| Global Crime Call for papers Global Crime is a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge that presents high-calibre scholarship on serious and organized crime. Its coverage is not just on organized crime in the strict sense, but on a wide range of criminal activities, from corruption, illegal market transactions, state crime and terrorism. This focus is deliberately broad and multi-disciplinary, its first aim being to make the best scholarship available to specialists and non-specialists alike. It endorses no particular orthodoxy and draws on authors from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology and area studies. The webpage of the journal is at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17440572.asp During 2006, Federico Varese and Carlo Morselli will be co-editing a special issue on the application of social network analysis to the study of criminal groups. This issue seeks to advance applications of social network analysis in the study of crime, security, and related areas of research. We invite contributors to send both empirical and theoretical papers. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 1, 2006. We expect to receive the papers by October 1, 2006. The special issue will be published in 2007. Authors will receive 50 off-prints and a free copy of the issue. Submit abstracts to Federico Varese at Federico.varese@law.ox.ac.uk by March 1, 2006. Submit papers to Federico Varese at Federico.varese@law.ox.ac.uk by October 1, 2006. |
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Network Science Workshop and Conference Thanks to NSF funding the registration fee for both weeks
is $120 only. NSF and other funding will also provide support for about
twenty graduate students to attend both weeks. Deadlines March 31st, 2006 April 21, 2006 Organizers List of Confirmed Speakers (some
are still pending)
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| Call for papers: ESWC-2006 Workshop on Semantic Network Analysis 12 June 2006 During the past years a shift in the fundamental understanding of the aims of Computer Science, especially in AI, could be observed. While early research in AI aimed at replacing the human being with better tools, the prevalent current vision is nowadays to support him in his tasks. This shows up in the rise of research areas like communities of practice, knowledge management, web communities, and peer to peer. In particular the notion of collaborative work - and thus the need of its systematic analysis - becomes more and more important. On the other hand, techniques for analysing such structures have a long tradition within sociology. While in the beginning, researchers in that area had to spent huge efforts in collecting data, they nowadays harvest the data free from the WWW. Popular examples are citation and co-author graphs, friend of a friend etc. A new kind of user-centered applications such as blogs, folksonomies, and wikis, now known as "Web 2.0", consist of large networks of individual contributions, providing a testbed for Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques at the intersection of the semantic web and SNA areas. The semantic web provides an additional aspect to SNA on the Web as it distinguishes between different kinds of relations, allowing for more complex analysis schemes. Our aim is to bring together the semantic web community, the SNA community, and the Web 2.0 community, in order to increase collaboration and exchange of experiences. We expect especially that the semantic web community can largely benefit from the long tradition present in SNA, and to uncover new possibilities and test beds for semantic technology within the Web 2.0 community. Besides analysing social networks and cooperative structures within the (semantic) web, our second aim is to exploit the results for supporting and improving communities in their interaction. An important research topic is thus how to include network analysis tools in working environments such as knowledge management systems, peer to peer systems or knowledge portals.
The workshop aims at any researchers working on social communities on the web. It focuses especially on approaches to social network analysis that are related to the semantic web. The participants are expected to be primarily computer scientists, although submissions from sociology and Web 2.0 community application developers are also welcome. The primary goal of the workshop is to establish and enhance communication between these communities. The workshop follows the successful first SNA workshop held at ISWC 2005, and continues a series of workshops on Semantic Web Mining which have been held at ECML/PKDD data mining conferences in 2000-2003 and on Ontologies in P2P communities at ESWC 2005. We will publicise the workshop via several active and relevant mailing lists will invite the contributors and attendees of the first SNA workshop, and to the Semantic Web Mining workshops organised at the ECML/PKDD conference series.
Submissions are invited on work relating the Semantic Web with Social Network Analysis. Both theoretical as well as applciation papers are welcome. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
We invite papers that report on completed or current work related to the topic of this workshop. Submissions are to be emailed in Postscript or Adobe PDF format to Bettina Hoser (bettina.hoser@em.uni-karlsruhe.de ), no later than March 6, 2006. Papers should be formatted according to the official formatting guidelines of the ESWC'06 main conference (LNCS). Page limit is set to a maximum of 6 for short papers, and 14 for full papers.
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