Special Issue Call for Papers: Clouds for Social Computing
IEEE Transactions on Service Computing:
Guest Editors:
Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia, Email: Surya.Nepal@CSIRO.AU Athman
Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Email:
athman.bouguettaya@rmit.edu.au Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Email: Cecile.Paris@CSIRO.AU
In recent time, two complimentary Internet based research areas are
emerging: social computing and cloud computing.
At one hand, social computing empowers individual users with relatively low
technological sophistication in using the Web to engage in social
interaction, contribute their expertise and share their content, experience
and opinion.
On the other hand, cloud computing shifts the computing infrastructures to
the individual users as utilities so that individual users with relatively
low computing knowledge can have a disposal of high performing computing
infrastructure (e.g., compute, storage and applications) with little
investment.
Due to these two complementary technologies of empowering individual users,
the technological innovations in these areas have started to converge. In
recent time, we have seen the next revolution of digitisation – digitisation
of social behaviour. Data collected from our daily activities, such as
groceries shopping and surfing the Internet, reveal a lot about our
behaviour. Based on past buying behaviour, our local supermarket knows what
we will be buying this Christmas much before we do our actual shopping. The
introduction of social networks adds yet a new dimension to this process of
digitising social behaviour: it reveals our friends, affiliations, beliefs,
thoughts and opinions. This digitisation of social behaviour results in a
large data set (also known as a Big Data problem) that needs to be analysed
to yield meaningful results. The challenge for us is how to reap the full
potential of digitized social behaviour.
Researchers in social computing have started to exploit the offer of cloud
computing to crunch the big data resulting from social behaviour, and
similarly researchers in cloud computing have started developing new
efficient and effective big data processing algorithms using clouds. In this
special issue, we are seeking state-of-the-art research, development and
deployment efforts of deploying social computing in clouds or using clouds
for social computing bringing these two areas together.
The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited
to:
• Social network data analysis tools and services on the Cloud.
• Social Networks in Cloud
• Social Networks Monitoring Tools As a Service
• Cloud Infrastructure for Social Networks
• Building Clouds Using Social Networks
• Visualisation and monitoring tools for Clouds and Social Computing
• Application of social networking in Cloud
• Case studies of clouds for social computing
• Case studies of social computing in clouds
Important dates:
Abstract submission : 4 March, 2013
Full paper submission : 30 June, 2013
First round review result : 2 September, 2013
Submission of revised manuscript : 15 November, 2013
Second round review result : 15 January, 2014
Final manuscript submission : 1 March, 2014
Submission Guidelines:
Submissions should follow the style and presentation guidelines of IEEE
Transactions on Services Computing (see http://www.computer.org/tsc for
details). Please submit your papers through the online system
(https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tsc-cs) and select Special Issue on Clouds
for Social Computing. The manuscripts should not have been published or be
currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
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