[AISWorld] The 1st International Workshop on Social Service Computing (SSC), December 5-8, 2011

[Fahim Akhter]

		The 1st International Workshop on Social Service Computing (SSC),
December 5-8, 2011
				in conjunction with ICSOC’2011 PAPHOS, CYPRUS
					http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ssc2011/



Nowadays, a good number of applications exhibit social elements
reported in people’s daily life. The objective of these applications
is to link users together to facilitate interactions and make them
richer and more productive. Social computing introduces a new
dimension to the Web that goes beyond connecting HTML pages. Indeed,
social applications based on weblogs, social networks, wikis, etc.
have reinforced the role of the Web as an inevitable communication
means. Among all these applications social networks are those that
have attracted the attention of academia and industry communities. For
instance, a social network platform like Facebook is being seen as a
serious rival to some well established players in the Web business
such as Google. This major shift in developing Web applications
permits to accommodate users’ needs and requirements better, but
raises major challenges in an environment that has become increasingly
complex, less structured, and more hostile considering the great mass
of knowledge generally hidden from users.

Despite the growing interest in integrating social computing with
focus on social networks into Web applications, agility and
competitiveness remain a challenge for modern enterprises to compete
and respond quickly to market and business changes. Web applications
are required to be interoperable. Web Services (WSs), which implement
the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles, seem recently to
be the technology of choice to develop interoperable applications that
can cross organization boundaries. There is a kind of synergy between
social computing and service computing. Social computing reflects
relationships that people daily experience like friendship and dislike
on social networks. Service computing allows developing applications
as per the basic principle of “I offer services that somebody else may
need” and “I require services that somebody else may offer”. The
format of the workshop in terms of number of sessions, types of papers
(long or short), keynote speakers, and last but not least panel
discussions will be set upon completing paper review and author
notification. The workshop format will be designed to foster
discussion and developing action outcomes on key issues relating to
social computing research relating to service computing.

AIM

This workshop aims at gathering researchers from the fields of social
computing and service computing to think about the obstacles that
hurdle the leveraging of social sciences and techniques for
application to services. We target researchers from both industry and
academia to join forces in this new area. We intend to discuss the
recent and significant developments in the general area of Social Web
Services and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In
particular, we hope to identify techniques from social computing that
will have the greatest impact on making Web services take into account
their previous experiences to build networks of contacts. Another aim
of the workshop is to identify important directions for the social
community to focus on that may be adopted by the wider service
community.

TOPICS

- Social networks analysis and mining for Web services discovery
- Group interaction and collaboration for Web services composition
- Social networks for Web services privacy and security
- Business opportunities for Social Web services
- Impact of social interactions on services infrastructures and QoS
- Social relationship between Web services
- Social behavior and Web service transaction
- Evolution of Web services in social-like environments
- Social Web services and robustness
- Reputation and social Web services
- Recommendation and social Web services
- Social tagging application for Web services
- User generated services (UGS), Mashups, and mobile Mashups
- Metrics and evaluation
- Case studies

AUDIENCE

This workshop will be of particular interest to service computing
researchers who are working in e-Business (a primary application area
of WS), those interested in developing open systems, in tracking and
developing standards, and of general interest to anyone using the
social and service paradigms for software development. We also believe
that the Workshop's topic area will be of significant interest to the
wider IT community and expect industry participation.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished
research papers. Papers should be written in English and must not
exceed 15 pages. For formatting instructions and templates see the
Springer LNCS format.

Please, submit papers via the EasyChair conference management tool
(http://www.easychair.org/) in PDF format.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international
program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation.

Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. Workshop
proceedings are planned for publication by Springer Verlag.

At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate
in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and
procedures of the main conference, please see details at the ICSOC
website: http://www.icsoc.org/.



IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission dead-line: September 15th 2011
Author Notification: October 23th, 2011
Camera-Ready: November 7th 2011
Workshop venue: December, 5th 2011


PROGRAM COMMITEE


Workshop Chair

Noura Faci,  Université Lyon 1 (noura.faci AT liris.cnrs.fr)


Publicity Chair

Fahim Akhter, Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E (fahim.akhter AT zu.ac.ae)


Organizing Committee

Noura Faci,  Université Lyon 1 (noura.faci AT liris.cnrs.fr)

Hamdi Yahyaoui, Computer Science Department, Kuwait University (hamdi
AT sci.kuniv.edu.kw)

Leandro Krug Wives, Instituto de Informática, UFRGS (wives AT inf.ufrgs.br)

Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E (zakaria.maamar AT zu.ac.ae)



Program Committee

Adel Serhani, UAE University, UAE
Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, Canada
Cláudio R. Geyer, UFRGS, Brazil
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
Licia Capra, University College London, UK
Márcia Pasin, UFSM, Brazil
M. Adel Serhani, UAE University, UAE
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM Research India, India
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Pascal Poizat, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, LRI, France
Philippe Thiran, University of Namur, Belgium
Romain Rouvoy, Lille 1 University, LIFL, France
Said Elnaffar, UAE University, UAE
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS, CNRS, France
Yacine Atif, UAE University, UAE
Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman