[AISWorld] CfP: Foundations of Social Computing -- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)

[Maja Vukovic]

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                         ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
                                     http://toit.acm.org/

                          Call for Papers for a Theme Section on 
                               Foundations of Social Computing
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Social computing broadly refers to computing-supported approaches that 
facilitate interactions among people and organizations.  Social computing 
has emerged as an exciting multidisciplinary area of research, driven by 
the wealth of easily available information and the success of online 
social networks and social media.  What is still lacking though is a 
deeper conceptual understanding of information in social computing, 
especially its pragmatic aspects, such as social meaning, ownership, flow, 
and use. 

We invite high-quality submissions for a special theme section on the 
principles and concepts underlying information in social computing. We 
especially welcome novel computational treatments of social interaction 
and social relationships. Subthemes and topics include:

Applications
* Social provenance
* Sociotechnical systems, including applications such as healthcare and 
smart cities
* Participatory decision-making in communities
* Business processes
* Services
* Software engineering

Paradigms
* Contracts
* Argumentation
* Collaboration and teamwork
* Social networks
* Crowdsourcing 
* Collective intelligence

Models
* Social expectations and norms
* Social relationships
* Culture
* Regulations
* Protocols

Realization
* Social middleware
* Distributed knowledge bases
* Social software
* Social sensing
* Cloud computing

Challenges
* Identity
* Trust
* Compliance and accountability
* Privacy
* Security
* Governance

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Important Dates
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Submissions: 31 October 2013
First decisions: 15 January 2014
Revisions: 28 February 2014
Final decisions: 30 April 2014
Final: 31 May 2014 
Publication date: 31 October 2014

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Submission
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To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the TOIT submission 
instructions page: http://toit.acm.org/submission.html

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Theme Editors
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Amit K. Chopra
Lancaster University
a.chopra1 at lancaster.ac.uk
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/chopraak/

Raian Ali
Bournemouth University
rali at bournemouth.ac.uk
http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/rali

Maja Vukovic
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
maja at us.ibm.com
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-maja

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ACM TOIT Editor-in-Chief
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Munindar P. Singh 
Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
mpsingh at acm.org 
http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/mpsingh/

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