[AISWorld] CfP: Social Media Analytics Methods, Tools and Platforms - 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting

[tcu at neiu.edu]

Dear Colleagues,

 

I would like to invite you to present your work in the invited session -
Social Media Analytics Methods, Tools and Platforms - at the 2020 INFORMS
Annual Meeting. The deadline for me to enter presenters into this invited
session is June 01st and the deadline for submitting your abstract is June
15th. If you are interested in contributing to the session, I encourage you
to respond to this email, tcu at neiu.edu, at your earliest time.

 

The 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting is a unique opportunity to connect and
network with more than 7,000 INFORMS members, students, prospective
employers and employees, and academic and industry experts who compose the
INFORMS community. I look forward to seeing you and, additionally,
celebrating 25 years of INFORMS with you at the Gaylord National Resort &
Convention Center in National Harbor, MD, November 8-11, 2020! Please see
the attachment for more details.

 

DESCRIPTION

 

Social networking media (or social media) is defined as a group of
Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological
foundations of web and mobile, and that allow the creation and exchange of
user generated content. Research in social media analytics is focusing on
innovative methods and practices of measuring, analyzing and interpreting
user-generated content from a variety of online social media platforms,
websites, and blogs to uncover hidden patterns and correlations to answer a
range of questions pertaining to organizational, educational, social as well
as political issues. In this session, we solicit high-quality original
research papers, both theoretical and empirical, that address a variety of
social network analytics methods, tools and platforms in different contexts
such as business, healthcare, education, politics, security and privacy.

 

This year, the theme of the meeting lies on new developments of analytics
techniques and methods for understanding natural and social systems to drive
decision making for saving lives, saving money and

solving problems.

 

Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

*	Sources of data in social media analytics
*	Social distance and social media network
*	User sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and recommendation analysis
*	Visual methods in social network analytics
*	Data mining, text mining, process mining, and other mining methods
*	Social search, retrieval, extraction and ranking of contents
*	Social network analytics usage characteristics and applications
*	Looking back and forward in social network analytics
*	Social network analytics in big data environment
*	Communities structure discoveries such as profiling participants,
and subgroups
*	Predictive and forecasting analytics in social media domain
*	Security analytics in various platforms including Facebook, Twitter
and other online social media
*	Social network and Geo-spatial analytics, Web-based collective
intelligence
*	Emerging architecture for scalable social media analytics
*	Other issues pertaining to social media and network analytics

 

National Harbor is situated on the banks of the historic Potomac River, just
minutes from the nation's capital. The conference will be held in a bustling
area near many restaurants, bars, and shops, not far from iconic landmarks.
Join thousands of students, professionals, and academicians to explore ideas
at the forefront of theory and practice of OR/MS, data science, analytics,
artificial intelligence, and machine learning, within the context of
applications such as education, energy, healthcare, humanitarian logistics,
manufacturing, revenue management, supply chain management, sustainability,
and transportation.

 

With over 12,500 members from around the globe, INFORMS (The Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences) is the leading
international association for professionals in Operations Research,
Management Science, Information Systems and Business Analytics.

 

INFORMS promotes best practices and advances in operations research,
management science, and analytics to improve operational processes,
decision-making, and outcomes through an array of highly-cited publications
(e.g.: Operations Research, Information Systems Research, Organization
Science, Management Science), conferences, competitions, networking
communities, and professional development services.

 

On behalf of the organizing committee, I invite you to join us at the 2020
INFORMS Annual Meeting for an opportunity to learn, inform and enjoy the
culture, weather and all the amenities in such the best sunsets in the D.C.
area as National Harbor.

Thank you and stay safe and healthy,

 

 

Tung (Francis) Cu, Ph.D.
2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting Session Chair

Northeastern Illinois University

tcu at neiu.edu

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