IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Call for Papers: Special issue on Social and Economic Computing

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Call for Papers: Special issue on Social and Economic Computing

Guest Editors:

Fei-Yue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Dongsong Zhang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Social and economic computing focuses on the development of computing

technologies that consider social and economic contexts. Social computing

can be broadly defined as the computational facilitation of social studies

and human social dynamics as well as the design and use of computing

technologies that consider social context. Economic computing is concerned

with the development of computational theories, models, and tools that

facilitate economic studies and the design, development, and evaluation of

economic systems using computational ideas and techniques. To facilitate

the design of social and economic systems, social and economic computing

must learn from disciplines such as sociology and economics, and integrate

psychological, organizational and communication theories into

computational thinking.

Services computing, and social and economic computing, are closely related

and benefit from each other. Social computing techniques enable and

support communication and collaboration between service providers and

consumers. Social and economic computing applications are typically built

upon and delivered through services computing principles and techniques.

This IEEE TSC special issue seeks innovative contributions to social and

economic computing research and development in the context of services

computing science, engineering, and applications. Multidisciplinary

research with substantive findings at the intersection of social and

economic computing and services computing is strongly encouraged.

This special issue is expected to cover representative research findings

to provide an integrated and synthesized view of the current state of the

art, identify key challenges and opportunities for future studies, and

promote community-building among researchers and practitioners in the

related fields.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to the following topics:

? Service-based theories of social and economic computing

? Service-oriented design and architectures of computational social and

economic systems

? Computational social and economic modeling, agent-based computational

economics in services

? Social media analytics, social learning, social network analysis and

mining in social and economic contexts, Web-enabled service-oriented

social and economic computing

? Cultural dynamics, influence process, trust, privacy and

security-related services computing in social and economic contexts

? Services, methodology, infrastructure, management and experimental

studies in social and economic computing related applications

? Emerging services computing applications with social and economic

computing in areas such as e-business, national security, risk analysis

and public policy evaluation.

Important Dates:

Initial submissions due March 31, 2011

First-round reviews due June 1, 2011

Revised submissions due Aug. 1, 2011

Second-round reviews due Sept. 20, 2011

Final camera-ready version due Oct. 20, 2011

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions should follow the style and presentation guidelines of IEEE

Transactions on Services Computing (see http://www.computer.org/tsc for

details). Please submit your papers through the online system

(https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tsc-cs) and select Special Issue on

Social and Economic Computing. The manuscripts should not have been

published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Contact information:

Contact co-editors at zhangdumbc.edu.

Dongsong Zhang, Ph.D.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County