[alife] Call for book chapters - Social Networks

[Ajith Abraham]

Call For Book Chapters:  Social Networks: Computational Aspects and Mining

--  To be published  by  Springer   in  the Series  "Computer and
Communication Networks"  --

 Deadline for full chapter: 31 December, 2010

Submission Web site:  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sn2011

Volume Editor's : Ajith Abraham and  Aboul Ella Hassanien

Book Objectives:
Mining social networks become  a very popular research area not only for
data mining and web mining but also social network analysis. Social networks
provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse
kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. Recently, many data
mining researches are focusing on developing new data mining techniques for
social networks. However, it is meaningless, if the discovered valuable and
useful data have not been applied in real application environment. 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 book  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. In this book, we aim at gathering the latest advances of
various topics in intelligence social networks and reporting how
organizations can gain competitive advantages by applying the different
emergent techniques in the real-world scenarios. Chapters and studies which
couple the intelligence techniques and theories with specific networks
technology problems are cordially invited. Survey articles that emphasize
the research and application of intelligence  social networks in a
particular domain are greatly welcome.The primary target audience for the
book includes researchers, scholars, postgraduate students and developers
who are interested in intelligence social networks research and related
issues. The book will provide reviews of the cutting–edge technologies and
insights for SN-based systems. In particular, the book will be valuable
companion and comprehensive reference for both postgraduate and senior
undergraduate students who are taking a course in Mining Social Networks.
The book will be organized in self-contained chapters to provide greatest
reading flexibility.

 Topics

 Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:

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

Submission Guidelines

- Each chapter must be self-contained and not exceed 30 pages,
- Please centralize all tables and figures with appropriate legends,

- Please carefully check for typos inside the text, figures, legends, etc.

- All equations must be numbered and please try to use standard fonts.

- Produce a LaTeX version of your chapter using the template provided in the
Author Guidelines



Researchers and practitioners are kindly invited to submit Full chapters by
December 31, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least three
reviewers.

Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sn2011

Important Dates

Deadline for chapter proposal (title  and abstract): November 30, 2010
Deadline for chapter submission: December 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection of chapters: Januray 31 2011
Deadline for submission of final chapters: February 28 2011
Publication of book:   3-4 months

 Volume Editors

Ajith Abraham
Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs),
Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, USA
E-mail: ajith.abraham at ieee.org

&

Aboul Ella Hassanien (Abo)
Faculty of Computer and Information,
Information Technology Department,
Cairo University,
5 Ahmed Zewal St., Orman, Giza, Egypt
E-mail:  aboitcairo at gmail.com