Joint Special Track on Pervasive Social Computing (http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/uic2010/SpecialSession/)

of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC2010) (http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/uic2010/)

and the 7th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC2010) (http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/atc2010/)

October 26-29, 2010, Xi'an, China

Introduction:

Social computing concerns the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It is related to any sort of social behavior in or through computational systems and handles computations that are carried out by groups of people. Social computing is now becoming an increasingly important issue in ubiquitous computing and intelligent systems and applications. It has been broadly drawn a lot of research interest from the fields of computer and information science and social science. Particularly, the social computing plays a critical role in pervasive environments with numerous mobile users. This track aims at providing a forum on social computing in pervasive contexts. Submitted papers are expected to present theories, methodologies, applications, user studies, practical experiences and surveys in the above area.

Topics:

The topics of interest will include, but are not limited to:

Social networking

Social behavior study in pervasive environments

Trust behavior study in pervasive environments

Social behavior modeling and evaluation

Trust behavior modeling and evaluation

Social trust modeling and inference

Social information analysis and mining

Social and trust aspects in recommendation systems

Trusted computing in pervasive systems

Human Computer Interaction for social purpose

Privacy and security in social computing

Social system/application design and development

Social signal processing and context-aware computing

Web 2.0



Steering/Advisory Chair:

Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

PC Chairs:

Zheng Yan, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

Program Committee:

Piotr Cofta, British Telecom, UK
Ioanna Dionysiou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Silke Holtmanns, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Murtuza Jadliwala, EPFL, Switzerland
Gabriele Lenzini, Novay, Netherland
Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Mehmet Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia
Marinella Petrocchi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR, Italy
Junzhao Sun, University of Oulu, Finland
Andrew G. West, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mei Yu, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway/Tianjin University, Norway/China
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland

Paper Submission:

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the international Program Committee. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise the paper will not be included in the conference proceedings of UIC 2010 (LNCS, Springer). Selected papers, after extension and further reviews, will be published by the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (IJPCC) (http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijpcc).

Important Dates:

Full Paper Submission : April 30th, 2010
Author Notification : June 30th, 2010
Final Paper Submission and Registration : July 30th, 2010