Social Informatics 4th International Conference, SocInfo 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 5-7, 2012. Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aberer, Karl (Editor), Flache, Andreas (Editor), Jager, Wander (Editor), Liu, Ling (Editor), Tang, Jie (Editor), Guéret, Christophe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7710
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Data mining.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computer Communication Networks.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
• Physical Description: XIV, 560 p. 162 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642353864
• ISSN: 0302-9743 ;

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2012, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in December 2012. The 21 full papers, 18 short papers  included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: social choice mechanisms in the e-society,computational models of social phenomena, social simulation, web mining and its social interpretations, algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies, socio-economic systems and applications, trust, privacy, risk and security in social contexts.