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Call for Papers: Special Session on Evolution of Social Networks (ESN 2012)Call for Papers: Special Session on Evolution of Social Networks (ESN 2012)

Posted on August 7, 2012 by admin

Call for Papers of the Special Session on Evolution of Social Networks – ESN 2012

Under the framework of the 4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2012), 21-23 November 2012 in São Carlos, Brazil

Objectives

In recent years, research in area of social network analysis grows rapidly, mainly thanks to the prevalence of the large-scale social network systems. These social network systems can be characterized by complex network structures and extensive content. Social network analysis can be applied to static or dynamic types of problems. The current research is mainly focused on analysis of topological properties and dynamic properties corresponding to evolution of networks and communities. Contextual information can help in analyzing these properties.

Social network data comes mainly from many on-line services. The huge quantity of data can be consisting of millions of vertices and edges. Given the scale, complexity and dynamics, the traditional methods of social network analysis cannot be easily used. It becomes crucial for researchers to understand the dynamics of these networks. It is important to predict the next evolution and analyze trends in the network. Other current directions of research are detection of communities and analysis of community evolution in large social networks, content (topic) evolution, information diffusion in social networks, etc.

Specific topics of interest

To address the aforementioned aspects of evolution of social networks, the preferred topics for this special session are (but not limited to):

• Community detection and evolution

• Role detection and evolution in social networks

• Content evolution and Information diffusion in social networks

• Trend prediction in social networks

• Anomaly detection in social network evolution

• Mining dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks

• Mining of user behavior patterns in social networks

• Analysis of co-authorship and citation networks and evolution of research topics

• Evolution in collaborative environments, wikis, e-learning systems, …

• Case studies and applications from the area of social network dynamics and evolution

• Social network data pre-processing

• Evaluation techniques and benchmarks

Submission

Special Session paper submission will be done through CASoN 2012 submission system and been evaluated with the same standard as the regular conference paper. All accepted papers will be included in the CASoN 2012 conference proceedings.

Papers must be submitted within the stipulated time and electronic submission in PDF is required. A full paper (6 pages, A4 size) for oral presentation should in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers.

Details are available at the http://www.mirlabs.net/cason12/ and special session website http://www.mirlabs.net/cason12/ss2.html. Submit your paper at the https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cason12

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Aug 15, 2012

Notification Due: Sep 15, 2012

Final Version Due: Sep 30, 2012

Program Chair

Vaclav Snášel, Department of Computer Science, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Hvaclav.snasel@vsb.cz

Miloš Kudělka, Department of Computer Science, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz

Session Coordinators

Miloš Kudělka, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz

Eliška Ochodková, Heliska.ochodkova@vsb.cz
Call for Papers of the Special Session on Evolution of Social Networks – ESN 2012

Under the framework of the 4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2012), 21-23 November 2012 in São Carlos, Brazil

Objectives

Specific topics of interest

To address the aforementioned aspects of evolution of social networks, the preferred topics for this special session are (but not limited to):

• Community detection and evolution

• Role detection and evolution in social networks

• Content evolution and Information diffusion in social networks

• Trend prediction in social networks

• Anomaly detection in social network evolution

• Mining dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks

• Mining of user behavior patterns in social networks

• Analysis of co-authorship and citation networks and evolution of research topics

• Evolution in collaborative environments, wikis, e-learning systems, …

• Case studies and applications from the area of social network dynamics and evolution

• Social network data pre-processing

• Evaluation techniques and benchmarks

Submission

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Aug 15, 2012

Notification Due: Sep 15, 2012

Final Version Due: Sep 30, 2012

Program Chair

Vaclav Snášel, Department of Computer Science, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Hvaclav.snasel@vsb.cz

Miloš Kudělka, Department of Computer Science, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz

Session Coordinators

Miloš Kudělka, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz

Eliška Ochodková, Heliska.ochodkova@vsb.cz

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Call For Papers: Fourth International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2012)

Posted on August 6, 2012 by admin

The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2012) brings together an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of intelligent methods applied to Social Networks, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. These social network systems are usually characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual information. Recent trends also indicate the usage of complex network as a key feature for next generation usage and exploitation of the Web. This international conference on Computational Aspect of Networks is focused on the foundations of social networks as well as case studies, empirical, and other methodological works related to the computational tools for the automatic discovery of Web-based social networks. This conference provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the ethological approach to social behavior in animals (including the study of animal tracks and learning by members of the same species) with web-based evidence of social interaction, perceptual learning, information granulation, the behavior of humans and affinities between web-based social networks. The main topics cover the design and use of various computational intelligence tools and software, simulations of social networks, representation and analysis of social networks, use of semantic networks in the design and community-based research issues such as knowledge discovery, privacy and protection, and visualization.

We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application, and cover a broad set of intelligent methods, with particular emphasis on Social Network computing.

Computational methods such as (but not restricted to):
Neural Networks and Connectionist Models
Evolutionary Algorithms
Fuzzy Logic
Knowledge Management
Multi-valued Logic
Semantic Networks
Rough Sets
Intelligent Agents
Ontologies
Reinforcement Learning
Applications on Social Networks:
Network evolution

Network evolution and growth mechanisms.
Online communities and computer networks.
Information diffusion in social networks.
Detection of communities by document analysis.
Topology of real networks.

Recommendation
Information diffusion in social networks.
Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations.
Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the social network.
Classification models and their application in social recommender systems.

Advertisement models
Economical impact of social network discovery.
Social advertising.
Use of social networks for marketing.

Search in network
Web page ranking informed by social media.
Search algorithms on social networks.
Collaborative Filtering.

Security
Anomaly detection in social network evolution.
Data protection inside communities.
Crime data mining and network analysis.
Modeling trust and reputation in social networks.
Misbehavior detection in communities.

Network geography
Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation.
Social geography.
International Collaborations in e-Social network.

Web
Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks.
Link Topology and Site Hierarchy.
Web mining algorithms.
Web communities.
Web-Based Cooperative Work.

Evaluation
Test collection.
Benchmark creation.
Measures and methodologies.

Important Dates

When: Nov 21, 2012 – Nov 23, 2012
Where: São Carlos, Brazil
Submission Deadline: Aug 15, 2012
Notification Due: Sep 15, 2012
Final Version Due: Sep 30, 2012

Paper submission

Submitted papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical, experimental or application nature, or be unique experience reports.

Papers must be submitted within the stipulated time and electronic submission in PDF is required. The page limit for a full-length paper is 6 pages. Short papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature results are also welcome, with a minimum limit of 4 pages.

Note: Papers less than 4 pages will not be reviewed and may be rejected outright!

All submissions should be in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers.

Please refer to the author templates given below:

MS Word template: Doc Template
LaTex Formatting Macros: TeX Template

The authors of the accepted papers will be allowed to make a correction in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and submit final camera-ready papers within the stipulated deadline. The conference proceedings will be distributed amongst the participants during the conference. Accepted papers must be presented by author(s) personally to be published in the conference proceedings.

Submit your paper at the submission site.

Link: http://www.mirlabs.net/cason12/

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Call For Papers: International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications (Complex Networks 2012)

Posted on August 4, 2012 by admin

Complex Networks and their Applications

International workshop collocated with:

the 8th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 2012), Sorrento – Naples, Italy, 25-29 November 2012

(http://www.sitis-conf.org/en/)

Scope of the Workshop

Real-world entities often interconnect with each other through explicit or implicit relationships to form a complex network. Examples of complex networks are found in many fields of science such as biological systems, engineering systems, economic systems as well as social systems. In line with ‘s tradition of SITIS promoting interdisciplinary research, the international workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different science communities working on areas related to complex networks. The workshop targets two types of contributions from prospective authors: Contributions dealing of theoretical tools and methods to solve practical problems as well as applications solved by tools from network sciences. Both contributions should stimulate interaction between theoreticians and practitioners.

Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and applied papers on their research in complex networks. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Models of Complex Networks
• Structural Network Properties and Analysis
• Complex Networks and Epidemics
• Rumor Spreading
• Community Structure in Networks
• Formation of Complex Networks
• Generation of Complex Networks
• Community Detection in Complex Networks
• Motif Discovery in Complex Networks
• Visualization of Complex Networks
• Complex network mining
• Dynamics and evolution patterns of complex networks
• Community discovery in complex social networks
• Visual representation of complex networks
• Methodological problems in complex network studies
• Applications of complex network analysis
• etc.

Important dates

Submission deadline: September 21, 2012 (midnight, Pacific Standard Time)
Authors notification: October 8, 2012
Camera-ready: October 26, 2012
Workshop date: November 27, 2012

Submission guidelines

All submissions should be in IEEE conference style and PDF format
(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
Papers may not exceed 8 pages. Two extra pages can be purchased. Paper submission will only be online via: Easy Chair(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi).
The online system will be used to handle and process all papers and to prepare for the final proceedings
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression by at least two reviewers. The organizers will examine the reviews and make final paper selections.

Publication

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. The proceedings will be available at the conference. Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in major journals.

Registration

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Registration must be done on the SITIS website at the time when the author sends the camera-ready copy of the accepted paper to the workshop chair. Workshop registration fee is determined by SITIS. A single registration for the workshop or the conference allows to attend both events.

General Chair:

Hocine Cherifi , University of Burgundy , France

Program Committee

Fred Amblard Université Toulouse 1 France
Andrea Baronchelli Northeastern University USA
Yaneer Bar-Yam New England Complex Systems Institute USA
Gilles Bisson Université Grenoble France
Marian Boguna Universitat de Barcelona Spain
Ulrik Brandes University of Konstanz Germany
Vincenza Carchiolo University of Catania Italy
Jack Cole ARL USA
Michele Coscia Universita di Pisa Italy
Regino Criado Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Spain
Luciano Da F. Costa University of São Paulo Brazil
Fernando B. De Lima Neto University of Pernambuco, Recife Brazil
Giorgio Fagiolo Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies Italy
Santo Fortunato Aalto University Finland
James Gleeson University of Limerick Ireland
Kwang-Il Goh Korea University, Seoul Korea
Sergio Gomez Universitat Rovira i Virgili Spain
Jean-Loup Guillaume Université Paris 6 France
Chris Hankin Imperial College London UK
Shlomo Havlin Dept of Physics Ramat-Gan Israel
Seok-Hee Hong University of Sydney Australia
Hawoong Jeong KAIST Korea
Rushed Kanawati Université Paris 13 France
Hyoungshick Kim University of British Columbia Canada
Renaud Lambiotte University of Namur Belguim
Andrea Lancichinetti Northwestern University USA
Christine Largeron Jean Monnet University France
Anna T. Lawniczak , University of Guelph Canada
Benedicte Le Grand Université Paris 6 France
Xiaoli Li Institute for Infocomm Research Singapore
Nelly Litvak University of Twente The Netherlands
Alessandro Longheu University of Catania Italy
Matteo Magnani University of Bologna Italy
Maria Malek EISTI Paris France
Jose Mendes University of Aveiro Portugal
Ronaldo Menezes Florida Institute of Technology USA
Bivas Mitra UC Louvain Belguim
Tsuyoshi Murata Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
Jorge M. Pacheco Universidade do Minho Portugal
Fragkiskos Papadopoulos Cyprus Univ. Technology Cyprus
Carlo Piccardi Politecnico di Milano Italy
Filippo Radicchi Universitat Rovira i Virgili Spain
Martin Rosvall Umeå Univeristy Sweden
Chaoming Song Northeastern University USA
Bosiljka Tadic Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana Slovenia
My Thai University of Florida USA
Olivier Togni University of Burgundy France
Bin Wu Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecom China

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Call For Papers: SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2012)

Posted on August 1, 2012 by admin

4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) 2012
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~gghinita/LBSN12/

November 6th, 2012
Redondo Beach, CA, USA
Co-located with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012 (http://acmgis2012.cs.umd.edu)

CALL FOR PAPERS
===============
Social networks and social media are prevalent on the Internet and have become a hot research topic attracting many professionals from a variety of fields. By adding a location dimension, we can bring online social networks and media back to the physical world and share our real-life experiences in the virtual world conveniently. In Location Based Social Networks (LBSN), people can not only track and share location-related information with each other via mobile devices or desktop computers, but can also leverage collaborative social knowledge learned from user-generated and location-related content. As location is one of the most important properties in people’s everyday lives, LBSN bridge the gap between online societies and the physical world, enabling novel applications that have the potential to change the way we live, such as travel planning, location/friend recommendations, community discovery, human mobility modeling, and user activity analysis. The technology derived from LBSN, e.g., location trajectory mining and retrieval, can also be applied to a multitude of other research areas including biology, sociology, geography, and climatology, etc.

The objective of this workshop is to provide professionals, researchers, and technologists with a single forum where they can discuss and share the state-of-the-art in LBSN development and application, present their ideas and contributions, and set the future direction of LBSN research. In this Fourth offering of the workshop, we would like to broaden the focus to include location based social media more generally. Social media platforms such as Twitter represent a rich source of information about individual and group behavior and much of this data has location information associated with it, either explicitly or implicitly.

Topics
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Spatial and spatio-temporal data mining in user-centric scenarios
Moving object tracking, indexing and retrieval for social applications
Trajectory compressing and simplification
Trajectory mining, pattern recognition, and knowledge discovery
Location privacy and security
Uncertainty of location and trajectory in modeling, inference, and querying
Activity recognition and sensing for social applications
Location identification from sensor data for social applications
User behavior modeling using physical sensor data
Semantic meaning and knowledge discovery from location-related data
User similarity computing based on location-related information
Social structure detection from location-related data
Location and friend recommendations
Hot spots, significant places, and interesting locations detection
Location-tagged media sharing and mining
Human-computer interaction in location-based social networks
Mobile and ubiquitous computing for location-based social networks
Information retrieval in location-based social networks

Submission Instructions
———————–
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers can be of two types:

Regular Research Papers: these papers should report original research results or significant case studies. They should be at most 8 pages.
Position Papers: these papers should report novel research directions or identify challenging problems. They should be at most 4 pages.

Manuscripts (both research and position papers) should be submitted in PDF format according to the ACM camera-ready templates available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Papers must be electronically submitted at the following address:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lbsn2012
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. The workshop proceedings will also be part of the ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates
—————
Paper Submission Due: August 17, 2012
Notification to the authors: September 17, 2012
Camera ready papers due: September 30, 2012

Organization
————
Program Co-Chairs
Jennifer Neville, Purdue University
Gabriel Ghinita, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Shawn Newsam, University of California, Merced

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Call For Papers: The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2013)

Posted on July 30, 2012 by admin

The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2013) 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus.

ECSCW 2013 calls for submissions reporting on investigations into cooperation in real world settings and designs of innovative technologies to support collaboration.

ECSCW is interested in cooperative settings in the workplace, in everyday life, and the civic society, and across boundaries between these spheres of life.

The conference is soliciting high quality contributions that advance the
state of the art in CSCW:
– empirical studies of work that contribute to the design space,
– novel techniques and technologies,
– enhancement of the conceptual foundations.

In particular, the conference welcomes contributions that focus on:
– Empirical studies of collaboration in settings ranging from work to
civic engagement and everyday life.
– Comparative analyses of empirical studies that contribute to a deeper
understanding of domain specific or more general CSCW principles.
– Empirical studies on the appropriation of innovative technologies.
– Studies on collaborative work in emergent and developing economies.
– Investigations into the usage and design of coordination artefacts as
well as webs of technology (infrastructures).
– New technology-enabled forms of organization and virtual organizing.
– Innovative technologies, applications, or functionality in support of
collaborative work.
– Conception, construction and use of CSCW technologies in complex and
demanding settings, like manufacturing, software engineering,
healthcare, care giving, security, and control systems.
– Architectures supporting CSCW technologies with quality requirements,
such as flexibility, tailorability, and adaptability.
– Ubiquitous and mobile computing in collaborative settings: empirical
research of use, studies of integration with other CSCW technologies
and applications.
– Innovative use of social media to support collective action.

Submission deadline for full papers and notes: 4 February, 2013.

Link: http://www.ecscw.org/

General Chair: George Angelos Papadopoulos.
Program Chairs: Olav W. Bertelsen and Antonietta Grasso.

All contributions will be rigorously evaluated in terms of their novelty, significance, quality, and contribution to the discipline. Accepted research papers and notes will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer and freely available at the ECSCW website at: www.ecscw.org. They will also be indexed in and available
through the ACM digital library.

ECSCW 2013 requires that submissions have not been published previously and that papers submitted are not under simultaneous review for any other publication.

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Call For Papers: Workshop on Social Media Analysis and Mining (SMAM 2012)

Posted on July 27, 2012 by admin

The Special Workshop on Social Media Analysis and Mining, hosted in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2012), provides an open forum for presentations and thoughtful discussion on the emerging fields of social media analysis and mining. Online social networks like Facebook and Twitter have witnessed explosive growth over the course of the past decade. The use of these networks and the social features of other sites or applications intersects with nearly every facet of our lives, defining and evolving the nature of our social interactions. This phenomenal surge of interest and adoption of online social networks and other social computing utilities creates an outstanding opportunity for those interested in collecting or analyzing real world data. Further, it provides a testing ground for exploring new methods of analyzing and handling data at scales seldom seen before. This workshop will provide a venue for academic researchers, students, practitioners, and others with an interest in online social network analysis and data mining concepts to come together and share their ideas, network, and learn new methods for tackling complex problems in these exciting fields.

Paper Submissions

Workshop organizers invite quality submissions on all aspects of social media analysis, mining, and knowledge discovery. Papers should be original and innovative, rigorously evaluated and well-presented. Broad areas of interest include, but are not limited to: the application of data mining concepts and techniques such as modeling, clustering, and classification to online social network data, network generation or informational retrieval from existing platforms, data cleaning and data types for working with social data at scale, as well as other topics deemed relevant to social computing, data mining, and large-scale networks.

All submitted papers will be judged based on their significance, originality, repeatability, and clarity. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines listed below will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Regular paper will be allocated 10 pages in the proceedings, and longer oral presentation time, whereas short papers will be allowed 6 pages in the proceedings, with shorter oral presentation time.

Repeatability Guideline

To ensure the long term viability of data mining research, every effort should be made to provide the source-code (or executables), as well as the datasets (or their closest publicly available equivalents). The experimental results section should mention all relevant implementation details and parameter specifications, so that the results can be independently duplicated.

The paper submission and review system is located at: http://bit.ly/LTrBcp

Important Dates:

When	Dec 10, 2012 – Dec 10, 2012
Where	Brussels, Belgium
Submission Deadline	Aug 10, 2012
Notification Due	Oct 1, 2012
Final Version Due	Oct 15, 2012

Link: https://sites.google.com/a/unomaha.edu/smam/home
Submission Guidelines

Papers submitted for publication consideration for the Special Workshop on Social Media
Analysis and Mining should meet the following guidelines:

• Names of authors should be blinded
• All submitted papers should be in APA format
• Submissions should be in 12-pt, Times New Roman font
• All submissions should be double-spaced with 1” margins all around
• Authors must disclose all conflicts of interest
• Papers should be proof-read to ensure they are free of grammatical errors

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Call For Papers: International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments ( IJSMILE 2012)

Posted on July 25, 2012 by admin

Special Issue on: “Social Networking Sites for Formal Learning”

In recent years, social networking sites such as Facebook, Google +, Twitter, weblogs and wikis have been popularly used by young people and adults to share information and interact with each other. These platforms were not initially designed for educational purposes. Like any new technology, however, they have great potential for teaching and learning.
The objectives of this special issue are twofold. They are firstly to share pedagogical, social and technical affordances of social networking sites for formal learning in the secondary school or tertiary education context, and secondly to address implementation issues, concerns or challenges that teachers or students may have when they are using social networking sites in real practice. The discussion in this special issue will have implications for the effective use of social networking sites in education. The issue welcomes conceptual papers on technological affordances and challenges of social networking sites for teaching and learning, and empirical research papers and case studies about using social media to support teaching and learning in various contexts.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Social networking sites (e.g. weblog, wiki, Facebook, Twitter) for learning
Pedagogical, social and technical affordances of social media for teaching and learning
Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning
Issues and concerns with using social media for learning
Web-based collaborative and interactive learning
Using social media to support collaborative learning
Formal learning with social technologies
Interactive and social learning
Course design and development based on social media

Notes for Prospective Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written). All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.
Link: http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=1910

Important Dates
Full paper submission: 30 September, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 15 November, 2012
Final submission: 31 December, 2012

Editors and Notes
Dr. Qiyun Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to Online Submissions of Papers. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors

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Call For Papers: Special Issue of Springer Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling on Complex Networks (SI-Complex-Networks 2012)

Posted on July 23, 2012 by admin

Multidisciplinary applications of Complex Networks Modeling, Simulation, Visualization & Analysis

Complex Network methods for Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) have a widespread prevalence across literature spanning several disciplines from Biology and Social Sciences to Communication Networks. These network models are primarily developed using interaction data of various components or agents in a CAS. Subsequently analysis of these networks is performed using various network tools. This inaugural special issue of Springer Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (CASM) comprises of papers in the domain of complex networks modeling, simulation, visualization and analysis. Complex Network methods have a widespread prevalence across literature spanning several disciplines. The topics for this special issue will include, but are not limited to:
– Modeling, Simulation and Visualization of Complex Networks
– Complex Network Analysis
– Social Network Analysis
– Biological Networks
– Ecological Networks
– Citation Networks
– Complex Network Methods in Complex Adaptive Communication Networks & Environments (CACOONS) such as large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks, P2P networks, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Multiagent Systems etc.
– Use of Agent-based Modeling in Complex Networks
– Application case studies

Link: http://www.casmodeling.com/sites/10349/pdf/H9012_DF_CASM_CFP_Global_A4.pdf

Submission Deadline	Aug 1, 2012
Notification Due	Oct 1, 2012
Final Version Due	Dec 15, 2012

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Call For Papers: NEUE LEBENS:WELT:KRISEN (NLWK 2012)

Posted on July 21, 2012 by admin

Kontinuierliche Nachrichtenströme, ständige Statusaktualisierungen von Freunden, Kollegen oder sogar Programmen und Maschinen, sowie die eigene Präsenz und Interaktion in sozialen Netzwerken sind nur einige der heutigen Ausprägungen des Social Webs. Die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung und Erklärung der damit verbundenen Auswirkungen auf Individuum und Gesellschaft hat dabei gerade erst begonnen: Zwar stehen die Vorteile von Social Software besonders im Unternehmenseinsatz unter dem Schlagwort „Enterprise 2.0“ im Interesse vieler Forschergruppen und Konferenzen, die Betrachtung von Nebenerscheinungen und potenziell negativen Phänomenen hingegen finden insbesondere in Fachrichtungen mit starkem Technikfokus wie der Informatik nur allmählich ihren Weg in die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung.

Die Ursache hierfür liegt nicht zuletzt in der Multidimensionalität des Problemfeldes begründet. Sie macht es erforderlich, die vielschichtigen Effekte dieser Entwicklungen interdisziplinär zu untersuchen und zu diskutieren. Mit diesem Workshop soll eine Plattform geschaffen werden, auf deren Basis die aktuell diskutierten Problemfelder, die mit der Entwicklung des Social Web einhergehen, untersucht und gleichzeitig ganzheitliche Lösungsstrategien angestrebt werden können.

= Zielgruppe =

Die bisher erzielten Erkenntnisfragmente finden sich verstreut über zahlreiche Disziplinen (neben der Informatik vor allem in der Medienforschung, der Biologie, der Medizin, der Psychologie, den Politikwissenschaften, den Wirtschaftswissenschaften und der Soziologie). Durch interdisziplinären Erkenntnisaustausch einen fachbereichsübergreifenden Erkenntnisfortschritt zu befördern ist daher wesentliches Ziel des Workshops.

= Themenschwerpunkte =

Der Workshop ist für Beiträge offen, die sich mit der Auswirkung des Social Webs auf den Menschen und/oder die Gesellschaft befassen. Dabei sind bereits interdisziplinär angelegte Arbeiten ausdrücklich erwünscht. Beispiele hierfür sind:

* Facebook-Depressionen
* Cybermobbing
* Cyberstalking
* Kollektive Hetzgemeinschaften
* Shitstorms
* Spam
* Informationsvandalismus
* Internet-Kriminalität
* Hacking
* Information Overload
* Prokrastination
* Amateurisierung in Kunst, Kultur, Wirtschaft und Politik
* Veränderungen im Arbeitsalltag durch das Social Web
* Bedenkliche Aspekte des Enterprise 2.0 (Illusion/Failure?)
* Service-Level-Agreements
* Online-Fandom
* Social Media getriebene Politik
* Cyber-Balkanization

= Organisation =

Der Workshop findet am 10.11.2012 im Rahmen der FIfF-Jahrestagung „Digitalisierte Gesellschaft: Wege und Irrwege“ in Fulda statt.

Er soll dabei ganz im Zeichen des Open-Science-Gedanken stehen. Für die Organisation gibt es im Rahmen des Projekts Open Science Live (OS:L) eine Wikiversity-Seite.

== Veranstaltungsformat des Workshops ==

Der Workshop soll vor allem den interdisziplinären Austausch fördern, weshalb kurze Inputs, interaktive Formate und ein reger Austausch zwischen den Teilnehmenden im Vordergrund stehen. Daher möchten wir ausdrücklich auch zur Einreichung von Kurzbeiträgen und kurzen Statements aufrufen, durch die das Themenspektrum des Workshops erweitert und kleine und/oder sich noch in der Anfangsphase befindenden Forschungsprojekte vorgestellt oder aktuelle Beobachtungen diskutiert werden können. Zur Zusammenführung der Themen findet eine Gesamtdiskussion nach dem Fishbowl-Format statt.

== Beitragsformen ==

In den Beiträgen sollen aktuelle und abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte vorgestellt oder derzeitige Entwicklungen, Fallbeispiele und Beobachtungen in Kurz-Statements wissenschaftlich diskutiert werden. Hierzu sind drei Beitragsformen möglich:

* Langbeiträge (max. 6000 Wörter, 30minütiger Vortrag inkl. Diskussion)
* Kurzbeiträge (max. 3000 Wörter, 15minütiger Vortrag inkl. Diskussion)
* Kurz-Statement (nur Abstract, 3-5minütiger Vortrag als Input für den Workshop)

Bitte senden Sie die Beiträge inklusive Titel, Abstract (ca. 200 Wörter) und Autoren per E-Mail an anja.lorenz@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de. Neben den üblichen Formaten (DOC/X, PDF) freuen wir uns über offene Formate (ODP, HTML, Links zu Blogs etc.), die dem Open-Science-Anliegen der Veranstaltung entsprechen.

== Termine ==

* 27.08.2012 – Deadline zur Einreichung von Beiträgen
* 24.09.2012 – Ende der Review-Phase
* 01.10.2012 – Benachrichtigung der Autoren
* 19.10.2012 – Final Version
* 10.11.2012 – Workshop

= Ansprechpartner =

Anja Lorenz
Professur Wirtschaftsinformatik I
Technische Universität Chemnitz
Thüringer Weg 7, Zimmer 212
09126 Chemnitz

Telefon: 0371 / 531-37957
E-Mail: anja.lorenz@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de
Homepage: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/wi2/wp/de/team/anja-lorenz/

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