[CITASA] CASoN 2009 : Call For Papers (fwd)

[Barry Wellman]

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Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:59:27 +0100
From: Daphné Blanc <daphne.blanc at esigetel.fr>
Reply-To: katarzyna.wegrzyn at esigetel.fr
To: Barry Wellman <wellman at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: CASoN 2009 : Call For Papers

Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska a écrit :
> [Apologies if you receive this mail more than once]
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>                          CASoN 2009
>                       CALL FOR PAPERS
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> 1th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks
> CASoN 2009
> Fontainebleau, France, on June 24 - 27, 2009
> http://www.mirlabs.org/cason09/
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> We have the greatest of pleasure in inviting you to join the 1th
> International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks
> CASoN 2009 hold in Fontainebleau, France, on June 24-27, 2009.
> The Conference is organized by the Ecole Superieure d'Informatique et
> Genie
> de Telecommunication (ESIGETEL), France, in and with the - Technical
> co-operation of the by IEEE-SMC Society
> - In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP (French Chapter)
> - In Cooperation with WIC (Web Intelligent Consortium)
> - Technically sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
>
> -- Proceedings published by ACM Press --
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> Plenary Speakers:
> Ronald Yager, USA
> Hsinchun Chen, USA
>
> Conference Objective:
>
> Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and
> dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology
> interaction. These social network systems are usually characterized by
> the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual
> information. Recent trends also indicate the usage of complex network
> as a key feature for next generation usage and exploitation of the
> Web. This international conference on "Computational Aspect of
> 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 conference 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.
>
> We solicit original research and technical papers not published
> elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application
> oriented on the following themes (but not limited to):
>
>   * Network evolution
>         o Network evolution and growth mechanisms.
>         o Online communities and computer networks.
>         o Information diffusion in social networks.
>         o Detection of communities by document analysis.
>         o Topology of real networks.
>   * Recommendation
>         o Information diffusion in social networks.
>         o Recommendations for product purchase, information
> acquisition and establishment of social relations.
>         o Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the
> social network.
>         o Classification models and their application in social
> recommender systems.
>   * Advertisement models
>         o Economical impact of social network discovery.
>         o Social advertising.
>         o Use of social networks for marketing.
>   * Search in network
>         o Web page ranking informed by social media.
>         o Search algorithms on social networks.
>         o Collaborative Filtering.
>   * Security
>         o Anomaly detection in social network evolution.
>         o Data protection inside communities.
>         o Crime data mining and network analysis.
>         o Modeling trust and reputation in social networks.
>         o Misbehavior detection in communities.
>   * Network geography
>         o Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation.
>         o Social geography.
>         o International Collaborations in e-Social network.
>   * Web
>         o Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks.
>         o Link Topology and Site Hierarchy.
>         o Web mining algorithms.
>         o Web communities.
>         o Web-Based Cooperative Work.
>   * Evaluation
>         o Test collection.
>         o Benchmark creation.
>         o Measures and methodologies.
>
>
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> Paper submission
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> Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF files and should be
> uploaded using the conference website (will be ready soon). Full paper
> submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 8 pages. Papers
> that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions
> will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers of the PC.
> Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact,
> originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation.
> Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or
> challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one
> author should attend the conference to present the paper. The
> conference proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and
> published with an ISBN.
>
>
> Important Dates
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> Conference paper submission:  March 30, 2009
>
> Notification of paper acceptance:  April 27, 2009
>
> Camera-ready of accepted papers:  May 18, 2009
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> Registration:  May 18, 2009
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> Conference:  June 24-27, 2009
>
>
> For more general information, please contact Ajith Abraham ->
> abraham.ajith at gmail.com
> or Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska <katarzyna.wegrzyn at esigetel.fr>, for
> program/local information
>