[AISWorld] CASoN 2015 - Second call for Papers - South Africa

[Ajith Abraham]

*** CASoN 2015 - Second Call for Papers ***

--- The 7th International Conference on Computational Aspects of
Social Networks (CASoN '15) ---

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

December 1-3, 2015

http://www.mirlabs.net/cason15/
http://www.mirlabs.org/cason15/

Past Events: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cason/index.html
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Related conference: NaBIC 2015: http://www/mirlabs.net/nabic15

Publication: Springer
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The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social
Networks is a major annualinternational conference to brings together
an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, mathematicians,
computer scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to
exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results
about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of intelligent
methods applied to Social Network, and to discuss the practical
challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference
programme will include workshops, special sessions and tutorials,
along with prominent keynote speakers and regular paper presentations
in parallel tracks. Proceedings are expected to be published by the
Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, which is now indexed by
ISI Proceedings, DBLP. Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt
Math, MetaPress, Springerlink Proceedings will be made available
during the conference.

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and
dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology
interaction. These social network systems are usually characterized by
the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual
information. Recent trends also indicate the usage of complex network
as a key feature for next generation usage and exploitation of the
Web. This international conference on Computational Aspect of Networks
is focused on the foundations of social networks as well as case
studies, empirical, and other methodological works related to the
computational tools for the automatic discovery of Web-based social
networks. This conference provides an opportunity to compare and
contrast the ethological approach to social behavior in animals
(including the study of animal tracks and learning by members of the
same species) with web-based evidence of social interaction,
perceptual learning, information granulation, the behavior of humans
and affinities between web-based social networks. The main topics
cover the design and use of various computational intelligence tools
and software, simulations of social networks, representation and
analysis of social networks, use of semantic networks in the design
and community-based research issues such as knowledge discovery,
privacy and protection, and visualization.

We solicit original research and technical papers not published
elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application,
and cover a broad set of intelligent methods, with particular emphasis
on Social Network computing.


Topics
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Computational methods such as (but not restricted to):

Neural Networks and Connectionist Models
Evolutionary Algorithms
Fuzzy Logic
Knowledge Management
Multi-valued Logic
Semantic Networks
Rough Sets
Intelligent Agents
Ontologies
Reinforcement Learning
Applications on Social Networks:
Network evolution

Network Evolution and Growth Mechanisms.
Online Communities and Computer Networks.
Information Diffusion in Social Networks.
Detection of Communities by Document Analysis.
Topology of Real Networks.

Recommendation
Information Diffusion in Social Networks.
Recommendations for Product Purchase, Information Acquisition and
Establishment of Social Relations.
Impact of Recommendation Models on the Evolution Of The Social Network.
Classification Models and Their Application in Social Recommender Systems.

Advertisement Models
EconomicalImpact of Social Network Discovery.
Social Advertising.
Use of Social Networks for Marketing.

Search in Network
Web Page Ranking Informed by Social Media.
Search Algorithms on Social Networks.
Collaborative Filtering.

Security
Anomaly Detection in Social Network Evolution.
Data Protection Inside Communities.
Crime Data Mining and Network Analysis.
Modeling Trust and Reputation in Social Networks.
Misbehavior Detection in Communities.

Network Geography
Geographical Clusters, Networks, and Innovation.
Social Geography.
International Collaborations in e-Social network.

Web
Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks.
Link Topology and Site Hierarchy.
Web mining algorithms.
Web Communities.
Web-Based Cooperative Work.

Evaluation
Test collection.
Benchmark creation.
Measures and methodologies.


Author Guidelines:
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Submission of paper should be made through the submission link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cason2015

Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your
manuscript. Expanded versions of CASoN2015 selected papers will be
published in special issues of internationally referred journals
(indexed by SCI) and edited volumes.


Important Dates:
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Paper submission due : July 15, 2015

Notification of paper acceptance : August 15, 2015

Final manuscript and registration due : September 15, 2015

Conference : December 01-03, 2015



CASoN 20154 Organizing team:
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(please see web site)
http://www.mirlabs.org/cason15/committees.php
http://www.mirlabs.net/cason15/committees.php


Information contact:
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Technical matters:
Ajith Abraham: ajith.abraham at ieee.org

Local Information:
Nelishia Pillay <Pillayn32 at ukzn.ac.za>


For all other details, please consult the Conference Web site:
http://www.mirlabs.org/cason15
http://www.mirlabs.net/cason15