-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Euros] FYI: Semantics of People and Culture Datum: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:00:08 +0200 Von: Miltiadis Lytras mdl@eltrun.gr An: euros@alice.wu-wien.ac.at CC: kmr-group@nada.kth.se
**** Submission Deadline is 15 October 2006****
CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Semantics of People and Culture http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/publications/ijswis-culturalsemantics-cfp.txt
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) (ISSN 1552-6283, Idea Group Publishing)
BACKGROUND
The preferences and social patterns of people --as they exist outside of being 'users' of overly narrow application domains-- constitutes a more versatile 'people semantics'-- affording us deeper personalization, match-making, and search. With over 50 million people on social networks, a mature blog culture, and the emergence of tag-based communities such as del.icio.us, last.fm and flickr, there is today an ample cultural corpus for mining and modeling the semantics of people and culture. Semantic desiderata for modeling include aesthetic factors (psychographics, tastes, dispositions, personal attitudes), social factors (connectedness, reputation, influence), and cultural factors (ideology, collective attitudes, epidemics).
CALL FOR PAPERS
For this IJSWIS special issue on the Semantics of People and Culture, we welcome original contributions which present new techniques, formalisms, empirical studies, and implemented applications relevant to the semantic modeling of people, cultures, and communities. Of particular interest are papers which add new perspectives to semantic web research, including but certainly not limited to the following topics: * modeling the 'implicit semantics' of people and culture * affective and aesthetic factors in semantic processing * community-based knowledge and preference acquisition * emergent semantics of culture and communities * analyses of blogs, social networks, and web communities * knowledge-based recommender systems * semantics of tags and merging of tags with ontologies * merging of social media with semantic web * social agent simulation * common sense reasoning for the semantic web * trend tracking, fashion, and forecasting * computational semiotics of people and culture
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Submissions to this special issue should follow the Style and Author Guidelines for regular IJSWIS papers available at http://www.idea-group.com/ijswis Electronic submissions are preferred. We recommend that manuscripts not exceed 35 pages (including figures and references). Potential authors are asked to notify the guest editors of their interest by email (hugo@media.mit.edu; pattie@media.mit.edu), as soon as possible, for initial feedback on the submission proposal. Submissions will be reviewed by three established researchers selected from a panel of reviewers to be formed for the special issue. We will do our best to offer a speedy editorial decision within 5 weeks of submission. Accepted papers have an opportunity for further revision and an additional round of reviewer feedback. Information on the Journal with online submission lives at: http://www.ijswis.org. Please submit manuscripts through that online system.
IMPORTANT DATES Email Interest in Submitting: As soon as possible Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2006 Planned Publication: IJSWIS Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007)
Please feel free to contact the guest editors:
Hugo Liu The Media Laboratory, MIT, http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo hugo@media.mit.edu
Pattie Maes, The Media Laboratory, MIT http://web.media.mit.edu/~pattie pattie@media.mit.edu
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