Social Informatics

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska
ESIGETEL, Fontainebleau, France

Journal Email Contact

si@icst.org

ISSN# 2032-9385

Scope

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. These social network systems are usually characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual information. Recent trends also indicate the usage of complex network as a key feature for next generation usage and exploitation of the Web. This journal is focused on the foundations of social networks as well as case studies, empirical, and other methodological works related to the computational tools for the automatic discovery of Web-based social networks. This Journal provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the ethological approach to social behaviour in animals (including the study of animal tracks and learning by members of the same species) with web-based evidence of social interaction, perceptual learning, information granulation, the behaviour of humans and affinities between web-based social networks. The main topics cover the design and use of various computational intelligence tools and software, simulations of social networks, representation and analysis of social networks, use of semantic networks in the design and community-based research issues such as knowledge discovery, privacy and protection, and visualization.

We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application, and cover a broad set of intelligent methods, with particular emphasis on Social Network computing.

The scope of the journal includes (but is not restricted to) :

• Network evolution and growth mechanisms;
• On-line communities and computer networks;
• Information diffusion in social networks;
• Detection of communities by document analysis;
• Topology of real networks;
• Information diffusion in social networks;
• Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations;
• Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the social network;
• Classification models and their application in social recommender systems;
• Economical impact of social network discovery;
• Use of social networks for marketing;
• Web page ranking informed by social media;
• Search algorithms on social networks;
• Collaborative Filtering;
• Anomaly detection in social network evolution;
• Data protection inside communities;
• Crime data mining and network analysis;
• Modeling trust and reputation in social networks;
• Misbehavior detection in communities;
• Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation;
• International Collaborations in e-Social network;
• Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks;
• Link Topology and Site Hierarchy;
• Web communities;
• Web-Based Cooperative Work;
• Benchmark creation;
• Measures and methodologies.

Keywords

Network evolution, Network Dynamics, Information diffusion, Social recommender systems, Collaborative filetering, Social network mining, Trust and reputation, Misbehavior detection, Discovery and analysis, Link topology, Evaluation

Call For Papers

View the latest call for papers here: http://icst.org/social-informatics-cfp/.

Editor-in-Chief

Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska received a Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from the Silesian Technical University of Gliwice, Poland and a further M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Val d’Essonne, France. She received her Ph.D. degree (2001) in Automatics, Real Time Computing and Computer Science from the Ecole Superieur des Mines de Paris, France.

Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska is Associate Professor at the LRIT Laboratory at ESIGETEL, France. She was, for several years, head of the Computer and Network Department at ESIGETEL, and now she is a head of an SITR team attached to the LRIT research laboratory at ESIGETEL.

She has been involved in the organization of several international conferences: General Chair of the Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference AWIC2007, Programme Chair in the First International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), then Programme Chair in AWIC 2009 and CASON 2010, Proceeding Chair in the International Conference Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM 2010), now she is involved as Programme Co-Chair in the International Workshop on Social Computing, Network, and Services which will be held in Crete, Greece (June, 2011), CASoN 2011 and CISIM 2011.

She is also a member of Program Committees in several international conferences (AINA, AH3D, AWIC, BICA, CASoN, CISM, EPIA, INCoS, MIT, NWESP …) as well as an expert for the group Information Society Technologies (IST) active in the European Community. She also serves as a reviewer for various conferences and journals.
She was invited for the lecture within the ERASMUS-Program in Poland (Silesian University of Technology, Katowice) and Portugal (University of Beira Interior, Covilhã).

In 2008, she was an invited Keynotes speaker on New Challenges of Search Engines at the international conference Znalosti in Bratislava, Slovakia and in 2009 she was a plenary speaker on Driving Intelligent Cars Down Futuristic Highways at the IX International Conference Telematics, Logistics and Transport Safety (TL&TS’09) in Katowice-Szczyrk, Poland.
Her main interests are Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Web Based Support Systems and Web Intelligence, Web Mining and Opinion Mining.

She is a Member of IEEE (USA), Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) and Future Technology Research Association International (FTRA).

Editorial Board

Adam Wierzbicki
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland

Aris Anagnostopoulos
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Athanasios V. Vasilakos
University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Athena Vakali
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Bill Grosky
University of Michigan, USA

Bingjun Sun Ebay Inc., USA

David Zeng
University of Arizona, USA

Elena Ferrari
University of Insubria, Italy

Ghassan Qadah
American University of Sharjah, UAE

Jie Tang
Tsinghua University, China

Jiming Liu
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Malek Mouhoub
University of Regina, Canada

Mehmet Kaya
Firat University, Turkey

Mohammad Mahdian
Yahoo Research, USA

Nader Mohamed
UAE University, UAE

Osmar R. Zaiane
University of Alberta, Canada

Przemysław Kazienko
Wrocław University of Technology, Poland

Ronald Yager
Iona College, USA

Tanzel Ozyer
TOBB Economics and Technology University, Turkey

Xiaowei Xu
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

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