Special Issue on Analyzing and Mining Social Networks for Decision Support
Introduction to the Special Issue:
Mining and analyzing social networks is now becoming a very popular research area not only for
data mining and web mining but also social network analysis. Data mining is a technique that has
the ability to process and analyze large amounts of data and by this to discover valuable
information from the data. In recent years, due to the booming of social communications and
social network-based web services, data mining has become a very important and powerful
technique to process and analyze such large amount of data.
Recently, many researchers are focusing on developing new data mining techniques and
algorithms, or devoting to improve traditional mining techniques for social network analysis.
However, it is meaningless, if the discovered valuable and useful data have not been applied in
real application environment. Social data are the aggregations of communication interaction and
experience of people, and it if useful to leverage this type of data for decision-making. Thus, it
could be an important time to shift the research focus to an application area, such as decision
support.
This Journal Special Issue invites papers of the following topics, but never exclusive:
 Mining and analyzing social data for decision support
 Mining social web services for decision support
 Algorithms for mining social networks for decision support
 Matching engines and interfaces for decision support systems
 System architectures
 Intelligent and multi-agent based decision support systems
 Social decision support systems
 Semantic Analysis for Decision Support
 Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
 Big Data Issue in Mining and analyzing social data for decision support
 Visualization
 Experiment and implementation
 Leveraging social data for decision support in healthcare
 Case studies and empirical studies
Submission:
All submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the journal guidelines
(http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions). All papers will undergo the special issue
guidelines of the journal (http://www.jucs.org/jucs_special). The length of the manuscript prefer
not exceed 20 pages. Submissions should be sent to Easychair system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siamsnds2016
In case of any enquiry, please feel free to contact Prof. I-Hsien Ting (iting@nuk.edu.tw).
Important Dates:
 Submission Deadline: October 15, 2015
 First Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: December 15, 2015
 Revised Manuscripts Submission Deadline: January 15, 2016
 Final Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 15, 2016
 Expected Publication Date: April-May 2016
Guest Editor:
Prof. I-HSIEN TING (Associate Professor in Department of Information Management,
National University of Kaohsiung, TAIWAN)
Director of Academic Affairs, Taiwanese Association for Social Networks
Director of Social Network Innovation Research Center, National University of Kaohsiung
Prof. Babiga BIRREGAH (Assistant Professor at Institute Charles Delaunay, University of
Technology of Troyes, France)