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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">KI Special Issue</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Call for Papers on Social Media</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">KI - Künstliche Intelligenz (Artificial Intelligence)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/">http://www.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">A Springer publication, ISSN</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">0933-1875 (Print)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">1610-1987 (Online)</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Guest Editors</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Detlef Schoder, Prof. Dr., <a href="mailto:schoder@wim.uni-koeln.de">schoder@wim.uni-koeln.de</a>, University of Cologne (Koeln), Department of Information Systems and Information Management, Cologne,
Germany</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Peter A. Gloor, PhD, <a href="mailto:pgloor@mit.edu">pgloor@mit.edu</a>, MIT Sloan School of Management, Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, USA</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, PhD, Prof., <a href="mailto:pmetaxas@seas.harvard.edu">pmetaxas@seas.harvard.edu</a>, Wellesley College, Department of Computer Science, Wellesley, MA, and Harvard University,
Center for Research on Computation and Society, Cambridge, MA, USA</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Call for Papers</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Social Media has led to radical paradigm shifts in the ways we communicate, collaborate, consume, and create information. Technology allows virtually anyone to disseminate information to a global audience
almost instantaneously. Information published by peers in the form of Tweets, blog posts, or Web documents through online social networking services has proliferated on an unprecedented scale, contributing to an exponentially growing data deluge. A new level
of connectedness among peers adds new ways for the consumption of (traditional) media. We are witnessing new forms of collaboration, including the phenomenon of an emergent 'collective intelligence'. This intelligence of crowds can be harnessed in myriad ways,
ranging from outsourcing simple, repetitive tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk, to solving complex challenges such as proving a mathematical theorem creatively and collaboratively.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">This call for papers welcomes contributions showing:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">1) How to make sense of Social Media data, i.e. how to condense, distill, or integrate highly decentralized and dispersed data resulting from human communication, including sensor-collected data to a meaningful
entity or information service, or</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">2) How Social Media contributes to innovation, collaboration, and collective intelligence.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">We invite papers covering all aspects of Social Media analysis including Social Media in Business (especially for Marketing, Innovation, and Collaboration), Entertainment (especially Social News, Social
Music Services, Social TV, and Social Network Games), as well as Art (e.g. City Installations). Applications of Social Media in art may be understood as a playing field for translating highly decentralized 'social data' into centralized forms of artful expression,
thus furthering our intuitive understanding of these complex emergent phenomena.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The list of topics mentioned below is neither exhaustive nor exclusive. Insightful artifacts and methods as well as analytical, conceptual, empirical, and theoretical approaches (using any kind of research
method, including experiments, primary data from social media logs, case studies, simulations, surveys, and so on) are within the scope.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Information/Web mining (e.g. opinion mining)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Prognosis (e.g. trend and hot topic identification)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Collective Intelligence</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Crowdsourcing</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Swarm Creativity, Collaborative Innovation Networks</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- (Dynamic) Social Media Monitoring</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Sentiment, Natural Language Processing</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Social Media within and for Smart Cities, Smart Traffic, Smart Energy</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Social Networks for the collaboration of large communities</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- User behavior, social interaction</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Social Network Analysis (SNA), semantic network analysis</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Social search engines and aggregators</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Social network games</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Personalization and adaptation to user preference</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Trust, reputation, social control, privacy</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Information reliability, Web spam, content authenticity (e.g., detecting 'astroturfing')</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Deadlines</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; ">Submissions open until (extended deadline) February 6, 2012</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Camera-ready copies of revised papers by April 30, 2012</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Pre-Publication of accepted papers via Springer Online FirstT in June 2012</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">- Printed version of this Special Issue: Fall 2012</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">In addition to complete research papers, this Special Issue will accept dissertation and conference reports, as well as practical project and innovative software descriptions in order to provide a comprehensive
overview of the current activities in this area.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">All submitted manuscripts should be original contributions and not be under consideration in any other venue. Publication of an enhanced version of a previously published conference paper is possible if
the review process determines that the revision contains significant enhancements, amplification or clarification of the original material. Any prior appearance of a substantial amount of a submission should be noted in the submission letter and on the title
page.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">For inquiries and submissions please contact:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">University of Cologne (Koeln)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Department of Information Systems and Information Management</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Pohligstr. 1, D-50969 Cologne, Germany</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Phone: +49 / (0)221 470-5325</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Fax: +49 / (0)221 470-5393</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">URL: <a href="http://www.wim.uni-koeln.de/">http://www.wim.uni-koeln.de</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:schoder@wim.uni-koeln.de">schoder@wim.uni-koeln.de</a></div>
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