Workshop Mining Data Semantics in Information Networks (MDS'2012) @ SIGKDD 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mining Data Semantics in Information Networks (MDS'2012) Workshop in

conjunction with SIGKDD2012 (http://www.sigkdd.org/kdd2012/)

http://arnetminer.org/MDS2012

August 12-16, 2012, Beijing, China.

News:

- Keynote: Christos Faloutsos (Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Invited Speakers:
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, USA .
Hui Xiong, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA .
Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

- Best papers with significant extension will be invited to submit to a top
journal (indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI) with impact factor>2)

This workshop aims to motivate researchers and practitioners from
multidisciplinary fields to study the problem of mining semantics in
heterogeneous information networks. The recent efforts on converting and
generating semantic data provide large knowledge base for us to analyze and
practice now. The pressing needs coming from life science for integrating
and mining data provide an excellent opportunity to showcase the values of
semantic technologies for mining information networks. Recognizing the
research challenges, it is important for KDD, one of the most influential
venues for data mining research, to play a leading role and address that.
Unlike the other workshops which focus primarily on the algorithmic aspects,
the intent of this workshop is to continue the research effort on semantic
data mining, and to encourage the academia and industrial researchers to
share their study and experience on semantic data mining algorithms, theory
and applications. The objective of t!
he workshop is to the better collaboration, idea exchange, and information
sharing, a thorough analysis and mining on data semantics. The anticipated
outcome includes a fruitful discussion about the emerging challenges in this
field, inspiration of the novel theories for mining semantic graph data, and
motivating the interesting applications. The broader anticipated outcome
includes: fostering future research directions, publishing high quality
papers, attracting new researchers to this field, and concrete solutions to
the existing problems.

The workshop will provide a forum for researchers from all over the world to
share information on their latest investigations in semantic mining and its
application particularly in academic research area and industrial sectors.
The broader context of the workshop can be related in some respects to the
areas of Web Mining, Social Networks Analysis, Semantic Web, Information
Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing. In addition to paper
presentations and depending on time limitations, we will solicit an invited
talk or a panel that will stress the interdisciplinary challenges of
Semantic Graph Mining. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Metadata integration;
* Classification and prediction in heterogeneous networks;
* Clustering and ranking methods for heterogeneous networks;
* Pattern-analysis methods;
* Link mining and link prediction;
* Semantic search over heterogeneous networks;
* Mining with user interactions;
* Semantic mining with light-weight reasoning;
* Extending LOD and Quality of LOD disambiguation, identity, provenance, integration;
* Personalized mining in hetereogeneous networks;
* Domain specific mining (e.g., Life Science and Health Care);
* Multi-scale visualization;
* Collective intelligence mining.

Important Dates

* Submission deadline: May 15th, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: June 7th, 2012
* Final papers due: June 15th, 2012

All papers submitted should have a maximum length of 8 pages and must be
prepared using the ACM camera-ready
templatehttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Authors are
required to submit their papers electronically in PDF format. The submission
website is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mds2012.

Workshop Chairs:
Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Philip Yu, University of Illinouis Chicago, USA

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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).

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