques of Social Recommender Systems
Social Recommendation Algorithms
Modeling Social Recommendation and User Behavior
Real Applications of Social Recommender Systems
Psychology of Social Recommendation
Privacy Issues of Social Recommendation
Important Dates
Electronic submission of full papers: June 15, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: August 1, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers: August 31, 2012
Conference: December 4-7, 2012
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit their manuscript in LNCS/LNAI style (please see this page), maximum 10 pages.
Paper should be submitted in PDF form via ISMIS 2012 Online Submission System:
http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2012/ismis12/cbc_inde...
The submitted papers will be reviewed by the session's program committee
Organization Committee
Session Chair:
Linyuan Lü, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (linyuan.lue-AT-unifr.ch)
Zi-Ke Zhang, Hangzhou Normal University, China (zhangzike-AT-gmail.com)
Program Committees:
Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
Chih-Chun Chen, Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales, CNRS, France
Duan-Bing Chen, Web Sciences Center, UESTC, China
Xue-Qi Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Giulio Cimini, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Tobias Galla, University of Manchester, UK
Liang Gou, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Roger Guimera, Northwestern University, US/Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Petter Holme, Umeå University, Sweden
Baoxin Li, Arizona State University, USA
Chuang Liu, Hangzhou Normal University, China
Jian-Guo Liu, Oxford University, UK
Matúš Medo, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Ming-Sheng Shang, Web Sciences Center, UESTC, China
Meng Su, Peking University, China
Bin Wu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Ke Xu, Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China
Li Yu, Renmin University of China, China
Chi Ho Yueng, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Yi-Cheng Zhang, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Tao Zhou, Web Sciences Center, UESTC, China