(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) HotSocial: First ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research August 12, 2012, Beijing, China (in conjunction with ACM KDD 2012, August 12-16, 2012)
Call for Papers With the blessing of information technology, we are living in an increasingly networked world. People, information and other entities are connected via World Wide Web, email networks, instant messaging networks, mobile communication networks, online social networks, etc. These online networks grow fast and possess huge amount of recorded information, which presents great opportunities in understanding the science of these networks, and in developing new applications from these networks and for these networks. The increasingly networked society has fundamentally changed our way of thinking, individual behaviors and social activities. It is foreseen that the public health relating to epidemic diseases is greatly impacted by this emerging connectivity as they are by nature mediated by direct or indirect human interactions and mobility. However, new challenges have to be met – the networks are huge and information is noisy, and they demand new methodologies in accessing and analyzing these networks, and in developing theories and applications for the networks. To meet with these challenges, researchers from a wide range of academic fields, including theory and algorithms, data mining and machine learning, computer systems and networks, statistical physics and complex systems, sociology, social psychology, economics and managerial science, etc. are all actively studying various aspects concerning social and information networks. However, we lack the proper opportunities for people from these diverse backgrounds to directly interact with each other. The diversity of approaches and methodologies to study various social networks has raised the need for an interdisciplinary effort to create the required expertise to address the fundamental open questions in this field. This workshop is intended to present such an opportunity and serve as a forum to bring together people from various fields to exchange their latest research results and to sparkle new ideas and directions to properly understand these networks. Some of the fundamental open questions are: * Accessing social network data. Different communities have different means, each with pros and cons. Experience exchanges from different communities will be beneficial. * Protecting users’ data. Privacy and data protection techniques considering social and legal aspects are required. * Interdisciplinary collaborations to enable in depth understanding of social behaviors. * Can social network features be exploited for a better computing and social network system design? * How do online social networks play a role in real-life (offline) community formation and evolution? * How do human mobility and interactions influence human behaviors and thus public health? How can we develop methodologies to investigate the public health and their correlates in the context of the social networks? Topics of Interest: Main topics of this workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: * Methods for accessing social networks (e.g., sensor nets, mobile apps, crawlers) and bias correlation for use in different communities (e.g., sociology, behavior studies, epidemiology) * Privacy and ethic issues of data collection and management of large social graphs, with focus on legal and social constraints * Application of data mining and machine learning in the context of specific social networks * Information spread models and campaign detection * Trust, reputation and community evolution in the online and offline interacted social networks, including the presence and evolution of social identities and social capital in OSNs * Understanding complex systems and scale-free networks from an interdisciplinary angle * Interdisciplinary experiences and intermediate results on social network research Submissions Submissions must present original results. Selected papers will be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Submissions can be either a full workshop paper (no more than 6 pages long, double-column) or an extended abstract/position paper (2 pages, double-column); please strictly follow the SIGKDD template (http://sigkdd.org/kdd2012/author_reviewer_info.shtml). All paper submission will be handled via Easychair Submission System (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=hotsocial2012). Papers will be reviewed single blind by the TPC. Extended versions of selected papers of special merit presented at the workshop are subject to considerations - subject to peer review - for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications journal. Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: May 16, 2012 (11:59 PM, EST) Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2012 Camera-ready version: June 12, 2012 HotSocial Workshop Day: Aug 12, 2012 Workshop TPC Co-Chairs: * Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany * Peter Gloor, MIT, USA * Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Panel Chair: * Jar-Der Luo, Tsinghua University, China Technical Program Committee: * Vitaly Belik, Physics, MIT, USA and MPI-DS, Germany (Complex systems, epidemics) * Margarete Boos, Courant Center for Evolution of Social Behaviors, U. Goettingen, Germany (Social psychology, social behaviors) * Wei Chen, Microsoft Research Asia, China (Social and information systems) * Kai Fischbach, Social networks and information systems, U. Bamberg, Germany (Social network analysis) * Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany (Mobile social networks) * Benyuan Liu, Computer Science, UMass, Lowell, USA (Online social networks, mobile social networks, epidemiology) * Jar-Der Luo, Sociology, Tsinghua U., China (Social capital and social structure, social network analysis) * Cecilia Mascolo, Computer Science, U. Cambridge, UK (Mobile social networks) * Yasmin Merali, Management Science, U. Warwick, UK (Complex networks) * Alessandra Sala, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (Graph algorithms, social network privacy) * Christian Stegbauer, Sociology, U. Frankfurt, Germany (Social network analysis) * Allen Zhiwei Wu, Epidemiology/public health, Nanjing U., China (Infectious disease spreading) * Xifeng Yan, Computer Science, UCSB, USA (Data mining, machine learning) * Ben Zhao, Computer Science, UCSB, USA (Social network measurement, social data analysis and anonymization) * Zhi-Hua Zhou, Computer Science, Nanjing U., China (Data mining, machine learning) Website: http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu/hotsocial/ Contact us: hotsocial2012 -- at -- easychair.org _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
