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</font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Special issue<b> </b>on<b> Social Media Analytics</b></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:18pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Call for papers</span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">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<span>  </span>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. </span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">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).<span>  </span>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.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">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:</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

</font><ul style="list-style-type:disc;direction:ltr"><li style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Understanding social content and dynamics</span></p>
</li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Understanding firm usage of social media</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Efficient learning algorithms for scalable social media
analytics</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Social network modeling using social media data</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Machine learning and data mining for social media</span></p>
</li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">User interests and behavior modeling in social media</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Tagging, semantic annotation, object and event recognition on
large-scale social media collections</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Novel data processing to remove noise and extract useful signals</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Effective search mechanism<span> 
</span>in large-scale social media collections</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
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media analytics</span></p></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
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<br></font></p><p style="line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Online system open for submission: <span>       </span>July 1st to Sept 1st, 2014</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">First submission paper due:<span>  
</span><span>       </span><span>           </span>Sept 1st, 2014</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">First round decision made: <span>           </span><span>           </span>Dec. 1st, 2014</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Revised manuscript due:<span>               </span><span>          </span>March 1st, 2015 </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Final decision made:<span>                       </span><span>         </span>May 1st, 2015</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Final paper due:<span>                               </span><span>        </span>July 1st, 2015</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">











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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 3.75pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Key references:</span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 3.75pt;line-height:normal"><b><i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Overview of SMA</span></i></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

</font><ul style="list-style-type:disc;direction:ltr"><li style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">D. Zeng, H. Chen, R. Lusch, & S-H Li, "Social media
analytics and intelligence", IEEE Intelligent Systems, 25(6), 2010.</span></p></li><li style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, "Unveiling the power of social media
analytics", Communications of ACM, forthcoming, 2014. Preprint available
at
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259148570_Unveiling_the_Power_of_Social_Media_Analytics">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259148570_Unveiling_the_Power_of_Social_Media_Analytics</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
</li></ul><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<b><i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Applications of SMA</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"> </span></i></b></p>
</div><ul style="list-style-type:disc;direction:ltr"><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">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", <i>Decision
Support Systems</i>, 55(4), 871-882, 2013. </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"> </span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">G. A. Wang, J. Jiao, A. S. Abrahams, W. Fan, Z. Zhang,
"ExpertRank: A topic-aware expert finding algorithm for online knowledge
communities", <i>Decision Support
Systems</i>, 54(3), 1442-1451, 2013. </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"> </span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">A. S. Abrahams, J. Jiao, G. A. Wang, W. Fan, "Vehicle
defect discovery from social media", Decision Support Systems, 54(1): 87-97,
2012. </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"> </span></p></li></ul><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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