Call for Chapter Proposals: International Journal of Web Science (IJWS) Special Issue on Social Web Search and Mining (SocialWeb 2012)

Posted on 16.05.2012 by Arthur Kaiser

International Journal of Web Science (IJWS) Special Issue on Social
Web Search and Mining

Main submission deadline: June 1st, 2012

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1796

AIMS AND SCOPE

Recent years have seen a flourishing of social media. Across the world, individuals can share news, opinions, experiences and expertise through Web-enabled devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones. There has been a fundamental shift thanks to significant advances in the ease of publishing and sharing content. Such examples include microblogs, blogs, bookmarking services, photo sharing platforms, forums, newsgroups, and location-based services. They have formed a new Web: social Web, which generates a lot of structured and semi-structured information. This information greatly enlarges the content of the Web. At the same time, it introduces many interesting research issues as well many real-world applications. These research issues have been receiving growing attentions in recent years.

The aim of this special issue is to collect contemporary works concerning searching and mining the Social Web. The context of the special issue can be related to a wide range of areas including Web mining, social networks analysis, semantic Web, information retrieval, and natural language processing. We invite researchers and professionals from a broad range of disciplines to submit to this issue. Papers may encompass any or all of the following types of works: theoretical analysis, modelling, algorithms, simulation, visualisation and empirical studies.

SUBJECT COVERAGE

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Microblog (e.g. Twitter, Weibo) search and mining
Social network analysis
Community detection and network evolution analysis
Personalisation for search and for social interaction
User profiling and recommender systems
Collaborative search and question answering
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Topic detection and topic trend analysis
User behaviour prediction
Real-time social search and mining infrastructures
Cross-media search and mining of user-generated content
Entity search (e.g. expert finding, product search, organisation search, etc.)
Semantic Web-based social applications
Computational advertising for user-generated content
Spam detection and anomaly detection of social media
Geospatial and temporal analysis of social media
Applications of social search and mining

GUEST EDITORS

Yi Fang (fangy@cs.purdue.edu) and Zenglin Xu (xu218@purdue.edu),
Purdue University, USA
Jiang Bian (jiang.bian.prc@gmail.com) and Ziad Al Bawab
(zalbawab@yahoo-inc.com), Yahoo! Labs, USA

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 1 June, 2012

Notification date: 15 July, 2012

Final paper submission: 15 August, 2012

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

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 Guideline page:

http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to
Online Submissions of Papers:
http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=35&jid=370. If you
experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact
submissions@inderscience.com or the Guest Editors, describing the
exact problem you experience. (Please include in your email the title
of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the
Guest Editors)

ABOUT IJWS

IJWS is a newly launched refereed scientific international journal.
IJWS aims to improve the state-of-the-art of worldwide research in the
areas of web theories, services, applications and standards by
publishing high-quality papers in this area. IIJWS is committed to
deepening the understanding of enabling theories and technologies for
applying and developing the web as a global information repository.

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Call for Chapter Proposals: Power of Prediction with Social Media 2012 : Special issue of Internet Research on ‘The Power of Prediction with Social Media’ (SIIRPPSM12)

Posted on 14.05.2012 by Arthur Kaiser

Special issue on “The Power of Prediction with Social Media”

Special issue call for papers from Internet Research, ISSN: 1066-2243
Editor in Chief: Jim Jansen
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/intr.htm

Overview
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Social media today provide an impressive amount of data about users and their societal interactions, thereby offering computer scientists, social scientists, economists, and statisticians many new opportunities for research exploration. Arguably one of the most interesting lines of work is that of forecasting future events and developments based on social media data, as we have recently seen in the areas of politics, finance, entertainment, market demands, health, etc.

But what can successfully be predicted and why? Since the first algorithms and techniques emerged rather recently, little is known about their overall potential, limitations and general applicability to different domains.

Better understanding the predictive power and limitations of social media is therefore of utmost importance, in order to –for example– avoid false expectations, misinformation or unintended consequences. Today, current methods and techniques are far from being well understood, and it is mostly unclear to what extent or under what conditions the different methods for prediction can be applied to social media. While there exists a respectable and growing amount of literature in this area, current work is fragmented, characterized by a lack of common evaluation approaches. Yet, this research seems to have reached a sufficient level of interest and relevance to justify a dedicated special issue.

This special issue aims to shape a vision of important questions to be addressed in this field and fill the gaps in current research by soliciting presentations of early research on algorithms, techniques, methods and empirical studies aimed at the prediction of future or present events based on user generated content in social media.

Topics
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To address this guiding theme the special issue will be articulated around, but not limited to, the following topics:

1. Politics, branding, and public opinion mining (e.g., electoral, market or stock market prediction).

2. Health, mood, and threats (e.g., epidemic outbreaks, social movements).

3. Methodological aspects (e.g., data collection, data sampling, privacy and data de-identification).

4. Success and failure case studies (e.g., reproducibility of previous research or selection of baselines).

Schedule
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- Manuscript due date: June 1, 2012
- Decisions due: August 1, 2012
- Revised paper due: September 15, 2012
- Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2012
- Submission of final manuscript: October 31, 2012
- Publication date: late 2012 / early 2013 (tentative)

Submission
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All submitted manuscripts should be original contributions and not be under consideration in any other venue.

Publication of an enhanced version of a previously published conference paper is possible if the review process determines that the revision contains significant enhancements, amplification or clarification of the original material. Any prior appearance of a substantial amount of a submission should be noted in the submission letter and on the title page.

Submissions must adhere to the “Author Guidelines” available at:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=intr

Detailed instructions will be announced later this year.

Guest editors
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- Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo (Spain), dani@uniovi.es
- Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Wellesley College and Harvard University (USA), pmetaxas@seas.harvard.edu
- Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College (USA), emustafa@wellesley.edu
- Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology (Austria), markus.strohmaier@tugraz.at
- Harald Schoen, University of Bamberg (Germany), harald.schoen@uni-bamberg.de
- Peter Gloor, MIT (USA), pgloor@mit.edu

Feel free to contact the guest editors if you have any question.

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Call For Papers: The 5th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2012)

Posted on 13.04.2012 by Arthur Kaiser

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The 5th International Conference on
Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2012)
November 21-23, 2012, Wu Yi Shan, Fujian, China
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IDCS 2012 conference is the fifth in its series to promote research in diverse fields related to Internet and Distributed Computing Systems. The emergence of Web as a ubiquitous platform for innovations has laid the foundation for the rapid growth of the Internet. Side-by-side, the use of mobile and wireless devices such as PDA, laptop, and cell phones for accessing the Internet has paved the ways for related technologies to flourish through recent developments. In addition, the popularity of sensor networks is promoting better integration of the digital world with physical environment. In IDCS 2012 conference, we are interested in receiving innovative papers on emerging technologies related to Internet and distributed systems to support the effective design and efficient implementation of high-performance computer networks. The target audience includes researchers and industry practitioners those are interested in different aspects of the Internet and distributed systems, with a particular focus on the practical experiences with the design and implementation of related technologies as well as their theoretical perspectives.

Topics of Interest
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The topics of interest are organised into 5 major tracks:

Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
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- Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Networked Sensing and Control
- Sensor Fusion, Tracking and Localisation
- Embedded Software for Sensor Networks
- Environmental Sensing Applications
- Body Sensor Networks
- Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

Track 2: Internet and Web Technologies
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- Internet Architectures and Protocols
- Modeling and Evaluation of Internet-based Systems
- Internet Quality of Service
- Real-time Multimedia Communication Systems
- Web services and Mash-ups

Track 3: Network Operations & Management
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- Energy Efficiency in Large-scale Distributed Systems
- Security of Network-based Systems
- Network-based Applications (VoIP, Streaming)
- Network Traffic Engineering
- Tools and Techniques for Network Measurements

Track 4: Information Infrastructure
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- Next Generation Content Delivery Network
- Grid, Cloud, and P2P Computing
- Distributed Computing Applications
- Autonomic Computing
- Computational Economy for Distributed Systems

Track 5: Resilience, Fault tolerance, and Availability
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- Fault Tolerant and Self-managing Distributed Systems
- Dependability and Dependable Systems
- Computing Models for Resilient Distributed Systems
- Principles for Resilient Software Architecture
- Availability Design

Web Site and Contact Email for Inquiries
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http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/idcs12
email: idcs2012@easychair.org

Submission Guidelines
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF via the conference Web site at http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/idcs12. Each submitted paper should follow Springer LNCS proceedings paper template. The length of all submitted papers will have 14 pages limit, including all figures, appendix, and references, etc. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. Each submission will be reviewed by the members of the TPC and external reviewers.

Publication
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The conference proceedings will be published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All papers will also be electronically available through SpringerLink Database, and professionally indexed through SCI and EI. Extended and enhanced versions of top-quality selected papers from the workshop will be invited for submission on a fast-track basis for an SCI-indexed top quality international journal.

Registration
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Each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings must be registered for IDCS 2012. Each paper has to be presented in person by the main author, or one of the authors.

Important Dates
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Submission Due: June 24, 2012
Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2012
Camera-ready Copy Due: September 2, 2012
Conference: November 21-23, 2012

Organization
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General Chairs:
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University, Malaysia
Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia

Program Chairs:
Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia
Christian Vecchiola, IBM Research and Development, Australia

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Call For Papers: The First Asian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2012)

Posted on 11.04.2012 by Arthur Kaiser

In the globalized, knowledge-based society, information systems and their underlying technologies are playing increasingly important roles. In Asia, where developed and fast-developing countries are both located cooperatively and collaboratively, more advances and developments in Information and Communication Technology are the key factors for the successful future.
The First Asian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2012, following the successes of four Japan-China Joint Symposia of Information Systems (JCIS 2008-2011) and the Japan-Cambodia Joint Symposium of Information Systems and Communication Technology (JCAICT 2011), is the unique, premier meeting of researchers, professionals and practitioners to discuss various current issues in information systems and related areas with a special focus on the current conditions of Asian countries. ACIS 2012 will provide keynote sessions, concurrent oral sessions, poster sessions, and more, to exchange ideas, discuss best practices, raise awareness, and share experiences for deepening mutual understanding and friendship among researchers, professionals and practitioners.
ACIS 2012 is to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 6-8, December, 2012. Siem Reap is famous for the ruins of the ancient city of Angkor, capital of the Khmer kingdom from A.D. 802 until A.D. 1295, which are one of the world’s greatest marvels.
We cordially invite submissions of high quality papers describing fully developed results and on-going work.
Topics of Interest
ACIS 2012 will cover a broad range of topics including, but not limited to:
・ Enterprise Information Systems
・ Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management
・ Ubiquitous Computing and RFID Technology
・ Decision Support Systems
・ Software Engineering
・ Web-based Intelligent Applications
・ E-services and Service Science
・ E-health, E-education and E-government System Design and Development
・ Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
・ Natural Language Processing
・ Information/Cyber Security
・ Digital Right Management
・ Innovative Business Models for the Digital Age
・ Online Marketing and Personalized Recommendations Communication Technology
・ Information Security and Encryption Technologies

Submission
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are relevant to the conference and that are not being considered in another forum. The working language of the conference is English.
・ Normal Session: Full paper of 4-6 pages in A4
・ Poster Session: Short paper of 1-2 pages in A4
Paper templates can be downloaded from the conference website.
All manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format by the due date.
All papers selected for this conference are strictly peer-reviewed by two or more professional reviewers and will be published in the proceedings. Every accepted paper must be presented at the conference by at least one of the authors.

Link: http://www.rupp.edu.kh/acis2012/

Link: http://www.rupp.edu.kh/acis2012/
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Call For Papers: The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Information Theory and Information Security (ICITIS 2012)

Posted on 09.04.2012 by Arthur Kaiser
International Conference on Information Theory and Information Security (ICITIS) is an annual conference series since 2010.The past conferences have attracted an average of 700 submissions written by participants from different parts of the globe each year.
ICITIS 2012 will keep promoting the information exchange on information theory, information security, computer technology, telecommunication technology, network and some related fields, which aims to promote international academic exchange and international cooperation.
Original papers are invited and submitted papers should not be previously published or currently under review for any other publication. All papers accepted will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and submitted for indexing by Ei Compendex. The Proceedings of ICITIS2010 have been indexed successfully by Ei Compendex two months after the conference.Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline for Round I: Dec. 5, 2011
Paper Submission Deadline for Round II: Mar. 30, 2012
Paper Submission Deadline for Round III: May. 30, 2012
Acceptance Notification: 10-20 days after submission
Camera-Ready: June 10, 2012

Topics:
Workshop 1: Network Coding and Signal Processing
Workshop 2: Information Engineering and Computational Intelligence
Workshop 3: Network and Information Security
Workshop 4: Computer Technology and Applications
Workshop 5: Communication and Networking

Contact Information:
Website: http://www.iicitis.org
E-mail:icitis2012@leaderstudio.net
Tel:86-010-62222430

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Call For Papers: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2012)

Posted on 23.03.2012 by Arthur Kaiser

The annual ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference is a leading international forum for information security researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. The conference seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research on all practical and theoretical aspects of computer and communications security. Papers should have relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. Theoretical papers must make a convincing argument for the practical significance of the results. All topic areas related to computer and communications security are of interest and in scope. Accepted papers will be published by ACM Press in the conference proceedings. Outstanding papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.

Paper Format

Submissions must be at most 10 pages in double-column ACM format (note: pages must be numbered) excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 12 pages overall. Submissions must NOT be anonymized. Only PDF or Postscript files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Due: Friday, May 4, 2012 (23:59 UTC – 11)
First round reviews sent to authors: Monday, June 11, 2012
Author comments due on: Thursday, June 14, 2012 (23:59 UTC – 11)
Acceptance Notification: Friday, July 6, 2012
Camera Ready Papers Due: Thursday, August 3, 2012

Link: http://sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2012/

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Call For Papers: Cyberworlds 2012 (CW 2012)

Posted on 19.03.2012 by Arthur Kaiser

Created intentionally or spontaneously, cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that immensely augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world. Cyberworlds seriously impact our lives and the evolution of the world conomy by taking such forms as social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities and assively multiplayer online role-playing games. The international conferences on Cyberworlds have being organized annually since 2002 with the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and special issues published in The Visual Computer and other research journals.

The 2012th International Conference on Cyberworlds will address a wide range of research and development topics, but not limited to the following topics:

Shared virtual worlds
Virtual collaborative spaces
Shape modeling for cyberworlds
Virtual humans and avatars
Intelligent talking agents
Networked collaboration
Haptic interaction and rendering
Computer vision, augmented, mixed and virtual reality
Human-computer interfaces
Cognitive informatics
Brain-computer interfaces
EEG-based emotion recognition
E-learning in virtual collaborative spaces
Multi-user web games
Art and heritage in cyberspace, cyber-museums
Cyberworlds and their impact on the real worlds
Cyberethics and cyberlaws
Cybersecurity
Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds
Social networking

Publication

The conference proceedings are planned to be published by the IEEE, placed in the IEEE  Xplore and Computer Society digital libraries, and submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.

Special issues of the following international journals will be formed from the full papers:

The Visual Computer
International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies

To be included in the conference proceedings and special journal issues, at least one author of the accepted paper must register and present the paper at the conference.

Important Dates

Paper submission 2 April 2012
Authors notification 4 May 2012
Authors registration 1 Jun 2012
Camera-ready paper 9 Jun 2012

Link: http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/cw2012/

 

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Call For Papers: International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS 2012)

Posted on 16.03.2012 by Arthur Kaiser

Dear colleagues,
following our announcement of the Analytical Sociology conference that will be held in New York on June 8-9, 2012, we are now sending you some additional information and a flyer we invite you to circulate among your colleagues and students.
A growing number of scholars in recent years have identified themselves with the Analytical Sociology approach to social explanation, motivated by a common interest in the study of the social mechanisms and micro-dynamics that bring about macro-outcomes of sociological relevance. We invite submissions from any substantive area, encouraging papers that engage empirical problems as well as theoretical contributions. We believe that sociology is at its best when theoretical explanations encounter data to solve real world puzzles.
This is the 5th Analytical Sociology conference, and the first that will be hold in the US. The previous four conferences took place in Europe (Oxford, Turin, Barcelona, and Paris) and saw the participation of a lively group of sociologists interested in a variety of subjects and methodologies, who shared the common goal of pursuing explanations based on social mechanisms. We hope to continue this tradition, recreating the same productive atmosphere as well as offering an opportunity of encounter to likeminded scholars from both sides of the Ocean. This, we believe, will move the analytical sociology agenda forward on substantive and theoretical grounds.

Submissions must be sent to inas.ny2011@columbia.edu by 4/2/2012 and include the following information:

(a) title of the paper

(b) author(s)’s name, affiliation, and email address

(c) long abstract (min 500 – max 1000 words)

(d) short bibliography

We look forward to seeing you in New York, sincerely,
The organizers: Delia Baldassarri, Peter Bearman, Peter Hedstrom, and
Gianluca Manzo.

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Call For Papers: International Conference on Network, Communication and Computing (ICNCC 2012)

Posted on 15.03.2012 by Arthur Kaiser

2012 International Conference on Network, Communication and Computing(ICNCC2012) will be held in Qinhuangdao, China, during Jul. 27-29, 2012. ICNCC 2012 was the first International Workshop on Network, Communication and Computing, and it was in conjunction with the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Information Theory and Information Security(2012ICITIS).
ICNCC 2012 provides an international academic platform for scholars in fields of Network, Communication and Computing, which aims to provide an opportunity for researchers around the world to exchange ideas and latest research results. In addition to the technical sessions, there are invited sessions, tutorials, keynote addresses and exhibitions.

Important Dates:
Submission : Mar. 30, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: Apr. 15, 2012
Conference Date: Jul. 27-29, 2012

Topic:
Communication and Networking
Computer Science and Engineering
Information Engineering and Control
Signal Processing and Multimedi
Sensor and Sensor Network

Contact Information:
Website: http://www.leaderstudio.net/icncc/index.html
E-mail: icncc@leaderstudio.net
Tel:86-010-62222430

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