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THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL NETWORKS

in conjunction with
6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2010)
Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 9-12, 2010
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The widespread adoption of Web 2.0 related technologies has facilitated user collaboration and knowledge sharing. Thanks to these technologies, collaborative communities are one of the emerging trends on the web. Notable examples of collaborative communities are those in online social networks, where users are able to establish relationships with other users, for purposes that may concern business, entertainment, religion, dating, etc, and also they are able to enforce information sharing based on these relationships.
As such, social networks represent a natural place for collaborative communities. Collaborative tools based on the social networking paradigm, i.e., collaborative social network, are today more and more used not only by single users, but also at the enterprise level to communicate, share information, taking decisions, and doing business. This is in line with the emerging trend known as Enterprise 2.0.

The existence of collaborative social networks that can be used for various reasons creates both interesting opportunities and challenges. The workshop aims to bring together researchers in various disciplines to explore the effect of social networks on collaborative applications. Our ultimate goal is to foster communication and collaboration across disciplines to enable interdisciplinary approaches for collaborative social networks.


CollaborateSN-2010 will be held in conjunction with the cth International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, (CollaborateCom-2010), which is jointly sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Create-Net, and the International Computer Sciences, and Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST).


We solicit unpublished research papers that address various aspects of online social network based collaborative applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


* Models of privacy and security related to collaborative social networks and social networks
* Social network analysis and mining for collaborative applications
* Access control models and solutions for collaborative social networks
* Studies of user needs and behaviors for various collaborate applications in social networks
* Business models for collaborative social networks
* Trust and Reputation models in collaborative applications
* Knowledge-base management in collaborative social networks
* Interoperability issues in social networks
* Semantic technologies for collaborative social networks
* Decentralized architectures for collaborative social networks

At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the paper.
Papers of no-shown authors will be removed from the digital library after the conference and their affiliations will receive a notification.



INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
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Instructions available on the website
http://www.dicom.uninsubria.it/~barbara.carminati/CollaborateSN10/index.html


IMPORTANT DATES:
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Paper submission: 11th June 2010
Author notification: 23th July 2010
Camera ready: 15th August 2010


PROGRAM ORGANIZERS:
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Barbara Carminati
University of Insubria, Italy
Email: barbara.carminati@uninsubria.it

Murat Kantarcioglu
University of Texas at Dallas
muratk@utdallas.edu