=============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2014 Beijing) Tsinghua University, Beijing, China August 4-7, 2014 http://socialcom2014beijing.scienceengineering.org/ =============================================================================== The 7th ASE Conference series on Social Computing (SocialCom 2014 Beijing) is the premier international forum for research on information, communication and interactive technologies that consider social context in social computing and social media. The program contains two tracks for paper submission. IMPORTANT DATES =============================================================================== Paper Submission: April 30, 2014 Acceptance Notification: June 5, 2014 Poster/Demo Submission: June 16, 2014 Industry Speech: June 23, 2014 Final Paper Due: June 25, 2014 SCOPE AND INTERESTS ============================================================================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Social Media, Networks, Systems and Services Track - Mobile and Wearable Social Networks and Systems - Social Media Analytics and Media Intelligence - Connecting Offline and Online Networks - Performance Evaluation of Social Media Services/Systems - Novel Recommendation and Inference Techniques - Cyber-physical and Smart Interactive System for Social Networks - Trend and Virality of Social Media - Mobile Social Gaming and Analysis - Applications and Case Studies of the above Track 2: Social Signal Processing Track - Social Intelligence - Social Behavior Modeling and Analysis - Emotional Intelligence - Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, and Influence Processes - Reality Mining - SSP in Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design - Novel Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Contexts ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION ============================================================================== Prepare your manuscripts according to ACM paper guidelines ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) between 6 and 8 pages, and not exceeding 8 pages in PDF format. Submit your paper(s) at the SocialCom 2014 Beijing submission site ( http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/beijing/webs...). Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be 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 Digital Library. PAPER PUBLICATIONS ============================================================================== Top 2% accepted papers will be published in the ASE Human Journal. Rest of the accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in several SCI-indexed international journals (see website). CONTACT INFORMATION ============================================================================== Email address: socialcom2014bj@googlegroups.com (attn. to SocialCom Chairs) Mailing address: Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, HKUST Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong (attn. to Prof. James She) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ============================================================================== Honorary Chair Fei-Yue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Chairs Su Yang, Fudan University, China Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, USA Executive Chairs Alvin Chin, Nokia, China Justin Zhan, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Program Chairs James She, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Martin Atzmueller, Universit‰t Kassel, Germany Program Vice-Chairs Baoliu Ye, Nanjing University, China Arkaitz Zubiaga, AIRC, Dublin, Ireland Peng Cui, Tsinghua University, China Jill Freyne, CSIRO ICT, Australia Panel Chair Zhang Lin, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China Demo Chairs Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, Canada Poster Chairs Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Zhiyong Yu, Fuzhou University, China Hua Yuan, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China Workshop Chairs Mike Liang, Microsoft Research, China Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Steering Committee Merce Crosas, Harvard University, USA Howard Lander, RENCI/UNC-Chapel Hill, USA Arcot Rajasekar, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA Advisory Chair Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Sponsorship Chair Dou Shen, Baidu, China Local Chair Minlie Huang, Tsinghua University, China Publicity Chairs Ruijin He, Taylor & Francis, China Christoph Trattner, Graz University of Technology, Austria Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA Program Committee http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/beijing/webs... -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Head of the Social Computing Research Group @Know-Center Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: ctrattner@know-center.at Tel: +43 316 873 30840 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info Have an interesting EU-Project on User Modeling & Personalization? Present your Project at UMAP2014: http://umap2014.cs.aau.dk/ -------------------------------------------------------