Introduction

The Conference series on Social Computing is the premier international forum for research on information and communication technologies that consider social context. The program will be two tracks of oral sessions with posters.

Scope and Interests

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

* Social Networks, Media and Services Track
** Social Networks
** Semantic Web
** Mobile Social
** Social Media Analytics and Social Media Intelligence
** Service Science, Quality, Architecture, Management, Tools and Care Studies
** Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts
** Social Networks/Media/Service System Design and Architectures
** Applications: collaborative filtering, bookmarking, tagging, and multi-agent systems, user generated contents, blogs, wikis, and discussions

* Social Signal Processing Track
** Social Intelligence and Social Cognition
** Social Behavior Modeling
** Social Behavior Analysis Synthesis
** Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, and Influence Process
** Reality Mining
** SSP in Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design
** SSP in Robot Cognition and Action
** Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence in Social Contexts
** Social signal Processing System Design and Architectures
** Applications: socially-adapt interfaces, implicit (human-behavior-based) tagging, reality mining systems

Electronic Submission

Prepare your manuscripts with the following conference paper styles not more than 10 pages in PDF file. (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submit your paper(s) at the SocialCom 2013 submission site: http://www.asesite.org/conferences/SocialCom/2013/paper_submission.html

Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the Digital Library.

Paper Publications

Top 5% accepted papers will be published in the ASE Human Journal. The rest of accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates

Workshop Proposal: February 15, 2013
Notification of Workshop Acceptance: March 1, 2013
Paper Submission Deadline: April 15, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 2013
Conference Date: September 8-14, 2013

Note: All days end Midnight Eastern Standard Time.