IEEE Transactions of Computational Social Systems

Special Issue on "Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems"

 

Special Issue Editors:

Dr. Eunice E. Santos, Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair and Professor of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

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Dr. John Korah, Research Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

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Submission Deadline:

Dec. 29, 2017 (extended).

Scope of Special Issue:

Computational methods to represent, model and analyze problems using social information have come a long way in the last decade. Computational methods, such as social network analysis, have provided exciting insights into how social information can be utilized to better understand social processes, and model the evolution of social systems over time. Meanwhile, the emergence of parallel architectures, in the form of multi-core/many-core processors, and distributed platforms, have provided new approaches for large-scale modeling and simulation, and new tools for analysis. This special issue provides a platform to bring together interdisciplinary researchers from areas, including computer science, applied mathematics, social sciences, and computer engineering, to showcase innovative research in computational social systems that leverage the emerging trends in parallel and distributed processing, computational modeling, and high performance computing.

The major topic areas covered by the special issue are:

1. Large-Scale Modeling and Simulation for Social Systems.

• E.g. Social network based models, Models of social interactions/influence, Complex Adaptive System (CAS) models, Models incorporating socio-cultural factors, Agent based social modeling and simulation, Modeling with uncertain/incomplete social data, real-time social modeling, social and behavioral theories

2. Social Computing Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Platforms

• E.g. Analysis of massive social data, Algorithms for dynamic social data, Analysis methods for incomplete, uncertain social data, Social computing on new and emerging parallel/distributed architectures

3. Applications

• E.g. Emergency management (in areas such as infrastructure resilience, natural disaster management), National security, Health science, Social media analytics

 

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: Dec. 29, 2017 (extended)

First round of reviews: March 31, 2018April 30, 2018May 7, 2018

Revised papers due: April 20, 2018May 28, 2018

Final notification: May 20, 2018June 28, 2018

Final manuscript due: June 5, 2018July 13, 2018

 

Manuscript Submission:
Authors must ensure that the papers submitted to this special issue is original and is not under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Submission that are extensions of previously published work must contain significant technical novelty and significant new results. Manuscripts may be submitted via the IEEE TCSS submission portal at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcss. *IMPORTANT* In the cover letter, authors must mention the special issue so that the manuscript is routed to the guest editors. The manuscripts should follow the IEEE formatting guidelines as provided at http://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-article/use-authoring-tools-and-ieee-article-templates/ieee-article-templates/templates-for-transactions/

Contact:
For inquiries, please contact the special issue editors via email to parsocial@cs.iit.edu .