Conference: Social Computing 2009 in Vancouver, B.C. August 29-31

A great conference on social media and related issues will be held this August in Vancouver: 2009 IEEE Social Computing Conference.  I will be reviewing for the conference and will be working on a couple of papers that will be submitted for review.

http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/

Topics of particular interest for the conference include, but are not limited to:

· Social Computing Theories
· Social System Design and Architectures
· Social Network Analysis and Mining, Semantic web
· Social Behavior Modeling
· Social Intelligence, Social Cognition
· Social Computing Applications such as collaborative filtering, bookmaking, tagging, and multi-agent systems
· Human Machine Interactions
· Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, Influence Process
· Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence in Social Contexts
· Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts
· Social Engineering, Tools, and Case Studies
· Services Science, Quality, Architecture, Management, and Tools
IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop Proposal: March 01, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009
Authors Notification: June 01, 2009
Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2009

Professor Ben Shneiderman, from the University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science, will deliver one of the keynote addresses on: “Network Analysis and Visualization for Understanding Social Computing”.