TOIT

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Advances in Social Computing

Social computing is computing applied to understanding, modelling, and
facilitating social interaction between people and organizations. It
promises improved decision making, richer collaborations, and enhanced
problem solving capabilities through a better understanding of human
behavior and social interaction in interpersonal, organizational, and
societal settings. Social computing is inherently interdisciplinary,
drawing from areas such as computational social science, information
processing, social informatics, distributed computing, and multiagent
systems, among others.

Despite the explosion of interest in social computing, its models and
methods fall substantially short of capturing and supporting the
richness, subtlety, and variety of social interactions. To address
this gap, we seek high-quality submissions that focus on social
interaction for an ACM TOIT special section on social computing. We
especially welcome submissions that make significant computational
advances in one or more of the following dimensions.

– Novel computational models and analyses that give insight into
social interaction and human behaviour.

– Novel software models, theories, and methodologies informed by
social interaction.

– Novel and insightful case studies in relevant application domains,
e.g., in healthcare, smart cities, disaster response, scientific
collaboration, and so on.

Guest Editors
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Amit K. Chopra
School of Computing and Communications
Lancaster University
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/chopraak

Vivek K. Singh
School of Communication and Information
Rutgers University
http://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/vsingh

Erez Shmueli
Department of Industrial Engineering
Tel-Aviv University
http://web.media.mit.edu/~shmueli

Deadlines
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Submissions: February 15, 2016
First decisions: May 15, 2016
Revisions: June 30, 2016
Final decisions: August 31, 2016
Final manuscripts: September 30, 2016
Publication date: February 15, 2017