International Workshop
on
Computational Social Networks
IWCSN 2009
September 15,
2009, Milan, Italy
Workshop
Co-Chairs (Organizers)
Vaclav Snasel
Department of Computer
Science,
VSB-Technical University
of Ostrava,
Czech
Republic
http://www.cs.vsb.cz/snasel
Email:
vaclav.snasel@vsb.cz
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Ajith Abraham
Norwegian Center of Excellence
Norwegian University of Science and
Technology,
O.S. Bragstads plass 2E,
N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
email:
ajith.abraham@ieee.org
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Workshop Objective
Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of
the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or
people-to-technology interaction. Web 2.0 has enabled a new
generation of Web-based communities, social networks, and
folksonomies to facilitate collaboration among different
communities. Social network analysis is a rapidly growing
field within the Web intelligence domain. The recent
developments in Web 2.0 have provided more opportunities to
investigate the dynamics and structure of Web-based social
networks. Recent trends also indicate the usage of
social networks as a key feature for next generation usage and
exploitation of the Web. This international workshop on
“Computational Social 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 workshop 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.
Recommended topics include but are not limited
to the following:
*Automatic discovery and analysis of
Web based social networks.
*Intelligent Visualization of Social Network Analysis
*Intelligent social network
*Social Network Mining
*Social Networks and Social Intelligence
*Web Site Clustering
*Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
*Theories of Small-World Web
*Virtual and Web Communities
*Security, privacy and trust Computational Analysis of
Social and Organizational Systems
*Web-Based Cooperative Work
*Knowledge Community Formation and Support
*Ubiquitous Computing
*Intelligent Wireless Web
*Ubiquitous Learning Systems
*Social network analysis of communities of practice
*Network evolution and growth mechanisms
*Information diffusion in social networks
*Affiliation networks
*Epidemics and rumors in networks
*Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
*Effects of network structure and dynamics on knowledge
transfer and sharing
*Intra- and inter-organizational networks
*Social capital, structural holes and Simmelian ties
*Online communities and computer networks
*Computational models and agent-based simulations of
networks
*Infrastructure and Tools for e-Social network
*Interdisciplinary Research and e-Social network
*International Collaborations in e-Social network
IWCSN 2009 will accept ONLY on-line
submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the
Submission Form on the WI'09 website to submit your paper.
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/?index=submission
Style Files for Paper Submission
IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting
Guidelines: 8.5″ x 11″
DOC: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.doc
PDF:ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf
PS:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.ps
LaTex Formatting Macros:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.zip
Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are
indexed by EI. Final camera ready papers will be allocated
only 4 pages (one extra page allowed) in the proceedings.
Important Dates
Workshop paper submission: April 30, 2009
Notification of paper acceptance: June 3, 2009
Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 15, 2009
Workshop: September 15-18, 2009
International Program
Committee (tentative)
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Milos Besta,
Google, New York,
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Junzo Watada, Waseda University,
Japan
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Huawei Guo, China
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Doo Heon Song,
Korea
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Mike.Nachtegael,
Belgium
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Mei-Ling Shyu,
USA
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Jie
Tang. Tsinghua
University,
China
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Gui-Rong Xue,
China
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Marc Smith
Microsoft
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Haizheng Zhang,
Microsoft
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Yau-Hwang Kuo,
Taiwan
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Giuseppe Carenini, Canada
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Ying Ding,
Austria
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Maciej Borkowski,
Canada
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Fatmah Baothman,
SA
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Li Ding,
USA
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Ronald R. Yager, USA
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Michael W. Berry ,
USA
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Jaroslav Pokorny, Czech
Republic
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Athena Vakali,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
For further
information:
Technical and Administrative
questions to: Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org
or
vaclav.snasel@vsb.cz
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