SAW 2009

In recent years, the Web has moved from a simple one-way communication channel, extending traditional media, to a complex "peer-to-peer" communication space with a blurred author/audience distinction and new ways to create, share, and use knowledge in a social way.

This change of paradigm is currently profoundly transforming most areas of our life: our interactions with other people, our relationships, ways of gathering information, ways of developing social norms, opinions, attitudes and even legal aspects, as well as ways of working and doing business.

The change also raises a strong need for theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to how people may interact on the Web, how they actually do so, and what new possibilities and challenges are emerging in the social, business and technology dimensions.

Following the two previous events, the goal of the 3rd Workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web.

Topics

 * People on the social Web
 * Individuals on the Web (identity, privacy, incentives, activity models, trust and reputation, ...)
 * Communities on the Web (roles, leadership, social norms and conflicts, types of communities, ...)
 * Collaboration on the Web (content and data development and maintenance, decision taking ...)
 * On-line and off-line life (mixed interaction models, on-line vs. off-line communities, ... )
 * Business activities in the social Web (sales, exchanges, word-of-mouth, recruiting, marketing, ...)
 * Data and content on the social Web
 * Social content organization (tagging, classification, recommendations, collaborative filtering, ...)
 * Content dynamics (content flow and evolution, mashups, comments, collaborative creation, ...)
 * Semantic social Web (standards, annotation of social content/data, ontology learning, ...)
 * Data and social network portability (standards, policies, technologies, licenses, ...)
 * Social software and services
 * Specific types of social software (social networks, blogs, wikis, resources sharing, ...)
 * Development (architectures, technologies, platforms, infrastructures, ...)
 * Adoption (critical mass problem, socio-technical gap, data and social network migration, ...)
 * Alternative user interaction models (games, mobile, mixed reality, ...)
 * Social software in the enterprise (knowledge management, CRM, collaborative software, ...)
 * Business models of social services (pricing, cost models, customer relation, content acquisition, ...)
 * Mining the social Web
 * Mining user-generated content (opinion, comments, rankings, forums, ...)
 * Mining the social graph (collaborative filtering, social network analysis, ...)
 * Mining activity patterns (access, used features, participation, interactions, ...)
 * Entity-centric content integration (on people, experts, objects, companies, locations, ...)
 * Social Web mining in business (for marketing, products design, customer support, ...)

Submissions

 * Long papers: max. 12 pages
 * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
 * Demo papers: max. 4 pages

Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0.

Submission system is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saw2009.

Papers approved for presentation at SAW 2009 will be published in BIS 2009 workshop proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

Workshop Format
All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops.

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Committees

 * Chairs
 * has workshop chair::Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has workshop chair::Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has workshop chair::Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia


 * Program Committee
 * has PC member::Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
 * has PC member::Simone Braun, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Tanguy Coenen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 * has PC member::Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany
 * has PC member::Davide Eynard, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 * has PC member::Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has PC member::Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University, Japan
 * has PC member::Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has PC member::Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia
 * has PC member::Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
 * has PC member::Katharina Siorpaes, STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * has PC member::Jie Tang, Tshingua University, China
 * has PC member::Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 * has PC member::Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany