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====== WWW2009 Workshop Proposal for Social Computing ======

  * Workshop Title: SocialComp2008
  * Workshop Website: [[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/www2009_workshop/home]]
  * [[http://www2009.org/calls/workshops.html|WWW2009 Workshop CFP]]

<box 90% round blue | **Important Dates**>
^ Workshop Paper Submission Deadline  ^  January 31, 2009  ^
^ Notification of Decision  ^  February 28, 2009  ^ 
^ Camera-ready Submission  ^  March 14, 2009  ^
^ Workshop  ^  April 21, 2009  ^
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===== Workshop Organizers =====

    - Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, [[king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk]]
    - Gui-Rong Xue, Shanghai Jiao Tong Unviersity, China, [[grxue@apex.sjtu.edu.cn]]
    - Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China, [[ljz@keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn]]

===== Workshop Contact Person =====

Irwin King\\ Department of Computer Science and Engineering\\ The Chinese University of Hong Kong\\ Shatin, NT, Hong Kong\\ Phone: +(852) 2609 8398\\ Fax: +(852) 2603 5024\\ Email: [[king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk]]\\ Website: [[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king]]

===== Workshop Abstract =====
===== Workshop Theme and Topics =====


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  * Application of Social Computing
  * Academic Social Networks
  * Large Graph Algorithms
  * Analysis and Models of Social Computing
  * Social gaming and human computation
  * Privacy and security in social networks
  * Personalization in social networks
  * Collaborative environment
  * Recommender systems
  * Social network indexing and retrieval data structures and algorithms
  * Collaborative ranking algorithms
  * Classification and clustering of social networks
  * Evolution of social networks
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===== Targeted Audience =====

Targeted audience: researchers and professionals in the areas of data and Web mining, information retrieval, semantic Web and database.

Due to the popularity of social computing and related topic in recent conferences and workshops, we are expecting a large turn out.

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===== Past Workshops =====

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==== Program Committee ====

==== Participation and Selection Process ====

==== Workshop Proceedings ====

===== Organizers’ Background =====