Call for Papers

Memetics is a paradigm of information dissemination in which information units organized in patterns, called memes, evolve and compete in a Darwinian-like survival game. The application of this paradigm to a computational framework, called memetics computing, opens a broad range of research fields in domains such as data mining, combinatorial optimization, information retrieval, social informatics, social network analysis, or evolutionary algorithms. In addition, memetics computing encourages the cooperation between computer science and social sciences as memes and memeplexes are being intensively studied in these domains.

The goal of the workshop is to provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the fields of memetics and social sciences to collaborate, to present, discuss and exchange their ideas, research results, case studies, and solutions. The workshop is aimed primarily at young and prospective researchers to allow them to exchange ideas, tie professional relationships, and collaborate scientifically. Also, we welcome demonstrations and in-progress research reports. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Theory of memetics computing
  • Models of memes, memeplexes, and meta-memes
  • Applications of memetics computing
  • Meme-based frameworks for practical applications
  • Tools and software engineering of memetics computing
  • Modeling meme transitions
  • Tracking meme dissemination on the Web and beyond
  • Extracting memes from multimedia resources
  • Memetics approach to data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Meme extraction from social networks
  • Social implications of memetics computing
  • Information evolution patterns
  • Information dissemination in social networks

Important dates

Paper submission
07 May 2012
Notification of acceptance
31 May 2012
Camera ready submission
15 June 2012
Author registration
15 June 2012