Description:

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Human factors.
• Models of collaborative practices, their dynamics, and their impact on networks.
• Analysis of cultural, geographic, economic and demographic variations in behavioral patterns.
• The effects of globalization on collaboration.
• Detection of behavioral anomalies based on observed patterns, and correlations in time and space.

New communication mechanisms to induce as well as adapt to Collaborative methods.

• Mechanism design.
• Socially aware design of networked systems: from communication technologies to user interfaces.
• Incentives to elicit online participation and collaboration.
• Cultural, geographic, economic and demographic impact.

Application areas

• Reputation systems
• Security, identity, authentication
• Video
• Finding an expert
• Semantic search
• Natural language topics
• Privacy preserving models and methods.
• Information access control

RFP-2008-052: Understanding and Improving the Human Network (open call)

Observing, mining, modeling and predicting human behavior over communication networks.

• Measurement based models of human behavior.
• Data Mining and Statistical Methods to analyze large and diverse datasets.
• Models of social networks and their dynamics, and their impact on the network.
• Analysis of cultural, geographic, economic and demographic variations in behavioral patterns.
• Detection of behavioral anomalies based on observed patterns/models, and spatial/temporal correlations.

New communication mechanisms to induce and adapt to desired behavioral changes.

• Mechanism design.
• Socially aware design of networked systems: from communication technologies to user interfaces.
• Cultural, geographic, economic and demographic impact.

Towards building better networked societies

• Reputation systems and their impact on social design.
• Incentives and mechanisms to elicit online participation and collaboration.
• Building distributed virtual environments and their positive impact on society.

RFP-2007-038: Service Infrastructure (open call)

RFP-2010-067: Six Challenges in Home Network Configuration, Control and Troubleshooting

Privacy and Anonymity issues

• Privacy preserving mining algorithms.
• Protecting/Anonmyzing user identity.

RFP-2008-052: Understanding and Improving the Human Network (open call)

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