<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Following numerous requests, the DEADLINE for paper submissions has been EXTENDED to June 15th, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Apologies if you recieve multiple copies of this message. You are cordially invited to submit papers for the Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA), to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, Sept 30th to Oct 2nd 2013. Please pass this message on to colleagues who may be interested.</div>
<div><br></div><div>PAPERS DUE: June 15th, 2013 (EXTENDED DEADLINE)</div><div><br></div><div>**** Conference Website ****</div><div><br></div><div> * <a href="http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/">http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/</a></div>
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<br></div><div><br></div><div>**** Overview ****</div><div><br></div><div>Social computing 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) 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 and its broadly related areas.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>**** Scope and Topics of Interest ****</div><div><br></div><div>Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div><br></div><div> Fundamentals of social computing</div>
<div> Modelling of social behaviour</div><div> Social network analysis and mining</div><div> Computational models of social simulation</div><div> Web 2.0 and semantic web</div><div> Innovative HCI and touch-screen models</div>
<div> Modelling of social conventions and social contexts</div><div> Social cognition and social intelligence</div><div> Social media analytics and intelligence</div><div> Broad Data and Social Computing</div>
<div> Group formation and evolution</div><div> Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts</div><div> Social system design and architectures</div><div> Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology</div>
<div> Handheld/mobile social computing</div><div> Social Cloud Computing</div><div> Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling</div><div> Service science and service oriented interaction design</div>
<div> Cultural patterns and representation</div><div> Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process</div><div> Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets</div><div> Connected e-health in social networks</div>
<div> Social policy and government management</div><div> Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum</div><div> Business social software systems</div><div> Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments</div>
<div> Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction</div><div> Social computing applications and case studies</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>**** Important Dates ****</div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission: June 15th 2013</div>
<div>Author Notification: July 10th 2013</div><div>Camera Ready: August 12th 2013</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>**** Submission Guidelines ****</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for full conference papers, 6 pages for short / work in progress papers, and 2 pages for posters, including all tables and figures in the IEEE CS format. The template files for LaTeX or Word can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting">http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</a>. 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) as a PDF at the SCA2013 submission site: <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2013">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2013</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>**** Publication ****</div><div><br></div><div>Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (Indexed by EI). 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>**** Distinguished Papers ****</div><div><br></div><div>Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of high quality SCI indexed international journals: TBA</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>**** Organization ****</div><div><br></div><div>General Chair</div><div> Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK</div><div><br></div><div>Steering Committee</div><div> Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair)</div>
<div> Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore</div><div> Wesley Chu, University of California, USA</div><div> Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia</div><div> Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China</div>
<div> Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK</div><div> Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China</div><div> Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan</div><div> Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia</div>
<div> V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA</div><div> Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China</div><div> Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)</div><div> John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA</div>
<div> Program Chairs</div><div> Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy</div><div> Georg Groh, Technical University Munich, Germany</div><div> Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus</div>
<div><br></div><div>Tutorial Chair</div><div> Jasminko Novak, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund / European Institute for Participatory Media, Germany</div><div><br></div><div>Workshop Chairs</div><div> Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA</div>
<div> Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK</div><div><br></div><div>Publication Chair</div><div> Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia</div><div><br></div><div>Publicity Chair</div><div> Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK</div>
<div><br></div><div>Local Organization</div><div> Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair)</div><div> Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany</div><div> Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>**** More Information: Conference Website ****</div><div><br></div><div> * <a href="http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/">http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/</a></div>
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