The coverage of this special session includes, but is not limited to, the following subjects

• Group decision making

• Consensus computing

• Collective action coordination

• Inconsistent knowledge processing

• Ontology mapping and merging

• Collaborative ontology

• Ontology development in social networks

• Semantic social networks

• Semantic and knowledge grids

• Semantic annotation of web data resources

• Group web services (service description, discovery, composition)

• Automatic metadata generation

• Semantic web inference schemes

• Reasoning in the semantic web

• Knowledge portals

• Knowledge discovery

• Information retrieval

• Advanced analysis for social networks dynamics

• Social networks and semantic communication

• Cooperative distributed problem solving