SoMNet 2013 - Second International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks (SoMNet 2013)

You are cordially invited to participate in, contribute to, and attend the International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media, and Networks (SoMNet 2013) to be held as part of CTS 2013 (http://cts2013.cisedu.info/) May 20-24, 2013 in San Diego, California, USA. The Symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in the broad multi disciplinary field of social computing and new media. Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all disciplines and specialties (computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies, …).
The Symposium topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
Theories and Methodologies for Social Computing
Architectures and Design of Social Systems
Qualitative and Quantitative Studies of Social Media and Networks
Social Networks Interfaces and Interaction Techniques
Machine Learning Methods for Social Computing
Human Machine Interaction in Social Computing
Community and Organization Multi Media
Social Networks Enablement via Multi-Modality Social Media
New Social Media Applications
Semantic Web for Social Computing
Web Driven Media Creation
Exploration and Analysis of Social Networks
Psychological, Personality-based and Ethnographic Studies of Social Networks
Modeling of Social Behavior
Modeling of Social Media and Networks
Data Modeling for Social Networks
Social Computing and Networking Tools, Techniques and Technologies
Social Networking Software
Discovery, Collection, and Extraction of Social Networks Data
Processing of Social Stream Data
Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation Systems for Social Networks
Text Categorization; Topic Recognition; Demographic/Gender/Age Identification
Subjectivity in Textual Data; Sentiment Analysis; Polarity/Opinion Identification and Extraction
Social Search, Mining and Discovery
Large-scale Social Image and Video Analysis and Retrieval
Collective and Social Intelligence
Emotional and Cultural Dynamics
Trend Identification and Tracking
Security and Risk in Social Contexts
Privacy Policies for Online Social Networks
Privacy and Security Tradeoffs in Social Networks
Access Control in Online Social Networks
Trust, Reputation and Recommendation Systems
Summarization of Massive Social Networks Data
Social Media Tools; Navigation and Visualization
Visualization of Social Networks
Services in Social Networks
Leveraging Social Networks in the Enterprise
Social Network Mapping in the B2B Sphere
Dealing with Sensitive Information
New Technologies and Trends for Social Computing
Social Media: Weblogs, Microblogs, Wikis, Forums, Tweeting, Podcasts, Usenets, …
Performance and Benchmarking for Social Network Analysis
Social Media and Networks Monitoring and Engagement