Joint Special Track of the 7^th International Conference on

Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing 2010

October, 2010, Xi’an, China

TRACK: Pervasive Social Computing

Introduction:

Social computing concerns the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It is related to any sort of social behavior in or through computational systems and handles computations that are carried out by groups of people. Social computing is now becoming an increasingly important issue in ubiquitous computing and intelligent systems and applications. It has been broadly drawn a lot of research interest from the fields of computer and information science and social science. Particularly, the social computing plays a critical role in pervasive environments with numerous mobile users. This track aims at providing a forum on social computing in pervasive contexts. Submitted papers are expected to present theories, methodologies, applications, user studies, practical experiences and surveys in the above area.

Topics:

The topics of interest will include, but are not limited to:

• Social networking
• Social behavior study in pervasive environments
• Trust behavior study in pervasive environments
• Social behavior modeling and evaluation
• Trust behavior modeling and evaluation
• Social trust modeling and inference
• Social information analysis and mining
• Social and trust aspects in recommendation systems
• Trusted computing in pervasive systems
• Human Computer Interaction for social purpose
• Privacy and security in social computing
• Social system/application design and development
• Social signal processing and context-aware computing
• Web 2.0

Steering/Advisory Chair:

Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Chair:

Zheng Yan, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

Program Committee:

Piotr Cofta, British Telecom, UK

Ioanna Dionysiou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Silke Holtmanns, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg , Luxembourg

Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Murtuza Jadliwala, EPFL, Switzerland

Mehmet Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia

Marinella Petrocchi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR, Italy

Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan

Junzhao Sun, University of Oulu, Finland

Andrew G. West, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Mei Yu, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway/Tianjin University, Norway/China

Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland

Paper Submission:

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the international Program Committee. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise the paper will not be included in the conference proceedings of UIC 2010. Selected papers, after extension and further reviews, will be published in the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (IJPCC) (http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijpcc).

Full papers can be up to 15 pages in the LNCS format.

All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EasyChair conference management system. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psc2010

The authors need to provide the paper title, abstract, and the full paper in the PDF format. (Note that the special track paper submission page is different from the UIC2010 or ATC2010 submission page!)

Important Dates: 

Contacts:

 Zheng Yan (zheng.z.yan@nokia.com); Yan Wang (yanwang@science.mq.edu.au)