-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] CFP - Journal of Computational Science Special Issue on Social Computational Systems (SOCOMS) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:49:00 -0500 From: Nitin Agarwal nagarwa6@asu.edu Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

Journal of Computational Science Special Issue on Social Computational Systems (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/721195/descript...)

Guest Editors: Nitin Agarwal (nxagarwal@ualr.edu) and Xiaowei Xu (xwxu@ualr.edu)

Update: Submission is now open!! Please select “Special Issue: SOCOMS” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.

Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, and allows for experimenting, scenario planning, and deep understanding of behavior, patterns, and potential outcomes. The pervasive use of computer and Internet technologies provides an unprecedented environment of various social activities. Social computing facilitates behavioral modeling in model building, analysis, pattern mining, and prediction. Numerous interdisciplinary and interdependent systems are created and used to represent the various social and physical systems for investigating the interactions between individuals, groups, or nation-states. This requires an interdisciplinary effort leveraging the state-of-the-art research to create a better understanding of the problems from different perspectives in order to document lessons learned and develop novel theories, experiments, and methodologies in terms of social, physical, psychological, and governmental mechanisms.

This special issue is interdisciplinary and provides a platform for researchers, and practitioners from sociology, behavioral science, computer science, psychology, cultural study, information systems, operations research to share and develop novel concepts, models, principles, simulations, and methodologies, aiming to bridge the gaps between paradigms, encourage interdisciplinary collaborations, advance and deepen our understanding of social and behavioral computing and evaluation in helping critical decision and policy making.

Areas of Interests Articles are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, Social role identification and prediction Influence process and recognition Detection of hidden relationships Public opinion representation Psycho-cultural situation awareness Search, data, and inference Group formation and evolution Analytic approaches Cultural patterns and representation Simulation methodology Social conventions and social contexts Tools and case studies Causal and non-linear relationships Metrics and evaluation Modeling, projection, and forecasting Social behaviors (norms, self-organizing, cooperation) Social network analysis and mining Viral marketing and information diffusion Group interaction and collaboration Data collection and benchmarks Group representation and profiling Social dynamics and infectious disease modeling Cultural modeling and dynamics Model and analysis complexity

Important Dates Submission System (EES) opens: October 15, 2010 Abstract Submission: November 1, 2010 (300-400 word limit) Full-Paper Submission deadline: November 15, 2010 Preliminary notification of acceptance: April 15, 2011 Camera-ready manuscript due: May 15, 2011

Submission Guidelines Articles will be submitted online through the EES system (URL will be released as soon as it is setup). Detailed submission and format guidelines are available on JOCS website at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/721195/authorin.... Each article should not exceed more than 15 pages. Please select “Special Issue: SOCOMS” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.

Contact Information Website: http://ualr.edu/nxagarwal/SOCOMS/ Email: nxagarwal@ualr.edu (Please mention "SOCOMS" in the subject line)