INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEB SCIENCE (IJWS) SPECI 2012 - International Journal of Web Science (IJWS) Special Issue on Social Web Search and Mining

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Category INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEB SCIENCE (IJWS) SPECI 2012

Deadline: June 01, 2012 | Date: August 15, 2012

Venue/Country: Online, Online

Updated: 2012-05-01 23:17:07 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Web Search and Mining

Main submission deadline: June 1st, 2012

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1796

AIMS AND SCOPE

Recent years have seen a flourishing of social media. Across the

world, individuals can share news, opinions, experiences and expertise

through Web-enabled devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and

mobile phones. There has been a fundamental shift thanks to

significant advances in the ease of publishing and sharing content.

Such examples include microblogs, blogs, bookmarking services, photo

sharing platforms, forums, newsgroups, and location-based services.

They have formed a new Web: social Web, which generates a lot of

structured and semi-structured information. This information greatly

enlarges the content of the Web. At the same time, it introduces many

interesting research issues as well many real-world applications.

These research issues have been receiving growing attentions in recent

years.

The aim of this special issue is to collect contemporary works

concerning searching and mining the Social Web. The context of the

special issue can be related to a wide range of areas including Web

mining, social networks analysis, semantic Web, information retrieval,

and natural language processing. We invite researchers and

professionals from a broad range of disciplines to submit to this

issue. Papers may encompass any or all of the following types of

works: theoretical analysis, modelling, algorithms, simulation,

visualisation and empirical studies.

SUBJECT COVERAGE

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Microblog (e.g. Twitter, Weibo) search and mining

Social network analysis

Community detection and network evolution analysis

Personalisation for search and for social interaction

User profiling and recommender systems

Collaborative search and question answering

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

Topic detection and topic trend analysis

User behaviour prediction

Real-time social search and mining infrastructures

Cross-media search and mining of user-generated content

Entity search (e.g. expert finding, product search, organisation

search, etc.)

Semantic Web-based social applications

Computational advertising for user-generated content

Spam detection and anomaly detection of social media

Geospatial and temporal analysis of social media

Applications of social search and mining

GUEST EDITORS

Yi Fang (fangycs.purdue.edu) and Zenglin Xu (xu218purdue.edu),

Purdue University, USA

Jiang Bian (jiang.bian.prcgmail.com) and Ziad Al Bawab

(zalbawabyahoo-inc.com), Yahoo! Labs, USA

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 1 June, 2012

Notification date: 15 July, 2012

Final paper submission: 15 August, 2012

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be

currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B.

Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not

originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for

authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting

papers are available on the Author Guideline page:

http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to

Online Submissions of Papers: http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=35&jid=370.

If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please

contact submissionsinderscience.com or the Guest Editors, describing

the exact problem you experience. (Please include in your email the

title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of

the Guest Editors)

ABOUT IJWS

IJWS is a newly launched refereed scientific international journal.

IJWS aims to improve the state-of-the-art of worldwide research in the

areas of web theories, services, applications and standards by

publishing high-quality papers in this area. IIJWS is committed to

deepening the understanding of enabling theories and technologies for

applying and developing the web as a global information repository.