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Introduction

Social computing is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised where people interact socially via computing space. Such applications have been profoundly impacting social behaviour and life style of human beings while pushing the boundary of computing technology simultaneously. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as privacy protection, touch-screen based HCI design, and modelling of social behaviour in computing space still remain challenging.


SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and broadly related areas. 

Scope and Topics

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

·   Fundamentals of social computing
·   Modelling of social behaviour
·   Social network analysis and mining
·   Computational models of social simulation
·   Web 2.0 and semantic web
·   Innovative HCI and touch-screen models
·   Modelling of social conventions and social contexts
·   Social cognition and social intelligence
·   Social media analytics and intelligence
·   Group formation and evolution
·   Security, privacy, trust, risk in social contexts
·   Social system design and architectures
·   Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology
·   Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling
·   Handheld/mobile social computing
·   Service science and service oriented interaction design
·   Cultural patterns and representation
·   Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process
·   Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets
·   Connected e-health in social networks
·   Social policy and government management
·   Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum
·   Business social software systems
·   Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments
·   Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction
·   Social computing applications and case studies

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2014/submission.htm. 


Publications

Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
  
General Chairs
Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
  
Program Chairs
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea
Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
   
Program Vice-Chairs
Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada
Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia
Li Li, Southwest University, China
  
Workshop Chairs
Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China
Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China
  
Steering Committee

V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China
Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair)
Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China
Wesley Chu, University of California, USA
Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)
 
Local Organization Chair
Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
 
Finance Chair
Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Conference Secretary and Web Chair
Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia