4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2012)

Call for Papers

4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks  (CASoN 2012) 

São Carlos, Brazil 

November 21-23

http://www.mirlabs.org/cason12/

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Technically Sponsored by:
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IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society - Spanish Chapter
IEEE Spain
IEEE IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society (pending approval)

Technically Supported by:
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Technical Committee on Soft Computing of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society

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International Journal:
Authors of accepted papers presented at CASoN 2012 will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for consideration in the following International Journal:
Social Network Analysis and Mining
Lecture Notes in Social Networks
ICST Social Informatics Journal
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Objective:
The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks organized in São Carlos, Brazil, 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 Network, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Industrial Workshop/Tutorials and conference sessions will allow individuals interested in the theory, methods, or applications of social network analysis to share ideas and explore common interests.

Welcome to São Carlos, Brazil and we look forward to seeing you during CASoN 2012!

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. 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.

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.


Important Dates:

• Paper submission due:Aug. 15 2012
• Notification of paper acceptance:Sep. 15 2012
• Final manuscript due:Sep. 30 2012
• Registration and full payment due:Sep. 30 2012
• Conference date:Nov. 21-23 2012

Call for Events:
Your idea of CASoN events, such as special sessions, workshops, competitions, panel discussions, demonstration booths, and any others, are welcome. Please describe how to realize, schedule for preparation, estimated cost, and others in a proposal form in free format and submit to the Special Event Chair. They are reviewed taking account of necessary space, cost, time, attractive effects, and others and approved.

• Special session proposals:Jun. 01 2012
• Acceptance of special sessions:Jun. 15 2012

CASoN 2012 Organizing team:

General Chairs
Andre Carvalho, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA

Technical Program Committee Chairs
Vaclav Snasel, VSB- Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Workshop and Special Session ChairsKasia Wegrzyn-Wolska, ESIGETEL, France
PrzemysBaw Kazienko,Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Publicity Chair
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

Program Committee Chair
Zhao Liang, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
International Program Committee
Zhao Liang, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Information Contact:
Local Information and Venue:
Andre de Leon F. de Carvalho
Department of Computer Science
University of São Paulo
SCC - ICMC - USP
Caixa Postal 668
13560-970 São Carlos, SP - Brazil
phone: +55 16 3373-9691(voice)
email: andre@icmc.usp.br

Technical matters:
Ajith Abraham
Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)
http://www.mirlabs.org
email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org