SocialCom2015 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of social computing and networking.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Fundamentals of social computing
Modelling of social behaviour
Social network analysis and mining
Big social media data
Social media infrastructure and cloud computing
Computational models of social simulation
Web 2.0 and semantic web
Innovative HCI and touch-screen models
Modelling of social conventions and social contexts
Social cognition and social intelligence
Social media analytics and intelligence
Group formation and evolution
Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts
Social system design and architectures
Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology
Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling
Handheld/mobile social computing
Service science and service oriented interaction design
Cultural patterns and representation
Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process
Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets
Connected e-health in social networks
Social policy and government management
Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum
Business social software systems
Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments
Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction
Social computing applications and case studies


PAPER PUBLICATION
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference. Distinguished papers accepted and presented in SocialCom 2015, after further extensions, will be published in special issues of several SCI/EI Indexed journals.