Important News
The Best Paper Awards are as follows:

1. Paper Title: User Behavior Modelling Approach for Churn Prediction in Online Games
Authors: Zoheb Borbora and Jaideep Srivastava

2. Paper Title: Ignorance isn't Bliss: An Empirical Analysis of Attention Patterns in Online Communities
Authors: Claudia Wagner, Matthew Rowe, Markus Strohmaier and Harith Alani
Introduction
The Conference series on Social Computing is the premier international forum for research on information and communication technologies that consider social context. The program will be two tracks of oral sessions with posters. The conference is hosted by University of Twente, the Netherlands. SocialCom 2012 will be held in Amsterdam which is one of the most attractive European tourist destinations.
Scope and Interests
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

    Social Networks, Media and Services Track

  • Social Networks
  • Semantic Web
  • Mobile Social
  • Social Media Analytics and Social Media Intelligence
  • Service Science, Quality, Architecture, Management, Tools and Care Studies
  • Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts
  • Social Networks/Media/Service System Design and Architectures
  • Applications: collaborative filtering, bookmarking, tagging, and multi-agent systems, user generated contents, blogs, wikis, and discussions

    • Social Signal Processing Track

  • Social Intelligence and Social Cognition
  • Social Behavior Modeling
  • Social Behavior Analysis Synthesis
  • Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, and Influence Process
  • Reality Mining
  • SSP in Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design
  • SSP in Robot Cognition and Action
  • Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence in Social Contexts
  • Social signal Processing System Design and Architectures
  • Applications: socially-adapt interfaces, implicit (human-behavior-based) tagging, reality mining systems
Important Dates
Workshop Proposal: April 1, 2012
Submission Deadline: May 18, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2012
Camera Ready: July 20, 2012
Conference Date: September 3-5, 2012
Note: All days end Eastern Standard Time.