[AISWorld] CFP: Social Media Analytics Methods, Tools and Platforms - 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting

[tcu at neiu.edu]

Dear Colleagues,

 

The 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting is a unique opportunity to connect and
network with the more than 5,000 INFORMS members, students, prospective
employers and employees, academics and industry experts via thousands of
cutting-edge presentations. Please visit the conference website below and
join us for the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN, October
16-19, 2022.

 

https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/indianapolis2022/

 

Aiming to a bigger success this year, I invite you to present your complete
or in-progress paper in the conference session - Social Media Analytics
Methods, Tools and Platforms - at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Please
kindly reply to me via this email, tcu at neiu.edu <mailto:tcu at neiu.edu> , with
your presentation title by May 02nd if you are interested in contributing to
the session. The deadline for you to submit your presentation abstract is
May 16th.

 

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

 

Home to the Indianapolis 500 - one of the world's top motorsports races -
Indianapolis will soon welcome a global community of OR/MS, analytics, and
data science professionals, students, and industry experts for unprecedented
opportunities to learn, connect, and contribute to furthering the science
and technology of decision-making.

 

In addition to thousands of presentations and numerous networking
opportunities at the meeting, attendees are encouraged to take advantage of
Indianapolis' many interesting, and at times unexpected, sights and
experiences. Navigate 30,000 square feet of culinary and artistic talents in
the community-focused market that inhabits Indianapolis' historic
Bottleworks District. Or take an unexpected trip back in time as you tour
the canals in old world gondoliers.

 

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 2022
INFORMS Annual Meeting for an opportunity to learn, inform and enjoy the
culture, weather and all the amenities in such the best Fall-season area as
Indianapolis, IN.

Best regards,

 

Tung (Francis) Cu, Ph.D.

2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting Session Chair

Northeastern Illinois University

tcu at neiu.edu <mailto:tcu at neiu.edu>