The 8th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and
Networking (SocialCom 2015)
Dec. 19th-21st, 2015, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
http://umc.uestc.edu.cn/conference/SocialCom2015/
CALL FOR PAPERS
Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviours and computing systems, creating or recreating social
conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications have been profoundly change
social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even
indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI
design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges.
SocialCom 2015 was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the
latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.
SocialCom 2015 will be held on Dec. 19th-21st, 2015 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Fundamentals of social computing
Modelling of social behavior
Social network analysis and mining
Big social media data
Social media infrastructure and cloud computing
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 in social contexts
Social system design and architectures
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Information retrieval
Group interaction, collaboration, representation
Handheld/mobile social computing
Service science and service interaction design
Cultural patterns and representation
Emotional intelligence and opinion representation
Mobile commerce and e-markets
Connected e-health in social networks
Social policy and government management
Social blog, micro-blog and internet forum
Business social software systems
Impact in complex and dynamic environments
Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction
Social computing applications and case studies
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: Sep. 30th, 2015
Camera Ready: Nov. 15th, 2015
Author Notification: Oct. 31th, 2015
Registration Deadline: Nov. 15th, 2015
WORKSHOPS
The SocialCom 2015 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research
areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops
chairs via emails (E-mail: socialcom2015@hotmail.com).
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the SocialCom 2015 submission site:
http://umc.uestc.edu.cn/conference/SocialCom2015/SocialCom_papersubmission.php
PAPER PUBLICATION
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted
papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from
the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference. Distinguished papers accepted and presented in SocialCom 2015, after further extensions,
will be published in special issues of several SCI/EI Indexed journals including IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing,
Elsevier's Information Science, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communication
and Applications (TOMM), IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems , IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Journal of
Internet Technology, IEEE ACCESS , Hindawi's Scientific Programming, Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems etc. Please
visit the SocialCom 2015 website http://umc.uestc.edu.cn/conference/SocialCom2015/SocialCom_specialissue.php for the complete listing of all
the journals.
SocialCom 2015·Dec.19th – 21st, 2015·UESTC, China