CCSocialComp 2012 - International Workshop on Collaborative Communities for Social Computing

CCSocialComp 2012 Workshop at CollaborateCom 2012
Social computing is an emerging field of computational sciences which harvests the collective intelligence and social relationships of users to create value. In contrast to the centralization and automation tendencies of many computing approaches, social computing shifts the focus of intelligence from the computer to the human user, from the server to the client and from the core to the edge of the network.
Moreover, the widespread adoption of Web 2.0 related technologies has facilitated user collaboration and knowledge sharing. Thanks to these technologies, collaborative communities are today one of the emerging trends in the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) area. Collaborative tools based on the Web 2.0 are today more and more used not only by single users, but also at the enterprise level to communicate, share information, taking decisions, and doing business. As such, the application of collaborative tools for social computing is creating both interesting opportunities and challenges.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers from various disciplines to explore the effect of social computing on different scenarios. Our ultimate goal is to foster collaboration across disciplines to enable interdisciplinary approaches for social computing.
For this workshop, we are requesting submissions on all topics relevant to social computing, including but not restricted to:
Social networks
Collective intelligence
Prediction markets
Collaborative filtering and tagging
Recommendation systems
Online auction systems
Negotiation models
Reputation and trust in social computing
Privacy and anonymity in social computing
Incentive design, motivations
Implementation approaches, architectures for social computing
Scalability of social computing
Mobile and location aware social computing