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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">*** apologies for cross-postings ***</span></div></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><font size="5">SNAFCA’2015 <o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-CA"><font size="5">Workshop on Social Network Analysis using
Formal Concept Analysis<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font size="5"><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.snafca2015.sitew.org/"><span lang="EN-CA">http://www.snafca2015.sitew.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><font size="5"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="5"><span lang="EN-CA">In conjunction </span><b><span lang="EN-CA">with </span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA">ICFCA’2015</span></b><span lang="EN-CA">, </span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><font size="5">June 23-26, 2015 - Nerja (Málaga), Spain</font><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.matap.uma.es/icfca2015/" class="c_nobdr t_prs">http://www.matap.uma.es/icfca2015/</a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: windowtext;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">IMPORTANT
DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">====================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style2"><b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background:white;mso-ansi-language:
EN-CA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Submission of abstracts:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background:
white;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"> <b>February
13, 2015</b><br>
Submission of full papers:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> <b>February
20, 2015</b><br>
Notification of acceptance:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> <b>April
17, 2015</b><br>
Camera ready copies due:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> <b>May
15, 2015</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br>
<b>Workshop:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>June 22</b>, 2015</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#2672ec"><b>OVERVIEW<span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#2672ec"><b>==========================</b></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA">We believe that formal concept analysis (FCA)
can contribute to the analysis and mining of social networks like <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> affiliation and interaction networks and
possibly more complex structures using this theory and some of its extensions</span>.
The first studies on using FCA for key player and community detection were
conducted in the eighties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA">In a similar spirit as the previous SNAFCA
event (see </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://snafca.free.fr/"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">http://snafca.free.fr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA">), t</span><span lang="EN-CA">he 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#2672ec"><b>TOPICS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#2672ec"><b>==========================</b></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">The scope
of SNAFCA’2015 includes, but is not limited to the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">FCA applications in SNA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Folksonomy construction and
management<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Social media mining<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Community detection and
evolution<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Link prediction and
recommendation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Influence and information propagation
and maximization <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Role computation and
influential actor identification<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Network reorganization<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Complex network analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">It is
important to note that submissions do not have to address the interaction
between SNA and FCA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#2672ec">SUBMISSION AND
PUBLICATION<o:p></o:p></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#2672ec">===========================</font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="paragraphstyle5" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">All submissions to the SNAFCA’2015 workshop
must follow the author guidelines for ICFCA’2015, <i>i.e.,</i> the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style using
the Easychair system of the workshop (see </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.snafca2015.sitew.org/"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">http://www.snafca2015.sitew.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">). <b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="paragraphstyle5" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">All the accepted workshop papers will be
printed in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA"><b><font color="#2672ec">WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS<o:p></o:p></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA"><b><font color="#2672ec">======================</font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA">Rokia
Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:Rokia.missaoui@uqo.ca"><span lang="EN-CA">Rokia.missaoui@uqo.ca</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Sergei
Kuznetsov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow,
Russia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:skuznetsov@yandex.ru"><span lang="EN-CA">skuznetsov@yandex.ru</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Sergei
Obiedkov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow,
Russia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:sobiedkov@hse.ru"><span lang="EN-CA">sobiedkov@hse.ru</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after:avoid;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-CA"><font color="#2672ec"><b>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></b></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span lang="EN-CA"><font color="#2672ec"><b>====================</b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span lang="EN-CA"><font color="#2672ec"><b><br></b></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Reda Alhajj</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">, University of Calgary, Canada<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="FR-CA">Karell Bertet</span></i><span lang="FR-CA">, Université de La Rochelle, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="FR-CA">Mohamed Bouguessa</span></i><span lang="FR-CA">, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Sergei Kuznetsov</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">, National Research University Higher School of
Economics, Russia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Léonard Kwuida</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">, Bern University of Applied Sciences,
Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Jürgen Lerner</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">, University of Konstanz, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="FR-CA">Rokia Missaoui</span></i><span lang="FR-CA">, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO),
Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="FR-CA">Amedeo Napoli</span></i><span lang="FR-CA">, Université de Lorraine, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="FR-CA">Lhouari Nourine</span></i><span lang="FR-CA">, Université Blaise Pascal, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Sergei Obiedkov</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">, National Research University Higher School of
Economics, Russia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Camille Roth</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Sebastian Rudolph</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">, University of Karlsruhe, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Gerd Stumme</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">, University of Kassel, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="FR-CA">Petko Valtchev</span></i><span lang="FR-CA">, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM),
Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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