From: Junghoo (John) Cho [mailto:cho@cs.ucla.edu]
Subject: Call For Paper: IEEE Internet Computing - Special Issue on Social Search
Special Issue on Social Search
November/December 2007 Issue of IEEE Internet Computing
WEB SITE: http://www.computer.org/internet
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
GUEST EDITORS
Junghoo Cho, UCLA (cho@cs.ucla.edu)
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research (atomkins@yahoo-inc.com)
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.
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