Social computing has recently become one of the central themes across a number of information and communication technology fields. It is emerging as an attractive computing paradigm and methodology considering social context and social modeling, using principles of social sciences, or in a socially collaborative way, during information system design and production.

The rapid proliferation of online social networking system and service demonstrates the incredible power of social computing. Meanwhile, an effective organization and usage of various social networks and even the design of future Internet also present many new challenges to social computing research and system development.

The symposium aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students in computer science, networking, sociology and business, and foster interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration towards the challenges and new opportunities in practice and theory of social computing and social networking.

The 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking (SocialNet’09) will be held in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2009),December 12-14, 2009, Chengdu, China.

Accepted papers will be appeared in PICom’09 proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and to be indexed by EI. Selected papers will be published in special issues of some top SCI-indexed journals.