2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008)

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2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008)

in conjunction with: 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)
Innsbruck, Austria, May 5, 6 or 7, 2008

Deadline for submissions: January 12, 2008


Topics of Interest

* Users in the social Web
* User identity/identities on the Web
* Activity patterns
* Privacy / intimacy in the social Web
* Psychological aspects of acting in the social Web
* Analysis and reduction of the socio-technical gap in social software
* Communities on the Web
* User roles, leadership and interactions
* Conflicts and their resolution
* Social norms and their enforcement
* Trust and reputation in communities
* Relations of on-line and off-line communities
* Social discourse and decision-taking on the Web
* Large-scale social Web mining and empirical studies
* Social network analysis
* Associations mining from social network
* Large-scale behaviour patterns and anomalies' mining
* Moods' / opinions' / social problems' analysis
* Experts finding on the social Web
* Mining formal semantics from social sources
* Methodologies of Web-based social macro and micro studies
* Social Web and business
* Social Web as a source of business information
* Social Web as a business communication channel
* Business models for social software and services
* Specific types of social software on the Web (bookmarking, social
networks etc.)
* Use cases and best practices
* Applications of Web-based social software
* Social software architectures
* Social software on the Semantic Web
* Strategies for bootstrapping social software systems and bypassing
the critical mass problem
* Social software in information processing and retrieval
* Social software in collaborative maintenance of content and data

Submission

* Long papers: max. 5000 words
* Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words
* Position papers: max. 2500 words
* Demo papers: max. 2500 words


Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP (template available)

Submission system is available on-line