[AISWorld] CFP: Information and Management special issue on social media Analytics

[Patrick Fan]

*Information and Management*

Special issue on* Social Media Analytics*

*Guest Editors*:

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   Weiguo (Patrick) Fan (Virginia Tech, USA), wfan at vt.edu
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   Xiangbin Yan (Harbin Institute of Technology, China), xbyan at hit.edu.cn

*Call for papers*

Online social platforms e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Weibo, discussion
forums have developed into a virtual world where users and firms share
content related to their real lives, works, and various facets of the real
world. The explosion of social media usage has resulted in massive user
generated contents (UGCs), including  media contents, user information and
their interactions on social networks, geo-locations, and many other
metadata. These UGCs have created numerous new research opportunities and
challenges.

Social media analytics is concerned with developing and evaluating
informatics tools and frameworks to collect, monitor, analyze, summarize,
and visualize social media data to facilitate conversations and
interactions to extract useful patterns and intelligence (Zeng et al. 2010).
Social media analytics generally involve three stage processes: capture,
understand, and present (Fan and Gordon, 2014). Recently, more and more
research efforts have been dedicated to key issues therein, such as
analytics and learning techniques for understanding social media, social
media analytics tools and systems, knowledge mining from social media, as
well as social network modeling, etc.

This special issue seeks contributions reporting novel solutions, models,
theories, or systems regarding social media analytics. Topics of interest
include but are not limited to:

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   Understanding social content and dynamics
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   Understanding firm usage of social media
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   Efficient learning algorithms for scalable social media analytics
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   Social network modeling using social media data
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   Machine learning and data mining for social media
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   User interests and behavior modeling in social media
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   Tagging, semantic annotation, object and event recognition on
   large-scale social media collections
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   Novel data processing to remove noise and extract useful signals
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   Effective search mechanism  in large-scale social media collections
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   Novel business applications and value discovery using social media
   analytics



*All submissions are required to be done via I&M online submission systems.
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Author guidelines are available from
http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-and-management/0378-7206/guide-for-authors.
Please indicate in your cover letter that this is a special issue
submission on social media analytics.  All submissions will go through an
initial screening by guest editors. Only quality submissions will go
through the review process.



*Key Dates:*


Online system open for submission:        July 1st to Sept 1st, 2014

First submission paper due:                     Sept 1st, 2014

First round decision made:                       Dec. 1st, 2014

Revised manuscript due:                         March 1st, 2015

Final decision made:                                May 1st, 2015

Final paper due:                                       July 1st, 2015





*Key references:*



*Overview of SMA*

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   D. Zeng, H. Chen, R. Lusch, & S-H Li, "Social media analytics and
   intelligence", IEEE Intelligent Systems, 25(6), 2010.
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   W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, "Unveiling the power of social media analytics",
   Communications of ACM, forthcoming, 2014. Preprint available at
   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259148570_Unveiling_the_Power_of_Social_Media_Analytics


*Applications of SMA*

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   A. S. Abrahams, J. Jiao, W. Fan, G. A. Wang, Z. Zhang, "What is buzzing
   in the blizzard of buzz: automotive component isolation in social media
   postings", *Decision Support Systems*, 55(4), 871-882, 2013.
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   G. A. Wang, J. Jiao, A. S. Abrahams, W. Fan, Z. Zhang, "ExpertRank: A
   topic-aware expert finding algorithm for online knowledge
communities", *Decision
   Support Systems*, 54(3), 1442-1451, 2013.
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   A. S. Abrahams, J. Jiao, G. A. Wang, W. Fan, "Vehicle defect discovery
   from social media", Decision Support Systems, 54(1): 87-97, 2012.

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Weiguo (Patrick) Fan, Ph.D.
L. Mahlon Harrell Fellow
Director, Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics (CBIA)

Professor of Accounting and Information Systems

Professor of Computer Science (courtesy)

Virginia Tech

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