Call for Papers
Requirements Engineering for Social Computing
August 29, 2011
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/resc11/
Important Deadlines:
Submission: June 10, 2011 (extended)
Decision: July 5, 2011 (extended)
Camera-ready: July 26, 2011
The Web was conceptualized as a data-sharing service. It has since evolved into a platform for conducting business transactions. Today, we are witnessing it evolve again into a social platform, where autonomous actors -- humans, organizations, and their software surrogates -- engage each other in social interactions (business, personal, or otherwise).
In short, we are moving away from a data-centric model of the Web into an interaction-centric one. The evolution so far has been largely ad hoc and spontaneous. This workshop is intended to serve as venue for sharing ideas and on-going research that will facilitate a systematic investigation of the semantic foundations of social computing. Requirements Engineering (RE) offers an ideal place to start this investigation as it has traditionally emphasized the roles of actors and stakeholders, as well as the social relationships among them.
We invite pertinent contributions on
- Modeling of business and social interactions among actors
- Social relationships among actors including trust, commitments, and contracts
- Social platforms and middleware that supports interaction among actors
- Reasoning about actor requirements in social settings
- Adaptation in response to social threats and opportunities in social settings
- Social incentive mechanisms
- Requirements for awareness and identity management
- Applications of social software in areas such as ehealth, ecommerce, sociotechnical systems, virtual organizations, supply chain networks, social networks, social cloud.
We invite short contributions (maximum of four pages in the IEEE proceedings format http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) that should either state a position or report on on-going research. Contributions will be reviewed by members of the programme committee.
Participants
Invited Talk:
Munindar P. Singh (North Carolina State University)
Panel Discussion:
Annie I. Anton (North Carolina State University)
Anthony Finkelstein (University College London)
Eric S. K. Yu (University of Toronto)
Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento)
Program Committee
Raian Ali (Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre)
Simon Caton (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Florian Daniel (University of Trento)
Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien)
Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen University)
Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University)
Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento)
Emmanuel Letier (University College London)
Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open University)
Oscar Pastor Lopez (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Juan Manuel Serrano Hidalgo (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Ian Sommerville (St. Andrews University)
Carson Woo (University of British Colombia)
Organization
Steering Committee:
John Mylopoulos (Chair) (University of Trento)
Anthony Finkelstein (University College London)
Organizers:
Soo Ling Lim (University College London – s.lim@cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Fabiano Dalpiaz (University of Trento – dalpiaz@disi.unitn.it)
Amit K. Chopra (University of Trento – chopra@disi.unitn.it) |