INVITED SESSION ON
SOCIAL NETWORKS

13th International Conference on
Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
28, 29 and 30 September 2009 Santiago, Chile

Session Scope

Web-based communities, social networks, virtual communities of practice, and many others have experienced a rapid growth. These technologies are providing a new way for human interaction and collaboration never seeing before. Therefore, social networks analysis area has arisen as a way to understand and enhance these communities and networks of people. This invited session on "Social Networks" focuses on the foundations of social networks as well as case studies, empirical, and other methodological works related to the computational tools for the automatic discovery of Web-based social networks. The main topics cover the design and use of various computational intelligence tools and software, simulations of social networks, representation and analysis of social networks, use of semantic networks in the design and community-based research issues such as knowledge discovery, privacy and protection, and visualization.

Generic topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks
• Intelligent visualization of social network analysis
• Intelligent social network
• Social network mining
• Social networks and social intelligence
• Web site clustering
• Link topology and site hierarchy
• Virtual and web communities
• Security, privacy and trust
• Computational analysis of social and organizational systems
• Web-based cooperative work
• Social network analysis of communities of practice
• Network evolution and growth mechanisms
• Network structure prediction
• Information diffusion in social networks
• Affiliation networks
• Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
• Effects of network structure and dynamics on knowledge transfer and sharing
• Intra- and inter-organizational networks
• Online communities and computer networks
• Computational models and agent-based simulations of networks

Instruction for Authors

Papers must correspond to the requirements detailed in the Instructions to Authors which will be placed on the Conference Web Site:

http://kes2009.kesinternational.org/submission.php .

Page format:

The paper length should not exceed 8 pages in the LNCS proceedings style. Please follow the Springer's page: Information for LNCS Authors .

Submission:

• Authors must submit a paper through the paper submission system of KES2009 Invited Sessions by selecting IS11: Social Network as the session name.

Publication

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in AI as part of the LNCS/LNAI series. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline of Papers: April 7, 2009
• Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2009
• Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2009

Organizers

Session Chair

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Rios
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile
Republica 701 - Santiago Centro - Chile

Session Co-Chair

Prof. Dr. Tetsuji Kuboyama
Computer Centre, Gakushuin University
1-5-1 Meijiro Toshima Tokyo, 171-8588, Japan

Contact

For more information, please contact the chairs: kes2009sn@tk.cc.gakushuin.ac.jp