Deadline Extension - 6th International Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNAKDD 2012)

The 6th International Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNAKDD 2012)

SNAKDD 2012 (http://www.snakdd.com)

August 12, 2012, Beijing, China

Co-held with the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2012)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Important Dates:
- (Extended) May 16 , 2012: Electronic submission of full papers
- June 8, 2012: Author notification
- June 15, 2012: Submission of Camera-ready papers and Proceedings Due
- August 12, 2012: Workshop

Description:
The sixth SNA-KDD workshop is proposed as the sixth in a successful series
of workshops on social network mining and analysis co-held with KDD,
soliciting experimental and theoretical work on social network mining and
analysis in both online and offline social network systems.

In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly, thanks
to the prevalence of the online social websites and instant messaging
systems as well as the availability of a variety of large-scale offline
social network systems. These social network systems are usually
characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying
contextual information. Researchers are increasingly interested in
addressing a wide range of challenges residing in these disparate social
network systems, including identifying common static topological properties
and dynamic properties during the formation and evolution of these social
networks, and how contextual information can help in analyzing the
pertaining social networks. These issues have important implications on
community discovery, anomaly detection, trend prediction and can enhance
applications in multiple domains such as information retrieval,
recommendation systems, security and so on.

The past SNA-KDD workshops have achieved significant attentions from the
world-wide researchers working in different aspects of social network
analysis, including knowledge discovery and data mining in social network,
social network modeling, multi-agent based social network simulation,
complex generic network analysis and other related studies that can bring
inspirations or be directly applied to social network analysis. Each year we
received more than 30 submissions. The average acceptance rate is around
1/3.



Keynote Speech:
Prof. Christos Faloutsos from CMU and Dr. Weiying Ma from MSRA will give
public talks in SNAKDD 2012. These talks will stress the interdisciplinary
challenges of the social network analysis and mining.



Conjunction with ACM TIST Transaction Special Issue:
We have linked SNA-KDD 2012 with a special issue on social network analysis
and mining in ACM TIST Transaction. The same team that organizes SNA-KDD
2012 workshop also servers as the guest editors of the special issue. We
will invite several best papers from SNA-KDD 2012 to the special issue
immediately after the workshop. The accepted papers of the special issue are
scheduled to publish in ACM TIST Transaction on one of its 2013 issues.



Topics of Interest:
The sixth SNA-KDD 2012 aims to bring together practitioners and researchers
with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated
with the traditional Web, the social Web, and other forms of social
networking systems. Both theoretical and experimental submissions are
encouraged. The interesting topics include (1) data mining advances on the
discovery and analysis of communities, on personalization for solitary
activities (like search) and social activities (like discovery of potential
friends), on the analysis of user behavior in open fora (like conventional
sites, blogs and fora) and in commercial platforms (like e-auctions) and on
the associated security and privacy-preservation challenges; (2) social
network modeling, scalable, customizable social network infrastructure
construction, dynamic growth and evolution patterns identification and
discovery using machine learning approaches or multi-agent based simulation.

Papers should elaborate on data mining methods, issues associated to data
preparation and pattern interpretation, both for conventional data (usage
logs, query logs, document collections) and for multimedia data (pictures
and their annotations, multi-channel usage data). Topics of interest include
but are not limited to:
- Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online and offline
social networks;
- Personalization for search and for social interaction;
- Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and
establishment of social relations;
- Data protection inside communities;
- Misbehavior detection in communities;
- Web mining algorithms for clickstreams, documents and search streams;
- Preparing data for web mining;
- Pattern presentation for end-users and experts;
- Evolution of patterns in the Web;
- Evolution of communities in the Web;
- Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks, trend prediction;
- Contextual social network analysis;
- Temporal analysis on social networks topologies;
- Search algorithms on social networks;
- Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis;
- Application of social network analysis;
- Anomaly detection in social network evolution;
- Role identification and relation analysis in social network;
- Collective social network integration and analysis.

Specifically, in SNA-KDD 2012 we encourage paper submissions in the
following three sub-domains of social networks for the interests of the
special issue of ACM TIST Transaction (note that the interests of this
special issue are only encouraged but not limited to the below topics):
- Mobile social networks
- Social network analysis and mining for life science (health) applications
- Crowdsourcing in social networks



Submission Instructions:
Submissions should present original results and substantial new work. This
workshop accepts both full papers (up to 9 pages) and short papers (up to 4
pages). Papers must follow Author Instructions: Research Track of KDD 2012
(http://sigkdd.org/kdd2012/author_instructions.shtml). Submission must be
made at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snakdd2012



Workshop Chairs:
- Qi He, Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, US
- Juanzi Li, Professor, Tsinghua University, China
- Rong Yan, Research Scientist, Facebook, US
- John Yen, University Professor, Pennsylvania State University, US
- Haizheng Zhang, Founder, CEO at StarMerx LLC, US


Program Committee:
- Amr Ahmed Yahoo! Research
- Kuiyu Chang Nanyang Technological University
- Ed Chi Google
- Ananth Grama Purdue University
- Ralf Herbrich Microsoft Research
- Ruoming Jin Kent State University
- Yanyan Lan Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ee-Peng Lim Singapore Management University
- Huan Liu Arizona State University
- Xingjie Liu Pennsylvania State University
- Yan Liu University of Southern California
- Dunja Mladenic J. Stefan Institute Slovenia
- Baojun Qiu eBay
- Shengli Victor Sheng University of Central Arkansas
- Ambuj Singh University of California at Santa Barbara
- Karsten Steinhaeuser University of Minnesota
- Hanghang Tong IBM T.J. Watson Research
- Ankur Tredesai University of Washington
- Jianshu Weng HP Labs
- Xifeng Yan University of California at Santa Barbara
- Kai Yu NEC Labs
- Philip Yu University of Illinois, Chicago



For inquiries please send e-mail to Qi He (heq@us.ibm.com).