CFP: Special Issue "Semantics of People and Culture" - IJ on Semantic Web and IS

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

**** Submission Deadline is 15 October 2006****
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                          Special Issue on
                   Semantics of People and Culture
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/publications/ijswis-culturalsemantics-cfp
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                 International Journal on Semantic
                Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)
               (ISSN 1552-6283, Idea Group Publishing)

BACKGROUND
        The preferences and social patterns of people --as they=20
        exist outside of being 'users' of overly narrow application
        domains-- constitutes a more versatile 'people semantics'--=20
        affording us deeper personalization, match-making, and=20
        search.  With over 50 million people on social networks, a=20
        mature blog culture, and the emergence of tag-based=20
        communities such as del.icio.us, last.fm and flickr, there=20
        is today an ample cultural corpus for mining and modeling=20
        the semantics of people and culture.  Semantic desiderata=20
        for modeling include aesthetic factors (psychographics,=20
        tastes, dispositions, personal attitudes), social factors=20
        (connectedness, reputation, influence), and cultural=20
        factors (ideology, collective attitudes, epidemics).

CALL FOR PAPERS
        For this IJSWIS special issue on the Semantics of People=20
        and Culture, we welcome original contributions which=20
        present new techniques, formalisms, empirical studies, and=20
        implemented applications relevant to the semantic modeling=20
        of people, cultures, and communities.  Of particular=20
        interest are papers which add new perspectives to semantic=20
        web research, including but certainly not limited to the=20
        following topics:
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        * modeling the 'implicit semantics' of people and culture
        * affective and aesthetic factors in semantic processing=09
        * community-based knowledge and preference acquisition
        * emergent semantics of culture and communities
        * analyses of blogs, social networks, and web communities=09
        * knowledge-based recommender systems
        * semantics of tags and merging of tags with ontologies
        * merging of social media with semantic web
        * social agent simulation
        * common sense reasoning for the semantic web
        * trend tracking, fashion, and forecasting
        * computational semiotics of people and culture

SUBMISSION PROCESS
        Submissions to this special issue should follow the Style=20
        and Author Guidelines for regular IJSWIS papers available=20
        at http://www.idea-group.com/ijswis
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        Electronic submissions are preferred.  We recommend that=20
        manuscripts not exceed 35 pages (including figures and=20
        references).  Potential authors are asked to notify the=20
        guest editors of their interest by email (hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
        pattie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx), as soon as possible, for initial=20
        feedback on the submission proposal.
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        Submissions will be reviewed by three established=20
        researchers selected from a panel of reviewers to be formed
        for the special issue.  We will do our best to offer a=20
        speedy editorial decision within 5 weeks of submission. =20
        Accepted papers have an opportunity for further revision=20
        and an additional round of reviewer feedback.=09
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        Information on the Journal with online submission lives=20
        at: http://www.ijswis.org.  Please submit manuscripts
        through that online system.
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IMPORTANT DATES
        Email Interest in Submitting:  As soon as possible
        Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2006
        Planned Publication: IJSWIS Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007)

Please feel free to contact the guest editors:
        Hugo Liu
        The Media Laboratory, MIT,=20
        http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo
        hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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        Pattie Maes,
        The Media Laboratory, MIT
        http://web.media.mit.edu/~pattie
        pattie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx