FYI Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:59:27 +0100 From: Daphné Blanc <daphne.blanc@esigetel.fr> Reply-To: katarzyna.wegrzyn@esigetel.fr To: Barry Wellman <wellman@CHASS.UTORONTO.CA> Subject: CASoN 2009 : Call For Papers Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska a écrit : > [Apologies if you receive this mail more than once] > ######################################################################### > CASoN 2009 > CALL FOR PAPERS > > ######################################################################### > > 1th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks > CASoN 2009 > Fontainebleau, France, on June 24 - 27, 2009 > http://www.mirlabs.org/cason09/ > > ************************************************************************* > 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 -- > > > ************************************************************************* > 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. > > > > Paper submission > ************** > 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 > ************* > Conference paper submission: March 30, 2009 > > Notification of paper acceptance: April 27, 2009 > > Camera-ready of accepted papers: May 18, 2009 > > Registration: May 18, 2009 > > Conference: June 24-27, 2009 > > > For more general information, please contact Ajith Abraham -> > abraham.ajith@gmail.com > or Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska <katarzyna.wegrzyn@esigetel.fr>, for > program/local information >