<div> </div><div><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(148,54,52);font-size:16pt">Call for Papers </span></b></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span>Infosys Labs Briefings</span></b></p>
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</span></span><span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:14pt">Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges </span></span><span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:16pt"></span></span></strong></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><font size="3">The rise of social media and its use has been phenomenal, and yet to reach its plateau. Social media is now overshadowing traditional media and communication and is substantially transforming the way organizations, communities, and individuals interact, gather information and perform their routines. Encompassing a wide variety of information technologies, it connects not only users but also other objects in ways that were unimaginable till a few years ago. It also spans a large area of activities that differ in content, purpose, and user profiles. </font></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><font size="3">Reports on real world events are propagated much faster within the network of social sensors and social media continues to play a substantial role in supporting collective actions. The ubiquitous availability of portable devices that are always connected to the Internet, and easy-to-use social network applications make it possible for us to get connected to - and continuously contribute to - massively distributed online information. </font></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><font size="3">Social media brings a host of opportunities as well as presents some unique challenges. Social media is being harnessed innovatively in business, education, healthcare, government, law enforcement and more. The next generation of social media will be more sophisticated with rich features and innovative interfaces and will enable collaboration and interoperability. We yet don’t know the full potential of social media and how we can exploit its untapped potential. We also need new models of computing, called social computing - approaches and methodologies to process vast array of information scattered in social media and to satisfactorily address some of the growing concerns on social media applications. Further, effective mining, analysing, aggregating and exploiting information sourced from social media is an open and exciting challenge. To better exploit the power of social media, several technical, organisational, societal issues and challenges needs to be better understood and addressed. </font></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri">Social media and social computing is the focus of the upcoming 2013 issue of <b>Infosys Labs Briefings, </b>a peer-reviewed international journal published by Infosys. The journal has a large global targeted readership of over 10,000 which include senior IT executives, CXO’s, decision-makers, academics, industry peers and analysts.</font></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri">This special issue will provide a comprehensive coverage of ongoing and potential future developments and new perspectives on this hot topic of increasing significance. For this issue, we solicit articles from researchers and practitioners from industry on the following and other related topics:</font></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri">Those interested to contribute an article for this special issue are invited to send an extended summary of their proposed article for initial consideration to the Guest Editor, Professor San Murugesan<<a href="mailto:san1@internode.net" target="_blank">san1@internode.net</a>> by <b>24 November 2012</b>. The summary (about two pages long) should include: Title; author(s) name, affiliation and email address; scope, main contributions and significance of the article, an article outline and a brief author(s)’ bio(s) highlighting their expertise in the area. Final manuscript will be due by 1 February 2013. All submissions will be peer-reviewed for acceptance and accepted articles will be copy edited for clarity and to confirm to journal’s style.</font></span></p>
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