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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">**** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS ****</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Invitation for Participation<br>
International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011)<br>
Singapore, October 6-8, 2011 </font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011) will be held in Singapore, a major hub in the Asia Pacific region well known for its multi-racial and multi-cultural society.
The mission of SocInfo2011 is to make the conference a premier venue for both social and computer scientists to exchange the latest research ideas that better integrate scholars from the two disciplines. The conference program will reflect this in the keynote
talks, tutorials, workshops and paper sessions addressing emerging topics which attract interdisciplinary research attention.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">SocInfo2011 is hosted by the Singapore Management University and is supported by the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. The conference also receives support from
the International Communication Association (ICA) and Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF). The conference sponsors include AFOSR, AOARD and Lee Foundation.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">SocInfo2011 offers both serious research exchanges in its keynote talks, invited talks and paper presentations. The program also includes a symposium on social dynamics in online gaming, two tutorials,
poster presentations and demos. In addition, there will be a social program that covers reception, banquet and a short heritage tour for participants to know one another better and to appreciate the local culture and delicacies. With a good combination of
work and fun, SocInfo2011 hopes to foster collaboration among the social informatics researchers as well as to demonstrate the relevance of their research to a wider community.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">The online registration of SocInfo2011 is now open. The early-bird full and student registration fees are S$500 and S$300 respectively.<br>
Due to limited capacity, we strongly encourage early registrations at: <a href="http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011/registration.html">
http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011/registration.html</a><br>
The early registration deadline is *10 September 2011*.</font></div>
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The program highlights include:</div>
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Digital Media and The Relational Revolution in Social Science<br>
by Professor Michael Macy, Cornell University</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Using Web Science to Understand and Enable 21st Century Multidimensional Networks<br>
by Professor Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Data Mining as a Key Enabler of Computational Social Science<br>
by Professor Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Predicting Market Movements: From Breaking News to Emerging Social Media<br>
by Professor Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona</div>
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Learning Information Diffusion Models from Observation and Its Application to Behavior Analysis<br>
by Professor Hiroshi Motoda, AFOSR/AOARD and Osaka University</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Analysis of Twitter Unfollow: How Often do People Unfollow in Twitter and Why?<br>
by Professor Sue B. Moon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology</div>
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>From Computational to Human Trust: Problems, Methods and Applications of Trust Management<br>
by Professor Adam Wierzbicki, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Text Analytics for Social Research<br>
by Professor Stuart W. Shulman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst</div>
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<div dir="ltr">More information about the program can be found at the conference website.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Student Travel Support<br>
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The SocInfo2011 organizing committee invites applications for small grants to help cover the travel expenses and registration. The award grant has kindly been made available by the previous SocInfo organizers.
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<div dir="ltr">Please check out <a href="http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011/student-travel-support.html">
http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011/student-travel-support.html</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Learn more at <a href="http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011">http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011</a></div>
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