SCA 2013 - SCA 2013 : International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications

Social computing is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges.
SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and its broadly related areas.
Scope and Topics of Interest
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
Fundamentals of social computing
Modelling of social behaviour
Social network analysis and mining
Computational models of social simulation
Web 2.0 and semantic web
Innovative HCI and touch-screen models
Modelling of social conventions and social contexts
Social cognition and social intelligence
Social media analytics and intelligence
Group formation and evolution
Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts
Social system design and architectures
Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology
Handheld/mobile social computing
Social Cloud Computing
Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling
Service science and service oriented interaction design
Cultural patterns and representation
Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process
Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets
Connected e-health in social networks
Social policy and government management
Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum
Business social software systems
Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments
Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction
Social computing applications and case studies
Important Dates
Paper Submission: May 12th 2013
Author Notification: July 10th 2013
Camera Ready: August 12th 2013
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca201....
Publication
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (Indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.