ACM RecSys 2013 Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web (RSWEB 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

for the 5th Workshop on

Recommender Systems and the Social Web (RSWeb 2013)

Held in conjunction with ACM RecSys'13 in Hong Kong, China

http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/homepage/rsweb2013/index.shtml

***19 July, 2013 : Paper submission***
16 August, 2013 : Author notification
6 September, 2013 : Camera-ready papers
12-16 October 2013 : ACM RecSys held

The exponential growth of the social web poses challenges and new opportunities for recommender systems. The Social Web has turned information consumers into active contributors creating massive amounts of information. Finding relevant and interesting content at the right time and in the right context is challenging for existing recommender approaches. At the same time, social systems by their definition encourage interaction between users and both online content and other users, thus generating new sources of knowledge for recommender systems. Web 2.0 users explicitly provide personal information and implicitly express preferences through their interactions with others and the system (e.g. commenting, friending, rating, etc.). These various new sources of knowledge can be leveraged to improve recommendation techniques and develop new strategies which focus on social recommendation. The Social Web provides huge opportunities for recommender technology and in turn recommender technologies can play a part in fuelling the success of the Social Web phenomenon.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researcher and practitioners to explore, discuss, and understand challenges and new opportunities for recommender systems and the Social Web.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We solicit original contributions in the following areas:

* Social network and folksonomy development: Recommending friends, tags, bookmarks, blogs, music, communities etc.
* Leveraging models of user behavior on the Social Web for recommendation
* Recommender systems mash-ups, intelligent user interfaces, rich media recommender systems
* Collaborative knowledge authoring, collective intelligence
* Topic emergence and evolution on the Social Web and their role in recommendation process
* Recommender applications involving users or groups directly in the recommendation process
* Exploiting folksonomies, social network information, user interactions, and communities in the recommendation process
* The role of context in Social Web recommendation
* Trust and reputation aware social recommendations
* Semantic Web recommender systems, use of ontologies or microformats
* Empirical evaluation of social recommender techniques, success and failure measures
* Case studies and novel fielded social recommender applications
* Economy of community-based systems: Using recommenders to encourage users to contribute and sustain participation
* Social recommender systems in the enterprise
* Recommendation for groups

We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas to the workshop topics.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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* Bamshad Mobasher,  School of Computing, DePaul University, USA
* Dietmar Jannach,  Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund, Germany
* Werner Geyer,   IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
* Jill Freyne,  CSIRO ICT Center, Australia
* Andreas Hotho,   Universität Würzburg, Germany
* Sarabjot Singh Anand,   Algorithmic Insight, India
* Ido Guy,   IBM Research, Haifa, Israel


SUBMISSIONS AND STYLE
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We solicit short and long papers as well as research demos on all aspects of recommender systems in the Social Web. Papers should be formatted according to the style guide of RecSys'13.

Long papers present original research work and can be of up to 8 pages in length. Short papers report on work in progress and can have up to 4 pages. Presenters of demo systems are asked to submit short papers describing their system.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format by using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=rsweb2013 
Paper selection will be based on a peer review process; there will be no blind review process - author names and affiliations should be included in the paper.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop.

Information about registration is provided at the RecSys 2013 Web page:
http://recsys.acm.org/2013/
Important Dates
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* 19 July, 2013 : Paper submission due
* 16 August, 2013 : Author notification
* 6 September, 2013 : Camera-ready papers due
* October, 2013 : Workshop held
Question and inquiries: rsweb2013@ls13.cs.uni-dortmund.de

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Special Issue on Identity, Privacy, and Deception in Social Networks (IEEE Internet Computing)

IEEE Internet Computing
Special Issue on Identity, Privacy, and Deception in Social Networks

Final submissions due: 1 July 2013
Publication date: March/April 2014

Please email the guest editors a brief description of the article you plan
to submit by 15 June 2013.

Social networks have quickly become the key organizing principle of
Internet communication and collaboration. Examples include connecting
friends and colleagues (such as Facebook or LinkedIn) to online social
media sites (YouTube, Flickr, and so on) to large-scale information
sharing communities (such as reddit and Yahoo! Answers) to crowd-based
funding services (Kickstarter and IndieGoGo) to Web-scale crowdsourcing
systems (Amazon Mechanical Turk or Crowdflower), and so on. Although
Internet-enabled social networks offer tremendous opportunities,
widespread interest in and growth of these systems raises new risks and
growing concerns. For instance, social network users can be bullied, their
pictures can be stolen, or their status posts can reach unwanted
audiences. Even when profiles don't list any information, social graphs
can be analyzed to infer personal information. Risks are also related to
identity management because, in these social scenarios, an individual's
online identity, which is strictly related to reputation and trust, is less and
less virtual and has more and more impact on real, offline life. A battle
now exists between individual privacy and the interests of the system at
large.

This special issue aims to bring together new research results from a
variety of backgrounds that address these common core challenges. Topics
of particular interest include

(*) methods for protecting privacy in social networks;
(*) algorithms, theories, and systems for detecting deception in social
networks;
(*) privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining;
(*) identity theft in social networks;
(*) identity management in social networks;
(*) online and social identity; and
(*) trust and reputation in social networks.

Editors' note: We encourage submissions from both academic and industrial
practitioners, especially as they pertain to open source tools or
products, but content must have technical merit, not be an advertisement.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words,
focused on Internet technologies and implementations. All manuscripts are
subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IC's
international readershipâ€"primarily practicing engineers and academics
who are looking for material that introduces new technology and broadens
familiarity with current topics. We do not accept white papers, and we
discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers. To submit a
manuscript, please log on to ScholarOne
(https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:443/ic-cs) to create or access an
account, which you can use to log on to IC's Author Center and upload your
submission.

Questions?

Contact Guest Editors Elisa Bertino, James Caverlee, and Elena Ferrari
(ic2-2014@computer.org)

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9th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (IEEE CollaborateCom 2013)

Call for Papers

CollaborateCom 2013 

The 9th IEEE International Conference on 

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

20-23 October 2013

Austin, Texas, United States

http://www.collaboratecom.org/

### Scope ###

Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have relied on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce joint products that would have been impossible to develop without the contributions of multiple collaborators. Technology has evolved from standalone tools, to open systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings, and from general purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and inter operation with application-specific components and tools.

The Ninth International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2013) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications.

### Topics ###

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems

- Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative networks, systems, and applications

- Collaboration in pervasive and cloud computing environments

- Collaboration in data-intensive scientific discovery

- Collaboration in social networks

- Big data and spatio-temporal data in collaborative environments/systems

- Collaboration in health-care environments

- Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries

- Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures

- Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services

- Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications

- Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing

- Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks & applications

- Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure

- Collaborative social networks & web-based collaboration

- Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems

- Distributed collaborative workflows

- Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems

- Energy management for collaborative networks

- Group-driven composition of systems from components

- Human-robot collaboration

- Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration

- Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications

- Models & mechanisms for real-time collaboration

- Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications

- Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications

- P2P platforms for supporting collaboration

- Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications

- Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications

- Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for collaborative networking and applications

- Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, applications, and worksharing

- Tools for collaborative decision making processes

- Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations

- Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications

- Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications

- Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems

### Paper Submission ###

We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications are solicited. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings. Submitted papers should be 10 pages in two-column IEEE proceeding format. The papers can be submitted in regular track or Industry/Application track.

### Workshops Proposals ###

Proposals for half-day or full day workshops that focus on CollaborateCom 2013 related themes are solicited. Workshop proposals should be at most five pages, including a biographical sketch of each instructor, and submitted to the Workshop Chairs. Proposals will be evaluated based on the expertise and experience of the organizers and the relevance and importance of the subject matter. Please refer to call for workshop proposals for details.

### Panels Proposals ###

Proposals for panel discussions that focus on future visions for collaborative networking, applications, and work sharing are preferred. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal of at most five pages, including biographical sketches of the proposed panelists to the Panel Chairs.

### Tutorials Proposals ###

Proposals for full and half-day tutorials are solicited. Tutorials are intended to enhance the technical program, and as such they should be relevant to collaborative computing, networking, worksharing, and applications. Potential tutorial presenters should submit a tutorial proposal of at most three pages, including: description of potential audience and background knowledge expected from the audience, if any; tutorial description; biographical sketch of presenter(s).

### Submission Instructions ###

All paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website www.CollaborateCom.org for detailed submission requirements and procedures.

### Publication ###

All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and other external indexing services (DBLP database, ZB1Math/CompuServe, IO-Port, EI, Scopus, INSPEC, ISI proceeding - pending approval).

Special Issues of CollaborateCom 2013 has been confirmed for the following journals

- International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

- Springer MONET Journal

### Important Dates ###

Workshop and tutorial proposal: March 15th, 2013

Posters and panel proposal: March 15th, 2013

Workshop CFP announced: March 29th, 2013

Abstract submission: July 19th, 2013

Full Paper submission: July 26th, 2013

Acceptance Notification: Sept. 6th, 2013

=== Program Committee ===

- Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA

- Bhuvan Bamba, Oracle, USA

- Shankar Banik, The Citadel, USA

- Claudio Bartolini, HP Laboratories, USA

- Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA

- Sanat Kumar Bista, CSIRO, Australia

- Ladislau Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA

- Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT, Australia

- David Buttler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

- Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy

- James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA

- Shiping Chen, Sybase, Inc., USA

- Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

- Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA

- Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy

- Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolonia, USA

- Hans Peter Dommel, Novalos Consulting, USA

- Vina Ermagan, Cisco Systems, USA

- Bugra Gedik, IBM Research, USA

- Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

- Lei Guo, Microsoft, USA

- Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

- Osamaal-Haj Hassan, Isra University, Pakistan

- Julian Jang, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

- James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA

- Vana Kalogeraki, AUEB, Greece

- Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

- Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, USA

- Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey

- Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

- Wenjia Li, Georgia Southern University, USA

- Xiaolin Andy Li, University of Florida, USA

- Dan Lin, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

- Alex Liu, Michigan State University, USA

- Ying Liu, KAIST, South Korea

- Jorge Lobo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

- Sanjay Madria, Missouri S & T, USA

- Fabio Maino, Cisco Systems, USA

- Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA

- Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

- Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria

- Federica Paci, University of Trento, Italy

- Suraj Pandey, IBM Research, Australia

- Patrizio Pelliccione, University of L'Aquila, Italy

- Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy

- Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA

- Sangeetha Seshadri, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

- Kewei Sha, Oklahoma City University, USA

- Mei-Ling Shyu, Miami University, USA

- Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

- Anna Squicciarini, Penn State, USA

- Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM, USA

- Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK

- Qihua Wang, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

- Ting Wang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

- Jinpeng Wei,Florida International University, USA

- Ouri Wolfson, University of illinois, USA

- Kun-Lung Wu, IBM, USA

- Yuni Xia, IUPUI, USA

- Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA

- Yi Yang, Catholic University of America, USA

- Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

- Gong Zhang, Oracle Corporation, USA

=== Organizing Committee ===

General Chairs:

- Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA

- Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Technical Program Chairs:

- Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK

- Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM Research, USA

- Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Panel Chairs:

- Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

- Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA & Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Japan

Workshop Chairs:

- Anne Hee Hiong Ngu, Texas State University, USA

- James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA

Sponsorship Chairs:

- Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

- James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Publication Chair:

- Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, USA

Industrial Chairs:

- Rafae Bhatti, Accenture, USA

Publicity Chair:

- Amirreza Masoumzadeh, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Local Arrangements Chair:

- Yijuan (Lucy) Lu, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA

Conference Coordinator:

- Erica Polini, EAI, Italy contact: erica.polini[at]eai.eu

=== Steering Committee ===

- Imrich Chlamtac (co-chair), Create-Net, Italy

- James Joshi (co-chair), University of Pittsburgh, USA

- Calton Pu. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

- Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA

- Arun Iyengar, IBM, USA

- Tao Zhang, Cisco, USA

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Deadline Extension - AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2013: The Symposium on Social Networks and Social Contagion

AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2013: 

The Symposium on Social Networks and Social Contagion

November 15-17, 2013, 

Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia

http://staff.vbi.vt.edu/swarup/snsc2013/

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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: June 7th, 2013 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance: June 21, 2013
SNSC Symposium: November 15-17, 2013

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Symposium Theme
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With the emergence of Computational Social Science as a field of collaboration between
computer scientists and social scientists, the study of social networks and processes
on these networks (social contagion) has been gaining interest. Many topics of traditional
sociological interest (such as the diffusion of innovations, emergence of norms,
identification of influencer) can now be studied using detailed computational models and
extensive simulation. The advent and popularity of online social media also allows the
creation of massive data sets which can inform models and underlying sociological theory.
The ubiquity of "smart devices" (such as smart phones) also provides opportunities to
gather extensive data on the behaviors and interactions of humans in "real space".

The goal of this symposium is to bring together a community of researchers interested
in addressing these issues and to encourage interdisciplinary approaches to these problems.
We specifically encourage participation and contributions from many communities, including
computer science, statistics, mathematics, the social, behavioral and economic sciences,
and the medical and health sciences.

Point of contact for further questions:
Samarth Swarup <swarup@vbi.vt.edu>

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Topics
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Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

Social Contagion
--the spread of ideas or beliefs
--emotion contagion
--diffusion of information
--the spread of changes in language
--diffusion of innovations
--emergence of norms
--interventions to prevent contagion
--influence maximization
--complex contagion
--virtual agents, agent-human contagion
--disease diffusion models
--diffusion of risk behaviors in networks
--diffusion of health behaviors in networks

Game Theory in Social Networks and Social Contagion
--influence maximization
--influence blocking maximization game
--other game-theoretic approaches

Network Modeling
--exponential random graph models
--stochastic actor models
--network evolution models, etc.

Network-based Inference
--label inference
--network structure inference
--contagion model inference

Human Data Elicitation
--expression of attitudes/personality from online sources (such as Twitter and Facebook)
--using social media for tracking social contagion, developing social networks, etc.
--crowdsourcing as a means to learn about humans
--Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) as "virtual laboratories" to study social contagion
--reality mining for social networks

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Submissions
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Submissions are solicited as papers of no more than 8 pages in length, in AAAI format.

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Organizing Committee
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 * Samarth Swarup, Virginia Tech
 * Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech
 * Kiran Lakkaraju, Sandia National Laboratory
 * Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
 * Cynthia Lakon, University of California, Irvine

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Program Committee 
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* Winter Mason, Stevens University of Technology 
* Cheng Wang, University of California, Irvine 
* Kayo Fujimoto, University of Texas - Health Science Center at Houston 
* Lorien Jasny, University of California, Davis 
* Mina Youssef, Virginia Tech 
* Kristian Lum, Virginia Tech 
* Travis Bauer, Sandia National Laboratory 
* Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock 
* Stephen Verzi, Sandia National Laboratory 
* Jonathan Whetzel, Sandia National Laboratory 

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Three postdoc positions in social data management @ University of Bologna, Italy

We invite applications for three post-doctoral researcher positions in social data management on project IMPACT (http://impact.cs.unibo.it), funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research. The positions are at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy (http://www.informatica.unibo.it).

All three positions are for 12+12 months (the contract can be renewed after the first year by mutual agreement). Annual gross salary will be around 23.000 Euro  (please, notice that the amount is tax free (IRPEF exempt) and includes social security). Expected starting date: September 2013 (flexible). The main goal of the IMPACT research program is to develop methodologies and algorithms to store and efficiently retrieve information from Social Network Sites and to identify relevant structural and communication patterns. The project is hosted by the University of Bologna (http://www.eng.unibo.it), one of the oldest universities in the World in a beautiful "young" city offering lots of cultural initiatives (http://www.bolognawelcome.com/en/). The research positions are linked to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (http://www.cse.unibo.it/en).

Requirements:

- PhD in Computer Science or related fields (Physics, Mathematics, Statistics).
- Experience in database systems and/or information retrieval and/or data mining.
- A good command of oral and written English (knowledge of Italian is not required).

Plus:

- Knowledge of complex/social networks.
- Experience in interdisciplinary research.

If interested and for any inquiries please contact Dr. Matteo Magnani (matteo.magnani@isti.cnr.it) asap.

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Analyzing and Improving Collaborative eScience with Social Networks (eSoN 13)

Call for Papers

Analyzing and Improving Collaborative eScience with Social Networks (eSoN 13)

October 22, Beijing, China (http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/eson2013/)

Co-Located with eScience 2013, October 22-25, Beijing, China

(http://escience2013.csp.escience.cn)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submissions Due: July 5, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: July 26, 2013
Camera Ready Versions Due: August 5, 2013
Workshop: October 22, 2013

OVERVIEW

Social networking is profoundly changing the way that people communicate
and interact on a daily basis. As eScience is inherently collaborative,
social networks can serve as a vital means for supporting information and
resource sharing, aiding discovery of connected researchers, improving
communication between globally dispersed individuals, and even measuring
scientific impact. Consequently, eScience systems are increasingly
integrating social networking concepts to improve collaboration. For
example, researcher profiles and groups exist in publication networks,
such as VIVO, Google Scholar and Mendeley, and eScience infrastructures,
such as MyExperiment, NanoHUB and GlobusOnline all utilize social
networking principles to enhance scientific collaboration. In addition to
incorporating explicit social networks, eScience infrastructures can also
leverage implicit social networks extracted from relationships expressed
in collaborative activities (e.g. publication authorship or!
citation networks).

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from a diverse range of
areas to establish a new community focused on the application of social
networking to analyze and improve scientific collaboration. There are two
complementary areas of focus for this workshop 1) how to efficiently share
information, infrastructure and software resources, such as data and tools
through social networks, and 2) how to analyze and enhance scientific
collaboration through implicit and explicit social networks, for example
analyzing scientific impact through citation networks or improving
collaboration by associating data and tools with networks of publications
and researchers.

WORKSHOP SCOPE

The topics of interest are, but not limited to, the use of social networks
to analyze and improve collaborative eScience:
· The use of social networks and social networking concepts in eScience
· Social network applications used for eScience
· Social network based resource sharing and collaboration architectures
· New forms of collaborative computing and resource sharing
· Crowdsourcing of scientific applications using social media
· Social Cloud computing
· Novel applications of digital relationships and trust
· Definition of novel principals, models and methodologies for harnessing
digital relationships
· Extraction of implicit social networks from scientific activities (e.g.
publication, citation and grants)
· Analysis of collaborative scientific activity through social networks

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit papers containing unpublished, original work
(not under review elsewhere) of up to 8 pages of double column text using
single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11
manuscript guidelines.
Templates are available from:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm
l.
Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer.
Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the
workshop's paper submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eson2013
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop
and all workshop participants must pay the eScience 2012 registration fee.
It is expected that all accepted papers will be published by the IEEE in
the same volume as the main conference. All papers will be reviewed by an
International Programme Committee (with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper).
Papers submissions should be performed using the easychair system, by the
date mentioned above.

ORGANIZERS
· Kyle Chard, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Tanu Malik, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
· Wei Tan, IBM T.J. Watson Lab, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE
· Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
· Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University, USA
· Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
· Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
· Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
· Justin Cappos, Polytechnic Institute of New York, USA
· Zhen Chen, Tsinghua University, China
· Nicolas Kourtellis, University of South Florida, USA
· Xitong Li, MIT, USA
· Xuanzhe Liu, Peking University
· Nicholas Loulloudes, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
· Iman Saleh Moustafa, University of Miami, USA
· Victoria Stodden, Columbia University, USA
· Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
· Michela Taufer, University of Deleware, USA
· Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
· Wenjun Wu, Beihang University, China
· Hui Zhang, Bejing University, China

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Workshop on Social Clouds: Cloud Computing through Social Networks

Call for Papers

Workshop on Social Clouds: 

Cloud Computing through Social Networks

alongside the IEEE CloudCom Conference, 

Bristol, UK December 2-5, 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/socialcloud2013/

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialcloud2013
http://www.facebook.com/events/109914549183542/
http://www.facebook.com/SocialCloudComputing

Overview

Social network platforms have rapidly changed the way that people
communicate and interact. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and
LinkedIn enable the establishment of and participation in digital
communities; and the representation, documentation and exploration of
social interactions as well as relationships. Consequently, electronic
relationships are quickly becoming intertwined with their real world
counterparts. Social networks have always served as a vital means for the
sharing and exchange of informal information, improving the understanding
of relationships, improving communication between globally dispersed
individuals, and more recently measuring scientific impact. As social
network platforms as well as the "apps" they enable become more
sophisticated social networks can also serve as a means of service,
resource and data sharing. Or in other words, social networks can
facilitate the construction of Social Clouds: the provisioning of Cloud
infrastructure through social network constructs.

As the cost of personal computing has decreased, the capabilities and
resources of Internet connected users has dramatically increased. We know
from volunteer computing that at the edges of the Internet, resource
owners are willing to make their resources freely available for “good
uses”. Taking Facebook as an example, and discounting the 60% of users
that access Facebook with mobile devices, skimming just 1% of users’
compute resources would yield a computational infrastructure 4 times
larger than the total resources contributed to the SETI@home project. 2%
would begin to be comparable to a top500.org supercomputer. In addition,
crowdsourcing leverages the capabilities of both skilled and unskilled
communities of individuals to perform a wide variety of tasks.

However, constructing a compute, data or resource sharing platform through
a social network is not straightforward. There are many challenges that
sit at the intersection of computer science, information systems,
computational social science and economics that must be addressed. At the
centre of this workshop is the question: How can members of a social
network efficiently share infrastructure and software services across
digital relationships?

In order to address different aspects of this question, the following
topics are of (representative) interest:
- Social network-based resource sharing in Cloud environments
- Forming "edge" Clouds through user contributed resources and services
- Peer-2-Peer resource sharing to form distributed Cloud systems
- Cloud federation through user provisioned resources
- Social network-based resource sharing and collaboration architectures
- Testbed implementations of Social Clouds
- Data caching and sharing through socially formed relationships
- Content and data distribution via socially formed relationships
- Novel methods of observing and applying digital relationships and trust
- Middleware for the construction and management of Social Clouds
- Definition of novel principles, models and methodologies for the harnessing of digital relationships in the construction of Social Clouds
- Social network analysis in Cloud environments
- Qualitative Studies for the understanding of Social Cloud actors as well as their social and cognitive processes
- Representing (Soft) agreements for service and resource sharing and exchange
- Social Cloud Markets
- Social matching mechanisms
- Economic and incentive models for resource sharing in Social Cloud environments
- Methods for resource, service and capability representation in Social Networks and/or Social Clouds
- Case studies into Social Clouds
- Recommender Systems for Sharing, Exchange and Collaboration
- Crowdsourcing using Social Networks and Social media

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Important Dates
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- Paper Submissions Due: July 15, 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: September 2, 2013
- Camera Ready Versions Due: September 16, 2013

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Submission Details
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Authors are invited to submit papers containing unpublished, original work
(not under review elsewhere) of up to 6 pages of double column text using
single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11
manuscript guidelines. Templates are available from:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm
l.

Authors should submit a PDF file. Papers conforming to the above
guidelines can be submitted through the workshop's paper submission system
on EasyChair -- available at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialcloud2013

At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop
and all workshop participants must pay the CloudCom 2013 workshop
registration fee, as well as the conference fee. All accepted papers will
be published by the IEEE in the same volume as the main conference. All
papers will be reviewed by an International Programme Committee. Papers
submissions should be performed using the EasyChair system, by the date
mentioned above.

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Organisers:
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- Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
- Kyle Chard, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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- David de Roure, Oxford University, UK
- Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
- Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany
- Ioan Petri, Cardiff University, UK
- Magdalena Punceva, University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Western Switzerland
- Wei Tan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
- Peter Komisarczuk, University of West London, UK
- Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
- Laura Pullum, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Raihan ur Rasool, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
- Wenjun Wu, Beihang University, China
- Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Georg Groh, TU Munich, Germany

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ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'13)

Call for Papers

ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'13)

October 7-8, 2013

Boston, USA

http://cosn.acm.org

Topics of interest include:

Novel social applications and systems
Systems and algorithms for social search
Infrastructure support for social networks and systems
Social properties in systems design
Clean-slate designs for social systems
Measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems
Graph analysis and visualization
Processing and query optimization for large graphs
Management of social network data
Modeling Social Networks and behavior
Streaming algorithms for social data
Benchmarking, modeling, performance and workload characterization
Information extraction and diffusion
Data mining and machine learning in social networks
Privacy in data collection and management
Privacy and Security in social systems
Privacy-preserving mechanisms for social and mobile data analysis
Information disclosure and its impact on social networks
Tracking social footprint / identities across social networks
Trust systems and trustworthiness of social content/media
Trust and reputations in social systems
Detection, analysis, prevention of spam, phishing, and misbehavior in
social systems
Social and psychological understanding of these topics

Program Committee

Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft Research, USA
Jussara Almeida, Federal University of Minais-Gerais, Brazil
Lerone Banks, Federal Trade Commission, USA
Steven Bellovin, Columbia University/FTC, USA
Smriti Bhagat, Technicolor Palo Alto, USA
Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University, USA
Meeyoung Cha, KAIST, Korea
Graham Cormode, University of Warwick, UK
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Nilesh Dalvi, Facebook, USA
Amr El Abbadi, University of California Santa Barbara, USA (PC co-chair)
Peter Gloor, MIT, USA
Matthias Grossglauser, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Krishna Gummadi, Max-Planck Institute, Saarbrucken, Germany
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs--Research, USA (PC co-chair)
Silvio Lattanzi, Google New York, USA
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK
Muthu Muthukrishnan, Microsoft & Rutgers University, USA
Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Ben Zhao, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Important dates:

Abstract submission due: Friday June 21 23:59 GMT
Paper submission due: Friday June 28 23:59 GMT
Acceptance notification: July 31
Camera-ready copy due: Mon September 2
Conference: Mon-Tue October 7-8, Boston

COSN 2013 allows two forms of submissions (PDF only):

Full papers (up to 12 pages including references) describing original
research in detail
Short papers (up to 6 pages including references) conveying promising
work/high-level vision

All submissions must satisfy the following requirements:

10-point font, two-column format, letter page size (11 x 8.5 inches)
Names / affiliations of all authors on title page
Submission site: http://cosn13.cs.ucsb.edu/
Use style file at http://cosn13.cs.ucsb.edu/sig-alternate-10pt.cls

Non-compliant submissions will be rejected without review.

ORGANIZATION:

General Chair: Muthu Muthukrishnan, Microsoft & Rutgers University
Publicity chair: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, IIIT Delhi
Student travel grant chair: Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara
Local Arrangements Chair: Alan Mislove, Northeastern University
Registration chair: Christo Wilson, Northeastern University

COSN Steering Committee

Virgilio Almeida, Federal Univ of Minais Gerais, Brazil
Xiaoming Fu, Univ of Goettingen, Germany
Jon Crowcroft, Univ of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs-Research, USA (Chair)
Ben Zhao, Univ of California Santa Barbara, USA

COSN Technical Advisory Committee

Sihem Amer-Yahia, CNRS, France
Krishna Gummadi, MPI, Germany
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, IIIT Delhi, India

COSN is the result of merger of 6 workshops held over the last few years
in various venues:

WOSN (SIGCOMM/Usenix)
SNS (Eurosys)
DBSocial (SIGMOD)
HotSocial (KDD)
PSOSM (WWW)
WOSS (VLDB)

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ACM CSCW 2014

CSCW 2014 Call for Participation – Papers

Important Dates

* May 31^st, 2013, 5 p.m. PDT:  Submissions due

* July 6^th: First-round notification (Revise & Resubmit or Reject)

* July 26^th, 5 p.m. PDT: Revised submissions due

* August 23^rd: Final notifications (Accept or Reject)

CSCW, the ACM’s conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on how technology intersects with social practices. The 2014 CSCW conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland from February 15^th – 18^th, 2014. Paper submissions are due on May 31^st, 2013.

We invite submissions that detail existing practices, inform the design or deployment of systems, or introduce novel systems, interaction techniques, or algorithms. The scope of CSCW includes, but is not limited to, social computing and social media, crowdsourcing, technologically-enabled or enhanced communication, CSCL and related educational technologies (e.g., MOOCs), multi-user input technologies (e.g., surface computing), collaboration, information sharing, and coordination. It includes socio-technical activities at work, in the home, in education, in healthcare, in the arts, for socializing, and for entertainment. New results or new ways of thinking about, studying, or supporting shared activities can be in these and related areas:

* Social and crowd computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms, systems, and/or infrastructures addressing social media, social networking, user-generated content, wikis, blogs, online gaming, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, virtual worlds, collaborative information seeking, etc.

* System design. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that enable the building of new social and collaborative systems and experiences.

* Theories and models. Critical analysis or organizing theory with clear relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative systems.

* Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, and/or ethnographic studies relating to technologies, practices, or use of communication, collaboration, and social technologies.

* Methodologies and tools. Novel methods or combinations of approaches and tools used in building systems or studying their use.

* Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. Including for healthcare, transportation, gaming (for enjoyment or productivity), ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, collective intelligence, global collaboration, or other domains.

* Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch technologies, novel display technologies, vision and gesture recognition systems, big data infrastructures, MOOCs, crowd labor markets, SNSes, sensor-based environments, etc.

* Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages, generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries.

Papers should detail original research contributions. Papers must report new research results that represent a contribution to the field. They must provide sufficient details and support for their results and conclusions. They must cite relevant published research or experience, highlight novel aspects of the submission, and identify the most significant contributions. Papers are evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, quality of research, quality of writing, and contribution to conference program diversity.

Papers Chairs

Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research

Madhu Reddy, The Pennsylvania State University

papers2014@cscw.acm.org

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Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks - Call for Book Chapters

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Book Title: Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks

A book edited by Jie Wu, and Yunsheng Wang

Temple University, USA 

To be published by CRC Press

Chapter Proposal Submission
Deadline: 15 February 2013
Full Chapter Submission
Deadline: 1 June 2013

Introduction:
Recent rapid advances in mobile cellular networks and telecommunications
have introduced Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks as an interesting topic
to the research community, one that has started to receive much attention
from practitioners, scholars, and the general public. An opportunistic
mobile social network can be described as a platform that provides services
via hand-held and wireless devices, mainly for the purpose of fostering and
maintaining social interactions and connections. Therefore, an opportunistic
mobile social network can be considered a form of social network where
services are provided with mobility as an added value. Thanks to mobility,
many emergent applications related to social networking are now available
for individuals, business enterprises, and governments.

Objective:
The main goal of this book is to collect the recent development on
theoretical and algorithmic aspects of the opportunistic mobile social
networks. This book will be of particular value to academics, researchers,
practitioners, government officials, business organizations (e.g.,
executives, marketing professionals, resource managers, etc.), and even
customers -- working, participating, or those interested in fields related
to social networks. The content of the book will be especially useful for
students in areas like social networks, informatics, wireless networks, data
mining, and administrative sciences and management, but also applies to
students of education, economy, or law, who would benefit from the
information, cases, and examples therein.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Part I: Social Networks and Complex Networks
* Part II: Opportunistic Networks
* Part III: Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks
* Part IV: Applications

Submission Procedure:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on February 15, 2013, a
2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his
or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by
March 1, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter
guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 1, 2013. All
submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher:
This book is scheduled to be published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
The Work will be published initially under the imprint of Taylor & Francis,
a CRC Press book, or such other imprint as the Publisher deems suitable for
the Work. For additional information regarding the publisher, please
visit?www.crcpress.com. This book is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important Dates:
Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 February 2013 (about 2-3 pages ¨C 1000
words) Notification of Acceptance: 1 March 2013 Full Chapter Submission: 1
June 2013 Review Results Returned: 1 August 2013 Final Chapter Submission:15
September 2013

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word/PDF
document) or by email to:
Dr. Jie Wu
Temple University, USA
jiewu@temple.edu
Yunsheng Wang
Temple University, USA
yunsheng.wang@temple.edu

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4th International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Web Mining (SNSM'2013)

The 4th International Workshop 

on Social Networks and Social Web Mining

(SNSM 2013) 

Wuhan, China

April 22-25, 2013

Call for Papers 

http://totemdb.whu.edu.cn/dasfaa2013/

Today the emergence of Web-based communities and hosted services
such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies, brings in
tremendous freedom of Web autonomy and facilitate collaboration and
knowledge sharing between users. Along with the interaction between users
and computers, social media are rapidly becoming an important part of our
digital experience, ranging from digital textual information to diverse
multimedia forms. These aspects and characteristics constitute of the core
of second generation of Web.

A prominent challenge lies in modeling and mining this vast pool of data to
extract, represent and exploit meaningful knowledge and to leverage
structures and dynamics of emerging social networks residing in the social
Web. Social networks and social Web mining combines data mining with social
computing as a promising direction and offers unique opportunities for
developing novel algorithms and tools ranging from text and content mining
to link mining.

The 4th International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Web Mining on
in conjunction with DASFAA 2013 will bring together the academia,
researchers and industrial practitioners from computer science, information
systems, statistics, sociology, behavior science and organization science
discipline, and provide a forum for recent advances in the field of social
networks and social media, from the perspectives of data management and
mining.

We solicit original and high quality submissions addressing all aspects of
this field. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the
following:
*Computational models for social media
*Query languages for social networks and social media *Query processing and
optimization *Influence, trust, and privacy *Search in social networks and
social media *Interoperability among social applications and social media
*Techniques for social-network analysis/mining and for the analysis of
social-media phenomena *Adversarial blogging and counter measures *Link
analysis and network structure discovery *Community detection and evolution
*Group interaction, collaboration, and recommendation *Knowledge discovery
(collective wisdom, trend analysis, and topic detection) *Social aspects of
Blogosphere *Human interface and interaction techniques for social media

Important Dates:
Full paper due: Jan. 25, 2013
Author notification: Feb. 15, 2013
Camera ready deadline: March. 15, 2013

Submission:
Please submit all manuscripts in PDF formats to the submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snsm2013

Workshop Organizers:
Guandong Xu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia gdxu.au@gmail.com

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4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2013)

Mining, Modeling and Recommending "Things'' in Social Media

http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2013/

to be held on May 1, 2013, Paris, France

co-located with ACM Hypertext 2013

Important Dates:
** Submission Deadline: Feb 04, 2013
** Notification of Acceptance: Feb 18, 2013
** Final Papers Due: February 28, 2013
** Workshop date: May 1, 2013

In our first workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2010 in
Toronto, Canada), we explored various different models of social
media ranging from user modeling, hypertext models, software
engineering models, sociological models and framework models.
In our second workshop (MSM 2011 in Boston, USA), we addressed
the user interface aspects of modeling social media.  In our third
workshop (MSM 2012 in Milwaukee, USA), we looked at the collective
intelligence in social media, i.e. making sense of the content and
context from social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter,
Google+ and Foursquare by analyzing tweets, tags, blog posts,
likes, posts and check-ins, in order to create a new knowledge
and semantic meaning. With this year's workshop we aim to attract
researchers from all over the world working in the field of social
media mining, modeling and end-user applications. In particular,
we would like to invite researchers working on the important field
of "recommender systems" for social media which is gaining more
and more in importance due to the increasing information overload
problem.

The goal of this workshop is to continue our vibrant discussion on
social media mining and modelling with a special focus on
recommender systems for social media applications.  Hence, the
workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of social
media mining, modelling and doing recommendations on top of these
data/models. In short the workshop invites topics such as social
media mining methods/techniques, novel approaches to model users
or things in social media, frameworks to harvest and/or display
social media data and new social media recommender
methods/techniques/algorithms or interfaces supporting users for
instance in information finding, meta-data application etc. Thus,
our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from
all over the world with diverse backgrounds interested in 1)
exploring different perspectives and approaches to mine (complex)
and analyse social media data, 2) modelling social media users and
3) building applications such as recommender systems on top of this
data/models.

We invite submissions which may include the following topics, but
are not limited to:
* novel mining methods/techniques or approaches for social media
* novel approaches to model users or things in social media
* novel frameworks to harvest and/or display social media data
* novel recommender methods/techniques/algorithms or interfaces to
 recommend "things" to people in social media
* new visualisation approaches for recommender systems in social media
* evaluation methods/techniques/reports for mining/modelling or
 recommending things/people in social media
* privacy and security issues  or constraints in social media
 mining/modelling and recommendations
* scalability issues of mining, modelling and recommending
 people/things/etc. in social media
* novel (social media) datasets (incl. a detailed description) which
 are of potential interest for researchers all over the world working
 in the field of social media mining/modelling/analytics and/or
 recommender systems

Submissions: We solicit short position papers (1-2 pages) and
peer-reviewed research papers (4-8 pages) in the ACM conference
paper style.

Please submit your papers using the EasyChair system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2013.

If you have any questions regarding the workshop or the submission, please email msm2013@googlegroups.com.

Workshop Organizers:
* Alvin Chin, Nokia, Beijing
* Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany
* Christoph Trattner, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Program Committee:
* Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Robin Burke, de Paul, USA
* Javier Luis Canovas, Izquierdo INRIA, France
* Ed Chi, Google, USA
* Padraig Cunningham, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research, USA
* Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
* Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany
* Geert-Jan Houben, TU-Delft, Netherlands
* Alexander Felfernig, TU-Graz, Austria
* Jill Freyne, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia
* Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK
* Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
* Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica, Spain
* Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin, Germany
* Else Nygren, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Denis Parra, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Haggai Roitman, IBM Research, Israel
* Alan Said, TU- Berlin, Germany
* James She, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
* Markus Strohmaier, TU Graz, Austria
* Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
* Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, Austria
* Zhiyong Yu, Institut Telecom Sud de Paris, France
* Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA

Proceedings: All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published in the ACM Digital library

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1st IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Data Management, Mining, and Computing on Social Networks (MobiSocial 2013)

Call for Papers

1st IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Data Management, Mining, and

Computing on Social Networks (MobiSocial 2013)

Sunday, June 3, 2013 / Milan, Italy

(colocated with IEEE MDM 2013)

http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~dnyang/mobisocial13/

*AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST*

Recently, social network research has advanced rapidly with the prevalence
of the online social websites and instant messaging social communications
systems. In addition to utilizing a desktop computer to write blogs, upload
photos and chat with friends, an explosively increasing number of people are
now used to share personal location information to friends on the fly with
mobile devices, thanks to the development of broadband wireless networks and
location sensing technologies. These social network systems are usually
characterized by complex network structures and abundant contextual
information. Moreover, by incorporating the spatial dimension, mobile and
location-based social networks are now immersed in people¡¦s everyday life
via numerous innovative websites, such Facebook Places, Foursquare, Buddy
Beacon, FindMe, Loopt, and Weibo. In addition, mobile social networks can be
exploited to foster many interesting applications and analysis, such as
recommendations of locations and travel planning of friends, location-based
viral marketing, community discovery, group mobility and behavior modeling,
etc.

Researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide spectrum of
challenges in mobile social networks to extract useful knowledge, including
identifying common static topological structures and dynamic evolutions of
social networks, and exploiting location-based and contextual information
embedded with mobile social networks to find out useful insights. The
insights can provide important implications on community discovery, anomaly
detection, trend prediction with the applications in many domains, such as
recommendation systems, information retrieval, future prediction, and so on.
In light of the above crucial need, sophisticated data mining and query
processing techniques on both social and spatial dimensions are demanding
for extracting representative information from mobile social network. In
addition, the data generated from social networks and social media streams
at any time in any place have outpaced the capability to process, analyze,
and mining those datasets. It is thus imperative to develop scalable and
efficient algorithms for processing and mining Big Data generated from
mobile social networks. In contrast to other areas in data management and
mining, social and human factors are also important and thereby encouraged
to be properly included in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research
of mobile social networks.

The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Data Management, Mining, and
Computing on Social Networks (MobiSocial 2013) will serve as a forum for
researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their
contributions, and set future directions in data management and mining for
mobile social networks.

The topics of interest related to this workshop include, but are not limited
to:
- Graph mining
- Contextual mobile social network analysis
- Storing, indexing and querying of graph data
- Distributed graph processing
- Mobile social interaction and personalization search
- Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks, trend prediction
- Analysis and mining of location-based social networks
- Classification models and their applications in social recommender
systems.
- Processing of social media stream
- Influence models and their applications in social environment.
- Competitive viral marketing
- Privacy and security in social network
- Modeling trust and reputation in mobile social networks.
- Moving object tracking, indexing and retrieval for social applications
- Location and trajectory mining of social data
- Opinion mining for location related information
- Location privacy, data sharing and security
- Mobile and ubiquitous computing for location-based social networks
- Cloud computing for location-based social data
- Innovative mobile social networking applications
- Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on mobile social networks



*IMPORTANT DATES*

Paper Submissions: Jan. 31, 2013 (midnight PST)
Notification of Acceptance: March 6, 2013
Camera-Ready Due: March 13, 2013
Workshop Date: June 3, 2013



*SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts, neither submitted nor
accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. The
page limits for regular papers and position papers are 6 pages and 3 pages
respectively, including all figures, tables, and references. The submitted
papers must be written in English, and formatted using the IEEE style:
(http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/confer
enceTempl
ates.html)

Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least three Program
Committee members ensure the high quality of the accepted papers. Reviewers
are not required to read the appendices and the paper should be intelligible
without them. Authors are invited to send the manuscripts through EasyChair:
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobisocial2013)

Submission to this workshop implies the willingness to participate and
present in the workshop. Registration of at least one of the authors for
each accepted paper is mandatory. Authors of accepted papers must also sign
a copyright form that will be made available on the web site of the
conference.



*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*

De-Nian Yang
Institute of Information Science
Academia Sinica
dnyang@iis.sinica.edu.tw

Wang-Chien Lee
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Pennsylvania State University
wlee@cse.psu.edu



*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

- Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
- Vincent S. Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
- Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Xing Xie, Microsoft Research, China
- Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
- Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
- Haiying Shen, Clemson University, USA
- Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Shou-De Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA
- Ping Luo, HP Labs, China
- Mi-Yen Yeh, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Kun-Ta Chuang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
- Mao Ye, Klout Inc., USA
- Chih-Hua Tai, National Taipei University, Taiwan
- Cheng-Te Li, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

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