Social Computing and Its Applicatio​ns (SCA 2012)

Call for Papers

SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, Nov. 1-3, 2012, Xiangtan, China. 

Website: http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012/

Theme: Social Media, Mining and Analytics 

Key dates:
Submission Deadline: May 30, 2012
Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2012

Publication:
Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.

Special issues:
Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in World Wide Web Journal; The Computer Journal; or Journal of Systems and Software.

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Introduction
Social computing is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised where people interact socially via computing space. Such applications have been profoundly impacting social behaviour and life style of human beings while pushing the boundary of computing technology simultaneously. 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 privacy protection, touch-screen based arty HCI design, and modelling of social behaviour in computing space still remain challenging.
SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and broadly related areas.
Scope and Topics
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
·  Fundamentals of social computing
·  Modelling of social behaviour
·  Social network analysis and mining
·  Computational models of social simulation
·  Web 2.0 and semantic web
·  Innovative HCI and touch-screen models
·  Modelling of social conventions and social contexts
·  Social cognition and social intelligence
·  Social media analytics and intelligence
·  Group formation and evolution
·  Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts
·  Social system design and architectures
·  Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology
·  Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling
·  Handheld/mobile social computing
·  Service science and service oriented interaction design
·  Cultural patterns and representation
·  Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process
·  Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets
·  Connected e-health in social networks
·  Social policy and government management
·  Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum
·  Business social software systems
·  Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments
·  Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction
·  Social computing applications and case studies

Submission Guidelines
Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. 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) in PDF file at the SCA2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2012.
Publications
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.

Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of high quality SCI indexed international journals which are: World Wide Web Journal; The Computer Journal; and Journal of Systems and Software. 

Honorary General Chairs
·      Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
·      Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
General Chairs
·      Irwin King, the Chinese University of HongKong,  Hong Kong
·      Wolfgan Nejdl, L3S, Germany
·      Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
General Vice Chairs
·      V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
·      Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
·      Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea
Program Chairs
·      Aoying  Zhou, East China Normal University, China
·      Guandong  Xu, Victoria University, Australia
·      Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Program vice-Chairs
·      Tim Butcher, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
·      Akiyo Nadamoto,  Konan University,  Japan
·      Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
·      Tiejian Luo,  Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Workshop Chairs
·      Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea
·      Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China
Steering Committee
·      V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
·      Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China
·      Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
·      Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair)
·      Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China
·      Wesley Chu, University of California, USA
·      Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK
·      Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
·      John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
·      Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
·      Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore
·      Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia
·      Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)
Publicity Chairs
·      Ting Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
·      Zongda Wu, University of Science & Technology of China, China
Publication Chairs
·      Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
·      Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
Local Organizing Committee
·      Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
·      Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
·      Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China
·      Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
·      Xinjun Mao, National University of Defense Technology, China
·      Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
·      Kenli Li, Hunan University, China
Finance Chairs
·      Buqing Cao, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
·      Puyang Yu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
Conference Secretary and Web Chairs
·      Yiping Wen, Central South University, China
·      Guosheng Kang, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China