International Symposium on Social Computing Applications (SCA-09)

In conjunction with The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-09)

The SCA-09 Symposium consists of invited peer-reviewed papers in the field of social computing applications. The goal of SCA-09 is to provide an additional forum within SocialCom-09 for interaction among researchers and further discussion on the social computing application topics:

.   Information Diffusion

.   Open Source Software Developer Community

.   Dynamic Behaviors of Human Communication

.   Public Opinion in Very Large-Scale Conversation

.   Social Norms

.   Social Interactions

.   Collaborative News Promotion

.   Social Media Networks

.   Vocabulary of Social Tags

.   Social Accountability Framework

.   Collaborative Filtering

.   Criminal Group Discovery

.   Gaming on the Social Graph

.   Multirelational Social Networks

.   Quality of Interactions in Social Computing Environments

.   Human Computation Systems

.   Social Welfare

.   Blogosphere

.   Social Information Spaces

.   Web 3.0

.   Social Group Dynamics

.   Agent-based Simulation

   Invited authors should submit a full paper of 6 pages (with 2 extra page purchase allowed), including all figures, tables and references. The authors should follow the instructions of the "Online Author Kit" at the SocialCom-09 website for the preparation of the final manuscript. The author registration date and the final manuscript due date are strict. Please do follow the announcements on the SocialCom-09 web site.

   Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium Section of the Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-09), published by IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper published in the proceedings.

• Justin Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada