CFP: AAAI Social Information Processing Symposium

A A A I   S p r i n g   S y m p o s i u m   o n

Social Information Processing

March 26-28, 2008
Stanford University, California, USA
http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss08symposia.php#ss06 and
http://www.isi.edu/~lerman/sss07/

The label ’social media' has been attached to a quickly growing number of
Web sites, such as blogs, wikis, Flickr, and Del.icio.us, whose  content is
primarily user-driven. In the process of using social media sites, users
are creating content and adding metadata in the form of: (1) tags: content
annotations using free-form keywords; (2) ratings: passive or active
evaluation of content; and (3) social networks: where users designate
others as friends so as to track their activities. The connections between
content, users and metadata create layers of rich interlinked data that
will revolutionize information processing. New applications will include
personalized information discovery; applications that exploit the 'wisdom
of crowds,' for example, emergent semantics and collaborative information
evaluation; deeper analysis of community structure to identify trends and
experts, and many others.

Social media facilitate new ways of interacting with information - what we
call social information processing. Social information processing allows
users to collaborate implicitly by leveraging the opinions and knowledge
generated by others. In addition to collaborative problem solving, social
information processing may lead to wholly new kinds of knowledge, that
emerge from the distributed activities of many users.

The symposium will bring together researchers from academia and industry,
who are interested in the emergent field of social information processing.
We are soliciting papers that present recent results, as well as more
speculative presentations that discuss research challenges, define new
applications, propose methodologies for evaluating and the roadmap for
achieving the vision of social computing.

Important dates
- October 5, 2007: Papers due
- November 2, 2007: Notifications of acceptances mailed out
- March 26-28, 2008: Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University