1. Call for Participation: IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Community on Social Networking
Call for Participation: IEEE Computer Society
SPECIAL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY ON SOCIAL NETWORKING
Special Technical IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities (STCs) aims to
Community Chairs provide focused knowledge on a given subject in order to foster
Christian Timmerer (Chair) technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. STCs
Klagenfurt University, Austria offer a new engagement model for IEEE Computer Society (CS) members
George K. Thiruvathukal (Co-Chair) and much broader computer practitioner world to collaborate for their
Loyola University Chicago, USA individual and mutual benefit, specifically to advance technical topics to
the benefit of the profession.
Editorial Board
Sagee Ben-Zedeff The main objectives of STCs are:
Serendip Media, Israel § Extend CS beyond traditional membership and activities.
Ian Burnett § Give new outlets for the membership to create and distribute more IP.
RMIT, Australia
§ Enrich professional activities (e.g. newsletters, sharing of best practices)
Pablo Cesar
CWI, The Netherlands § Strengthen governance through new dynamic organizational structure
Alejandro Jaimes
Yahoo Research, Spain STC Benefits to the Community:
Ramesh Jain § More flexible, dynamic, technologically current collaboration under CS (e.g., easier
University of California, Irvine, USA conference management, IP access, agile technical communities)
Ralf Klamma § Vertically integrated CS, i.e., communities, products and services.
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
§ Offer easy, lightweight startup, services-rich CS offering, vertical in nature (topic-specific
Keith Mitchell
University of Lancaster, UK publications, standards, classes, webinars, books, etc.)
Jérôme Picault § Custom-designed IP bundles, discount/free: magazines, conferences, standards,
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France essentialsets/readynotes, professional certification, webinars, etc.
Why to participate? STC on Social Networking (SN)
THE entry point for researchers in SN “A social network service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building
Communication with like-minded and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share
people through existing SN tools
interests and/or activities.” --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service
How to participate? The aim of this STC is to provide the entry point for researchers and practitioners in Social
Come and join us via: Networking, fostering communication and interaction between people in the community.
http://computer.org/stcsn
http://facebook.com/stcsn The STC on Social Networking intends to be Agora for researchers with similar interests to meet
http://twitter.com/stcsn
and gather. We are interested in (but not limited to) the following topics:
http://linkd.in/stc-sn
§ Social network services, applications, and tools
STC on Social Networking § Social computing and social search
§ Social multimedia and social communications
http://computer.org/stcsn § Mobile social networking
§ Social network analysis and visualization
§ Standardization trends and federated social Web initiatives
§ Business models
§ Societal issues (e.g., privacy and data protection)
STC Contact
Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria;
E-mail: christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at; Web: http://research.timmerer.com
IEEE CS STC Project manager: Dejan Milojicic, E-mail: dejan.milojicic@hp.com
STC on Social Networking, http://computer.org/stcsn