[AISWorld] Second CFP – SNAFCA’2015 – Malaga- June 22, 2015

[Sid Ali Selmane]

*** apologies for cross-postings ***

 

 

SNAFCA’2015 

Workshop on Social Network Analysis using
Formal Concept Analysis

http://www.snafca2015.sitew.org

 

 


In conjunction with ICFCA’2015, June 23-26, 2015 - Nerja (Málaga), Spain



http://www.matap.uma.es/icfca2015/   

 

IMPORTANT
DATES

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Submission of abstracts:  February
13, 2015

Submission of full papers:  February
20, 2015

Notification of acceptance:  April
17, 2015

Camera ready copies due:  May
15, 2015



Workshop:  June 22, 2015

 

 

OVERVIEW

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Social network analysis (SNA) is a
multidisciplinary research area that has attracted many researchers from
different disciplines such as Physics, Mathematics, Sociology, Biology and
Computer Science, and has been studied according to different approaches and
techniques. A social network is a dynamic structure (generally represented as a
graph) of a set of entities/actors (nodes) together with links (edges) between
them.

The explosive growth of online social media has
provided users with the opportunity to create and share digital content on a range
hardly imaginable a few years ago. Indeed, massive participation has
transformed online social networks into cores of social activity and a critical
information vehicle. This is reflected by the number of news, opinions, and
reviews that are constantly posted and discussed on these networks. The size
and diversity of user generated content create an opportunity for identifying central
and influential players, behavioral trends and user communities. 

Formal concept analysis is a branch of the
lattice theory motivated by the need for a clear formalization of the notions
of concept and conceptual hierarchy. It has been successfully used for
conceptual clustering and rule mining.

We believe that formal concept analysis (FCA)
can contribute to the analysis and mining of social networks like  affiliation and interaction networks and
possibly more complex structures using this theory and some of its extensions.
The first studies on using FCA for key player and community detection were
conducted in the eighties.


In a similar spirit as the previous SNAFCA
event (see http://snafca.free.fr), the proposed
workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and
industry to discuss about the ways the two research areas  can benefit from each other’s advances and
specially study the potential of formal concept analysis in proposing new and
efficient solutions to key topics in SNA such as central/influential actor
identification, community detection and evolution, link prediction, and network
reorganization.

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

==========================

 

The scope
of SNAFCA’2015 includes, but is not limited to the following topics:


 FCA applications in SNA
 Folksonomy construction and
     management
 Social media mining
 Community detection and
     evolution
 Link prediction and
     recommendation
 Influence and information propagation
     and maximization 
 Role computation and
     influential actor identification
 Network reorganization
 Complex network analysis.


 

It is
important to note that submissions do not have to address the interaction
between SNA and FCA.

 

SUBMISSION AND
PUBLICATION

===========================

 

All submissions to the SNAFCA’2015 workshop
must follow the author guidelines for ICFCA’2015, i.e., the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style using
the Easychair system of the workshop (see http://www.snafca2015.sitew.org).  

All the accepted workshop papers will be
printed in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 

 

Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality,
technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one
author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. 

 

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

======================

 

Rokia
Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada

Rokia.missaoui at uqo.ca

Sergei
Kuznetsov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow,
Russia

skuznetsov at yandex.ru 

Sergei
Obiedkov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow,
Russia

sobiedkov at hse.ru 

 




 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada 

Karell Bertet, Université de La Rochelle, France

Mohamed Bouguessa, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Sergei Kuznetsov, National Research University Higher School of
Economics, Russia

Léonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences,
Switzerland

Jürgen Lerner, University of Konstanz, Germany

Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO),
Canada

Amedeo Napoli, Université de Lorraine, France

Lhouari Nourine, Université Blaise Pascal, France

Sergei Obiedkov, National Research University Higher School of
Economics, Russia

Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France

Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany

Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM),
Canada

 
WebmasterSid-Ali Selmane, Laboratoire ERIC Université Lumière Lyon 2, Francesid-ali.selmane at univ-lyon2.fr

  		 	   		  
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