[Tccc] CFP: HotSocial 2012

Xiaoming Fu fu
Fri Mar 30 20:43:07 EDT 2012


Dear colleagues,

Below please find a Cfp for Workshop on Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary 
Social Networks Research (HotSocial'12) at KDD'12. We appreciate if you 
could kindly forward to your colleagues and students for possible 
submission and participation.

Thanks and best regards,
Xiaoming

*HotSocial 2012* 
<http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/%7Efu/hotsocial/>


    First ACM International Workshop on
    Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research

August 12, 2012, Beijing, China (in conjunction with ACM KDD 2012 
<http://kdd.org/kdd2012/>, August 12-16, 2012)
http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu/hotsocial/


  Call for Papers

With the blessing of information technology, we are living in an 
increasingly networked world. People, information and other entities are 
connected via World Wide Web, email networks, instant messaging 
networks, mobile communication networks, online social networks, etc. 
These online networks grow fast and possess huge amount of recorded 
information, which presents great opportunities in understanding the 
science of these networks, and in developing new applications from these 
networks and for these networks. The increasingly networked society 
fundermentally has changed our way of thinking, individual behaviors and 
social activities. It is forseeable that the public health relating to 
epidemic diseases is greatly impacted by this emerging nennectivity as 
they are by nature mediated by direct or indirect human interactions and 
mobility. However, new challenges have to be met -- the networks are 
huge and information is noisy, and they demand new methodologies in 
accessing and analyzing these networks, and in developing theories and 
applications for the networks.

To meet with these challenges, researchers from a wide range of academic 
fields, including theory and algorithms, data mining and machine 
learning, computer systems and networks, statistical physics and complex 
systems, sociology, social psychology, economics and managerial science, 
etc. are all actively studying various aspects concerning social and 
information networks.

However, there seem not enough opportunities for people from these 
diverse background to directly interact with one another. The diversity 
of approaches and methodologies study various social networks have 
raised the need for an interdisciplinary effort to create the required 
expertise to address the fundamental open questions in this field. This 
workshop is intended to present such an opportunity and serve as a forum 
to bring together people from various fields to exchange their latest 
research results and to sparkle new ideas and directions in the study of 
networks. Among the fundamental open questions are:

  * How to access social networks data? Different communities have
    different means, each with pros and cons. Experience exchanges from
    different communities will be beneficial.
  * How to protect these data? Privacy and data protection techniques
    considering social and legal aspects are required.
  * How the complex systems and graph theory algorithms can be used for
    understanding social networks? Interdisciplinary collaboration are
    necessary.
  * Can social network features be exploited for a better computing and
    social network system design?
  * How do online social networks play a role in real-life (offline)
    community forming and evolution?
  * How does the human mobility and human interaction influence human
    behaviors and thus public health? How can we develop methodologies
    to investigate the public health and their correlates in the context
    of the social networks?


  Topics of Interest:

Main topics of this workshop include (but are not limited to) the 
following:

  * methods for accessing social networks (e.g., sensor nets, mobile
    apps, crawlers) and bias correction for use in different communities
    (e.g., sociology, behavior studies, epidemiology)
  * privacy and ethic issues of data collection and management of large
    social graphs, leveraging social network properties as well as legal
    and social constraints
  * application of data mining and machine learning in the context of
    specific social networks
  * information spread models and campaign detection
  * trust and reputation and community evolution in the online and
    offline interacted social networks, including the presence and
    evolution of social identities and social capital in OSNs
  * understanding complex systems and scale-free networksfrom an
    interdisciplinary angle
  * interdisciplinary experiences and intermediate results on social
    network research


  Submissions

Submissions must present original results. Selected papers will be 
forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and have 
impact and implications for ongoing or future research.

Submitted papers must be no more than 6 pages long, two columns; please 
strictly follow the SIGKDD template 
<http://sigkdd.org/kdd2012/author_reviewer_info.shtml>. All paper 
submission will be handled via _Easychair Submission System 
<http://www.easychair.org/>_. Papers will be reviewed single blind.

Revised versions of selected papers presented at the workshop are to be 
considered for publication in a journal's special issue.


  Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: May 9, 2012 (11:59 PM, EST)

Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2012

Camera-ready version: June 12, 2012

*HotSocial Workshop Day: Aug 12, 2012*


  Workshop TPC Co-Chairs

  * Xiaoming Fu <mailto:fu at cs.uni-goettingen.de>, University of
    Goettingen, Germany
  * Peter Gloor <http://cci.mit.edu/pgloor/>, MIT, USA
  * Jie Tang <http://keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/jietang/>, Tsinghua
    University, China


  Technical Program Committee

  * Vitaly Belik
    <http://www.mpg.de/4406928/Travelling_epidemics?filter_order=LT&research_topic=PA-KS>,
    MIT, USA and MPI-DS, Germany
  * Margarete Boos
    <http://www.psych.uni-goettingen.de/de/communication/team/mboos>, U.
    Goettingen, Germany
  * Wei Chen <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/weic/>,
    Microsoft Research Asia, China
  * Wei Ding <http://www.cs.umb.edu/%7Eding/>, UMass, Boston, USA
  * Kai Fischbach <http://www.wim.uni-koeln.de/Fischbach.html>, U.
    Bamberg, Germany
  * Pan Hui <http://www.deutsche-telekom-laboratories.de/%7Epanhui/>,
    Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
  * Benyuan Liu <http://www.cs.uml.edu/%7Ebliu/>, UMass, Lowell, USA
  * Jar-Der Luo
    <http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/Socen/2754/2010/20101224015637956554986/20101224015637956554986_.html>,
    Tsinghua U., China
  * Cecilia Mascolo <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Ecm542/>, U. Cambridge, UK
  * Yasmin Merali <http://www.wbs.ac.uk/faculty/members/yasmin/merali>,
    U. Warwick, UK
  * Alessandra Sala <http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/%7Ealessandra/>, Bell Labs,
    Ireland
  * Christian Stegbauer <http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Echris/>, U.
    Frankfurt, Germany
  * Allen Zhiwei Wu
    <http://202.119.52.198:8080/personnelDetail.aspx?id=50>, Nanjing U.,
    China
  * Xifeng Yan <http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/%7Exyan/>, UCSB, USA
  * Ben Zhao <http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/%7Eravenben>, UCSB, USA
  * Zhi-Hua Zhou <http://cs.nju.edu.cn/zhouzh/>, Nanjing U., China


  Website

http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu/hotsocial/ 
<http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/%7Efu/hotsocial>

-- 
Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fuhttp://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu
Computer Networks Grouphttp://www.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/
Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics&  Computer Science
University of Goettingen   E-Mail:fu at cs.uni-goettingen.de
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