[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>
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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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