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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Amsterdam (The Netherlands) - September 3-6, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://www.asesite.org/conferences/socialcom/2012/index.html">http://www.asesite.org/conferences/socialcom/2012/index.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>General Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK, and Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Local Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom) will take place in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), September 3-6, 2012. The focus of SocialCom is on information and communication technologies aimed at modeling, analysis and synthesis of social interactions. The program will cover the whole spectrum of contexts where computers play a role in human-human and human-machine interaction, from co-located, face-to-face dyadic interactions up to large-scale on-line social networks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The conference will be articulated into two tracks and the topics include (but are not limited to) the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Social Networks, Media and Services Track<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Social Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Semantic Web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Mobile Social<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Social Media Analytics and Social Media Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Services Science, Quality, Architecture, Management, Tools and Case Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Social Network/ Media/ Service System Design and Architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Applications: collaborative filtering, bookmarking, tagging, and multi-agent systems, user generated content, blogs, wikis, and discussions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Social Signal Processing Track<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Social Intelligence and Social Cognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Social Behavior Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Social Behavior Analysis and Synthesis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, and Influence Process<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Reality Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• SSP in Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• SSP in Robot's Cognition and Action<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence in Social Contexts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Social Signal Processing Systems Design and Architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Socially-Adept Interfaces<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Implicit (Human-Behavior-Based) Tagging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Reality Mining Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submissions must be formatted according to IEEE guidelines and include regular (10 pages), short (6 pages) and poster papers (2 pages). Accepted regular papers will be presented as oral, short papers will be presented as oral or poster depending on the reviews, poster papers will be presented exclusively as poster.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The submission deadline is May 11th, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Program Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Bjoern Schuller, Technical University Munich, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Marc Smith, Institute for Social Media Studies, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Workshop Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Fabio Pianesi, FBK, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Doctoral Consortium Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo!, USA<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>