The 18th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (IEEE SocialCom 2025) is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges.

SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.

SocialCom 2025 topics include but are not limited to the following:

Track 1: Systems and Architectures
Business social software systems
Social system design and architectures
Modelling of social behaviour
Social media infrastructure and cloud computing
Web 2.0 and semantic web
Service science and service oriented interaction design
Track 2: Data and Analysis
Big socialmedia data
Social network analysis and mining
Social media analytics and intelligence
Computational models of social simulation
Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction
Cultural patterns and representation
Track 3: Applications and Management
Social computing applications and case studies
Social policy and government management
Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum
Connected e-health in social networks
Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets
Social cognition and social intelligence
Track 4: Technology and Security
Innovative HCI and touch-screen models
Fundamentals of social computing
Handheld/mobile social computing
Data mining and agent-based technology
Security,privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts