[alife] CFP -IWCSN 2008 - Sydney, Australia

[Ajith Abraham]

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-- Call for Papers --
International Workshop on Computational Social Networks (IWCSN 2008)
http://www.softcomputing.net/~csn/
December 9, 2008, Sydney, Australia

This workshop is organized in conjunction with the
2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-08)
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/


Honorary Chair

Miroslav Fiedler
Institute of Computer Science
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Pod vodarenskou vezi 2
182 07 Prague 8,Czech Republic
e-mail: fiedler at cs.cas.cz

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 at vsb.cz

Ajith Abraham
Norwegian Center of Excellence
Center of Excellence for Quantifiable Quality of Service
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
O.S. Bragstads plass 2E,
N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
email: ajith.abraham at ieee.org

Aboul Ella Hassanien
Faculty of Computer and Information,
Information Technology Department,
Cairo University,
5 Ahmed Zewal St., Orman, Giza, Egypt
http://www.cba.edu.kw/abo/
E-mail:  aboitcaio at gmail.com

James Peters
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Manitoba
75A Chancellor's Circle
Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V6 Canada
E-mail: jfpeters at ee.umanitoba.ca
Gerald Schaefer
Schoool of Engineering and Applied Science,
Aston University
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Email: g.schaefer at aston.ac.uk
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:

o     Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks.
o     Intelligent Visualization of Social Network Analysis
o     Intelligent social network
o     Social Network Mining
o     Social Networks and Social Intelligence
o     Web Site Clustering
o     Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
o     Theories of Small-World Web
o     Virtual and Web Communities
o     Security, privacy and trust
o     Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems
o     Web-Based Cooperative Work
o     Knowledge Community Formation and Support
o     Ubiquitous Computing
o     Intelligent Wireless Web
o     Ubiquitous Learning Systems
o     Social network analysis of communities of practice
o     Network evolution and growth mechanisms
o     Information diffusion in social networks
o     Affiliation networks
o     Epidemics and rumors in networks
o     Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
o     Effects of network structure and dynamics on knowledge transfer
and sharing
o     Intra- and inter-organizational networks
o     Social capital, structural holes and Simmelian ties
o     Online communities and computer networks
o     Computational models and agent-based simulations of networks
o     Infrastructure and Tools for e-Social network
o     Interdisciplinary Research and e-Social network
o     International Collaborations in e-Social network
 Note that IWCSN 2008 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
 PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'08 website to
submit your paper.
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/?index=submission
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:    July 30, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance:    September 3, 2008
Camera-ready of accepted papers:    September 30, 2008
Workshop:    December 9, 2008

About  WI-08
The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI-08) will be jointly held with the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-08). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2008 joint
conferences are
organized by University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII),
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART.   Following the
great successes of
WI'01 held in Maebashi City, Japan , WI'03 held in Halifax, Canada,
WI'04 held in Beijing, China,
WI-05 in Compiegne University of Technology, France, WI-06 held in
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre,
China, WI-07 held in Silicon Valley, California, USA. WI 2008 provides
a leading international
 forum for researchers and practitioners
(1) to present the state-of-the-art of WI technologies;
(2) to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in
Web-based intelligent information technology; and
 (3) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of Web-based
intelligent information systems among different domains.
By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying foundations and the
enabling technologies of Web intelligence,
WI 2008 will capture current important developments of new models, new
methodologies and new
tools for building a variety of embodiments of Web-based intelligent
information systems.
International Program Committee

see  http://www.softcomputing.net/~csn/

For further information: ajith.abraham at ieee.org