We are very pleased to welcome our colleagues to the 2014 Sixth International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN?14). 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 14 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 14 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 14 is Technically Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (Portugal Chapter), IEEE SMC Society ?Spain Chapter and Technically Supported by the Technical Committee of Soft Computing of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society.
CASoN 14 received papers from over 15 countries and each paper was peer reviewed by at least five program committee members and based on their recommendations, 11 papers were included in the conference proceedings. We would like to thank the CASoN 14 international program committee and the additional reviewers for providing the reviews in time. Our special thanks also go to the plenary speakers of CASoN 2014.
We look forward to seeing you in Porto, Portugal during CASoN 14.
General Chairs
Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Program Chairs
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Leonilde Varela, Leonilde Varela, Universidade do Minho, Portugal