2^nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008)

in conjunction with
11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)

Innsbruck, Austria
May 6, 2008

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Deadline for submissions: February 3, 2008

In recent years, the Web has moved from a simple one-way communication channel extending traditional media, to a complex "peer-to-peer" communication space with a blurred author/audience distinction and new ways to create, share and use knowledge in a social way.
This change of paradigm is currently profoundly transforming most areas of our life: our interactions with other people, our relationships, ways of gathering information, ways of developing social norms, opinions, attitudes and even legal aspects as well as ways of working and doing business.
It also raises a strong need for theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to how people may interact on the Web, how they actually do so and what new possibilities and challenges are emerging in the social, business and technology dimensions.

The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web. We want to facilitate discussion on topics including theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to:

Topics

Users in the social Web
- User identity/identities on the Web
- Activity patterns
- Privacy / intimacy in the social Web
- Psychological aspects of acting in the social Web
- Analysis and reduction of the socio-technical gap in social software
Communities on the Web
- User roles, leadership and interactions
- Conflicts and their resolution
- Social norms and their enforcement
- Trust and reputation in communities
- Relations of on-line and off-line communities
- Social discourse and decision-taking on the Web
Large-scale social Web mining and empirical studies
- Social network analysis
- Associations mining from social network
- Large-scale behaviour patterns and anomalies' mining
- Moods' / opinions' / social problems' analysis
- Experts finding on the social Web
- Mining formal semantics from social sources
- Methodologies of Web-based social macro and micro studies
Social Web and business
- Social Web as a source of business information
- Social Web as a business communication channel
- Business models for social software and services
- Specific types of social software on the Web (bookmarking, social networks etc.)
- Use cases and best practices
Applications of Web-based social software
- Social software architectures
- Social software on the Semantic Web
- Strategies for bootstrapping social software systems and bypassing the critical mass problem
- Social software in information processing and retrieval
- Social software in collaborative maintenance of content and data

Submission

Long papers: max. 5000 words
Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words
Position papers: max. 2500 words
Demo papers: max. 2500 words

Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0.

Submission system is available on-line at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=SAW2008.

The proceedings will be published jointly with proceedings of other BIS workshops as a book or CD with ISBN number, and on-line at CEUR WS.org workshop proceedings publication service (open content).
Extended version of selected papers submitted to the workshop will be published as special issue of International Journal on WWW/Internet (http://www.iadis.org/ijwi/, ISSN: 1645-7641).

Workshop format

All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. The workshop will consist in two parts: first (more formal) devoted to presentation and discussion of accepted papers and second (less formal) devoted to discussion of several issues related to present and future of the social Web.
Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops (including workshops on Advances in Accessing the Deep Web (ADW 2008) and on E-Learning for Business Needs).