[agents] INVITED SESSION ON SOCIAL NETWORKS - KES 2009

[KES 2009]

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INVITED SESSION ON SOCIAL NETWORKS - KES 2009
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13th International Conference on
Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
28, 29 and 30 September 2009 Santiago, Chile

(CFP Web Version: http://tk.cc.gakushuin.ac.jp/kes/)

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/invitedsessions.php .

The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by a  
major publisher, for example Springer. See the above web site for  
details. All papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must  
pay fees.
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 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 at tk.cc.gakushuin.ac.jp