We are very pleased to welcome our colleagues to the 2013 Fifth International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN’13). Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. These social network systems are usually characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual information. Recent trends also indicate the usage of complex network as a key feature for next generation usage and exploitation of the Web.
CASoN’13 is focused on the foundations of social networks as well as case studies, empirical, and other methodological works related to the computational tools for the automatic discovery of Web-based social networks. The main topics cover the design and use of various computational intelligence tools and software, simulations of social networks, representation and analysis of social networks, use of semantic networks in the design and community-based research issues such as knowledge discovery, privacy and protection, and visualization.
CASoN’13 brings together an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of intelligent methods applied to Social Networks, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
CASoN’13 is Technically Sponsored by IEEE SMC Society –Spain Chapter and Technically Supported by the Technical Committee of Soft Computing of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society.
CASoN’13 received papers from over 15 countries and each paper was peer reviewed by at least five program committee members and based on their recommendations, 14 papers were included in the conference proceedings. We would like to thank the CASoN’13 international program committee and the additional reviewers for providing the reviews in time. Our special thanks also go to the plenary speaker Prof. Manuel Graña, University of the Basque Country, Spain. .
We look forward to seeing you in Fargo, USA during CASoN’13, 12 -14 August 2013.
General Chairs
Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Technical Program Committee Chair
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada