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-- The 8th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Network (CaSON'16) –
Vellore, India ( December 19 - 21, 2016)
http://www.mirlabs.org/cason16
http://www.mirlabs.net/cason16


** Important Dates **
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Special sessions/Track/workshop proposals: August 31, 2016
Acceptance of special sessions: September 05, 2016
Paper submission due: September 30, 2016
Notification of paper acceptance: October 15, 2016
Registration and Final manuscript due: October 30, 2016
Conference: December 19 - 21, 2016

About CaSON'16 :
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The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Network (CASoN) is a major international conference that brings together an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and
share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of intelligent methods applied to Social Network, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Industrial Workshop/Tutorials and conference sessions will allow individuals interested in the theory, methods, or applications of social network analysis to share ideas and explore common interests. All accepted and registered papers will be included in the conference proceedings to expected be published by Springer.


We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application, and cover a broad set of intelligent methods, with particular emphasis on Social Network computing. Methods such as (but not restricted to) :

Neural Networks and Connectionist Models
Evolutionary Algorithms
Fuzzy Logic
Knowledge Management
Multi-valued Logic
Semantic Networks
Rough Sets
Intelligent Agents
Ontologies
Reinforcement Learning

Applications on Social Networks:
Network evolution
Network evolution and growth mechanisms.
Online communities and computer networks.
Information diffusion in social networks.
Detection of communities by document analysis.
Topology of real networks.

Recommendation:
Information diffusion in social networks.
Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations.
Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the social network.
Classification models and their application in social recommender systems.

Advertisement models :
Economical impact of social network discovery.
Social advertising.
Use of social networks for marketing.

Search in network:
Web page ranking informed by social media.
Search algorithms on social networks.
Collaborative Filtering.

Security :
Anomaly detection in social network evolution.
Data protection inside communities.
Crime data mining and network analysis.
Modeling trust and reputation in social networks.
Misbehavior detection in communities.

Network geography :

Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation.
Social geography.
International Collaborations in e-Social network.

Web :
Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks.
Link Topology and Site Hierarchy.
Web mining algorithms.
Web communities.
Web-Based Cooperative Work.

Evaluation :
Test collection. Benchmark creation. Measures and methodologies.

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Submission Guidelines:
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Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.

Paper format templates:
http://www.springer.com/series/11156

Proceedings are expected to be published by the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, which is now indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP. Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress, Springerlink Proceedings will be made available during the conference. Expanded versions of selected papers will be published in special issues of internationally referred journals (indexed by SCI) and edited volumes.


CaSON’16 Submission : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cason2016


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* Organizing Committee *
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Chairs :
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, VIT University, India
Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Technical Committee ( Please refer website ) :

http://www.mirlabs.net/cason16/committees.php



For technical contact:
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Ajith Abraham
Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org