WWW 2014 Call for Papers - Research Track

WWW 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS - RESEARCH TRACK
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference
April 7-11, 2014 / Seoul, Korea
http://www2014.kr

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW 2014 will have 11 areas (or themes) for refereed paper presentations. and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting, new breakthrough work to the relevant area. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2014 will also have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speeches, tutorials, panels, a developer track, and poster and demo sessions.

The list of areas for this year is as follows:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Content Analysis
Crowd Phenomena
Internet Economics and Monetization
Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Semantic Web
Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart (Mobile) Devices
Web Mining
Web Search

Important Dates:

Research track abstract registration:
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Research track full paper submission:
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Notifications of acceptance:
Saturday, January 4th, 2014

Paper Submission Requirements:

All submitted paper must:

be written in English;
contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size;
occupy no more than ten pages, including the abstract and appendices, but excluding references.

It is the authors¡¯ responsibility to ensure that their submission adheres strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

Submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2014

General Chair:
Chin-Wan Chung (KAIST)

General Vice Chairs:
Sang-goo Lee (Seoul National University)
Sue Moon (KAIST)
In-soo Park (MOTIE/KATS)

PC Co-Chairs for Research Track:
Andrei Broder (Google)
Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University)
Torsten Suel (New York University)

Area Chairs:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Pearl Pu (EPFL)
Andrew Tomkins (Google)

Content Analysis
Seung-won Hwang (POSTECH)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University)

Crowd Phenomena
Panos Ipeirotis (NYU)
Stefano Leonardi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Internet Economics and Monetization
Arpita Ghosh (Cornell University)
Vanja Josifovski (Google)

Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Yongdae Kim (KAIST)

Semantic Web
Ramanathan Guha (Google)
Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)
Alessandro Panconesi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
Zhen Xiao (Peking University)
Malgorzata Steinder (IBM Research)

User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart Devices
Cecilia Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

Web Mining
Yukata Matsuo (University of Tokyo)
Rajeev Rastogi (Amazon)

Web Search
Junghoo Cho (UCLA)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo!)

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PostDoc / Ph.D. Positions at L3S Research Center, Germany

PostDoc / Ph.D. Positions at L3S Research Center, Germany

The L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany, invites applications for

one Postdoc and two Ph.D. research positions

in the area of Large Scale Web Analytics and Information Retrieval. Your
work will focus on temporal information retrieval, exploration and
analytics. Investigating innovative and scalable solutions, you will be
utilizing and extending distributed platforms such as Hadoop, HBase and
Storm, and have the opportunity to shape and extend the computing cluster
infrastructure of L3S. Your research will connect to our work in the EU
funded projects ARCOMEM, ForgetIT and CUBRIK, and provide important input to
the development of large scale Web observatories in the context of our
WSTNet activities.

Your research will focus on topics in the following areas

* Distributed Crawling, Indexing and Analytics
* Distributed Algorithms and Data Processing
* Evolution-Aware Entity-Based Enrichment and Indexing
* Temporal Retrieval and Ranking

in a challenging and unique research environment.

You should possess good knowledge in one or several areas relevant for the
topics specified in this announcement. Good proficiency in English is
expected, as well as an outstanding M.Sc. or Ph.D. in computer science.
German language skills are useful, but not mandatory.
International experience during your studies or afterwards, as well as good
social and communication skills are helpful.

The salary amounts to German TV-L E13/E14, which is roughly 40.000 to 50.000
Euro gross income per year.

Please submit your application including the usual documents as well as a
list of references, preferrably by email, to

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl
L3S Research Center
Appelstrasse 4
30167 Hannover, Germany
http://www.L3S.de/
http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~nejdl/
E-Mail: nejdl@L3S.de

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The 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ACM/IEEE ASONAM 2013)

Call for Papers - ACM/IEEE ASONAM 2013

The 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
ASONAM 2013 (see http://asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/index.php)
Niagara Falls, Canada, August 25-28, 2013

For paper submission: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=asonam2013

The study of social networks originated in social and business communities. In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly; the development of sophisticated techniques for Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) has been highly influenced by the online social Web sites, email logs, phone logs and instant messaging systems, which are widely analyzed using graph theory and machine learning techniques. People perceive the Web increasingly as a social medium that fosters interaction among people, sharing of experiences and knowledge, group activities, community formation and evolution. This has led to a rising prominence of SNAM in academia, politics, homeland security and business. This follows the pattern of known entities of our society that have evolved into networks in which actors are increasingly dependent on their structural embedding.
The international conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013) will primarily provide an interdisciplinary venue that will bring together practitioners and researchers from a variety of SNAM fields to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and practices. ASONAM 2013 is intended to address important aspects with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with social networking analysis and mining. The conference solicits experimental and theoretical works on social network analysis and mining along with their application to real life situations.

Topics

General areas of interest to ASONAM 2013 include information science and mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics, biology and medicine.
More specialized topics within ASONAM 2013 include, but are not limited to:

• Adoption of new services on social network platforms
• Agent based social simulation, agent based computational models
• Anomaly detection in social network evolution
• Application of social network analysis
• Application of social network mining
• Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online social networks
• Communities discovery and analysis in large scale offline social networks
• Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation
• Contextual social network analysis
• Contextual social network mining
• Crime data mining and network analysis
• Cyber anthropology
• Dark Web
• Data models for social networks and social media
• Data protection inside communities
• Detection of communities by document analysis
• Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
• Economical impact of social network discovery
• Evolution of patterns in the Web
• Evolution of communities in the Web
• Evolution of communities in organizations
• Geography of social networks
• Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
• Incorporating social information in query processing and query optimization
• Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
• Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
• Knowledge networks
  
• Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
• Misbehavior detection in communities
• Migration between communities
• Multi-Actor/Multiple-Relationship Networks
• Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
• Open source intelligence
• Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
• Personalization for search and for social interaction
• Preparing data for Web mining
• Political impact of social network discovery
• Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
• Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations
• Recommendation networks
• Scalability of social networks
• Scalability of Search algorithms on social networks
• Social and cultural anthropology
• Social geography
• Social psychology of information diffusion
• Spatial Networks
• Statistical modeling of large networks
• Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
• Trust networks, evolution of trust
• Visual representation of dynamic social networks
• Web mining algorithms
• Web communities

Submission Guidelines

For paper submission: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=asonam2013
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. New full paper submission deadline is April 15, 2013. These papers will follow an academic review process. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted to the Conference Submission System. If Web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to ozyer@etu.edu.tr by April 15, 2013. The attachment must be in PDF or Word .doc format.
This is an initial template to get you started formatting your paper. The final submission will be done based on IEEE CPS requirements. More information will be provided later on this week. You will be asked to guarantee that your submission meets IEEE CPS standards and you will complete online copyright form by following the link to be provided.
Since IEEE CPS will publish the proceedings of ASONAM 2013, all the rules and regulations of IEEE CPS will be applied as explained in the following link:
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/
Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new previously unpublished work. Paper submission implies that the intent is for one of the authors to present the paper if accepted and that at least one of the authors register for a full conference fee.

Important Dates

December 1, 2012	Paper submission process opens
January 10, 2013	Workshop/special session proposal
April 8, 2013	Abstract submission deadline
April 15, 2013	Full paper submission deadline
May 20, 2013	Notification of acceptance
May 31, 2013	Camera-ready papers due
June 10, 2013	Presenting author registration due
August 25-28, 2013	Conference events

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Workshop on Dynamic Networks Management and Mining (DyNetMM 2013)

SIGMOD/PODS Workshop on Dynamic Networks Management and Mining

In conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2013 

(New York, June 23, 2013)

Submission deadline: 22 FEBRUARY 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/dynetmm13/

===CFP===

The First ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Dynamic Networks Management and Mining
(DyNetMM 2013), to be held in New York, USA in conjunction with
SIGMOD/PODS 2013, is a venue for novel research on management and mining
in networks that change over time. The aim of DyNetMM is to disseminate
results founded on database indexing, access methods and mining that
advance the state-of-the-art in analysis, query processing, prediction and
mining in time-evolving networks arising in social-computational systems,
biology, transportation and others.

Both theoretical and systems/application papers are welcome to DyNetMM.
The workshop's focus is on methods that draw from techniques in databases,
indexing and data mining to enable scalable analysis, query support and
mining for patterns in dynamic relational data. The validation and novelty
of the submissions should match the high standards established in the
database community.

===Topics===

Submissions on the following general topics are welcome:
- Query languages and query support for dynamic networks
* Dynamic reachability queries
* Dynamic subgraph queries
* Predictive queries
- Indexing dynamic networks
* Neighborhood indexing
* Reachability and proximity indexing
- Tracking and prediction
* Road networks
* Geo-social graphs
- Mining in dynamic networks
* Frequent patterns
* Conserved and evolving patterns
* Anomaly and novelty detection
* Evolutionary clustering
- Network streams management
- Summarization and compression of dynamic networks
- Generative and predictive models of dynamic network evolution
- Distributed computation on dynamic graphs

===Organization===

Workshop co-chairs:
Petko Bogdanov, University of California Santa Barbara
Leman Akoglu , Stony Brook University
Ambuj K. Singh, University of California Santa Barbara
Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University

===Program Committee===

Amol Deshpande (U Maryland)
Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab)
Arun Maiya (IDA)
Boleslaw K. Szymanski (RPI)
Hanghang Tong (IBM)
Kathy Macropol ( Arcadia U)
Lance Kaplan (Army Research Lab)
Mayank Lahiri (Google)
Misael Mogiovi (UCSB)
Mohammed Zaki (RPI)
Prithwish Basu (BBN)
Rajmonda Caceres (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Ram Ramanathan (BBN)
Tina Eliassi-Rad (Rutgers)
U Kang (CMU)
Vagelis Papalexakis (CMU)
Veljko Pejovic (U Birmingham, UK)
Xifeng Yan (UCSB)

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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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2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013) - Call for Workshop Proposals

Call for Workshop Proposals 

at ASONAM 2013 

for the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference 

on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'13)

http://asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

Niagara Falls, Canada, 25-28 August 2013

The ASONAM 2013 Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held on
25-28 August 2013 in conjunction with the main ASONAM 2013 conference.

Submissions may be made by e-mail in PDF format with "ASONAM2013 Workshop Proposal" in the subject header. Proposals should include following information:

* The name of the workshop.
* A statement of goals for the workshop.
* The names and addresses of the organizers.
* The names of potential participants, such as program committee members.
* A description of the plans for call for participation (e.g., call for papers, venues through which the call will be distributed).
* The expected number of attendees and the planned length of the workshop.
* A description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, attendance, sites, registration fees and summary budget information.
* The URL of the workshop web site.
* A list of potential sponsors, together with letters of support from any sponsors who have already agreed to support the workshop.
* Workshop budget.

ASONAM 2013 will fund a limited number of keynote speakers for workshops. Workshop proposers are strongly advised to include in their application the name of an international renowned researcher, whom they can win as keynote speaker, should their workshop be approved.

Please submit your workshop proposals by e-mail to the ASONAM 2013 Workshop Chairs:
Martin Ester: ester (at) sfu (dot) ca
Myra Spiliopoulou: myra (at) iti (dot) cs (dot) uni-magdeburg (dot) de
I-Hsien Ting: iting (at) nuk (dot) edu (dot) tw


SUBMISSION DEADLINE : January 10, 2013

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

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13th International Conference on Web Engineering

ICWE 2013

13th International Conference on Web Engineering

July 8-12, 2013

Aalborg, Denmark

http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/

The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) aims to promote
scientific and practical excellence in Web Engineering and to bring
together researchers and practitioners working on all aspects regarding
the engineering of Web-based software systems. The conference aims to
advance the state-of-the-art of technologies, methodologies,
programming languages, algorithms, models, protocols, tools, and
metrics and specifically looks for excellent research contributions,
cutting-edge engineering practices, and empirical insights.

ICWE 2013 will be held on July 8-12, 2013, in Aalborg, Denmark. It's
going to be the 13th edition of the conference, after 12 successful
editions in a row.

Proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS and workshop papers will
appear in post-proceedings published by Springer LNCS as well.

Selected best papers are cosidered for special issues in recognized journals
(agreement pending).


TOPICS OF INTEREST:
-------------------

WEB APPLICATION ENGINEERING
- Conceptual and model-driven development
- Component- and service-based development
- Web programming languages
- Domain-specific development
- Processes and methodologies
- Personalization, adaptivity and context-awareness
- Architectures and platforms
- Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)
- Mobile Web applications
- Social Web applications
- Web mashups and mashup tools
- Localization and internationalization
- Requirements engineering
- Deployment, maintenance and evolution
- Security
- Reuse


WEB API AND SERVICE ENGINEERING
- Web service engineering
- Composite Web APIs and services
- Service-oriented architectures
- Component technologies for the Web
- Semantic Web services
- Deep Web access and navigation
- Mobile APIs and services


WEB DATA ENGINEERING
- Web search
- Web information extraction
- Web content management
- Recommender systems
- Linked data
- Web mining
- Data visualization and exploration


TESTING AND MEASURING
- Performance modeling, monitoring, and evaluation
- Techniques and methodologies
- Metrics and measures
- Quality of application/service
- Web information quality
- Log mining and usage analysis


HCI AND HUMAN FACTORS
- End user development (EUD)
- Accessibility and usability studies
- Design errors and pitfalls
- Empirical requirements elicitation


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

Research Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2013
Camera-ready versions due: April 30, 2013
Industry Experience Papers: TBA
Posters and Demos: TBA
Workshop proposals: TBA
Tutorial proposals: TBA
PhD Symposium papers: TBA


ORGANIZATION
------------

* General Chair
 - Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark

* Program Chairs
 - Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
 - Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China

* ICWE Steering Committee Chairman
 - Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands

* Workshop Chairs
 - Michael Sheng, the University of Adelaide, Australia
 - Jesper Kjeldskov, Aalborg University, Denmark

* Tutorial Chairs
 - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Italy
 - Benjamin Satzger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

* Demo and Poster Chairs
 - Marcos Baez, University of Trento, Italy
 - Alessandro Bozzon, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

* Industry Track chairs
 - Erik Wilde, EMC Corporation, USA
 - Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland

* PhD Symposium Chairs
 - Oscar Diaz, University of the Basque Country, Spain
 - TBA

* Local Arangements Chair
 - Hanne Christiansen, Visit Aalborg, Denmark

* Web Chair
 - Martin Leginus, Aalborg University, Denmark

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WWW 2013 - Call for Workshops

WWW 2013 Call for Workshops

WWW 2013 will feature a number of co-located workshops that are intended to provide
a forum for researchers and practitioners in Web technologies to discuss and
exchange positions on current and emergent Web topics. Workshop attendants will
exchange ideas and experiences, establish common ground in research areas or
practical problems, and hopefully identify new opportunities for collaboration and
new directions for future activity. Preference will be given to timely topics that
will favor highly interactive discussions. WWW 2013 will offer logistic support for
the workshops, where registration, catering, room allocation and audio/visual will
be arranged by the conference organizers. The supported workshops will take place on
the 13th and 14th of May 2013, before the main conference, at the conference venue.

A workshop proposal must include :
       • A concise title.
       • The names and affiliations of the organizers; a typical workshop should count no
more than three co-chairs affiliated with different organizations.
       • Proposed duration of the workshop (half or full day.)
       • Preference for a date; but, the proposal must not be conditioned on the workshop
date, since it is likely that some workshops will not get their preferred date
       • A statement of the workshop's objective/goals
       • A statement detailing: Why is the workshop topic important? Why is the workshop
timely? How is it relevant to WWW?
       • A two-paragraph description of the workshop topic and themes.
       • If the workshop was conducted before, where and when was it conducted? (Please
give details on number of attendees, number of submissions, and acceptance ratio.
       • A description of the workshop format – how many papers do you hope to present,
how many invited speakers, type of activities (e.g., short paper presentation,
invited talks, demos, posters, etc.), and an approximate timeline (breaks should be
synchronized with scheduled breaks if possible.)
       • A description of how workshop submissions will be evaluated, and a tentative PC
list (with indication of whether PC members have already been contacted and/or have
expressed interest.)
       • An indication on whether the workshop registration will be open to all interested
registered parties or limited.
       • A short bio of the workshop organizers, including a description of their
qualifications relative to the topic area, and past experience in
organizing/facilitating workshops or research meetings.

Submission:
Workshop proposals should be no more than five pages in length (10pt with reasonable
margins) and must be in PDF written in English.
Workshop proposals should be submitted through EasyChair at :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2013ws
Inquiries can be sent to: workshops@www2013.org

Important dates:
Workshop submission deadline: Nov 28th, 2012
Acceptance notification:      Dec 21st, 2012
Workshops dates:              May 13th and/or 14th, 2013

In your proposal, be aware that workshop proceedings will normally be published
through the ACM Digital Library, leading to the following tight production
deadlines:
Suggested workshop paper deadlines:      Feb 25th, 2013
Suggested workshop paper notifications:  March 13th, 2013
Workshop paper final copy hard deadline: April 3rd

Workshop chairs:
       • Leslie Carr (University of Southampton, UK)
       • Alberto Laender (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

To contact the workshop chairs, please email workshops@www2013.org

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Special Issue on Mining Social Networks for Recommender Systems - IJSNM

Call for papers

International Journal of Social Network Mining

Special Issue on: "Mining Social Networks for Recommender Systems"

http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=1940

Guest Editors:
Dr. Panagiotis Symeonidis, Aristotle University, Greece symeon@csd.auth.gr
Prof. Dr. Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
email:manolopo@csd.auth.gr


Social networks such as Facebook, Linkedin, etc. contain gigabytes of data that can be mined to make recommendations for products, events or even friendships. The premise of these recommendations is that individuals might only be a few steps from a desirable social friend, event or product, but not realise it. In such systems, people often belong to multiple explicit or implicit social networks because of different interpersonal interactions. That is, besides the explicit friendship relations between the users, there are also other implicit relations. For example, users can co-comment on products and they can co-rate products or co-tag a photo. The aim of this special issue is to study how mining of social networks can leverage the quality of recommendations. The analysis of social influence and the inference of social rating networks and social media can help in providing more accurate and effective product, friend, activity and event recommendations.


Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

•Link prediction in social networks
•Rating prediction in social rating networks
•Recommendation in social rating networks
•Cross-domain recommendation in social rating networks
•Group recommendation in social networks
•Top-N friend recommendation in social networks
•Top-N item recommendation in social networks
•Recommendation in social networks with distrust
•Recommendation in time-evolving social networks
•Social network analysis for recommendation
•Memory-based methods for recommendation in social networks
•Model-based methods for recommendation in social networks
•Recommendation by combining multiple social networks
•Privacy of recommendation in social networks
•Event and activity recommendation in mobile social networks
•Recommendation in location-based social networks
•Collaborative filtering in social networks
•Context-aware recommendation in social networks
•Explaining recommendation in social networks
•Recommendation in social media
•Multi-criteria recommendation in social networks


Important Dates

Paper submission due: 1 February, 2013
First round notification: 1 May, 2013
Revised version due: 1 August, 2013

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Preliminary Program for IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2012

Preliminary Program for IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2012 - FOSINT-SI 2012 – HI-BI-BI 2012 and collocated workshops

This year the ACIS group at RWTH Aachen University has a paper at ASONAM 2012. 

Enhancing Academic Event Participation with Context-aware and Social RecommendationsManh Cuong Pham, RWTH Aachen; Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen; Dejan Kovachev, RWTH Aachen; Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen

Abstract—The plethora of talks and presentations taking place at academic conferences makes it difficult, especially for young researchers to attend the right talks or discuss with participants and potential collaborators with similar interests. Participants may not have a priori knowledge that allows them to select the right talks or informal interactions with other participants. In this paper we present the context-aware mobile recommendation services (CAMRS) based on the current context (whereabouts at the venue, popularity and activities of talks and presentations) sensed at the conference venue. Additionally, we augment the current context with the academic community context of conference participants which is inferred by using social network analysis and link prediction on large-scale co-authorship and citation networks of participants. By combining the dynamic and social context of participants, we are able to recommend talks and people that may be interesting to a particular participant. We evaluated CAMRS using data from two large digital libraries - the DBLP and CiteSeerX, and participants from two conferences - ICWL 2010 and EC-TEL 2011. The result shows that the new approach can recommend novel talks and helps participants in establishing new connections at conference venue. 

I was also tutorial co-chair. Together with my dear colleagues Huan Liu and Jie Tang we selected  5 great tutorials covering advanced aspects of social network analysis and web mining.

ASONAM 2012 Tutorials
=====================
Tutorial I :
Title: Entity Resolution for Social Network Analysis and Mining
Speakers
Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, College Park.
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Yahoo! Research.

Tutorial II :
Title: Metaheuristic Algorithms for Networks Modelling and Optimization
Speakers
Dr Xin-She Yang, National Physical Laboratory.


Tutorial III :
Title : Models and Algorithms for Social Influence Analysis
Speakers
Dr. Jimeng Sun, IBM T. J. Watson lab.
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University.

Tutorial IV :
Title : Advanced graph mining & community evaluation metrics for
social networks and the Web
Speaker
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Informatics Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique.

Tutorial V
Title : On the Power of Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks
Speakers
Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Xifeng Yan, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago.
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ASONAM 2012 Panel
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Title: Current and future research trends in social network analysis and mining
Moderator: Erol Arkun, Bilkent University
Panelists:
Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz
Naim Kapucu, University of Central Florida
Arno H.P Reuser, Open Source Intelligence
Jon Rokne, University of Calgary
Frans N. Stokman, University of Groningen
VS Subrahmanian University of  Maryland
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
Katharina Zweig  University of Heidelberg



ASONAM 2012 Keynote Talks
==========================

ASONAM Keynote Speaker I
Arno H.P Reuser, Open Source Intelligence ?
Title : TBA

ASONAM Keynote Speaker II
Frans N. Stokman, University of Groningen
Title : Social Network Effects Of The Transition Towards Sustainable
Energy Production. A Proposal for a Data Mining Research Agenda

ASONAM Keynote Speaker III
Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz
Title : A network science manifesto

ASONAM Keynote Speaker IV
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
Title : The New Social Operating System

ASONAM Invited Speaker V
Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano (USI)
Title : The Challenges of Opinion Retrieval

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ASONAM 2012 Technical Research Sessions
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ASONAM-S1 Contextual social network analysis and mining
10 :30-12 :30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 27

** Large Social Networks can be Targeted for Viral Marketing with
Small Seed Sets Paulo Shakarian*, D/EECS; Damon Paulo, D/EECS
** The trilemma of network analysis Katharina Zweig*, TU
Kaiserslautern; Isadora Dorn, Heidelberg University; Andreas
Lindenblatt, Heidelberg University
** Link and Node Analysis of Gender Based Collaborations in Turkish
Social Sciences Bulent Ozel*, Istanbul Bilgi University
** Semantic Expansion of Tweet Contents for Enhanced Event Detection
in Twitter Ozer Ozdikis*, Middle East Tech. University; Pinar Senkul,
Middle East Tech. University; Halit Oguztuzun, Middle East Tech.
University
** Social-Based Conceptual Links: Conceptual Analysis Applied to
Social Networks Erick Stattner*, LAMIA Laboratory; Martine Collard,
LAMIA Laboratory


ASONAM –S2 Application of social network analysis and mining 1
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 27

** Evolutionary Community Detection for Observing Covert Political
Elite Cliques Jyi-Shane Liu*, National Chengchi University; Ke-Chih
Ning, National Chengchi University; Wan-Chun Chuang, National Chengchi
University
** Measuring topological robustness of networks under sustained
targeted attacks Kon Shing Kenneth Chung*, The University of Sydney;
Shahadat Uddin, The University of Sydney; Mahendrarajah Piraveenan,
The University of Sydney
** Analyzing User Retweet Behavior on Twitter Zhiheng Xu*, Institute
of automation; Qing Yang, institute of automation, chinese academy of
sciences
** Applying SNA for the characterization of the spatial organization
of XiaoLin Village Yun-Shang Chiou*, NTUST
** Finding a Maximum Clique using Ant Colony Optimization and Particle
Swarm Optimization in Social Networks Mohammad Soleimani-Pouri ,
Islamic Azad University, Qazvin branch, Qazvin, Iran; Alirezah
Rezvanian*, Amirkabir Univ. Technology; Mohammad Reza Meybodi,
Amirkabir University of Technology


ASONAM –S3 Data models for social networks and social media
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 27

** A Bayesian Hierarchical Approach for Exploratory Analysis of
Communities and Roles in Social Networks Gianni Costa*, ICAR-CNR;
Riccardo Ortale, ICAR-CNR
** User Features and Social Networks for Topic Modeling in Online
Social Media Bo Hu*, ; Zhao  Song, Simon Fraser University; Martin
Ester, Simon Fraser University
** Collective Churn Prediction in Social Network Richard Oentaryo*,
Singapore Management University; Ee-Peng Lim, ; David Lo, Singapore
Management University; Feida Zhu, Singapore Management University;
Philips Prasetyo, Singapore Management University
** Knowing A Good Show When You See One James Lanagan*, Technicolor R&I
** Entrepreneurs' networks: Size, diversity and composition shaped by
cultures of rationality and trust Thomas Sch?tt*, ; Maryam Cheraghi,
University of Tarbiat Modares


ASONAM -S4 Communities discovery and analysis in large scale social networks 1
2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 27

** A Game Theoretic Framework for Community Detection Kishan
Mehrotra*, Syracuse University; Jae Oh, Syracuse University; Patrick
McSweeney, Syracsue University
** Communities and Balance in Signed Networks: A Spectral Approach
Pranay Anchuri*, RPI; Malik Magdon Ismail, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
** A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm based on HSA and CLS for
Multi-objective Community Detection in Complex Networks Babak Amiri*,
The University of Sydney; Liaquat  Hossain, ; John Crawford,
** Optimal Spatial Resolution for the Analysis of Human Mobility
Salvatore Rinzivillo*, KDDLab - ISTI - CNR; Michele Coscia, ; Dino
Pedreschi, ; Fosca Giannotti,
** A New Algorithm for Positive Influence Dominating Set in Social
Networks Hassan Raei, Nasser Yazdani, Masoud Asadpour, University of
Tehran


ASONAM –S5 Online Social Networks 1
2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 27

** A tunable graph model for incorporating geographic  spread in
social graph models Rajesh Sharma*, Nanyang Technological University;
Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University
** Predicting Personality with Social Behavior Sibel Adali, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute ; Jennifer Golbeck*, University of Maryland
** Are all Social Networks Structurally Similar? Aneeq Hashmi, Faraz
Zaidi, Arnaud Sallaberry, Tariq Mehmood, KIET
** AuthorRank+FOAF: Ranking for Co-Authorship Networks on the Web Lule
Ahmedi*, University of Prishtina
** Extracting Celebrities from Online Discussions Mathilde Forestier*,
University of Lyon; Julien Velcin, ; Anna Stavrianou, Xerox Research
Centre Europe; Djamel Zighed, University of Lyon


ASONAM –S6 Application of social network analysis and mining 2
2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 27

** Microblogging in the Enterprise: A few comments are in order
Charalampos Chelmis*, University of Southern California; Viktor
Prasanna, University of Southern California
** Stock Market Investment Advice:  A Social Network Approach Negar
Koockakzadeh, Keivan Kianmehr, Atieh Sarraf, Reda Alhajj
** Global Similarity in Social Networks with Typed Edges David
Skillicorn*,  Quan Zheng, Queen's University
** Measuring the Importance of Actors in a Social Network Based on
Email Communication Patterns Mikolaj Morzy*, ; Pawel Lubarski, Poznan
University of Technology
** Network of Practices: A case study of knowledge competitions of
school technology coordinators Fang-Ling Lin*, Lunghwa University of
Science ; Guey-Fa  Chiou, Graduate Institute of Information and
Computer Education



ASONAM-S7 Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
10:00-12:00 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 28

** On Learning Cluster Coefficient of Private Networks Yue Wang, UNC
Charlotte; Xintao Wu*, ; Jun Zhu, UNC Charlotte
** A Guide to Differential Privacy Theory in Social Network Analysis
Christine Task*, Purdue University; Chris Clifton, Purdue University
** Anonymizing Subsets of Social Networks with Degree Constrained
Subgraphs Sean Chester, Jared Gaertner, University of Victoria; Ulrike
Stege, Srinivasan Venkatesh
** Privacy Preservation by k-Anonymization of Weighted Social Networks
Maria Skarkala*, University of the Aegean; Hannu Toivonen, ; pirjo
Moen, ; Manolis  Maragoudakis, ; Stefanos Gritzalis, ; Lilian Mitrou,
** PROTOSS: A run time tool for detecting PRivacy viOlaT ions in
Online S ocial networkS Ozgur Kafali, Bogazici University; Akin
Gunay*, Bogazici University; Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University


ASONAM-S8 Mathematical and Statistical Network Models
10:00-12:00 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 28

** Exploiting and Evaluating MapReduce for  Large-Scale Graph Mining
Hung-Che Lai, NTU CSIE; Cheng-Te Li, NTU CSIE; Yi-Chen Lo, NTU CSIE;
Shou-De Lin*,
** Link Prediction in a Modified Heterogeneous Bibliographic Network
John Boaz Lee*, University of the Philippines; Henry Adorna,
University of the Philippines
** Network of Practices: A case study of knowledge competitions of
school technology coordinators Fang-Ling Lin*, Lunghwa University of
Science ; Guey-Fa  Chiou, Graduate Institute of Information and
Computer Education
** Fast exact computation of betweenness centrality in social networks
Miriam Baglioni, Filippo Geraci,  Marco Pellegrini ,CNR; Ernesto
Lastres, Sistemi Territoriali Srl
** Using Pregel-like Large Scale Graph Processing Frameworks for
Social Network Analysis Louise Quick, Government Communications
Headquarters; Paul Wilkinson, Government Communications Headquarters;
David Hardcastle*, Government Communications HQ


ASONAM-S9 Application of social network analysis and mining 3
10:00-12:00 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 28

** A Multi-Classifier System for Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Luana Batista*, Ecole de Technologie Superieur; Sylvie Ratte, Ecole de
Technologie Superieure
** On Measurement of Influence in Social Networks Behnam Hajian*,
Carleton University; Tony White, Carleton University
** Ranking news articles based on popularity prediction Alexandru
Tatar, UPMC Sorbonne Universtités; Panayotis Antoniadis, UPMC Sorbonne
Universités; Marcelo Dias de Amorim, UPMC Sorbonne Universités ; Serge
Fdida, UPMC Sorbonne Universités
**  @Phillies Tweeting from Philly? Predicting Twitter User Locations
with Spatial Word Usage Hau-Wen Chang*, The Pennsylvania State
Univers; Dongwon Lee, The Pennsylvania State University; Mohammed
Eltaher, University of Bridgeport; Jeongkyu Lee, University of
Bridgeport
** Analyzing Stock Market Movements Using Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Tushar Rao, NSIT Delhi;  Saket  Srivastava, IIIT Delhi


ASONAM-S10 Recommendations vs social networks
1:00-3:00 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 28

** Enhancing Academic Event Participation with Context-aware and
Social Recommendations Manh Cuong Pham*, RWTH Aachen; Yiwei Cao, RWTH
Aachen; Dejan Kovachev, RWTH Aachen; Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen
** Learning Rating Patterns for Top-N Recommendations Yongli Ren*,
Deakin University; Gang Li, ; Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University
** Fast Recommendation on Bibliographic Networks Onur Kucuktunc*, The
Ohio State University; Kamer Kaya, The Ohio State University; Erik
Saule, The Ohio State University; Umit Catalyurek, The Ohio State
University
** Personalization with Dynamic Group Profile Kamal Taha*, Khalifa
University; Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington
** Privacy Preservation by k-Anonymization of Weighted Social Networks
Maria Skarkala*, University of the Aegean; Hannu Toivonen, ; pirjo
Moen, ; Manolis  Maragoudakis, ; Stefanos Gritzalis, ; Lilian Mitrou,


ASONAM-S11 Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
1:00-3:00 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 28

** Dealing with  Disappearance of an Actor Set  in Social Networks
Idrissa Sarr*, Université Cheikh Anta Diop; Rokia Missaoui, Université
du Québec en Outaouais, Canada; Romain Lalande,
** OCTracker: A Density-Based Framework for Tracking the Evolution of
Overlapping Communities in OSNs Sajid Bhat, Jamia Millia Islamia;
Muhammad Abulaish*, King Saud University
** Crawling Social Internetworking Systems Francesco Buccafurri,
Gianluca Lax, Antonino Nocera, Domenico Ursino
** Dissemination Patterns and  Associated Network Effects of
Sentiments in Social Networks Robert Hillmann*, Berlin Institute of
Technology; Matthias Trier, Copenhagen Business School
** Prediction of Arrival of Nodes In A Scale Free Network Vijay
Mahantesh SM, Sudarshan Iyengar, Vijesh M, Shruthi Nayak, NIkitha
Shenoy
**  Static and Dynamic Aspects of Scientific Collaboration Networks
Christian Staudt*, KIT; Andrea Schumm, KIT; Henning Meyerhenke, KIT;
Robert G?rke, ; Dorothea Wagner


ASONAM-S12 Crime and Social Networks
1:00-3:00 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 28

** Outskewer: Using Skewness to Spot Outliers in Samples and Time
Series Sébastien Heymann*, LIP6 – CNRS – Université Pierre et Marie
Curie; Matthieu Latapy, LIP6 - CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie
Curie; Clémence Magnien, LIP6 - CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie
Curie
** An Analysis of Query Forwarding Strategies for Secure and
Privacy-Preserving Social Networks Michael Dürr*, LMU Munich; Marco
Maier, LMU Munich; Kevin Wiesner, LMU Munich
** STUN: Spatio-Temporal Uncertain (Social) Networks Chanhyun Kang,
University of Maryland; Andrea Pugliese*, University of Calabria; John
Grant, Towson University; V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland
** Recurrent structural motifs reflect characteristics of distinct
networks Chen-Hsiang Yeang*, Academia Sinica; Liang-Cheng Huang,
Academia Sinica; Wei-Chung Liu, Academia Sinica
** Diffusion Centrality in Social Networks Chanhyun Kang, University
of Maryland; Cristian Molinaro*, Università della Calabria; Sarit
Kraus, Bar-Ilan University; Yuval Shavitt, Tel Aviv University; V.S.
Subrahmanian, University of Maryland


ASONAM-S13 Online Social Networks 2
3:30-5:30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 28

**  Relevance of SIR model for real-world spreading phenomena:
experiments on a large-scale P2P system Daniel Bernardes*, LIP6 --
UPMC/CNRS; Matthieu Latapy, LIP6 - CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie
Curie; Fabien Tarissan, LIP6 -- UPMC/CNRS
** YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, WE'LL  SCRATCH YOURS: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF
ENTREPRENEURS  IN A PRIVATE-COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY Robin Teigland*, SSE;
Paul Di Gangi, Loyola University Maryland; Zeynep Yetis, SSE;
Christina Huitfeldt, SSE
** How do Facebookers use Friendlists Yousra Javed*, UNCC; Mohamed
Shehab, UNC Charlotte
** Mining User's Real Social Circle in Microblog Hailong Qin*, Harbin
Institute of Technology; Ting Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology;
Yanjun Ma, Baidu
** On a Triadic Approach to Connect Microstructural Properties to
Social Macrostructural Patterns Yuxi Hu*, University of
California,Davis; Mina Doroud, ; S.Felix Wu, University of
California,Davis


ASONAM-S14 Application of social network analysis and mining 4
3:30-5:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 28

** Predicting user-to-content links in Flickr Groups Sumit Negi*, IBM
Research; Santanu Chaudhury, IIT Delhi
** What's in Twitter: I Know What Parties are Popular and Who You are
Supporting Now!,  Antoine Boutet*, INRIA Rennes; Hyoung Kim,
University of British Columbia; Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge
** Analyzing Voting Behavior in Italian Parliament:Group Cohesion and
Evolution Alessia Amelio, Clara Pizzuti*, ICAR-CNR
** Co-authorship network comparison across research fields using
motifs  Sarvenaz Choobdar*, University of Porto; Pedro Ribeiro,
University of Porto; Sylwia Bulga, University of Porto; Fernando
Silva, University of Porto
** Link Prediction for Bipartite Social Networks: The Role of
Structural Holes Shuang Xia, BingTian Dai, Ee-Peng Lim, Yong Zhang,
Chunxiao Xing
** Where's the Money? The Social Behavior of Investors in Facebook's
Small World Eugene Liang Yuxian*, National Cheng Chi University;
Soe-Tsyr Daphne Yuan, National Cheng Chi University


ASONAM-S15 Detection and Evolution of Communities
3:30-5:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 28

** Detecting Probabilistic Community with Topic Modeling on Sampling
SubGraphs Zengfeng Zeng*, BUPT; Bin Wu
** On Finding Fine-Granularity User  Communities by Profile
Decomposition  Seulki Lee, ; Minsam Ko, ; Keejun Han, ; Jae-Gil Lee*,
KAIST
** Understanding Group Dynamics in Health Forums Steven Crain*,
Georgia Institute of Tech; Shuang-Hong Yang, Georgia Institute of
Technology; Hongyuan Zha
** Identifying long lived social communities using structural
properties James Thompson*, RPI; Malik Magdon Ismail, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute; Mark Goldberg,
** Six Degrees of Separation among US Researchers Hakan Kardes*,
University of Nevada Reno; Abdullah Sevincer, University of Nevada,
Reno; Mehmet Gunes, Computer Science Department of University of
Nevada-Reno; Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada, Reno


ASONAM-S16 Trust and Criminal Networks
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 29

** Investigating Organized Crime Groups: A Social Network Analysis
Perspective Mohammad Tayebi*, SFU; Uwe Glasser,
** A Semantic Triplet Based Story Classifier Betul Ceran*, Arizona
State University; Ravi Karad, Arizona State University; Ajay
Mandvekar, Arizona State University; Steven Corman, Arizona State
University; Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University
** Mining Divergent Opinion Trust Networks through Latent Dirichlet
Allocation Nima Dokoohaki*, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Sweden; Mihhail  Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
** Detecting Criminal Networks Using Social Similarity Fatih OZGUL*,
Turkish National Police; Zeki ERDEM, TUBITAK
**  The activation of core social networks in the wake of the 22 July
Oslo bombing P?l Sunds?y *, Telenor Group; Rich  Ling, IT University,
Copenhagen; Johannes Bjelland, Telenor ASA; Geoffrey  Canright,
Telenor ASA; Kenth Monsen, Telenor ASA


ASONAM-S17 Communities discovery and analysis in large scale social networks 2
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 29

** Relative Validity Criteria for Community Mining Algorithms Reihaneh
Rabbany*, University of Alberta; Mansoureh Takaffoli, ; Justin Fagnan,
; Osmar zaiane, ; Ricardo Campello
** A community based algorithm for deriving users' profiles from
egocentrics networks
Dieudonné Tchuente*, IRIT; Marie-Francoise Canut, IRIT; Nadine
Baptiste-Jessel, IRIT; André Peninou, IRIT; Florence Sèdes, IRIT
** Percolation Computation in Complex Networks Fergal Reid, Aaron
McDaid, Neil Hurley, UCD
** Churn prediction in a real online social network using local
community analysis Blaise Ngonmang, L2TI - Université Paris Nord;
Emmanuel VIENNET*, L2TI - Université Paris Nord; Maurice Tchuente, UMI
209 UMMISCO, Université de Yaoundé
** Using field of research codes to discover research groups from
co-authorship networks Qinxue Meng*, Paul J. Kennedy, UTS


ASONAM-S18 Agent-Based Modeling and Multi-Actor Models
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 29

** An Approach for the Blockmodeling in Multi-Relational Networks
Andreas Harrer*, Catholic University Eichst?tt; Alona Schmidt,
Catholic University Eichst?tt
** One-mode projections of multiplex bipartite graphs Agnes Horvat*,
IWR, University of Heidelberg; Katharina Zweig, TU Kaiserslautern
** A Domain Specific Language Approach for Agent-Based Social Network
Modeling Enrico Franchi*, Università di Parma
** Capability-Weighted Group Utility Maximizer for Network Coalitional
Games under Uncertainty  Usha Sridhar*, Ecometrix Research; Sridhar
Mandyam, Ecometrix Research
** Sociability VS Network Dynamics: Impact of two Aspects of Human
Behavior on Diffusion Phenomena Erick Stattner*, LAMIA Laboratory;
Martine Collard, LAMIA Laboratory; Nicolas Vidot, LAMIA Laboratory


ASONAM –S19 Mathematical and Statistical Network Models
1:30-3:30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 29

** Modeling Social Network Interaction Graphs Michael Dürr*, LMU
Munich; Valentin Protschky, LMU Munich; Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, LMU
Munich
** Finding the Mule in the Network John Pfaltz*, Univ. of Virginia
** How Well-Connected Individuals Help Spread Influences -- Analyses
Based on Preferential Voter Model Zhuo Qi Lee*, NTU; Wen-Jing Hsu,
NTU; Miao Lin, NTU
** Influence of the Dynamic Social Network Timeframe Type and Size on
the Group Evolution Discovery. Stanislaw Saganowski*, Wroclaw
University of Technolo; Piotr Brodka,  Institute of Informatics,
Wroc?aw University of Technology; Przemyslaw Kazienko,
** The Geographic Flow of Music Conrad Lee*, University College
Dublin; P?draig Cunningham, University College Dublin
** Structural and Message based Private Friend Recommendation,
Bharath Samanthula*, Missouri S & T; Wei Jiang, Missouri S & T


ASONAM –S20 Online Social Networks 3
1:30-3:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 29

** Semi-Supervised Policy Recommendation for Online Social Networks
Mohamed Shehab*, UNC Charlotte; Hakim Touati, UNCC
** Learning the Strength of the Factors Influencing User Behavior in
Online Social Networks Bo Hu*, ; Mohsen Jamali, Simon Fraser
University; Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University
** Link prediction: fair and effective evaluation Ryan Lichtenwalter,
; Nitesh V. Chawla*,
** Predicting Friends and Foes in Signed Networks using Inductive
Inference and Social Balance Theory Arti Patidar*, JNU, New Delhi;
Vinti Agarwal, JNU; K.K. Bharadwaj, JNU
** The Impact of Measurement Time on Subgroup Detection in Online
Communities Sam Zeini*, University Duisburg-Essen; Tilman G?hnert,
University Duisburg-Essen; Lothar Krempel, Max-Planck-Institute for
the Study of Societies  Cologne; H. Ulrich Hoppe, University
Duisburg-Essen


ASONAM –S21 Application of social network analysis and mining 5
1:30-3:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 29

** Subgraph Extraction for Trust Inference in Social Networks Yuan
Yao*, Nanjing University; HangHang Tong,  IBM T.J. Watson Research;
Feng Xu, ; Jian Lu,
** Towards Maximising Cross-Community Information Diffusion Vaclav
Belak*, DERI, NUI Galway; Samantha Lam, DERI; Conor Hayes,
** Visual Analysis of Dynamic Networks using Change Centrality Paolo
Federico, Jürgen Pfeffer, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Lukas Zenk,
Vienna University of Technology
** Tag Ranking by Linear Relational Neighbourhood Propagation Boris
Chidlovskii*, XRCE
** Examining Multi-factor Interactions in Microblogging Based on
Log-linear Modeling Zhilin Luo, Northwestern Polytechnic University;
Xintao Wu*, ; Wandong Cai, Northwestern Polytechnic University; Dong
Peng, Northwestern Polytechnic University
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Poster Session
===============
Poster  Session  Venue:--   Aug 27-28

** A Complex Network Analysis of the  United States Air Transportation
Dorothy Cheung, University of Nevada, Reno; Mehmet Gunes*, Computer
Science Department of University of Nevada-Reno
** ANALYSIS OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR IN THE NEXUS OF SOCIAL
RELATIONSHIPS: AN APPLICATION IN THE MEDICAL SECTOR Duygu Türker *,
Ya?ar University; Ceren Altunta?, Ya?ar University
** Study of Influential Trends, Communities, and Websites on the
Post-Election Events of Iranian Presidential Election in Twitter
Masoud Asadpour*, University Of Tehran
** Video Game Industry as a Complex Network Tony Morelli, University
of Nevada, Reno; Mehmet Gunes*, Computer Science Department of
University of Nevada-Reno
** Building a Data Warehouse for Twitter Stream Exploration Svetlana
Mansmann, University of Konstanz, Germany; Andreas Weiler, University
of Konstanz, Germany; Marc Scholl, University of Konstanz, Germany;
Nafees Ur  Rahman*, University of Konstanz, Germany
** Knowledge Based Link Prediction  Across Multiple Social Networks
SANTHI THILAGAM*, NITK SURATHKAL; Shubhangi PARDESHI,
** Community Detection in Social Networks Using Information Diffusion
Alireza Hajibagheri*, Shiraz University; Hamidreza Alvari, Shiraz
University; Ali Hamzeh, Shiraz University; Sattar Hashemi, Shiraz
University
** Layout algorithm for clustered graphs to analyze community
interactions in social networks Juan David Cruz*, Telecom-Bretagne;
Cecile Bothorel, Telecom-Bretagne; François Poulet, University of
Rennes I - IRISA
** A Novel Framework For Spammer Detection In Social Bookmarking
Systems Soghra Mehdinejad Gargari*, Istabul Technical University; Sule
Gunduz Oguducu, Istanbul Technical University
** Personal User or Organizational User? Behavior on Microblog can
Tell Yuchu Zuo*, Sun Yat-Sen University; Jianmin Wang, Sun Yat-sen
University
** User interests modeling in online forums Na Ni*, Institute of
Automation, CAS; Yaodong Li, Institute of Automation, CAS
** Getting clusters from structure data and attribute data David
Combe*, Université de St-Etienne; Christine Largeron, ; El?d
Egyed-Zsigmond, INSA Lyon; Mathias Géry, Université de Saint-Etienne
** Social Network Analysis in Organization Development Studies G?zde
Cüce*, Ministry of Science, Industry
** VANET Topology Based Routing Protocols & Performance of AODV, DSR
Routing Protocols in Random Waypoint Scenarios Bijan Paul*, Shahjalal
University; Md.  Abu Naser Bikas, Shahjalal University; Md.  Ibrahim,
Shahjalal University
** An Agglomerative Method to Construct Discrepant Cohesive Subgroups
Tobias Hecking, University Duisburg-Essen; Tilman G?hnert*, University
Duisburg-Essen; H. Ulrich Hoppe, University Duisburg-Essen
** Naturality of Network Creation Games, Measurement and Analysis
MohammadAmin Fazli*, Sharif University of Technolog; Jafar Habibi,
Sharif University of Technology; Hedyeh Beyhaghi, Sharif Univ. of
Technology; Zahra Fahmi, Sharif University of Technology; MohammadAli
Safari, Sharif University of Technology
** Cyclic Entropy of Complex Networks Ibrahim Sorkhoh, Kuwait
University; Khaled Mahdi, Kuwait University; Maytham Safar*, Kuwait
University
** Do-it-yourself justice. Ethics considerations of social media use
in a crisis situation: the case of the 2011 Vancouver riots Caroline
Rizza*, JRC, European Commission ; Angela Guimar?es Pereira, JRC,
European Commission; Michel Chiaramello, JRC, European Commission;
Paula Curvelo, JRC, European Commission
** Towards Social Version Control Ali Koc*, City University of New
York; Abdullah Tansel, Baruch College and Graduate Center; Mehmet
Bicer, Graduate Center - City University of New York
** Understanding Community Evolution and Engagement through
Assortativity in Networks Kon Shing Kenneth Chung*, The University of
Sydney; Mahendrarajah Piraveenan, The University of Sydney; Shahadat
Uddin, The University of Sydney
** A Navigation Algorithm Inspired by Human Navigation Vijesh M*, PES
Institute of Technology; Vijay  Mahantesh, PESIT ; Amitash Ramesh,
Dayananda Sagar Institute of Technology
** Web Page Prediction by Clustering and Integrated Distance Measure
Poornalatha G*, NITK, surathkal; Prakash Raghavendra, NAtional
Institute of Technology Karnataka
** A Probabilistic Inference Attack on Suppressed Social Networks
Bar?? Altop*, Sabanc? University; Mehmet Ercan Nergiz, Zirve
Universitesi; Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
** Analyzing Spammers of Social Networks using Honeypot- A Case Study
of Microblogging of China Yi Zhou, ; Kai Chen*, Shanghai Jiaotong
University; Li Song, ; Xiaokang Yang,
** An Inspection Game to Provide Incentive for Cooperation with
Corrupted Inspectors Yalda Kolahdooz*, Sharif University of Technolog;
Mohammad Ali Safari, Sharif University of Technology
** Graph Searching Algorithms For Semantic-Social Recommendation Dalia
Sulieman*, CergyPontoise University/EISTI; Maria Malek, Ecole
internationale des sciences du traitement de l'information; Hubert
Kadima, Ecole internationale des sciences du traitement de
l'information; Dominique Laurent, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
** Mining Divergent Trust Networks through Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Nima Dokoohaki*, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Sweden; Mihhail
Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
** An Improved Method of Automatic Keyword Extraction Based on
Enriched Concept Graph Zoleikha Jahanbakhsh*, Islamic Azad University,
nagad


===============================================================


HI-BI-BI 2012 Technical Research Sessions
============================================

HI-BI-BI –S1  10:30-12:30    Chair:  Room 4 Aug 27

** A Web-based Medical Emergency Guiding (30)  Jui-Hung Kao, Fei-Pei
Lai, Wei-Zen Sun, Chia-Ping Shen, Huei-Ming Ma, Jin-Ming Wu,Meng-Yu
Chiu, Horng-Twu Liaw,Kai-Chieh Hsu, Yan-Yu, Lam,Shih-Ching Cheng
** Temporal Community Structure Patterns in Diabetes Social Network
(30) Taridzo Chomutare, Eirik Årsand, Gunnar Hartvigsen
** Understanding Group Dynamics in Health Forums (30)  Steven P.
Crain, Shuang-Hong Yang, Hongyuan Zha
** Developing an Efficient Health Clinical Application:IIOP
Distributed Objects Framework (20)  Ayman N. Murshed,  Wadhah
Almansoori,  Konstantinos F. Xylogiannopoulos,   Mohamad Elzohbi,
Reda Alhajj,  Jon Rokne


HI-BI-BI –S2 2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 4 Aug 27

** A Multiclass Classification Tool Using Cloud Computing
Architecture(30) Chia-Ping Shen, Chia-Hung Liu, Feng-Sheng Lin, Han
Lin, Chi-Ying F. Huang, Cheng-Yan Kao, Feipei Lai, Jeng-Wei Lin
** Accurate prediction of response to Interferon-based therapy in
Egyptian patients with Chronic Hepatitis C using machine-learning
approaches(30) Mahmoud Elhefnawi
** Improving Tumor Identification by Using Tumor Markers
Classification Strategy (20) Florije Ismaili, Luzana Bekiri
** A Classifier to Detect Tumor Disease in MRI Brain Images(20)  Amer
Al-Badarneh, Hassan Najadat, Ali M. Alraziqi
** Comparing clustering techniques for real microarray data(20) Vilda
Purutçuo?lu Gazi, Elif Kay??


HI-BI-BI –S3 10:00-12:00 Chair:  Room 4 Aug 28

** Automatic drug adverse reaction discovery from parenting websites
using disproportionality methods (30) Jelena Hadzi-Puric, Jeca Grmusa
** Newborn Screening for Phenylketonuria: Machine Learning vs
Clinicians(30) Wei-Hsin Chen, Han-Ping Chen, Yi-Ju Tseng, Kai-Ping
Hsu, Sheau-Ling Hsieh, Yin-Hsiu Chien, Wuh-Liang Hwu, Feipei Lai
** Wavelet-based Multiscale Filtering of Genomic Data (30) Mohamed
Nounou, Hazem Nounou, Nader Meskin, Aniruddha Datta


HI-BI-BI –S4  1:00 - 3:00 Chair:  Room 4 Aug 28

** Robot-Assisted Medical Visualization with Floating Images (30)
Sandor Markon, Satoshi Maekawa, Ahmet Onat
** Security Standards For Electronic Health Records (20)  Oznur Esra
Par, Ergin Soysal
** Response Surface Modeling and optimization to elucidate the
differential effects of demographic characteristics on HIV prevalence
in South Africa. (30) Wilbert Sibanda, Philip Pretorius, Anne Grobler
============================================================



FOSINT-SI 2012 Program
=====================================
FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speakers

FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speaker I
Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
Title : Cloud-Centric Assured Information Sharing

FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speaker II
Phil Williams, , University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Title : TBA

FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speaker III
Naim Kapucu, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Title : Network Governance in Response to Acts of Terrorism

FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speaker IV
Malgorzata Stecko, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union
Brussels, Belgium
Title : News Content in Situation Monitoring



FOSINT-SI 2012 Technical Research Sessions
================================
FOSINT-SI S1  10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 5 Aug 27

** A Novel Framework For Spammer Detection In Social Bookmarking
Systems Soghra M.Gargari Istanbul Technical University, Sule Guduz
Oguducu Istanbul Technical University  (30)
** Content Mining Of Microblogs ?zgür Cingiz; Banu Diri,
Y?ld?zTechnical University (20)
** An Application Based on Steganography Hamide Karaman, Gazi
University; Seref Sagiroglu, Gazi University, Turkey
** A Usable Model for Dynamic Integration of Data Sources Murat OBALI,
Tübitak; Bunyamin DURSUN, Tübitak  (20)


FOSINT-SI S2 2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 5 Aug 27

** Combining Entity Matching Techniques for Detecting Extremist
Behavior on Discussion Boards  Lisa Kaati, Swedish Defence Research
Agency ; Fredrik Johansson, FOI; Pontus Svenson, Swedish Defence
Research Agency ;  Christian M?rtenson, FOI; Johan Dahlin, Link?pings
university (30)
**  Critical Infrastructure Anda Internal Control Podbregar Iztok,
University of Maribor  (30)
**  Covertness Centrality in Networks Michael Ovelgonne; Chanhyun
Kang; Anshul Sawant; VS Subrahmanian (30)
** Combining Spatial Proximity and Temporal Continuity for Learning
Invariant Representations Olcay Kursun, Istanbul University, Turkey;
Tevfik Aytekin, Bahcesehir University  (20)


FOSINT-SI S3  10:00 -12:00 Chair:  Room 5 Aug 28

** Lessons from a Jihadi Corpus David Skillicorn, Queen's University  (20)
**  Mining Divergent Opinion Trust Networks through Latent Dirichlet
Allocation,   Nima Dokoohaki; Mihhail Matskin (30)
** Mining Hate Crimes to Figure out Reasons Behind (Bugün upload
edildi)  Fatih Ozgul, Turkish National Police; Murat GOK, Turkish
National Police;  Ahmet CELIK, Turkish National Police; Yakup OZAL,
Turkish National Police  (20)
**  The Mental State of Influencers David Skillicorn, Queen's
University; Christian Lauprecht, Queen's University  (30)


FOSINT-SI S4 2:00-3:10 PM Chair:  Room 5 Aug 28

**  Perspective Analysis for Online Debates Sukru Tikves, Sedat
Gokalp, Mhamed Temkit, Sujogya Banerjee, Jieping Ye, Hasan Davulcu
(30)
** Processes View Modeling of Identity-related Privacy Business
Interoperability Considering User-Supremacy Federated Identity
Technical Model and Identity Contract Negotiation  Ghazi Ben Ayed,
University of Lausanne
**  Secret Sharing Scheme: Vector Space Secret Sharing and ? Function
Mustafa Atici, Western Kentucky University  (30)


FOSINT-SI S5 3:30-5:30 PM Chair:  Room 5 Aug 28

**  Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Federico Neri; Carlo Aliprandi;
Federico Capeci; Montserrat Cuadros; Tomas By  (30)
** Uncovering Mobile Phone Users' Malicious Activities using Open
Source Tools Yannis Stamatiou, University of Patras, Greece;
Panagiotis Kotsopoulos, University of Strathclyde  (30)
** VANET Topology Based Routing Protocols & Performance of AODV, DSR
Routing Protocols in Random Waypoint Scenarios Bijan Paul, Md. Abu
Naser Bikas, Md.Ibrahim  (20)
**  Tag Based Recommender System for Social Bookmarking Sites Fatemeh
Ghiyafeh Davoodi, University of Tehran; Omid Fatemi, (30)


Poster  Session   Venue:-  Aug 27-28

** A Hybrid approach for biometric template security Kareem  A.Ghany,
Cairo University; Hesham Hefny, Cairo University; Aboul Ella
Hassanien?, Cairo University; Neveen Ghali, Cairo University
** Data Mining Applications in Clinical Practice Guidelines Abhijeet
Nashte, MAE,Pune,India; Mayura Kinikar


====================== Workshops  ======================

Workshop Title: Business Applications of Social Network Analysis (BASNA 2012)
Workshop Chairs:
• Mohan Saravanan, Ericsson R&D Chennai, India
• Roberto Dandi, Luiss Business School, Italy
• Avik Sarkar, IBM, India
• Irene Ntoutsi, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

BASNA 2012 -- Keynote speaker:  1 :30 -2 :10          Room 1      26 Aug 2012
Maksim Tsvetovat is the Chief Technology Officer of DeepMile Networks,
and  member of the faculty at George Mason University's Center for
Social Complexity.

BASNA2012 S1    Applications for Organizational Network Analysis
2:10-3:30       Chair:  Room 1  Aug 26

** G?zde Cüce. Social Network Analysis in Organization Development Studies
** Lamia Ben Hiba and Mohammed Abdou Janati Idrissi. An SNA-based
evaluation framework for virtual teams
** James Danowski. Analyzing An Organization with a Semantic Network
Include List
** Renuka Hodigere and Diana Bilimoria. Women on public-company
boards: factors that affect their odds of board membership relative to
those of men


BASNA2012 S2    Applications for Community Network Analysis
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 1  Aug 26

** Devipsita Bhattacharya and Sudha Ram. Sharing News Articles Using
140 Characters: A Diffusion Analysis on Twitter
** Claudia Lauschke. Monitoring User Evolution in Twitter
** Tushar Sharma and Tushar Sharma. Finding Communities in Weighted
Signed Social Networks
** Johannes Bjelland, Geoffrey Canright, Kenth Eng?-Monsen, P?l
Sunds?y and Rich Ling. A Social Network Study of the Apple vs. Android
Smartphone Battle
** Shun Hattori. Spatio-Temporal Web Sensor by Social Network Analysis

=====================================

Workshop Title: Complex Social Network Analysis
Workshop Chairs: P. Kazienko, M. Magnani, L. Rossi


CSNA2012 S1     Dynamic social networks and applications
1:30-3:30       Chair:  Room 2  Aug 26

** Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Adam Gonczarek, Jakub Tomczak, Katarzyna
Musia? and Marcin Budka. A Probabilistic Approach to Structural Change
Prediction in Evolving Social Networks
**  Alexander Semenov and Jari Veijalainen. Storage of multirelational
dynamic networks
** Shahadat Uddin, Mahendrarajah Piraveenan, and Kon Shing Kenneth
Chung. Capturing Actor-level Dynamics of Longitudinal Networks
** Han-Chih Liu and Jenq-Haur Wang. Social Influence Estimation for
Short Texts in Plurk
** Sana Elouaer-Mrizak. A social network analysis of interlocking
directorates in French firms
** Ahmed Abdeen Hamed, Rebecca Roose, Alan Rubin and Marlon Branicki.
T-Recs: Time-aware Twitter-based Drug Recommender System


CSNA2012 S2     Data Mining and Complex Social Network Analysis
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 2  Aug 26

** Marek Opuszko and Johannes Ruhland. Classification Analysis in
Complex Online Social Networks Using Semantic Web Technologies
** Giulio Rossetti, Luca Pappalardo and Dino Pedreschi. "How well do
we know each other?": detecting ties strength in multidimensional
social networks
** Klaus Wehmuth and Artur Ziviani. Distributed Assessment of Network
Centralities in Complex Social Networks
** Ibrahim Sorkhoh, Khaled Mahdi and Maytham Safar. Cyclic Entropy of
Complex Networks
** Rados?aw Michalski, Przemyslaw Kazienko and Dawid Kr?l. Predicting
Social Network Measures using Machine Learning Approach

==================================

Workshop Title: Cyber Security of Online Social Network
Workshop Chairs: Luiz F. Capretz, Charles X. Ling, Keivan Kianmehr

CSOSN2012 S1
10:30-12:30     Chair:  Room 1  Aug 26

** Anna Leontjeva, Konstantin Tretjakov, Taavi Tamkivi and Jaak Vilo.
"Analysis of Hypergraph Data with Application to Fraud Detection"
** Anshu Malhotra, Luam Totti, Wagner Meira Jr., Ponnurangam
Kumaraguru and Virglio Almeida. "Studying User Footprints in Different
Online Social Networks"
** Mauro Conti, Radha Poovendran and Marco Secchiero. "FakeBook:
Detecting Fake Profiles in On Line Social Networks"
** Ali Nazemian, Hoda Gholami and Fattaneh Taghiyareh. An Improved
Model of Trust-aware Recommender Systems using distrust metric

=====================================

Workshop Title: International Workshop on Mining Social Networks for
Decision Support (MSNDS 2012)
Workshop Chairs: Yuan-Chu Hwang, I-Hsien Ting, Chen-Shu Wang

MSNDS2012 S1
10:30-12:30     Chair:  Room 4  Aug 26

** Edgar Fuller, Wenliang Tang, Yezhou Wu and Cun-Quan Zhang. Optimal
Clustering Selection on Hierarchical System Network
** Po-Yuan Chen and I-Ming Jiang. Financial Alliance Strategy under
Uncertainty:A Model of Decision Support for Supply Chain Integration
** Lamiaa Mostafa. BidTerm Suggestion for Advertising webpages
** Zeinab Saeidi Masine, Bahman Damirchilo and Vahid Shayestehnia. A
new model for probabilistic polling on social network
** Ekrem Serin and Selim Balcisoy. Entropy Based Sensitivity Analysis
and Visualization of Social Networks
** Alton Y.K. Chua and Radhika Shenoy Balkunje. Interlocking
directorates and profitability: a social network analysis of Fortune
500 companies

MSNDS2012 S2
1:30-2:10       Chair:  Room 4  Aug 26

** Hsiao-Hsuan Lu, I-Hsien Ting and Shyue-Liang Wang. A Novel Search
Engine Based on Social Relationships in Online Social Networking
Website
** Yuan-Chu Hwang and Wei-Cheng Shiau. Exploring Imagery-driven
Service Framework on Social Network Service

=====================

Workshop Title: Data Management in the Social Semantic Web  (Room 3)
Workshop Chairs: Roberto De Virgilio, Andrea Pugliese

Invited talk (10:30-11:30):
V. S. Subrahmanian. Title TBD.

Session 1 (11:30-12:30): Data Management for Social Networks
**  Marco Brambilla, Alessandro Bozzon. Web Data Management through
Crowdsourcing upon Social Networks.
**  Jens Grabarske, Dominic Heutelbeck. An upper ontology for the social web

Invited talk (13:30-14:30):
Andrea Cal?. An Architecture for the Semantic Social Web.

Session 2 (14:30-15:30): Engineering Social Networks
**  Mostafa Dehghani, Masoud Asadpour, Azadeh Shakery. An
Evolutionary-Based Method for Reconstructing Conversation Threads in
Email Corpora
**  Cristian Vasquez. Blackboard Data Spaces for the Elicitation of
Community-based Lightweight ontologies

Session 3 (16:00-17:00): Graph-shaped modeling of Social Networks
** Sushant Khopkar, Rakesh Nagi, Alexander Nikolaev. An Efficient
Map-Reduce Algorithm for the Incremental Computation of All-Pairs
Shortest Paths in Social Networks
** Michal Kozielski, Wojciech Filipowski, Dominik Popowicz, ?ukasz
Warcha?. Density-based community identification and visualisation

Concluding Remarks (17:00-17:30)

===============================

Workshop Title: The 1st Int'l Workshop on Social Knowledge Discovery
and Utilization (SKDU 2012)
Workshop Chairs:
Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia
Tieyun Qian, Wuhuan University, China
Zeki Bozkus, Kadir Has University, Turkey

SKDU2012 S1     Recommendation and Social Bookmarks
2:10-3:30       Chair:  Room 4  Aug 26

** Ranganathan Latha and R. Nadarajan, User Relevance for Item-based
Collaborative Filtering
** Yuta Sakakura, Toshiyuki Amagasa and Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Detecting
Social Bookmark Spams using Multiple User Accounts
** Alberto Lumbreras and Ricard Gavalda, Applying Trust Metrics based
on User Interactions to Recommendation in Social Networks


SKDU2012 S2     Microblog and Community
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 4  Aug 26

** Yasuhiro Yamada, Akira Hattori and Haruo Hayami, Method of
Visualizing Relations between Tweets to Facilitate Discussions via
Twitter
** Tian Zhang and Bin Wu, A Method for Local Community Detection by
Finding Core Node
** Fan Yang, Xiaohui Yu, Yang Liu and Min Yang, Automatic Detection of
Rumor on Sina Weibo
** Mengjiao Wang, Donn Morrison and Conor Hayes, Early and Late Fusion
Methods for the Automatic Creation of Twitter Lists

======================================
Workshop Title: Second Workshop on Social Network Analysis in
Applications (SNAA 2012)
Workshop Chairs:
• Przemyslaw Kazienko (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
• Katarzyna Musial (King's College London, UK)
• Jason J. Jung (Yeungnam University, Korea)


SNAA2012 S1
1:30-3:30       Chair:  Room 5  Aug 26

** Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Tony Morelli, Video Game Industry as a Complex Network
** Vanessa Rocio Bracamonte Lesma and Hitoshi Okada, Influence of
Feedback from SNS Members on Consumer Behavior in Electronic Commerce
** Juan M. Soler, Fernando Cuartero and Manuel Roblizo, Twitter as a
Tool for Predicting Elections Results
** Bogdan Gliwa, Stanis?aw Saganowski, Anna Zygmunt, Piotr Br?dka,
Przemyslaw Kazienko and Jaros?aw Ko?lak, Identification of Group
Changes in Blogosphere

** Sarka Zehnalova, Zdenek Horak, Milos Kudelka and Vaclav Snasel,
Evolution of Author's Topic in Authorship Network (Short Paper)
** Jose Luis Lopez-Cuadrado, Israel Gonzalez-Carrasco, Ricardo
Colomo-Palacios, Rodrigo G?mez-Rodr?guez and Angel Garc?a-Crespo,
CoKIM Collaborative and Social Knowledge-Based Incident Manager (Short
Paper)


SNAA2012 S2
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 5  Aug 26

** Tommy Nguyen and Boleslaw Szymanski, Using Location-Based Social
Networks to Validate Human Mobility and Relationships Models
** Paolo Boldi and Sebastiano Vigna, Four Degrees of Separation, Really

** Noora Alballoshi and Nikolaos Mavridis, A Survey on Social networks
& Organization Development
** Charalampos Chelmis, Vikram Sorathia and Viktor Prasanna,
Enterprise Wisdom Captured Socially
** Valerie Galluzzi, Real Time Distributed Community Structure
Detection in Dynamic Networks

==========================

Workshop Title: SSNAD (The First International Workshop on Semantic
Social Network Analyis and Design)
Workshop Chairs: Johann Stan, I-Hsien Ting

SSNAD2012 S1    Social Network Analysis using Text Mining and Statistical Methods
1:30-3:30       Chair:  Room 6  Aug 26

** Renuka Hodigere, Diana Bilimoria: Constructing Professional
Resource Networks From Career Biographical Database
** David Combe, Christine Largeron, El?d Egyed-Zsigmond, Mathias Géry:
Combining relations and text in scientific network clustering
** Hannaneh Mohammadi Kangarani, Sima Rafsanjani Nezhad, Sara
Rafsanjani Nezhad, Javad  Bakhshi: Investigation of policy structure
in legal authorities of institutions related to water policy making
and management in Iran through network analysis of institutional
relations
** Anita Zbieg, Blazej Zak, Jaroslaw Jankowski,Radoslaw Michalski,
Sylwia Ciuberek: Studying Diffusion of Viral Content at Dyadic Level


SSNAD2012 S2    Social Network Analysis and Recommendation
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 6  Aug 26

** Keynote Speech : Larry Kerschberg (Social Network Analyis and
Recommender Systems : Mutual Benefits)
** M Saravanan,, Gaigipati Prasad, M Jagadeesan, R Revathy, S Rekha:
Group Recommender Model for Boosting and Optimizing Customer Purchases
** Akram Alkouz, Johannes  Brijnesh: An Interests Discovery Approach in Social
** Networks Based on Semantically Enriched Graphs
** John McDowall, Larry Kerschberg: Leveraging Social Networks to
Improve Service Selection in Workflow Composition
** Sanjog Ray: Identifying Influential Taggers in Trust-Aware
Recommender Systems


============================

Workshop Title: The 1st International Workshop on Multi-agent Systems
and Social Networks (WMSSN 2012)
Workshop Chairs: Brahim Chaib-draa, Mehmet Kaya and Mohsen Afsharchi

WMSSN2012 S1    Agent Based Modeling and Analysis
1:30-3:30       Chair:  Room 7  Aug 26

** Seyyed Amin Tabatabei and Masoud Asadpour (University of Tehran),
Study of Influential Trends, Communities, and Websites on the
Post-Election Events of Iranian Presidential Election in Twitter
** Fatemeh Hendijani Fard and Behrouz H. Far (University of Calgary),
Clustering Social Networks to Remove Neutral Nodes
** Amitash Ramesh, Soumya Ramesh, Sudarshan Iyengar, Vinod Sekhar and
C. Pandu Rangan (Indian Statistical Institute), Obstacles Incentivize
Human Learning: A Network Theoretic Study
** Usha Sridhar and Sridhar Mandyam (Ecometrix Research), Pareto
Optimal Allocation in Multi-agent Coalitional Games with Exponential
Payoffs
** Vijesh M, Sudarshan Iyengar, Vijay Mahantesh SM, Amitash Ramesh, C
Pandurangan and Veni Madhavan (Indian Statistical Institute), A
Navigation Algorithm Inspired by Human Navigation
** Fan Yang, Xiaohui Yu, Yang Liu and Min Yang (Shandong University),
Automatic Detection of Rumor on Sina Weibo


WMSSN2012 S2    Community Discovery and Evolution in Social Networks
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 7  Aug 26

** Andreas Kalaitzakis, Harris Papadakis and Paraskevi Fragopoulou
(Technological Educational Institute of Crete), Evolution of User
Activity and Community Formation in an Online Social Network
** Daniel Goldsmith and Michael Siegel (MIT Sloan School of
Management), Cyber Politics: Understanding the use of Social Media for
Dissident Movements in an Integrated State Stability Framework
** Sridhar Mandyam and Usha Sridhar (Ecometrix Research),Community
Learning from External Information Sources
** Suhas Venkatesh, Amitash Ramesh, Sudarshan Iyengar and Udaya Shyama
(BNM Institute of Technology), Landmark Identification in Complex
Networks
** Nafees Ur Rehman, Svetlana Mansmann, Andreas Weiler and Marc H.
Scholl(University of Konstanz), Building a Data Warehouse for Twitter
Stream Exploration
** Poornalatha G and Prakash S Raghavendra (National Institute of
Technology Karnataka), Web Page Prediction by Clustering and
Integrated Distance Measure

Workshop  title:   Searching with the Pro's
Organizer : Arno Reuser


Program Overview:
================

Preliminary Program Overview for
IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2012  --  FOSINT-SI 2012 – HI-BI-BI 2012 and
collocated workshops
Sunday 26 August 2012
8:30    Opening ceremony for workshops
9:00-10:00 AM   ASONAM - Keynote Speaker I
10:00-10:30 AM  Break
10:30-12:30 AM  CSOSN2012 S1            DMSSW 2012      MSNDS 2012      ARNO Reuser Workshop
12:30-1:30 PM   Lunch Break
1:30-2:10 PM    BASNA2012  Keynot -- CSNA 2012 S1 -- DMSSW 2012-- MSNDS
2012 -- SNAA 2012-- SSNAD 2012 -- WMSSN 2012
2:10-3:30 PM    BASNA2012  S1 -- SKDU 2012 S1
3:30-4:00 PM    Break
4:00-6:00 PM    BASNA2012  S2 -- CSNA 2012 S2 -- DMSSW 2012 -- SKDU 2012
S2 -- SNAA 2012 -- SSNAD 2012 -- WMSSN 2012

Sunday 26 August 2012
10:30-12:30     Tutorial 1
       Lunch Break
1:30-3:30       Tutorial 2      Tutorial 3
       Break
4:00-6:00       Tutorial 4      Tutorial 5

7:00-9:00 PM    Reception


Monday 27 August 2012
8:30 Opening ceremony for ASONAM+FOSINT+HIBIHI
9:00-10:00 AM ASONAM - Keynote Speaker II FOSINT-SI Keynote Speaker  I
10:00-10:30 AM Break
10:30-12:30 AM ASONAM-S1 ASONAM–S2 ASONAM –S3 FOSINT-SI-S1 HIBIHI-S1
12:30-1:30 PM Lunch Break
ASONAM -- Demo Session  --  ASONAM  Poster Session  --  FOSINT-SI Poster Session
1:30pm-2:30pm ASONAM - Keynote Speaker III FOSINT-SI Keynote Speaker  II
2:30-4:30 PM ASONAM-S4 ASONAM-S5 ASONAM -S6 FOSINT-SI-S2 HIBIBI-S2
4:30-5:00 PM Break
5:00-7:00 PM Panel


Tuesday 28 August 2012
8:30-9:30 AM ASONAM - Keynote Speaker IV FOSINT-SI Keynote Speaker  III
9:30-10:00 AM Break
10:00-12:00 ASONAM-S7 ASONAM –S8 ASONAM –S9 FOSINT-SI-S3 HIBIHI-S3
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch Break
               ASONAM -- Demo Session   --  ASONAM  Poster Session
--  FOSINT-SI Poster Session
1:00-3:00 PM ASONAM-S10 ASONAM –S11 ASONAM –S12 HIBIHI-S4
1:00-2:00 PM FOSINT-SI Keynote Speaker  IV
2:00-3:10 PM FOSINT-SI-S4
3:00-3:30 PM Break
3:30-5:30 PM ASONAM-S13 ASONAM –S14 ASONAM –S15 FOSINT-SI-S5

Wednesday 29 August 2012
9:00-10:00 AM ASONAM - Keynote Speaker V
10:00-10:30AM Break
10:30-12:30 AM ASONAM-S16 ASONAM –S17 ASONAM –S18
12:30-1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30-3:30 PM ASONAM –S19 ASONAM –S20 ASONAM –S21
3:30-4:00 PM Break
4:00 PM closing

Thursday 30 August 2012
All day Tour for interested participants
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