NEW DATES: Abstract Submission deadline: May 31, 2012 Paper Submission deadline: June 4, 2012
The International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Computing (SINCOM) provides a forum on the study, design, development and evaluation of the emergent intelligence that human-computer systems demonstrate. Socially intelligent computational systems bring together people and computers, support the creation of radically new forms of collaboration, communication and intelligence and allow the generation of new, emergent behaviors. Prof. Takis Metaxas discusses the need for Research Replication in Social Computing:
A call for replicating Social Computing results as a necessary step in the maturity of the field.
The field of Social Computing is a rather new one but it is one of the more active in Computer Science in the last few years. Many new conferences have been created to host the research efforts of computer scientists, social scientists, physicists, statisticians and many other researchers and practitioners. The excitement generated by the opportunities that opened through the relatively ease of retrieving large amounts of data has led many young researchers in diving to uncover the modes of social interactions. 
"There's an immense amount of value in data about people," says Bernardo Huberman, senior fellow at HP Labs. "That data is being collected all the time. Anytime you turn on your computer, anytime you buy something."
Huberman, who directs HP Labs' Social Computing Research Group, has come up with an alternative—a marketplace for personal information—that would give individuals control of and compensation for the private tidbits they share, rather than putting it all in the hands of companies.
In a paper posted online last week, Huberman and coauthor Christina Aperjis propose something akin to a New York Stock Exchange for personal data. A trusted market operator could take a small cut of each transaction and help arrive at a realistic price for a sale. 
Dion Hinchcliffe's view on the value of Social Business and the ROI Question:
It’s a pretty simple equation at the end of the day. When businesses decide to invest in technology, they are hoping to ultimately get more value back than they put in. The time windows for such investment are generally 2 years, more or less. This was recently validated for me as I helped judge the entries for the 2012 CIO 100 Awards. I was surprised that many companies expect 100% ROI in rather short periods of time, often in just sixth month for efforts that may have taken years to implement. Whether this is generally unrealistic or actually achievable is besides the point.
Thomson Reuters announces an extension of its machine-readable news offering to include a sentiment scoring service for social media.
"The push of investors to find ways to trade on information on social media is set to take a leap forward with Thomson Reuters developing a service that analyses comments and snippets from millions of websites" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/11b0b24a-67a1-11e1-b6a1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1oQvxfEvP
Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search 10-14 September, Fira, Santorini, Greece
Based on the great success and experience of five previous SSMS editions, the 2012 Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search will be offering top level education for participants from all over the world. The summer school is aimed at PhD students, young researchers and practitioners interested in social media modeling and analysis, online social interaction analysis and relevant approaches and applications in prediction, search and visualization. Lectures include introductory and advanced courses by leading researchers from academia and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of state-of-the-art research in these multi-disciplinary topics.
Rawn Shah (Social Business Strategist, IBM) slideshared the keynote speech "Understanding Social Business Excellence" he gave today at the Enterprise 2.0 summit in Paris (http://www.e20summit.com/)
The slides are at http://slidesha.re/xiSseO
The Social Computing Symposium 2012 focuses on the changing nature of 'the public,' and is held on the campus of New York University in the Interactive Telecommunication Program space on January 12-13. 
The world is changing and needs Social Business Architects. Gone is the epoch of the passive consumer, now customers want a say.
At the same time, the quest for survival and growth is causing companies to stop looking at suppliers as someone to squeeze on price and instead as partners in innovation. And, employers are realizing that to maximize their success they need to attract and engage the best talent not just into internal talent pools, but external ones as well. 
The ACM Group 2012 conference published the Call for Papers: check out the website for info on submissions and deadlines.
A strong emphasis of GROUP conferences is to foster a discourse on collaborative technology that bridges the fields of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Information Systems (IS). Relevant issues include the design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and impact of these systems as well as examinations of relevant research methodologies.
As one of the technology industry's biggest spenders on research and development it was no surprise to find IBM showing off a range of projects that staff in its Centre for Social Business are busy working on behind the scenes. The project that most caught V3's eye was its Gamification Engine for the Enterprise product that looks to offer organisations a way to provide staff with a more engaging way to share knowledge or learn new skills. 
COLLABORATECOM 2012 Call for Papers Submission deadline: 22 June 2012 The 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and WorksharingSponsored by IEEE Computer Society (pending), Create-Net and the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 14-17, 2012(http://www.collaboratecom.org/)
This NY Times article describes I.B.M.'s social computing strategy and how it intends to glue together social media tools and analytics for the corporate market. |
Deadline extension by May 17th for the Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search, 10-14 September, Fira, Santorini, Greece
Based on the great success and experience of five previous SSMS editions, the 2012 Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search will be offering top level education for participants from all over the world.
The summer school is aimed at PhD students, young researchers and practitioners interested in social media modeling and analysis, online social interaction analysis and relevant approaches and applications in prediction, search and visualization. Lectures include introductory and advanced courses by leading researchers from academia and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of state-of-the-art research in these multi-disciplinary topics 
Spigit Launches New Crowdsourcing Platform ICON, a People-Powered Social Solution
Spigit, a company in social innovation software and services, today announced the availability of ICON, a new crowdsourcing platform that gives employees a quick way to tap their co-workers for ideas, knowledge and feedback. ICON is available at no charge to employees and businesses, requiring only a corporate email address. ICON is also available through third party integration with Yammer.
Read the news item: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Spigit-Launches-New-Crowdsourcing-Platform-ICON-a-People-Powered-Social-Solution-1650922.htm 
AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - May 1, 2012) - Dachis Group, the world's leading social software and solutions firm, today announced the publication of Social Business by Design (Jossey-Bass/Wiley Hardcover; May 2012; $29.99; ISBN: 978-1-1182-7321-0),... 
1st International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Computing (SINCOM 2012)
Part of the OnTheMove OTM Federated Conferences and Workshops 2012 (OTM'12)
Rome, Italy, 13 - 14 September 2012
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission deadline: May 18, 2012 Paper Submission deadline: May 25, 2012 
Collective Intelligence 2012: April 18-20, MIT campus, Cambridge, MA
The papers accepted for presentation to the CI 2012 conference have been announced. Coupled to the list of invited speakers, this seems a "not-to-be-missed" event.
A paper by researchers from University of California at Riverside and Yahoo! Research Barcelona presented at the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2012 examined the correlation of micro-blogging activity with stock-market events.
The paper shows that even relatively small correlations between price and micro-blogging features can be exploited to drive a stock trading strategy that outperforms baseline strategies.
The paper is at: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~vagelis/publications/wsdm2012-microblog-financial.pdf
Write-up of Day 1 of the Berlin Semantic Tech & Business Conference (#SemTechBiz)
Overview of presentations on semantic web and linked open data (and services) applications.
See http://semtechbizberlin2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm for the programme.
Transparency Life Sciences (TLS), a biopharmaceutical development company based in the US, has marked its official launch by unveiling a prototype of the crowdsourced web platform it will use to design clinical trial protocols more in tune with the needs of patients, physicians, medical experts and other stakeholders. 
A new report from the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the global community of information professionals, describes three scenarios on social business written by Andrew McAfee (who coined the term Enterprise 2.0 in a 2006 article for MIT's Sloan Management Review).
The scenarios concern: Open innovation, knowledge sharing through online Q&As, and improving collaboration between sales and marketing. 
Social business is a loaded term, and an increasingly popular one. Do you really know what it means? Do you know where the core value of a social business lies? The infographic below will help.
The IBM Institute for Business Value releases study on "Collective Intelligence: Capitilizing on the crowd"
Download it from http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/thoughtleadership/ibv-collective-intelligence.html 
W3C Social Business Community Group will focus on social business use cases and application of those use cases to standards, standards improvements, and standards gaps. Initial conversations will be based on the W3C Jam Results recommendations: |
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