IEEE SocialCom 2009

Call For Paper & Workshop Proposal 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-09) Vancouver, Canada, August 29-31, 2009 http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Proposal:     March 1st,  2009 Paper Submission Deadline:    April   15th,  2009

Social Computing can be broadly defined as computational facilitation of social studies and human social dynamics as well as design and use of information and communication technologies that consider social context. Social computing has recently become one of the central themes across a number of information and communication technology fields and attracted significant interest from not only researchers in computing and social sciences, but also software and online game vendors, web entrepreneurs, political analysts, digital government practitioners. The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing provides a key forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of social computing.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

user-generated content, blogs, wikis, and discussions
 * Social Computing Theories
 * Social System Design and Architectures
 * Social Network Analysis and Mining
 * Semantic web
 * Social Behavior Modeling
 * Social Intelligence and Social Cognition
 * Social media analytics and social media intelligence
 * Social Computing Applications such as collaborative filtering, bookmaking, tagging, and multi-agent systems,
 * Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design
 * Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, Influence Process
 * Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence in Social Contexts
 * Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in social contexts
 * Services Science, Quality, Architecture, Management, Tools, and Case Studies.

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