Call for Papers

This special session aims to focus on the application of semantic artificial intelligence based techniques in social networks and social media. We aim at gathering together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to share their insights, problems, experiences and current advancements in the field of semantic artificial intelligence in social networks and social media. We invite technical papers describing original and unpublished works of foundational, theoretical, empirical, experimental and applied semantic artificial intelligence research.


The topics of this session include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Data Processing in Social Networks
  • Social media analytic challenges
  • Information overload/bias/diffusion in social media
  • Online communities
  • Behavioural (agent based) modelling in social media
  • Reality mining in social media
  • Social media metrics
  • Collaborative filtering in social media
  • Creativity/ Open innovation and social media
  • Social Media Optimization
  • Social Commerce and E-Commerce
  • Virtual teams in social networks
  • Recommendation and Personalization in Social Networks
  • Mining Knowledge graphs in social Media
  • Online advertisements on Social Media

Submission Guidelines

  • Submissions should conform strictly to the Instructions for Authors available on the main conference website.
  • Submissions should be in English with the following page length (pages of around 400 words each):
    • Full papers (12-16 pages including references)
    • Short papers (6-8 pages including references)
  • All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
  • The references should include all published literature relevant to the paper.
  • The review process will be Single-Blind review.
  • Submissions should be either in PDF or in MS-Word, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). For details on the CCIS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions
  • Submissions should be submitted through the Editorial Management system available at Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sain2021

For any queries related to this special session, you can contact session chairs.