Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics"

Call for Papers

Guest Editors:

Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University, Greece
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece
Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Introduction

The objective of this Special Issue is to collect and report on recent high quality research that addresses the problem of mass digital media content generation and sharing. As social media keep extending over the Web as we know it, new innovative dynamics are formed in the sense of media content acquiring and sharing trends. Research in this area is important to combine the fields of semantics and knowledge engineering within social media platforms, mainly because of the overwhelming amount of disseminated information and different contextualization types. High quality contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are expected.

Topics of interest

include, but are not limited to the following semantic media adaptation & personalization aspects in social media:

Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic social web
Context-aware multimedia applications
Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents
Social network aggregation
Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications
User modelling and dynamic profiling
Semantic context modelling and extraction
Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries
Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis)
Intelligent personalized interfaces
Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities
Hybrid socio-semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems
Content customization and adaptation

Submission Procedure

Submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's guidelines. Manuscripts should be submitted through the online EasyChair Submission Site. After submitting a paper, please also inform guest editors by e-mail about the specific paper ID assigned by the submission system. If a submission is based on a prior ation in a workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial advance (a minimum of 50%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional applications/usage).

Important Dates

Deadline for manuscript submission: March 1st, 2013
Notification to authors: May 31st, 2013
Final accepted manuscript due: July 31st, 2013
Estimated ation date: Vol. 9, Issue 3 or 4, 2013

Accepted Papers

Semantic Characterization of Tweets Using Topic Models: A Use Case in the Entertainment Domain. Andrés García-Silva, Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, Oscar Corcho (pages 1-13)
Crowdsourced Knowledge Acquisition: Towards Hybrid-Genre Workflows. Marta Sabou, Arno Scharl, Michael Föls (pages 14-41)
"Katie's Swiss Trip": A Study of Personal Event Models for Photo Sharing. Pierre Andrews, Javier Paniagua, Silvia Torsi (pages 42-56)
Opinion Bias Detection with Social Preference Learning in Social Data. A-Rong Kwon, Kyung-Soon Lee (pages 57-76)
Discovering and Characterizing Places of Interest Using Flickr and Twitter. Steven Van Canneyt, Steven Schockaert, Bart Dhoedt (pages 77-104)
Improving Wiki Article Quality Through Crowd Coordination: A Resource Allocation Approach. Ioanna Lykourentzou, Dimitrios J. Vergados, Yannick Naudet (pages 105-125)