2011 International Symposium on Advances in Social Systems (ASS2011)

12-14 December 2011, Sydney, Australia

　

http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ass2011.htm

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 systems 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 systems have been profoundly impacting social behaviour and life style of human beings while pushing the boundary of computing technology simultaneously. With the increasing popularity of social systems, various challenges such as privacy protection and social behaviour modelling are gradually identified and need intensive efforts to address. This symposium aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as social computing, cloud computing, social science and HCI to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about social systems research and development. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas.

Topics

The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

· 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

Publication of Papers

All accepted papers will appear in the same IEEE CS published proceedings of SCA2011, CGC2011, DASC2011, PICom2011 and EmbeddedCom2011 together with other symposiums and workshops. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the symposium to have the paper published in the proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to special issues of SCA2011 in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior.

Important Dates

Deadline for Paper Submission:                By invitation only

Notification of Acceptance:                       September 26, 2011

Author Confirmation:                                September 30, 2011

Camera Ready Copies:                            October 10, 2011

Paper Registration:                                  October 10, 2011

Program Committee Co-Chairs:

Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Further Informtion

Email to A/Prof. Jinjun Chen at Jinjun.Chen@gmail.com.