[AISWorld] CFP: IEEE SocialCom 2018 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia

[Arne Wilston]

Call for papers:

The 11th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (
SocialCom 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia.

Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/

Key dates:
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm)
Notification: September 30, 2018
Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018

Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/submission.htm

Publication:
Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.

Special issues:
Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information
Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

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Introduction

Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of
social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social
conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology.
Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant
messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.),
wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing
digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been
profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind
whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can
enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience
brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust,
privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social
behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges.

SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime
international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain
experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art
and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related
areas.

Scope and Topics

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
·   Fundamentals of social computing
·   Modelling of social behaviour
·   Social network analysis and mining
·   Big social media data
·   Social media infrastructure and cloud computing
·   Computational models of social simulation
·   Web 2.0 and semantic web
·   Innovative HCI and touch-screen models
·   Modelling of social conventions and social contexts
·   Social cognition and social intelligence
·   Social media analytics and intelligence
·   Group formation and evolution
·   Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts
·   Social system design and architectures
·   Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and
agent-based technology
·   Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling
·   Handheld/mobile social computing
·   Service science and service oriented interaction design
·   Cultural patterns and representation
·   Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process
·   Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets
·   Connected e-health in social networks
·   Social policy and government management
·   Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum
·   Business social software systems
·   Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments
·   Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction
·   Social computing applications and case studies

Submission Guidelines
Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the
corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference,
including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for
LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent
original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at
least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be
regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one
of the authors will register for the conference and present the work.
Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site:
http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/submission.htm.

Publications
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE
Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted
papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present
their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from
the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information
Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

General Chairs
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia

Program Chairs
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea
Simon Caton, National College of Ireland, Ireland
Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia