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Special Session 1:
Social media and social commerce in Cloud - SMSCC 2013
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Introduction
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Web 2.0 applications and social media have transformed the web into an interactive
sharing platform, where users upload data and media, comment on and share this content
within their social circles. Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies used to
turn communication into interactive dialogue between organizations, communities, and
individuals. Social media include Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, wikis, podcasts,
photographs or pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking. Social commerce is the use of
social media, in the context of e-commerce, to assist with buying and selling products and
services online. It evokes the fusion of two big digital trends, e-commerce and social media.
Social media and social commerce also need cloud environment for supporting. This special
session aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry
to present original research and current results in the context of internet based social media
and social commerce in cloud. We are looking forward to receive research work on innovative
aspects of the related areas.
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Topics
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Both review paper and technical paper are expected. The topics include but are not
limited to:
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◆ Social media technologies and applications
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◆ Social computing theories and models in cloud
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◆ Social network analysis
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◆ Social media in human computation systems
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◆ Social cloud computing
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◆ The use of social networks and social networking concepts in e-Science
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◆ Mobile social services
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◆ User interfaces and interaction for social commerce
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◆ Behavior analysis in social commerce
Submission
The papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, available in the conference. All
published papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore database and indexed by well-known databases.
The paper should be formatted according to IEEE Author Kit format. And, the PDF paper should be
submitted to MINES 2013's online submission system(SMSCC 2013), or mines.submission@gmail.com
with title “SMSCC 2013”.
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The accepted papers will be published in the MINES 2013 conference proceedings, which will
be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, available in the conference, and indexed by EI
Compendex and ISTP . The revised or extended versions of the best papers presented in the session will
be invited to some refereed international journals.
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If you have any questions about paper submission or the session, please contact the
organizers.
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Important Dates
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Manuscript Due: June 20, 2013
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Acceptance Notification: July 10, 2013
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Registration Due: July 31, 2013
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Conference Date: November 1-3, 2013
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Organizers
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Dr. Peng Liu, Professor
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PLA University of Science and Technology, China
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E-mail: gloud@189.cn
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Dr. Xi Chen, Professor
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Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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E-mail: chenx@nju.edu.cn
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Session Committee Members (Pending)
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Michael Chau, The University of Hong Kong, China
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Chang Wen Chen, University at Buffalo, USA
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Deren Chen, Zhejiang Universtiy, China
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Min Chen, Seoul National University, Korea
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Tao Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
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Yu Chen, State University of New York - Binghamton, USA
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Ming Fan, University of Washintong, USA
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Bo Fen, South China University of Technology, China
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Xiaojian Hu, Hefei University of Technology, China
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Chunhua Ju, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
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Dimitrios Koukopoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece
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Yubo Song, Southeast University, China
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Martin Stoesslein, University of Dayton, USA
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Baowen Sun, Central University of Finance and Economics, China
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Yong Tan, University of Washington, USA
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Fan Wang, Sun Yet-sen University, China
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Ai Wen, PLA University of Science and Technology, China
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Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
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Zhijian Xu, Nanjing University, China
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Deli Yang, Dalian University of Technology, China
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Yong Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
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Lianming Zeng, Foshan University, China
Aihua Bao, PLA University of Science and Technology, China