-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP for SI on Social Media Systems and Services: The International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) Datum: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:15:05 +1000 Von: Kevin Ho kevin.kai.wing.ho@gmail.com An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org Kopie (CC): Eric See-To eric.see-to@polyu.edu.hk

***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: *February 5, 2014*

SPECIAL ISSUE ON *Social Media Systems and Services* *The International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)*

Guest Editors: *Dr. Kevin K.W. Ho, University of Guam, USA Dr. Eric W.K. See-To, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong*

For all questions about this SI, please directly contact Dr. Kevin K.W. Ho (kevin.kai.wing.ho@gmail.com mailto:kevin.kai.wing.ho@gmail.com) or Dr. Eric W.K. See-To (eric.see-to@polyu.edu.hk mailto:eric.see-to@polyu.edu.hk)

Editor-in-chief: *Dr. Dickson K.W. Chiu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong*

Social media, including but not limited to Web 2.0 applications such as blogs, social network sites (e.g., Facebook and Google+), content communities (e.g., Youtube, Wikipedia), online Forums, is affecting everyone?s life. Nowadays, people are not only using these applications for communicating with their friends and love ones, but also for entertainment, information search, and sharing of opinions. At the same time, business enterprises and government agencies also use social media for engaging with their consumers and citizens, and hoping for creating business opportunities and enlisting their supports, respectively. As a result, there is an imminent need for all the stakeholders, including both private and public organizations, members of the public, academics, and practitioners to gain a better understanding on this new form of communication tool.

To investigate into the impact of social media to the society, and in particular, on the development of social media systems and services, we now call for research related various aspects of social media. We intentionally seeks scientists, engineers, educators, solution developers, policy makers, management, analysts, and others who have insight, vision, and understanding of the big challenges in the development of Social Media Systems and Services. In particular, we are interested in interdisciplinary research, which synthesizes theories and models from communication, computer science, economics, information systems, marketing, psychology, and service sciences. This special issue also aims at helping in communicating and disseminating relevant recent research across disciplines, cultures, and communities.

Topics include but not limited to:

* Principles, theories, models, challenges, legal, and social issues of social media * Psychological and personality-based studies of social media * The role of social media in business, for both small and medium enterprises and major companies, in the context of E-business and E-service * Social media research based on theories in customer relationship management and consumer behavior * Information search, collaborative filtering, and personalization in social media * New social media application development * The role of social media in politics and social activism * Law enforcement issues related to social media * The impact of social media on E-learning * The role of social media in service science * Social network analysis * Trust and reputation issues in social media * Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media

Schedule:

* Deadline for submission: February 5, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2014 * Deadline for revised paper: March 30, 2014

Submission Instructions:

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format, using APA citation styles. Please note that publications of IGI Global do not use section numbers. Manuscripts should follow the IGI guides (http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors.aspx).

The submission website is as follows: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijssoe2010

Please choose the track ?Special Issue on Social Media Systems and Services? for this special issue.

All manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. Conference and workshop papers should have at least 30% extension and / or differences from the preliminary publication.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL:

*The International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering *(IJSSOE) (http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=34268) is an official publication of Information Resources Management Association and published by IGI Global. It brings together researchers from various fields, enriches their knowledge in related disciplines, and stimulates advancements in innovative findings and practices. Targeting theoreticians, educators, developers, researchers, practitioners, and professionals, this journal covers the challenges of system theories, model driven software engineering, and ontologies for software engineering into a systematic method for engineering service oriented systems.

IJSSOE is included in the following indices:

* ACM Digital Library * Bacon?s Media Directory * Cabell?s Directories * DBLP * Google Scholar * INSPEC * JournalTOCs * MediaFinder * The Standard Periodical Directory * Ulrich?s Periodicals Directory