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Workshop Description
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The sixth SNA-KDD workshop is proposed as the sixth in a successful series of workshops on social network mining and analysis co-held with KDD, soliciting experimental and theoretical work on social network mining and analysis in both online and offline social network systems.
In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly, thanks to the prevalence of the online social websites and instant messaging systems as well as the availability of a variety of large-scale offline social network systems. These social network systems are usually characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual information. Researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide range of challenges residing in these disparate social network systems, including identifying common static topological properties and dynamic properties during the formation and evolution of these social networks, and how contextual information can help in analyzing the pertaining social networks. These issues have important implications on community discovery, anomaly detection, trend prediction and can enhance applications in multiple domains such as information retrieval, recommendation systems, security and so on. The past SNA-KDD workshops have achieved significant attentions from the world-wide researchers working in different aspects of social network analysis, including knowledge discovery and data mining in social network, social network modeling, multi-agent based social network simulation, complex generic network analysis and other related studies that can bring inspirations or be directly applied to social network analysis. Each year we received more than 30 submissions. The average acceptance rate is around 1/3.
Keynote Speech: Prof. Christos Faloutsos from CMU and Dr. Weiying Ma from MSRA will give a public talk in SNAKDD 2012. These talks will stress the interdisciplinary challenges of the social network analysis and mining.
Conjunction with ACM TIST Transaction Special Issue: We have linked SNA-KDD 2012 with a special issue on social network analysis and mining in ACM TIST Transaction. The same team that organizes SNA-KDD 2012 workshop also servers as the guest editors of the special issue. We will invite several best papers from SNA-KDD 2012 to the special issue immediately after the workshop. The accepted papers of the special issue are scheduled to publish in ACM TIST Transaction on one of its 2013 issues.
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Topics of Interest: The sixth SNA-KDD 2012 aims to bring together practitioners and researchers with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with the traditional Web, the social Web, and other forms of social networking systems. Both theoretical and experimental submissions are encouraged. The interesting topics include (1) data mining advances on the discovery and analysis of communities, on personalization for solitary activities (like search) and social activities (like discovery of potential friends), on the analysis of user behavior in open fora (like conventional sites, blogs and fora) and in commercial platforms (like e-auctions) and on the associated security and privacy-preservation challenges; (2) social network modeling, scalable, customizable social network infrastructure construction, dynamic growth and evolution patterns identification and discovery using machine learning approaches or multi-agent based simulation. Papers should elaborate on data mining methods, issues associated to data preparation and pattern interpretation, both for conventional data (usage logs, query logs, document collections) and for multimedia data (pictures and their annotations, multi-channel usage data). Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Specifically, in SNA-KDD 2012 we encourage paper submissions in the following three sub-domains of social networks for the interests of the special issue of ACM TIST Transaction (note that the interests of this special issue are only encouraged but not limited to the below topics):
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All submissions must be made electronically at the paper submission website. Papers should be no longer than 9 pages inclusive of all references and figures. Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font, approx. 1in margins). Please use the prescribed formatting guidelines of KDD (ACM Proceedings) which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original, and have not been published elsewhere. The workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM Digital Library and distributed during the workshop. |
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Note: for inquiries please send e-mail to heq@us.ibm.com
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