[agents] CFP - Special Issue On Web-Based Enterprise Social Networks in IJITWE

[Zakaria Maamar]

Call for Papers
International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering  
(IJITWE)
 
Special Issue On Web-Based Enterprise Social Networks
(http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4768&v=callForPapersSpecial)
 
Submission Due Date: March 30, 2010
 
Guest Editors
Yacine Atif
Youakim Badr
Youcef Baghdadi
Hamdi Yahyaoui
Zakaria Maamar
 
Introduction
With the popularity of Web-based applications, and widespread use of  
advanced mobile devices, socializing over the Web has become an  
integral part of our daily lives. Web 2.0 technologies have further  
fueled new collaborative applications leading to a new "social"  
dimension based on which new Web content is being produced and  
disseminated. This social dimension and new Web content developments  
led to a flurry of new applications and speculations on their  
potential to revolutionize future enterprises. Given how  
enthusiastically people have embraced social networks on the Web such  
as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, new models of social networks could  
also have a room within the enterprise. Already, some enterprises have  
deployed many of them to increase collaboration and communication  
among employees. However, these dominating social-networking Web  
applications lack some tools that would make them truly efficient  
enterprise solutions. Sparked by consumer use, could social networks  
become an enterprise trend as well? Would market shares be influenced?  
Will employees adopt new practices with the infiltration of social  
networks in the enterprise? Do we need to deploy new tools/ 
infrastructure/framework? How well this form of socialization benefit  
enterprises? Could it liberate workforces from the constraints of  
traditional emails? And, could social networks become a B2B phenomenon?
 

Objective of the Special Issue
This special issue provides a forum for addressing the innovative  
opportunities, which are emerging from the confluence of Web 2.0  
developments and social network applications in enterprise contexts.  
In this special issue, we solicit visionary as well as technology and  
application papers, which address Web-based social networks  
implications on future enterprises. Particular emphasis will be given  
to papers discussing data sharing scenarios, novel technologies or  
methodologies for building and managing enterprise social networks. We  
also welcome contributions relating to particular types of  
applications as well as to cross-cutting issues. This special issue  
journal aims at catalyzing new collaborations between academia and  
business operators, focusing on next generation Web empowered  
enterprises, which incorporates new Web-based ideas of collaboration  
as well as consumers and business partners Web empowerment.
 

Recommended Topics
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not  
limited to) the following:
 
- Web-based Social Network Design and Evolution
- Modeling social networks on the Web
- Web Architectures of social network
- Evolution and growth mechanisms of Web based social networks
- Online communities
- Information diffusion in social networks
- Recommendation models in Web-based the social network
- Web-based Social networking for enterprises
- Social network of agents, services, or resources on the Web
- Intelligence Emergence from Social Network
- Web based collaboration
- Web-based 3D environments (Second Life)
- Social Security and Trust
- Trustworthy social networks
- Security and privacy of social networks
- Anomaly detection in social network evolution
- Data protection in Web communities
- Modeling trust and reputation in Web ñbased social networks
- Misbehavior detection in communities
- Access control policies
- Intellectual property in Web 2.0
- Network geography
- Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
- Web-based Social geography
- International Collaborations in e-Social networks
- Data and workflow provenance in Web 2.0
- Cloud computing
- Virtual worlds
- Evaluation
- Social networking management and monitoring
- Visualization of social networking on the Web
- Economical impact of social network discovery
- Web-enabled Social advertising
- Use of social networks for e-marketing.
- Search algorithms on social networks
- Web-based test collection
- Benchmark creation
- Measures and methodologies
- Data mining analysis of blogs
 

Submission
To view the full guidelines for submission, please visit the following  
page: http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide.asp 
 
All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
 
Dr. Yacine Atif
Guest Editor
Email: Yacine.Atif at uaeu.ac.ae