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SESOC 2013
5th International Workshop on
SECurity and SOCial Networking
March 18th 2013
San Diego, USA
(as part of PerCom 2013)
http://www.sesoc.org
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Online Social Networks arguably are the most accepted service on the Web, today. Facebook alone has a claimed base of over 950 millons of users worldwide, google+ reached the mark of 10 million users in only 16 days after going public, and mobile social networks, like foursquare and Instagram, consistently gain momentum.
So far, Online Social Networks (OSN) are self-contained, walled garden services, with a centralized omniscient provider that collects and shares PII selectively with customers and affiliates. The amount of information gathered about the users in the case of Web-based SNS has already been extensive -- but it even consists of detailed location traces and preference information, given by the frequency of "check-ins" at visited establishments and comments annotated to them, in this new paradigm. The problems of security and privacy in such a surveiled, pervasive communication environments hence are becoming more and more crucial.
Moreover, observing the current trends, new communication systems are becoming even more dynamic, open and heterogeneous, enriched with social information. Future pervasive communication systems aim at supporting social and collaborative communications: the evolving topologies are expected to resemble the actual social networks of the communicating users and information on their characteristics can be a powerful aid for any network operation. Social networking services may be leveraged for providing extended information on contacts and their relations based on the containing online identities and the information they share. The emerging pervasive communication systems, which, with high probability will more often than today face lack of connectivity to central services, however, cannot rely on any a-priori knowledge, on any pre-established trust relationship nor on sophisticated integrated security infrastructures. They therefore are calling for new and dedicated security and trust mechanisms: raising entirely new privacy concerns they require new reflections on security problems such as trust establishment, cooperation enforcement or key management. The information leveraged, spanning social relations and personal opinions, consists of highly sensitive data at the same time, a fact that leads to a high risk of misuse or abuse.
The aim of SESOC 2013 hence is to encompass research advances in all areas of security, trust and privacy in pervasive communication systems with a special focus on the social aspects of the services.
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Topics of Interest
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- all types of emerging privacy concerns
- new aspects of trust
- decentralized social networking services
- social engineering, and phishing in OSN
- availability and resilience
- community based secure communication
- data confidentiality, data integrity
- anonymity, pseudonymity
- new key management approaches
- secure bootstrapping
- security issues in forwarding, routing
- security aspects regarding cooperation
- new approaches to reputation
- new attack paradigms
- new requirements for software security
- malware in and through OSN
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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: October 30, 2012
Notification date: December 21, 2012
Camera ready submission: January 27, 2013
Workshop date: March 18, 2013
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Submission instructions
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Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be limited to
6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The link for the templates and further guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript are available on the workshop website. All papers are managed electronically through EDAS. The submission web site will be posted soon.
Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous and double-blind review process handled by the Technical Program Committee.
***** Authors' names must not appear in the paper.*****
All accepted papers need to have a full registration to the PerCom 2013 Conference (There is no workshop only registration). Moreover, no-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers not being included in the IEEE Digital Library.
SESOC is happy to announce a *best paper award*. Papers of special merit will again, like in previous years, be considered for possible *fast* *track publication* in *Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal*.
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Committee
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Workshop General Co-Chairs:
Melek Önen EURECOM, France
Thorsten Strufe TU Darmstadt & CASED, Germany
Technical Program Committee:
Frederik Armknecht, Uni Mannheim, Germany
Erik-Oliver Blass, Northeastern University, USA
Jens-Matthias Bohli, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Sonja Buchegger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary
Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France
Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Ahmet Çamtepe, DAI-Labor / Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Emiliano de Cristofaro, PARC, USA
Alexander Eichhorn, Simula, Norway
Sébastien Gambs, Université de Rennes 1 - INRIA, France
Artur Hecker, Télécom ParisTech (ENST), France
Sotiris Ioannidis, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU-Darmstadt, Germany
Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey
Mark Manulis, University of Surrey, UK
Christian Rohner, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Georgios Theodorakopoulos, Cardiff University, UK
Olivier Thonnard, Symantec, France
Michael Waidner, TU-Darmstadt & Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
Dirk Westhoff, Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU), Germany
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Thorsten Strufe
TU Darmstadt http://www.p2p.tu-darmstadt.de/
CASED http://www.cased.de/
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Call for Papers of the Special Session on Evolution of Social Networks
Call for Papers of the Special Session on Evolution of Social Networks - ESN 2012
Under the framework of the 4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2012), 21-23 November 2012 in São Carlos, Brazil
Objectives
In recent years, research in area of social network analysis grows rapidly, mainly thanks to the prevalence of the large-scale social network systems. These social network systems can be characterized by complex network structures and extensive content. Social network analysis can be applied to static or dynamic types of problems. The current research is mainly focused on analysis of topological properties and dynamic properties corresponding to evolution of networks and communities. Contextual information can help in analyzing these properties. Social network data comes mainly from many on-line services. The huge quantity of data can be consisting of millions of vertices and edges. Given the scale, complexity and dynamics, the traditional methods of social network analysis cannot be easily used. It becomes crucial for researchers to understand the dynamics of these networks. It is important to predict the next evolution and analyze trends in the network. Other current directions of research are detection of communities and analysis of community evolution in large social networks, content (topic) evolution, information diffusion in social networks, etc.
Specific topics of interest
To address the aforementioned aspects of evolution of social networks, the preferred topics for this special session are (but not limited to):
Submission
Special Session paper submission will be done through CASoN 2012 submission system and been evaluated with the same standard as the regular conference paper. All accepted papers will be included in the CASoN 2012 conference proceedings. Papers must be submitted within the stipulated time and electronic submission in PDF is required. A full paper (6 pages, A4 size) for oral presentation should in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers.
Details are available at the http://www.mirlabs.net/cason12/ and special session website http://www.mirlabs.net/cason12/ss2.html. Submit your paper at the https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cason12
Program Chair
Vaclav Snášel, Department of Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Hvaclav.snasel@vsb.cz Miloš Kudělka, Department of Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz
Session Coordinators
Miloš Kudělka, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz Eliška Ochodková, Heliska.ochodkova@vsb.cz
Under the framework of the 4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2012), 21-23 November 2012 in São Carlos, Brazil
Objectives
In recent years, research in area of social network analysis grows rapidly, mainly thanks to the prevalence of the large-scale social network systems. These social network systems can be characterized by complex network structures and extensive content. Social network analysis can be applied to static or dynamic types of problems. The current research is mainly focused on analysis of topological properties and dynamic properties corresponding to evolution of networks and communities. Contextual information can help in analyzing these properties. Social network data comes mainly from many on-line services. The huge quantity of data can be consisting of millions of vertices and edges. Given the scale, complexity and dynamics, the traditional methods of social network analysis cannot be easily used. It becomes crucial for researchers to understand the dynamics of these networks. It is important to predict the next evolution and analyze trends in the network. Other current directions of research are detection of communities and analysis of community evolution in large social networks, content (topic) evolution, information diffusion in social networks, etc.
Specific topics of interest
To address the aforementioned aspects of evolution of social networks, the preferred topics for this special session are (but not limited to):
- Community detection and evolution
- Role detection and evolution in social networks
- Content evolution and Information diffusion in social networks
- Trend prediction in social networks
- Anomaly detection in social network evolution
- Mining dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
- Mining of user behavior patterns in social networks
- Analysis of co-authorship and citation networks and evolution of research topics
- Evolution in collaborative environments, wikis, e-learning systems, …
- Case studies and applications from the area of social network dynamics and evolution
- Social network data pre-processing
- Evaluation techniques and benchmarks
Submission
Special Session paper submission will be done through CASoN 2012 submission system and been evaluated with the same standard as the regular conference paper. All accepted papers will be included in the CASoN 2012 conference proceedings. Papers must be submitted within the stipulated time and electronic submission in PDF is required. A full paper (6 pages, A4 size) for oral presentation should in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers.
Details are available at the http://www.mirlabs.net/cason12/ and special session website http://www.mirlabs.net/cason12/ss2.html. Submit your paper at the https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cason12
Program Chair
Vaclav Snášel, Department of Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Hvaclav.snasel@vsb.cz Miloš Kudělka, Department of Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz
Session Coordinators
Miloš Kudělka, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz Eliška Ochodková, Heliska.ochodkova@vsb.cz
Monday, July 30, 2012
The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing
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CPSCom 2012
The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing
http://cpscom.univ-fcomte.fr/
Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE CS, and IEEE TCSC
November 20-23, 2012,
Besancon, France
in conjunction with iThings 2012: The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. INTRODUCTION
The physical things and the human society have formed into the world we live in. However, the emergence of information technologies enables a new infrastructure for a technical, economic and social revolution, which have changed the world we are used to. Cyber-physical systems couple the cyber aspects of computing and communications with the physical aspects of dynamics that must abide by the laws of physics.
Social computing has become more widely known because of proliferation of online social networking in recent years. With the advent of ubiquitous sensing, future social networks will become cyber-physical, combining measured elements of the physical world. The convergence of computational and physical processes as well as human's social behaviors exhibits a variety of complicated characteristics, which leads to a lot of challenges.
The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing (CPSCom 2012) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present state-of-art advances and innovations in theoretical foundations, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, and applications for the CPSCom, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. CPSCom 2015 is the 5th edition of the successful series, previously held as CPSCom 2011 (Dalian, China, October 2011), CPSCom 2010 (Hangzhou, China, December 2010), CyberSocialCom 2009 (Hangzhou, China, November 2009), and CPSC 2009 (Brisbane, Australia, July 2009).
2. SCOPE AND INTERESTS
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- Track 1: Cyber-physical systems and society
- Track 2: Social computing
- Track 3: Pervasive/ubiquitous computing
- Track 4: Sensor/actuator networks
- Track 5: Security, privacy, and trust
- Track 6: Applications and services
3. IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Due: August 6, 2012 (extended) Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2012
4. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original papers that MUST NOT have been submitted to or published in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Full Papers (up to 8 pages) and Short Papers (up to 4 pages) are solicited. Detailed submission instructions could be found on the conference website http://cpscom.univ-fcomte.fr/. All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee for significance, originality, accuracy, and clarity.
5. PAPER PUBLICATIONS
Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the IEEE Digital Library. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of CPSCom 2012 by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in several SCI-index international journals (check the website for details).
6. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Program Chairs Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, China Rong Zheng, University of Houston, US
Program Vice-Chairs Li Shang, University of Colorado, US Hao Ma, Microsoft Research, US Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Andrea Passarella, National Research Council of Italy, Italy Luisa Gargano, Universita di Salerno, Italy Kay Romer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Silvia Santini, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany S. Felix Wu, University of California Davis, US Paolo Bellavista, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Demo/Exhibition Chair Kyung-Joon Park, KJ Park, DGIST, Daegu, Korea
Panel Chair Vincent Gauthier, Telecom Institut Sud Paris, France
Publicity Chairs Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Jean-Fran ois Couchot, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Philippe Canalda, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France
Advisory Committee Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT, USA Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Workshop Chairs Didier El Baz, LAAS/CNRS, France Hakim Mabed, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Qixin Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma (chair), Hosei University, Japan Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China
Financial Chair Dominique Dhoutaut, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France
Program Committee See CPSCom 2012 website: http://cpscom.univ-fcomte.fr/
CPSCom 2012
The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing
http://cpscom.univ-fcomte.fr/
Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE CS, and IEEE TCSC
November 20-23, 2012,
Besancon, France
in conjunction with iThings 2012: The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. INTRODUCTION
The physical things and the human society have formed into the world we live in. However, the emergence of information technologies enables a new infrastructure for a technical, economic and social revolution, which have changed the world we are used to. Cyber-physical systems couple the cyber aspects of computing and communications with the physical aspects of dynamics that must abide by the laws of physics.
Social computing has become more widely known because of proliferation of online social networking in recent years. With the advent of ubiquitous sensing, future social networks will become cyber-physical, combining measured elements of the physical world. The convergence of computational and physical processes as well as human's social behaviors exhibits a variety of complicated characteristics, which leads to a lot of challenges.
The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing (CPSCom 2012) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present state-of-art advances and innovations in theoretical foundations, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, and applications for the CPSCom, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. CPSCom 2015 is the 5th edition of the successful series, previously held as CPSCom 2011 (Dalian, China, October 2011), CPSCom 2010 (Hangzhou, China, December 2010), CyberSocialCom 2009 (Hangzhou, China, November 2009), and CPSC 2009 (Brisbane, Australia, July 2009).
2. SCOPE AND INTERESTS
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- Track 1: Cyber-physical systems and society
- Track 2: Social computing
- Track 3: Pervasive/ubiquitous computing
- Track 4: Sensor/actuator networks
- Track 5: Security, privacy, and trust
- Track 6: Applications and services
3. IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Due: August 6, 2012 (extended) Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2012
4. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original papers that MUST NOT have been submitted to or published in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Full Papers (up to 8 pages) and Short Papers (up to 4 pages) are solicited. Detailed submission instructions could be found on the conference website http://cpscom.univ-fcomte.fr/. All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee for significance, originality, accuracy, and clarity.
5. PAPER PUBLICATIONS
Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the IEEE Digital Library. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of CPSCom 2012 by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in several SCI-index international journals (check the website for details).
6. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Program Chairs Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, China Rong Zheng, University of Houston, US
Program Vice-Chairs Li Shang, University of Colorado, US Hao Ma, Microsoft Research, US Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Andrea Passarella, National Research Council of Italy, Italy Luisa Gargano, Universita di Salerno, Italy Kay Romer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Silvia Santini, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany S. Felix Wu, University of California Davis, US Paolo Bellavista, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Demo/Exhibition Chair Kyung-Joon Park, KJ Park, DGIST, Daegu, Korea
Panel Chair Vincent Gauthier, Telecom Institut Sud Paris, France
Publicity Chairs Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Jean-Fran ois Couchot, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Philippe Canalda, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France
Advisory Committee Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT, USA Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Workshop Chairs Didier El Baz, LAAS/CNRS, France Hakim Mabed, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Qixin Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma (chair), Hosei University, Japan Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China
Financial Chair Dominique Dhoutaut, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France
Program Committee See CPSCom 2012 website: http://cpscom.univ-fcomte.fr/
Thursday, July 19, 2012
List of all workshops offered on the occasion of ASNA2012, Zurich, Switzerland
ASNA 2012 Workshops:
Social Network Analysis for Newbies (Tuesday, September 4, 2012, morning), Thomas N. Friemel, University of Zurich
Applications of Social Network Analysis (Tuesday, September 4, 2012, afternoon), Filip Agneessens, University of Groningen, Thomas N. Friemel, University of Zurich, Manuel Fischer, University of Geneva, Karin Ingold, University of Bern
The Analysis of Longitudinal Social Network Data (Tuesday, September 4, 2012, full day), Johan Koskinen, University of Manchester
ERGMs for Social Networks (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, morning),Skyler Cranmer, University of Carolina at Chapel Hill
visone - Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, morning), Ulrik Brandes, Natalie Indlekofer, and Uwe Nagel, University of Konstanz
Pajek XXL (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, afternoon), Andrej Mrvar, University of Ljubljana
Discourse Network Analysis (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, afternoon), Philip Leifeld, Eawag and University of Bern
Full descriptions: http://www.asna.ch/index.php?id=94
Registration: http://www.asna.ch/index.php?id=90
Social Network Analysis for Newbies (Tuesday, September 4, 2012, morning), Thomas N. Friemel, University of Zurich
Applications of Social Network Analysis (Tuesday, September 4, 2012, afternoon), Filip Agneessens, University of Groningen, Thomas N. Friemel, University of Zurich, Manuel Fischer, University of Geneva, Karin Ingold, University of Bern
The Analysis of Longitudinal Social Network Data (Tuesday, September 4, 2012, full day), Johan Koskinen, University of Manchester
ERGMs for Social Networks (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, morning),Skyler Cranmer, University of Carolina at Chapel Hill
visone - Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, morning), Ulrik Brandes, Natalie Indlekofer, and Uwe Nagel, University of Konstanz
Pajek XXL (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, afternoon), Andrej Mrvar, University of Ljubljana
Discourse Network Analysis (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, afternoon), Philip Leifeld, Eawag and University of Bern
Full descriptions: http://www.asna.ch/index.php?id=94
Registration: http://www.asna.ch/index.php?id=90
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
#Influence12 – Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media
FREE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
What: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media
Where: Dalhousie Social Media Lab, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When: September 28-29, 2012
Website: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/influence12
Twitter Hashtag: #Influence12
Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research & Development, Socialflow.com
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The objective of this 2-day event is to bring together experts in social media and online social networks from both the academic and business worlds to share ideas on the best practices around how to study the impact of social media on our society, and specifically how to measure influence on social media. The workshop will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and provide graduate students with the opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn about the latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective.
SCHEDULE:
During the first day (Symposium), the participants will present and conduct discussions based on their work in this area. On the second day (Workshop), the participants will be tasked to brainstorm and develop new metrics for studying and measuring influence and engagement on social media.
REGISTRATION FEE: None
The registration for the event is now open and the registration form is accessible from the event page above. Please feel free to circulate it and invite your colleagues and students to attend the event.
What: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media
Where: Dalhousie Social Media Lab, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When: September 28-29, 2012
Website: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/influence12
Twitter Hashtag: #Influence12
Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research & Development, Socialflow.com
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The objective of this 2-day event is to bring together experts in social media and online social networks from both the academic and business worlds to share ideas on the best practices around how to study the impact of social media on our society, and specifically how to measure influence on social media. The workshop will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and provide graduate students with the opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn about the latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective.
SCHEDULE:
During the first day (Symposium), the participants will present and conduct discussions based on their work in this area. On the second day (Workshop), the participants will be tasked to brainstorm and develop new metrics for studying and measuring influence and engagement on social media.
REGISTRATION FEE: None
The registration for the event is now open and the registration form is accessible from the event page above. Please feel free to circulate it and invite your colleagues and students to attend the event.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Social Networks and Collaboration Mini-track HICSS Papers Due by Friday
Call for Papers - Social networks and collaboration
HICSS '46 Minitrack
January 7-10 2012
Maui, Hawaii, USA
The Hawaiian International Conference for System Science (HICSS - pronounced "hicks") is about to enter its 46th year. In 2012 there were about 950 people in attendance . Systems Science covers a wide range of fields: the electric power grid, cybercrime, health, law, software development and much more. It is attended by scientists and scholars from all over the world. Last year the friends I met and hung out with the most were from Barahin, the Netherlands and Germany. Our track accepted papers from Korea and China as well as Western countries. The beautiful environment and frequent mixers allow participants to meet people not only in their on field and of their own nationality, but provides an opportunity to learn about exciting work that is going in other fields and in places across the globe.
The call reflects the varied interests of the three track chairs. One has more of a sociological background working with structural (network) sociologists studying social construction, another is interested cognitive psychology, mathematical networks and models and the third is interested in persuasion, social influence, the semantic web as well as social networks.
HICSS has provided a number of my long term collaborators and friends. As a reviewer and mini-track chair I am told that if a paper is not technically perfect but exciting I should take it anyway. HICSS is not just about vetting papers like sausages, though the quality of feedback from reviewers is excellent, it is a place where real growth and discovery takes place. If you have a new and exciting idea related to human interaction and what it means to us, some new way to gather data about it using the on-line sources we have or have gathered the data by observation or other means this track will be a fun place to share your ideas and get feedback on them.
Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission: June 15, 2012
Author Notification: August 15, 2012
Final Version Submission and Registration: September 15, 2012
Conference: January 7-10, 2013
We invite papers that use social networks to help understand human behaviour by using network theory andanalysis to study and model human groups (teams, organizations, societies and individuals. We are interested in empirical papers that observe or visualize social relation and social graphs;theoretical papers that simulate society through software, design research that addresses social network based software and information systems; papers that use social networks to gain insight into human behaviour and other papers with empirical studies of social influence.
We are particularly open to papers that explore unusual ways of modelling social networks: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviors, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, and models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions.We are interested in applying the network sociology of Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to information systems.
With respect to content, the track is open to analysis of collective intelligence websites, new knowledge creation, collaboration, persuasive technology, analysis of social graphs, organizational analysis, crowdsourcing as well as ad hoc social networks formed in response to pressing social needs, e.g. in the area of health and wellbeing. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations.
Topics we are interested include, but are not limited to:
•Collective intelligence websites (multimode interaction, like wikis)
•New knowledge creation
•Web collaboration (wikis, Skype, blogs, Facebook and social media in general)
•Other collaboration (Notes, ERM and other proprietary systems)
•Applications of SNA
•New methods of SNA
•Novel insights from analysis of social networks and social graphs
•Crowdsourcing
•Social networks and identity
•Social networks and cognition
•Social networks an organizations
•Networks and influence (persuasive technology)
•Ad hoc social networks formed in response to pressing social needs, e.g. in the area of health and wellbeing.
Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors submit full papers by June 15. Follow the Author Instructions to be found on the HICSS web site (http://www.hicss.org), as deadlines approach. All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Authors of accepted papers submit Final Version of paper by September 15. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by September 15 with specific plans to attend the conference.
Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime.
Minitrack organizers:
Donald F. Steiny (Primary Contact)
University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science
Rakentajantie 3, 90570 Oulu, Finland
US Address: 251 Webster St, Palo Alto, CA 94301
Departmental phone: +358-8-553-1900
Departmental fax: +358-8-553-1890
Direct phone: +1-650-646-5368
Email: steiny@steiny.com
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen
University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science
Rakentajantie 3, 90570 Oulu, Finland
Direct phone: +358-8-553-1914
Departmental phone: +358-8-553-1900
Departmental fax: +358-8-553-1890
Email: Harri.Oinas-Kukkonen@oulu.fi
Jeffrey Nickerson
Mailing address: Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Direct phone: 201 216 8124
Email: jnickerson@stevens.edu
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Direct phone: 201 216 8124
Email: jnickerson@stevens.edu
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HICSS '46 Minitrack
January 7-10 2012
Maui, Hawaii, USA
The Hawaiian International Conference for System Science (HICSS - pronounced "hicks") is about to enter its 46th year. In 2012 there were about 950 people in attendance . Systems Science covers a wide range of fields: the electric power grid, cybercrime, health, law, software development and much more. It is attended by scientists and scholars from all over the world. Last year the friends I met and hung out with the most were from Barahin, the Netherlands and Germany. Our track accepted papers from Korea and China as well as Western countries. The beautiful environment and frequent mixers allow participants to meet people not only in their on field and of their own nationality, but provides an opportunity to learn about exciting work that is going in other fields and in places across the globe.
The call reflects the varied interests of the three track chairs. One has more of a sociological background working with structural (network) sociologists studying social construction, another is interested cognitive psychology, mathematical networks and models and the third is interested in persuasion, social influence, the semantic web as well as social networks.
HICSS has provided a number of my long term collaborators and friends. As a reviewer and mini-track chair I am told that if a paper is not technically perfect but exciting I should take it anyway. HICSS is not just about vetting papers like sausages, though the quality of feedback from reviewers is excellent, it is a place where real growth and discovery takes place. If you have a new and exciting idea related to human interaction and what it means to us, some new way to gather data about it using the on-line sources we have or have gathered the data by observation or other means this track will be a fun place to share your ideas and get feedback on them.
Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission: June 15, 2012
Author Notification: August 15, 2012
Final Version Submission and Registration: September 15, 2012
Conference: January 7-10, 2013
We invite papers that use social networks to help understand human behaviour by using network theory andanalysis to study and model human groups (teams, organizations, societies and individuals. We are interested in empirical papers that observe or visualize social relation and social graphs;theoretical papers that simulate society through software, design research that addresses social network based software and information systems; papers that use social networks to gain insight into human behaviour and other papers with empirical studies of social influence.
We are particularly open to papers that explore unusual ways of modelling social networks: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviors, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, and models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions.We are interested in applying the network sociology of Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to information systems.
With respect to content, the track is open to analysis of collective intelligence websites, new knowledge creation, collaboration, persuasive technology, analysis of social graphs, organizational analysis, crowdsourcing as well as ad hoc social networks formed in response to pressing social needs, e.g. in the area of health and wellbeing. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations.
Topics we are interested include, but are not limited to:
•Collective intelligence websites (multimode interaction, like wikis)
•New knowledge creation
•Web collaboration (wikis, Skype, blogs, Facebook and social media in general)
•Other collaboration (Notes, ERM and other proprietary systems)
•Applications of SNA
•New methods of SNA
•Novel insights from analysis of social networks and social graphs
•Crowdsourcing
•Social networks and identity
•Social networks and cognition
•Social networks an organizations
•Networks and influence (persuasive technology)
•Ad hoc social networks formed in response to pressing social needs, e.g. in the area of health and wellbeing.
Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors submit full papers by June 15. Follow the Author Instructions to be found on the HICSS web site (http://www.hicss.org), as deadlines approach. All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Authors of accepted papers submit Final Version of paper by September 15. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by September 15 with specific plans to attend the conference.
Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime.
Minitrack organizers:
Donald F. Steiny (Primary Contact)
University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science
Rakentajantie 3, 90570 Oulu, Finland
US Address: 251 Webster St, Palo Alto, CA 94301
Departmental phone: +358-8-553-1900
Departmental fax: +358-8-553-1890
Direct phone: +1-650-646-5368
Email: steiny@steiny.com
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen
University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science
Rakentajantie 3, 90570 Oulu, Finland
Direct phone: +358-8-553-1914
Departmental phone: +358-8-553-1900
Departmental fax: +358-8-553-1890
Email: Harri.Oinas-Kukkonen@oulu.fi
Jeffrey Nickerson
Mailing address: Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Direct phone: 201 216 8124
Email: jnickerson@stevens.edu
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Direct phone: 201 216 8124
Email: jnickerson@stevens.edu
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Monday, June 11, 2012
Final call: IPSA-NUS Methods Summer School
The IPSA-NUS Summer School for Research Methods in Social and Political Science will take place at the National University of Singapore from June 25 to July 6, 2012.
The following four Summer School courses are still open for registration:
• Experimental Methods (Prof. Rebecca B. Morton, New York University)
• Modern Regression Analysis (Prof. Guy D. Whitten, Texas A&M University)
• Case Study Methods (Prof. Derek Beach, University of Aarhus)
• Mixed Method Designs (Prof. Katrin Niglas, Tallinn University)
For more information on these Summer School courses and to register, please visit http://sg-summerschool.ipsa.org/ or contact Mr. Eugene Tan at ipsa@nus.edu.sg.
Please share this announcement with any colleagues, students, and friends who might be interested.
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IPSA-NUS Methods Summer School
National University of Singapore
Department of Political Science
AS1, #04-10, 11 Arts Link
Singapore 117570
ipsa@nus.edu.sg
www.sg-summerschool.ipsa.org
The following four Summer School courses are still open for registration:
• Experimental Methods (Prof. Rebecca B. Morton, New York University)
• Modern Regression Analysis (Prof. Guy D. Whitten, Texas A&M University)
• Case Study Methods (Prof. Derek Beach, University of Aarhus)
• Mixed Method Designs (Prof. Katrin Niglas, Tallinn University)
For more information on these Summer School courses and to register, please visit http://sg-summerschool.ipsa.org/ or contact Mr. Eugene Tan at ipsa@nus.edu.sg.
Please share this announcement with any colleagues, students, and friends who might be interested.
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IPSA-NUS Methods Summer School
National University of Singapore
Department of Political Science
AS1, #04-10, 11 Arts Link
Singapore 117570
ipsa@nus.edu.sg
www.sg-summerschool.ipsa.org
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