<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">=======================================================================<br>CFP: Special Issue of International Journal of Electronic Commerce on <br>Mining Social Media<br>=======================================================================<br><br>Abstracts: 15 January 2010; Full papers: 15 April 2010<br><br><br>After the experience of organizing the 1st International Workshop on <br>Social Media, we've been organizing a special issue of the IJEC <br>(International Journal of Electronic Commerce) on Mining Social Media. <br>Now we release the CFP hoping to receive high quality papers on Mining <br>Social Media.<br><br><br>OVERVIEW<br>=========<br><br>Recently, Forrester published a report, The Future of the Social Web <br>where they sketched a timeline of the development of the Social Web, <br>dividing its evolution in 5 eras. According to that report, the first <br>era of the development of the Social Web started to explode the social <br>relationships among users. Then, in the social functionality era, <br>these social relationships resulted in the social functionality era <br>where several websites started to add social functionalities in order <br>to help users to interact with their peers. We are now in the era of <br>Social Colonization, where technologies like Facebook Connect or <br>Google Friend Connect have standardized social functionalities among <br>websites and a vast majority of websites now include several social <br>functionalities. Soon these federated identities will empower people <br>to enter the era of social context with personalized and social <br>content, and the development of tools for personalize social content <br>will aim the development of the era of social commerce.<br><br>The primary goal of the proposed special issue of International <br>Journal of Electronic Commerce is to foster research in the interplay <br>between Social Media, Data Mining and Electronic Commerce, trying to <br>reflect the actual developments on technologies that fit on the Social <br>Context era.<br><br><br>SCOPE<br>======<br><br>The International Journal of Electronic Commerce is the #1-ranked <br>journal on Electronic Commerce globally. This Special Issue will <br>provide a significant opportunity for authors to publish important <br>novel and original contributions in the area of Data Mining applied to <br>Social Media. The guest editors seek papers and proposals that address <br>various aspects of Mining Social Media, including recommender systems <br>for social media, data mining algorithms designed to explode Social <br>Networks, information management for Social Networks, etc.<br><br><br>RESEARCH QUESTIONS<br>====================<br><br>We invite scholars and professionals from a broad range of disciplines <br>to submit to this Special Issue. Papers may encompass any or all of <br>the following: foundational theoretical analyses, modelling, <br>simulation, and empirical studies. Authors may examine different <br>aspects of mining social media in any of a variety of possible <br>contexts. Special topics of interest include, but are not limited to, <br>the following:<br><br>A. Data Mining for Social Networks<br><br> Novel Algorithms<br> Association Rules<br> Mining semi-structured data<br> Classification and Ranking<br> Clustering<br> Text Mining<br> Machine Learning<br> Privacy Preserved Data Mining<br> Statistical Methods<br> Temporal and spatial data mining<br> Parallel and Distributed Data Mining<br> Interactive and Online Mining<br> Data and Knowledge Visualization<br> Multimedia mining (audio/video)<br> Ensemble Methods<br> Web Mining<br> Graph Mining<br> Link Mining<br><br>B. Information Management for Social Networks<br><br> Recommender Systems<br> Information Retrieval<br> Sentiment Analysis<br> Natural Language Processing<br> Question Answering<br> Semantic Processing<br> Graph Analysis and Complex Networks<br> Social Network Analysis<br><br>C. Possible applications<br><br> Electronic Commerce<br> E-Mail Spam Detection<br> Blog/Social Networks Spam Detection<br> Community Detection<br> Users/content recommenders<br> Trends discovery<br> Blogs/Social Networks Community Dynamics<br> User Reviews Ranking<br> Blogs/Social Networks Contributions Summarization<br> Abuse/Fraud Detection<br> User Profile Modelling<br> Event Detection and Tracking in Social Media<br> Online Advertising<br><br><br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br>======================<br><br>Manuscripts submitted to the special issue should contain original <br>material not published in nor submitted to other journals. Each <br>manuscript has to have a cover page with the author information and <br>another page with title and abstract but the author information <br>omitted. The review process is double-blind and papers which do not <br>meet publication quality standards will be rejected before the review <br>process.<br><br>Interested authors are required to submit extended abstracts of no <br>more than two pages for their planned submissions. This will give the <br>editorial team an opportunity to determine if a given submission is <br>appropriate for expedited handling and review.<br><br>Full papers should be sent via e-mail to Jose Carlos Cortizo<br><<a href="mailto:josecarlos.cortizo@wipley.com">josecarlos.cortizo@wipley.com</a>> in anonymized PDF Format, not including<br>any author names or affiliations, and should not exceed 40 pages.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>================<br><br> Abstracts DeadLine: 15 January 2010<br> Abstracts Feedback: 30 January 2010<br> Full Paper Submission: 15 April 2010<br> Revision Notification: 1 June 2010<br> Revised Manuscripts: 1 August 2010<br> Final Decision: 1 October 2010<div><br></div><div><br>
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