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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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Social networks on the Web are growing rapidly and offer a fertile
ground for data mining and analysis. So many social networks
flourish in an unforeseen manner and social data are evolving from
various social streams. Such data embed human interactions and
interests and their analysis is valuable for detecting trends,
events and phenomena on today’s Web reality. Methodologies and
techniques of information retrieval, databases, preference modeling,
graph theory, etc. have been leveraged and adapted into the social
web dynamic environment but still open questions remain in terms of
introducing new methodologies which will facilitate trend detection.
The workshop addresses these issues by providing a forum for
researchers and practitioners to discuss the social data analytics
relevant topics with emphasis on the critical actors in emerging
online social networks. The workshop aims at taking up the topics of
the main WISE conference (such as Web Data Models, Web Information
Retrieval, Web Metrics and Performance, Web Mining and Web
Warehousing, Web Monitoring and Management, etc) and specializing
them on the issues relevant to trend detection. Trend detection is
vital in today’s societies, academia and industries since major
applications can rely on them (recommendations, content outsourcing,
policy making, advertising etc).<br>
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Having said that, this workshop aims at gathering researchers from
the fields of social computing, machine learning, and data mining to
think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of
understanding and capturing of trends in the social Web. We target
researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this
exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant
developments in the general area and to promote cross-fertilization
of techniques. In particular, we aim at identifying techniques that
will enable researchers to understand and predict those trends in
social networks and social media, as well as specify important
directions for the research communities. Understanding, capturing,
mining and being able to predict the trends in social media is
interesting for several areas such as marketing, security, and Web
search. The workshop will include the following topics of interest
(but not limited to...):<br>
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- Trend detection principles in social networks <br>
- Network evolution and growth mechanisms <br>
- Social Web statistical analysis for trends <br>
- Social networks computational aspects <br>
- Behavioral modeling for trends in social networks <br>
- Affective social computing and emerging trends<br>
- Mining techniques for the social trends<br>
- Semantic analysis and social networks trends<br>
- Privacy and anonymity in social networks<br>
- Social networks communities for trends discovery <br>
- Information diffusion in social networks<br>
- Prediction and trends developing in online social networks.<br>
- Collaborative Filtering in the social Web<br>
- Social networks analytics tools<br>
- Experiments and applications of trends detection in social
networks<br>
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Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All
papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program
committee. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the
author guidelines provided by Springer LNCS format and MUST NOT
exceed 14 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short/work in
progress papers. Submission must be done electronically using the
following link:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sowetrend2012">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sowetrend2012</a>.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
- Paper submission : September 17th, 2012 - <b>Extended</b><br>
- Paper notification : October 8th, 2012 - <b>Extended</b><br>
- Camera ready : October 15th, 2012 - <b>Extended</b><br>
- Workshop date: November 28-30, 2013<span
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WORKSHOP CHAIRS:<br>
- Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece <br>
- Hakim Hacid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France<br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (under construction…):<br>
- Ludovic Denoyer, University of Paris 6, France<br>
- Arne Barre, Sintef, Norway <br>
- Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politιcnica de Madrid, Spain<br>
- George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus <br>
- Helen Paik, University of New SOuth Wales, Australia<br>
- John Garofalakis, University of Patras, Greece <br>
- Shengbo Guo, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France<br>
- Grigoris Tsoumakas, Aristotle University, Greece<br>
- Julien Velcin, ERIC Lab, University of Lyon, France<br>
- Tetsuya Yoshida,Hokkaido University, Japan<br>
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Contact:<br>
If you have any question, please contact the workshop chairs:<br>
- Athena Vakali, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:avakali@csd.auth.gr">avakali@csd.auth.gr</a> <br>
- Hakim Hacid, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hakim.hacid@alcatel-lucent.com">hakim.hacid@alcatel-lucent.com</a> <br>
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