Social networking or collaborative networking is being widely deployed and exploited in the Internet. It is changing the paradigm of computing in many as-pects. On-line encyclopedia contributed by users, user-created content tagged by individuals and a variety of new applications show us a new possibility of breakthrough for quantum jump in the domain of computing. Loosely coupled social networking needs to be modeled, analyzed, and integrated for better applications. Virtuous cycle can be made by utilizing the impact of social networking to multimedia analysis, multimedia services, and on-line business. All aspects of social networking will be discussed in this conference.

Topics

Topics of interest include but not limited to:
* Advanced metrics for collaborative content searching
* Collaborative multimedia tagging systems
* Content engineering
* Content generation/manipulation for collaborative networking environment
* Content browsing, indexing and retrieval over collaborative networking
* Hybrid collaborative and machine-learning techniques for tagging
* Evolution of the social networking
* Impacts of user-created content to the journalism and broadcast
* Interoperability of social tags
* Linking social and content networks
* Multimodal and distributed media processing
* New research issues for collaborative computing for social networking
* Novel models of social networking
* Personalization and user profiling
* Reliable media adaptation
* Semantic web and its applications
* Trust, privacy, copyrights in the social networking environment