MULTIMEDIA 2013 - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA Special Issue on Social Media as Sensors

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Category MULTIMEDIA 2013

Deadline: August 16, 2012 | Date: April 15, 2013

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Updated: 2012-03-27 23:38:01 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Special Issue on “Social Media as Sensors”

Summary

Web 2.0 applications and social media have transformed

the Web into an interactive sharing platform where users

upload data and media, comment on and share this content

within their social circles. Each content item is associated

with an abundance of metadata and related information

such as location, tags, comments, favourites, access

patterns and logs etc. At the same time all this information

is implicitly or explicitly interconnected based on various

properties such as social links between users, groups,

communities, etc. These properties transform social media

to data sources of an extremely dynamic nature that reflect

topics of interests, events, and the evolution of community

opinion and focus. Social media offer a unique opportunity

to structure and extract information and to benefit multiple

areas ranging from computer vision to sociology and

marketing.

Scope

This special issue targets a mixed audience of researchers

from several communities, i.e. computer vision, multimedia

analysis, data mining, machine learning, information

extraction, social networks, complex systems, and information

retrieval. The emphasis of the special issue is on recognition,

discovery, and detection of topics and real-world events,

as well as on monitoring and prediction of trends and events

using social media sites as sensors. Both theoretical

contributions and applications validated on large-scale social

media datasets are welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Scalable and multimodal social media analysis

(Near) real-time social media analysis

Data mining and knowledge extraction from social media

Community detection and clustering in social media

Spatio-temporal analysis for event discovery and detection

Social media applications for prediction and monitoring

Behaviour analysis in social media

Analysis of world events from social media streams

Social media systems applied to political analysis, emergency

management, and news generation

Social media as a source for sensing reality

Social media enabled applications (e.g. tourism, augmented

reality, e-participation, etc)

Other applications of social media as sensors

Submission Procedure

Prospective authors should submit high quality, original

manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under

consideration, in any other journals. Manuscripts should be

submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript

submission system at (http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/).

All papers will be reviewed by at least three independent

reviewers. Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE

Transactions on Multimedia guidelines for authors (please visit:

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/tmm/author_info.html).

Important dates

Submissions deadline: 16-Aug-2012

First notification: 1-Nov-2012

Revised manuscript: 30-Jan-2013

Notification of acceptance: 15-Mar-2013

Final Manuscript: 15-Apr-2013

Publication date: August 2013