CALL FOR PAPERS
Elsevier Online Social Networks and Media Journal (OSNEM)
Special issue on
OSNEM Network Properties and Dynamics
Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2018
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/online-social-networks-and-media/
Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM) are one of the most disruptive
communication platforms of the last 15 years with high socio-economic value.
Within this framework, the network properties of OSNEM can be used to capture
multiple phenomena related to OSNEM, at different logical layers, from a
technical perspective (e.g., OSNEM data management and information diffusion),
as well as a societal perspective (e.g., the OSNEM users' social structures).
Moreover, the analysis of network dynamics represents one of the biggest
challenges that emerged in recent years within the network science community.
Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on the analysis of OSNEM from the
standpoint of its network properties and dynamics at all scales, from macro- to
meso- (e.g., community) to micro (e.g., ego network) scales. It will be
particularly interesting to highlight the impact of network properties and
dynamics on emerging phenomenon, such as diffusion of information, the
acquisition of the role of influencer, trust among users, polarization of
opinions, diffusion of fake news, etc.
The Special Issue aims at engaging a multidisciplinary community. It also
welcomes submissions applying a wide range of (computer- and network-science)
techniques and tools to OSNEM for investigating the properties and roles of the
network of (online) social relationships in the various sectors of the society
(e.g., politics, economics, finance, health, entertainment).
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- OSNEM platforms, protocols and applications;
- Decentralized, mobile and location-based OSNEM;
- Dynamic Analysis of OSNEM
- Trust, reputation, privacy and security in OSNEM;
- Recommendations and advertising in OSNEM;
- Measurement, analysis and modeling of popular OSNEM platforms (Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, etc.);
- BigData analysis of OSNEM seen as large- meso- or micro-scale
complex networked systems;
- Information extraction and search in OSNEM;
- Complex-network analysis of OSNEM;
- Measurement, analysis and modeling of social networked users' behavior
through OSNEM data;
- Analysis of the use of OSNEM in the urban context;
- Network challenges of crowdsourcing is OSNEM;
- Network challenges in multidisciplinary applications of OSNEM (economics,
medicine, society, politics, homeland security, etc.)
- OSNEM event detection;
- Evolutionary community / cluster discovery;
- Dynamic network generative models;
- Dynamic network embedding;
- Dynamics of trends, information and opinion diffusion in OSNEM
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Schedule
Manuscript submission deadline: May 15th, 2018
First notification: July 15, 2018
Submission of revised paper: September 9, 2018
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2018
Guest Editors
Remy Cazabet, Lyon University, France
Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
Giulio Rossetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Fabrizio Silvestri, Facebook, UK
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Instructions for submission
Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review
by other journals or conferences. If prior work was published in a conference,
the submitted manuscript should include a substantial extension of at least 35%
novel contributions. In this case, authors are also required to submit their
published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements
made in the journal version.
The submission website for this journal is located at https://www.evise.com/
profile/#/OSNEM/login. Please select "OSNED 2018" when you reach the "Article
Type" step in the submission process. Authors should also indicate in the cover
letter that the manuscript has been submitted for the "OSNED 2018" special issue.
For further information, please contact the guest editors at
osned2018 at iit.cnr.it
