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Thursday, 15th February 2007

Call For Papers: Special Issue of IEEE Internet Computing To Focus on Social Seach

Call For Papers: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Social Search (November/December 2007)

GUEST EDITORS
Junghoo Cho, UCLA (cho@cs.ucla.edu)
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research (atomkins@yahoo-inc.com)

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 15 March 2007
Preliminary notification of acceptance: 22 June 2007
Final manuscript due: 7 July 2007

DESCRIPTION
The last few years have witnessed the rapid rise of "social media" websites such as flickr, del.icio.us, youtube, myspace and facebook. These sites contain user-generated content of various forms, ranging from plain text to rich multimedia. They commonly provide capabilities for users to place tags, recommendations, and comments onto user-generated content, and to form tightly-knit user communities based shared interests. In addition, visitors to such sites may not arrive with a particular goal in mind, but may simply want to "get an update" or "be entertained" during their spare time; these visitors typically seek not just the content itself, but also an understanding of the individual who posted it.

These types of websites introduce a range of new challenges and opportunities in search. The rich "meta data" provided by users (such as tags, recommendations and comments) help identify the high-quality content from the vast amount of noise, but they can potentially be more susceptible to user manipulation. Additionally, properties of the author of the content may be employed in ranking the content, along with properties of the searcher's relationship to the author.

This issue of IC will examine search and analysis of social media content. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit articles in the broad arena of "social search." Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
* Ranking of user-generated content
* Graph analysis of social corpora
* Recommendation of social content
* Personalization of social search
* Fusion of social content with other sources
* Analysis and mining of social corpora

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please send a brief description of the article you plan to submit by 1 March 2007 to the following email address:
SocialSearchIssue@yahoo.com. Then upload your submission by 15 March 2007 to the url below.

All submissions must be original manuscripts of 5,000 words or less focused on Internet Technologies and implementations. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IC's international readership. We do not accept white papers, and we discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers.

To submit a manuscript, please log on to Manuscript Central (http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com) to create or access an account.

Source: IEEE (via SIGIR email)

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