face="Times New Roman">Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2007)

face="Times New Roman">in conjunction
with

face="Times New Roman">10th International Conference on Business Information Systems BIS 2007 lang=EN-GB>

face="Times New Roman">in
co-operation with ACM SIGMIS

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face="Times New Roman">Poznan, Poland

face="Times New Roman">April 25 - 27, 2007

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face="Times New Roman"> href="http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/" title="http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/"> lang=PL>http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl

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face="Times New Roman">Deadline for
submissions: February 18, 2007

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face="Times New Roman">The emergence
of community-based Web sites and the visible shift from the concept of “a
Web of documents” towards "a Web of people” creates a strong
need for inter-disciplinary empirical and theoretical research focused on
Web-based communities.  On one hand, this requires expertise in the IT domain,
including some knowledge of systems architectures and information extraction
technologies.  On the other hand, a multi-aspect analysis of human behaviour on
the Web is possible thanks to existing frameworks within social sciences.

face="Times New Roman">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 the topics of development and detection of Web-based
communities, social interactions within and between them as well as technology
for mining of social Web sources.

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style='font-size:12.0pt'>TOPICS OF THE WORKSHOP

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• face="Times New Roman">social
  networks analysis in weblogs, forums and comment pages
• face="Times New Roman">static
  and dynamic analysis of folksonomies
• face="Times New Roman">advances
  in social networking services
• face="Times New Roman">social
  bookmarking services paradigms and empirical analysis
• face="Times New Roman">social
  roles and leadership in Web-based communities
• face="Times New Roman">static
  and dynamic public opinion / mood analysis based on Web sources
• face="Times New Roman">products
  / places rating based on user opinions from Web sources
• face="Times New Roman">trust and
  distrust propagation in on-line communities
• face="Times New Roman">on-line
  social identity / identities and social capital
• face="Times New Roman">geographical-context-aware
  Web-based social applications
• face="Times New Roman">social
  mash-ups for existing non-social web sites / applications
• face="Times New Roman">topical
  and functional analysis of Web-based discourse
• face="Times New Roman">social
  norms, social control and deviant behaviour in Web-based communities
• face="Times New Roman">conflicts
  resolution in Web-based communities
• face="Times New Roman">social,
  evolving Web sources use in information retrieval tasks
• face="Times New Roman">dynamics
  and patterns of information propagation in social Web applications
• face="Times New Roman">viral
  marketing in Web-based communities
• face="Times New Roman">detecting
  user behaviour patterns and trends from large scale communities
• face="Times New Roman">mining of
  interaction / discourse patterns in Web-based communities
• face="Times New Roman">Web-based
  communities cohesion and stability

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style='font-size:12.0pt'>SUBMISSION

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• face="Times New Roman">Long
  papers:  max. 5000 words
• face="Times New Roman">Work-in-progress
  rep.: max. 2500 words
• face="Times New Roman">Position
  papers: max. 2500 words

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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Electronic submission system available at: href="http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/">http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl

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face="Times New Roman">The proceedings
will be published as CD-ROM with ISBN number, on-line with ISSN number or both
on CD-ROM with ISBN and on-line.

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style='font-size:12.0pt'>IMPORTANT DATES

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style='font-size:12.0pt'>February 18, 2007       submission deadline for papers

style='font-size:12.0pt'>March 20, 2007          notification about
acceptance/rejection

style='font-size:12.0pt'>April 4, 2007               submission of final papers

style='font-size:12.0pt'>April 25-27, 2007       the conference

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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Organizer:

face="Times New Roman">Poznan lang=EN-GB> University lang=EN-GB> of Economics

Department of Information Systems, http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/

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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Supporters:

• face="Times New Roman">ACM
  Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems
• face="Times New Roman">GI -
  Gesellschaft für Informatik, w:st="on">Austria, Germany,
  Switzerland
• face="Times New Roman">NTIE -
  Polish Society for Information Systems

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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Workshop organizers:

• face="Times New Roman">Dominik
  Flejter
• ProductID="Marek Kowalkiewicz" w:st="on"> face="Times New Roman">Marek
  Kowalkiewicz

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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Workshop Program Committee:

• ProductID="John Breslin" w:st="on"> lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>John Breslin lang=EN-GB>, DERI, NUI Galway,
  Ireland
• face="Times New Roman">Dominik
  Flejter, Poznań w:st="on">University of Economics, Poland
• ProductID="Marek Kowalkiewicz" w:st="on"> face="Times New Roman">Marek Kowalkiewicz,
  SAP Research Brisbane, Australia
• ProductID="Marcin Paprzycki" w:st="on"> lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Marcin Paprzycki lang=EN-US>, Warsaw w:st="on">School of Social Psychology, w:st="on">Poland
• ProductID="Maarten de Rijke" w:st="on"> lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Maarten de Rijke lang=NL>, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• ProductID="Marcin Sydow" w:st="on"> lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Marcin Sydow lang=EN-GB>, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information w:st="on">Technology, Poland

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