Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications
http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/Calls.php
Sep 30–Oct 2 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
Qualitative and quantitative social research has changed significantly with the rise of Web 2.0, which has enabled publishing of user-generated content on an epic scale. This ‘Big Social Data’ is most evidently manifest in the advent of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and MySpace, and its analysis is becoming incredibly important to the empirical study of society.
Recent academic studies of social media (refs?) provide some interesting insights into the “online” society. They also highlight the importance of developing appropriate digital analysis methods and tools to enable researchers to capture, analyze and visualize the vast amount of data now becoming available. This workshop will be a blend of positional presentations, novel research presentations, discussions about the current status, emergent areas and trends in social media analysis.
Contributions are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:
• Event modelling and forecasting
• Information flow analysis
• Analysis of social ‘mood’
• Complex Societal Interaction Modelling
• Online Behaviour Modelling and Analysis
• Risk Awareness and Analysis
• Disaster Management
• Economic forecasting
• Topic Clustering
• Anomaly Detection
• Informing Social Policy and Government
• Temporal Societal Structure Modelling
• Social Influence Analysis
Format: 4-8 pages.
Submission: email to: p.burnap@cs.cardiff.ac.uk, rob.procter@warwick.ac.uk
Deadline: June 30, 2013
Notification of acceptance: (in time for early bird registration)
Organising Committee:
Professor Rob Procter, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University
Dr Pete Burnap, Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University
Dr Alex Voss, Department of Computer Science, St. Andrews University
Dr William Housley, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Dr Matthew Williams, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Mr Adam Edwards, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
