[dbjapan] Call For Chapter Proposals

["Zhenglu Yang" <yangzl [at] tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp>]

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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

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Proposal Submission Deadline: May 31, 2011

Social Media Mining and Social Network Analysis: Emerging Research

A book edited by Dr. Guandong Xu and Dr. Lin Li

Victoria University, Australia, Wuhan University of Technology, China

 

To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=4091

 

Introduction

Today the emergence of web-based communities and hosted services such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies, brings in tremendous freedom of Web autonomy and facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. And along with the interactions between users and computers, social media are rapidly becoming an important part of our digital experience, ranging from digital textual information to rich multimedia formats. These aspects and characteristics form the core of the second generation of Web.

 

A prominent challenge lies in modeling and mining this vast volume of data to extract, represent and exploit meaningful knowledge, and to leverage structures and dynamics of emerging social networks residing in the social Web, especially social media. Social networks and social Web mining combines data mining with social Web computing as a promising direction and offers unique opportunities for developing novel algorithms and tools ranging from text and content mining to link mining and community detection and so on.

 

Objective of the Book

The overall objectives of the proposed book

• Systematically presents, summaries, and discusses the principles, algorithms, prototypes of the addressed approaches engaged in the domains of social Web mining and social network analysis.

• Emphasize the emerging cross-disciplines of these research areas, highlights the promising and advanced Web based applications, such as Web recommendation and personalization and online community detection and social network analysis and social behavior modeling over the web.

• Surveys the related work in these domains and outline several open research problems that needed to be addressed by readers in future work.

 

Target Audience:

This edited will not only, combine the most recent research progresses and applications on social Web mining and social network analysis together as a handbook to academia and researchers from computer science, information systems, statistics, sociology, behavior science and organization science discipline, but also provide a compilation for disseminating and exchanging recent advances in the field of social networks analysis and social Web mining, from the perspectives of developmental practice for industrial practitioners.

 

More specialized topics within Social Web Mining and Social Networking Analysis include, but are not limited to the following:

• Computational models for social media

• Query languages for social networks and social media

• Information acquisition and establishment of social relations

• Influence, trust, and privacy

• Collaborative filtering and content ranking using social media

• Data management in collaborative open applications

• Social reputation and recommendation systems, trust management

• Search in social networks and social media

• Graph and matrix methods for computational social science

• Probabilistic models for computational social science

• Interoperability among social applications and social media

• Techniques for social network analysis/mining and for the analysis of social media phenomena

• Adversarial blogging and counter measures

• Link analysis and network structure discovery

• Community detection and evolution

• Blog search and retrieval

• Group interaction, collaboration, and recommendation

• Knowledge discovery (collective wisdom, trend analysis, and topic detection)

• Social aspects of Blogosphere

• Web mining algorithms

• Web communities

• Application of social Web mining

• Applications of social network analysis

• Web2.0 and Collaborative Tagging

• Semantic Web

• Semantic Web Mining

• Contextual advertising

• Opinion mining

• Sentiment and Search

• User behavior modeling

• Social media analysis

• Social navigation and visualization

 

Submission Procedure:

Researchers and Practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 31, 2011, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 15, 2011 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Authors should strictly follow the publication guidelines suggested by IGI-Global to prepare their chapter manuscripts. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 30, 2011.

 

All chapters submitted to IGI Global for publication must be completely original and not have been published elsewhere. A chapter may be submitted for publication that is BASED on previous works, in that it is based on the same data, information, and research that has been collected and done in the field (intellectual property). We kindly ask that you should sufficiently revise, update, and/or enhance your previous works in order to reach the originality and novelty requirements of publications.

 

All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis, under the guidance of the editorial advisory board members who are recognized senior researchers from both areas. Chapter contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

 

Publisher:

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. The book is scheduled for release in mid 2012.

 

Important Dates:

Last Call for Proposals: May 31, 2011

Full chapter Submission: September 30, 2011

Review Process: September 30-November 30, 2011

Review Results to Authors: December 15, 2011

Revised Chapter Submission: January 30, 2012

Final Acceptance Notifications: February 15, 2012

Submission of Final Chapters: February 28, 2012

Final Deadline: March 31, 2012

 

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:

Dr. Guandong Xu

Centre for Applied Informatics, Victoria University

PO Box 14428, VIC 8001, Australia

E-mail: Guandong.Xu [at] vu.edu.au

 

Dr. Lin Li

School of Computer Science & Technology, Wuhan University of Technology

Wuhan Hubei 430070, China

E-mail: cathylilin [at] whut.edu.cn