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Call for Papers
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iCompute: Intelligent Computing for Human and Social Behavior Analysis and Collaboration

organized within the framework of

International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'12)
June 13-15, 2012
Craiova, Romania

http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/workshops.html

Background
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We are now facing a tremendous shift of paradigm in networked computing. If one decade ago we were interested in the spread of network computing through advancement of Internet and Web technologies, now new trends like collective and social computing are the norm. In this view humans are not only consumers of data and software, but they also became providers of services, content as well as meta-data taking various forms as opinions, recommendations, tags, or ratings. With the advent and spread of new Web applications like social networks, e-business, e-learning, gaming, or virtual worlds, human users have the possibility to interact, socialize, and collaborate on a significantly larger scale than it was possible before. Two immediate consequences of this state-of-affairs are noticed: 

(i) new forms of interactions and collaborations between people assisted by the new technologies are emerging, and they are expected to influence the usual human behavioral patterns and vice versa; 
(ii) large amounts of information are generated from the interaction between people mediated by information technologies, as well as between users and applications. Therefore, an increase of the interest of researchers working in computing and social sciences for analyzing, discovering and understanding new patterns of human behaviors resulted from the usage of new information technologies can be observed. These patterns can be used to develop better, enhanced applications in various areas of economy, marketing, education, business, medicine, entertainment, etc.

The aim of this workshop is to contribute to the analysis of the main advancement of the principles and algorithms of Intelligent Computing. The workshop will be specially focused in the analysis, discovery, and understanding of emerging human and social behavioral patterns from user interactions in social and collaborative systems, as well as for their application for the development of better systems. Intelligent Computing develops methods and technology ranging from classical Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems to Game Theory. Relevant topics of Intelligent Computing for the iCompute workshop include: Data Mining, Reasoning and Semantics, and Intelligent Agents.

Topics
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We welcome submissions that describe original research on advancement of Intelligent Computing for human and social behavior analysis and collaboration, including, but not limiting to:
- Social networks mining and analysis
- Mining and analysis of Social Data
- Automated Reasoning for Social Web applications
- Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration and fusion
- Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies
- Techniques, methods and new algorithms related to human behavior modeling and classification in:
    Machine Learning
    Multi-agent Systems
    Complex Simulation
    Information Fusion
    Data mining (Clustering, Classifiers, etc.)
    Evolutionary Computation
    Visualization Techniques
    Case and Practical Studies
- Human-based behavior patterns and modeling
- Pattern analysis and extraction
- Agent, service, workflow, wiki and (Semantic) Web technologies
- Interoperability, integration, interaction and coordination
- Trust, reputation and security
- Intelligent user interfaces
- Data, meta-data, ontology and resource management

The iCompute workshop emerged from the synergies identified between two successful events organized in 2011:
a. The 1st International Workshop on Social Data Mining for Human Behaviour Analysis (SoDaMin), http://aida.ii.uam.es/SoDaMin/ organized on the 27th of May 2011 by David Camacho and Costin Badica during WIMS'11 in Sogndal, Norway, and
b. Special Session on Software Technologies for Intelligent Collaborative Systems (STIX), http://software.ucv.ro/~cbadica/stix-2011/, organized between 14-16 of October 2011 by Costin Badica and Mirjana Ivanovic during the 15th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing: ICSTCC-2011 in Sinaia, Romania.


Submissions requirements
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The workshop papers must be written in English and formatted according to the ACM guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates The following types of contributions are welcomed:

    Research papers up to 8 pages in ACM format.
    Short technical papers and position papers, up to 4 pages in ACM format.

All contributions should be prepared in PDF/DOC format and must be submitted (no later than March 30, 2011) to: david.camacho@uam.es


Publication
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Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. All accepted workshop papers will be included in the conference proceedings. There will be no separate workshop fee. Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of an international journal.


Important Dates
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Full paper submissions: March 2, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 16, 2012
Submission of camera-ready papers: March 30, 2012
Workshop: June 14th, 2012


Workshop Chairs
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David Camacho, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
http://aida.ii.uam.es

Costin Badica
Universitatea din Craiova, Romania
http://software.ucv.ro/~cbadica/

Mirjana Ivanovic
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
http://perun.dmi.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=41