The deadline for the submission of papers for the International Conference on Computer Mediated Social Networking has been extended to Sunday 9 March.

This conference aims to explore issues in the context of social networking such as formation of online communities and how collaboration and cooperation can be achieved.

Applications that can benefit from models of social network structure include, social norm spreading, disease propagation, opinion dynamics, and collective knowledge construction. The network topologies play an important role in these applications. This conference will address the links between these topics. Additional topics of interest include:

• Facilitating effective structure in a Social Network environment
• Agent-based simulation for studying the dynamic behaviour in on-line societies
• Issues and solutions in modelling virtual collaborative environments
• Integration of various communication tools such as Wikis, Blogs, Discussion Boards etc.

For further information view the conference website at http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/infosci/conferences/isn2008/