IEEE Intelligent Systems Call for Papers Special Issue on Social Media Analytics and Intelligence

This special issue seeks  innovative contributions to SM analytics and intelligence  research.  Contributions must  show  relevance (from  an either  methodological  or domain  perspective)  to  at  least one  AI subfield;  we  strongly   encourage  multidisciplinary  research  with substantive findings  in real-world, context-rich  settings.

- Submissions due for review: May 7, 2010
- Publication: November/December 2010

Social media have grown tremendously: we now have weblogs, microblogs,
online  forums,  wiki, podcasts,  lifestreams,  social bookmarks,  Web
communities, social networking, and avartar-based virtual reality. The
term social media (SM) refers to a conversational, distributed mode of
content    generation,   dissemination,   and    communication   among
communities.   It  is  a  tremendous asset  for  understanding  social
phenomena and  has found  applications in a  wide spectrum  of problem
domains,  including business  computing,  entertainment, politics  and
public  policy, and  homeland  security.  Research  in  this area  has
focused  on social  media  analytics and  more  recently social  media
intelligence.   SM  analytics  deals  with developing  and  evaluating
informatics  tools  and   frameworks  to  collect,  monitor,  analyze,
summarize, and visualize data, usually driven by specific requirements
from a  target application. SM intelligence aims  to derive actionable
information  from  SM in  context-rich  application settings,  develop
corresponding  decision-making  or  -aiding  frameworks,  and  provide
solution frameworks for applications that can benefit from the "wisdom
of crowds" through the Web.

This special issue seeks  innovative contributions to SM analytics and
intelligence  research.  Contributions must  show  relevance (from  an
either  methodological  or domain  perspective)  to  at  least one  AI
subfield;  we  strongly   encourage  multidisciplinary  research  with
substantive findings  in real-world, context-rich  settings. The issue
will provide an  integrated, synthesized view of the  current state of
the art,  identify challenges and  opportunities for future  work, and
promote cross-cutting community-building.  Possible topics include the
following:

    * SM content spidering, crawling, indexing, and archiving
    * SM content (entity, fact, trends) identification, extraction,
          and summarization and SM discourse analysis
    * Cyber archeology and anthropology
    * Web sentiment and affect tracking and analysis
    * Social information processing; mining from both data and metadata
    * Web community social network analysis and influence modeling
    * Dynamic analysis of SM evolution and information ecosystems;
          incentives to participation
    * Studying SM as a form of social production and investigating
          related economics and societal issues
    * SM-based business intelligence, SM marketing, online brand management
    * Cyber terrorism, extremism, and activism study
    * Public health and consumer health Web surveillance
    * Online reputation and SM optimization
    * Collective intelligence-based problem solving using SM as a platform
    * SM platform and services design, development, and adoption

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure
or  table as  200 words)  and should  follow IEEE  Intelligent Systems
style    and    presentation     guidelines    (for    details,    see
http://computer.org/intelligen...). The  full call for papers
is  available  at  http://computer.org/intelligent/cfp6.   Submit  all
manuscripts online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.c....

Guest Editors:
  * Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
  * Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona & Chinese Academy of Sciences
  * Robert Lusch, University of Arizona
  * Shu-Hsing Li, National Taiwan University

Questions?
  Please contact the Guest Editors at zeng (at) email.arizona.edu.