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Invitation
for Participation
International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011)
Singapore, October 6-8, 2011
The
Third International Conference on Social Informatics
(SocInfo2011) will be held in Singapore, a major hub in the Asia
Pacific region well known for its multi-racial and
multi-cultural society. The mission of SocInfo2011 is to make
the conference a premier venue for both social and computer
scientists to exchange the latest research ideas that better
integrate scholars from the two disciplines. The conference
program will reflect this in the keynote talks, tutorials,
workshops and paper sessions addressing emerging topics which
attract interdisciplinary research attention.
SocInfo2011
is hosted by the Singapore Management University and is
supported by the National University of Singapore and Nanyang
Technological University. The conference also receives support
from the International Communication Association (ICA) and
Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF). The conference
sponsors include AFOSR, AOARD and Lee Foundation.
SocInfo2011
offers both serious research exchanges in its keynote talks,
invited talks and paper presentations. The program also
includes a symposium on social dynamics in online gaming, two
tutorials, poster presentations and demos. In addition, there
will be a social program that covers reception, banquet and a
short heritage tour for participants to know one another better
and to appreciate the local culture and delicacies. With a good
combination of work and fun, SocInfo2011 hopes to foster
collaboration among the social informatics researchers as well
as to demonstrate the relevance of their research to a wider
community.
The
online registration of SocInfo2011 is now open. The early-bird
full and student registration fees are S$500 and S$300
respectively.
Due to limited capacity, we strongly encourage early
registrations at:
http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011/registration.html
The early registration deadline is *10 September 2011*.
The program highlights include:
Keynotes
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Digital Media and The Relational Revolution in Social Science
by Professor Michael Macy, Cornell University
Using Web Science to Understand and Enable 21st
Century Multidimensional Networks
by Professor Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University
Data Mining as a Key Enabler of Computational
Social Science
by Professor Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota
Predicting Market Movements: From Breaking News to
Emerging Social Media
by Professor Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Invited Talks
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Learning Information Diffusion Models from Observation and Its
Application to Behavior Analysis
by Professor Hiroshi Motoda, AFOSR/AOARD and Osaka University
Analysis of Twitter Unfollow: How Often do People
Unfollow in Twitter and Why?
by Professor Sue B. Moon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology
Tutorials
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>From Computational to Human Trust: Problems, Methods and
Applications of Trust Management
by Professor Adam Wierzbicki, Polish-Japanese Institute of
Information Technology
Text Analytics for Social Research
by Professor Stuart W. Shulman, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
More information about the program can be found at
the conference website.
Student Travel Support
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The SocInfo2011 organizing committee invites applications for
small grants to help cover the travel expenses and registration.
The award grant has kindly been made available by the previous
SocInfo organizers.
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