CFP - Workshop on Modeling, Managing and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (M3SN)

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

                           Workshop on
 Modeling, Managing, and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (M3SN)

                      In conjunction with
 the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE'09,
                 Shanghai, China. March 29, 2009

       Web Page: http://research.microsoft.com/dmx/M3SN/ 
<http://research.microsoft.com/dmx/M3SN/>
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Online social networking is gradually turning into the primary means
of interacting with friends and peers online, forming new social ties,
or most commonly as a way of users to manage their "personal spaces".
Study of these large-scale social networking systems, their
evolution, and development of data mining techniques that turn the
rich latent information within these networks into actionable
intelligence is of great interest. Presence of a diversity of content
(photos, videos, travel maps, reviews, interactive gaming, etc.) as
well as a variety of interaction paths (explicit friendships, links to
bookmarks or blogs, comments left on blogs, etc.) give raise to a
number of new and unique research challenges in terms of their
management, mining and modeling. Their effective solution requires
deeper collaboration amongst research areas ranging from graph theory
to sociology and economic models to data engineering. In this workshop
we aim to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to
address the open research challenges in dynamic social networks. We
solicit original high-quality submissions dealing with various aspects
of modeling and mining of evolving social networks with applications
to recommendation systems, targeted advertising, and classification/
clustering of entities.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

- Modeling of Social Networks
 o Evolutionary models for social networks.
 o Privacy and security issues.
 o Modeling trust and reputation in social networks.

- Recommendation
 o Importance of friendship links in social recommender systems.
 o Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the social network.
 o Classification models and their application in social recommender 
systems.

- Advertisement models
 o Influence models and their application in social environment
 o Social advertising.
 o Use of social networks for marketing

- Search in social media
 o Web page ranking informed by social media.
 o Expertise discovery.
 o Collaborative Filtering.


IMPORTANT DATES
 Papers due:                            November 18, 2008
 Notification to Authors :              December 15, 2008
 Camera ready versions:                 January 2, 2009
 Workshop:                              March 29, 2009


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
 All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not
 currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their
 significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and
 relevance to the workshop. Research papers must be formatted using
 the 8/5"x11" IEEE camera-ready format; templates are available at:
 http://i.cs.hku.hk/icde2009/aik.htm <http://i.cs.hku.hk/icde2009/aik.htm>

 Full papers should not exceed 8 pages, short papers not
 exceed 4 pages and be submitted using the M3SN site at:
 https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/M3SN 
<https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/M3SN>


CONFIRMED KEYNOTES
 Edward Y. Chang  - Director of Research, Google China
 Sihem Amer-Yahia - Yahoo! Research


ORGANIZATION

Workshop Organizers
 Ralitsa Angelova, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
 Srikanta Bedathur, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
 Arnd Christian Konig, Microsoft Research, USA
 Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA

Program Committee:
 Eytan Adar          University of Washington, USA
 James Caverlee      Texas A&M University, USA
 Debora Donato       Yahoo! Research, Spain
 Thomas Hofmann      Google Europe
 Matthew Hurst       Microsoft Live Labs, USA
 Jeanette Janssen    Dalhousie University, Canada
 Georgia Koutrika    Stanford University, USA
 Evangelos Milios    Dalhousie University, Canada
 Bamshad Mobasher    DePaul University, USA
 Ingmar Weber        EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

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<br>
CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
<br>
Workshop on<br>
 Modeling, Managing, and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (M3SN)<br>
<br>
In conjunction with<br>
 the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE'09,<br>
                 Shanghai, China. March 29, 2009<br>
<br>
Web Page: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/dmx/M3SN/">http://research.<wbr>microsoft.<wbr>com/dmx/M3SN/</a> <br>
&lt;<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/dmx/M3SN/">http://research.<wbr>microsoft.<wbr>com/dmx/M3SN/</a>&gt;<br>
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<br>
Online social networking is gradually turning into the primary means<br>
of interacting with friends and peers online, forming new social ties,<br>
or most commonly as a way of users to manage their &quot;personal spaces&quot;.<br>
Study of these large-scale social networking systems, their<br>
evolution, and development of data mining techniques that turn the<br>
rich latent information within these networks into actionable<br>
intelligence is of great interest. Presence of a diversity of content<br>
(photos, videos, travel maps, reviews, interactive gaming, etc.) as<br>
well as a variety of interaction paths (explicit friendships, links to<br>
bookmarks or blogs, comments left on blogs, etc.) give raise to a<br>
number of new and unique research challenges in terms of their<br>
management, mining and modeling. Their effective solution requires<br>
deeper collaboration amongst research areas ranging from graph theory<br>
to sociology and economic models to data engineering. In this workshop<br>
we aim to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to<br>
address the open research challenges in dynamic social networks. We<br>
solicit original high-quality submissions dealing with various aspects<br>
of modeling and mining of evolving social networks with applications<br>
to recommendation systems, targeted advertising, and classification/<br>
clustering of entities.<br>
<br>
TOPICS OF INTEREST<br>
<br>
- Modeling of Social Networks<br>
 o Evolutionary models for social networks.<br>
 o Privacy and security issues.<br>
 o Modeling trust and reputation in social networks.<br>
<br>
- Recommendation<br>
 o Importance of friendship links in social recommender systems.<br>
 o Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the social network.<br>
 o Classification models and their application in social recommender <br>
systems.<br>
<br>
- Advertisement models<br>
 o Influence models and their application in social environment<br>
 o Social advertising.<br>
 o Use of social networks for marketing<br>
<br>
- Search in social media<br>
 o Web page ranking informed by social media.<br>
 o Expertise discovery.<br>
 o Collaborative Filtering.<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES<br>
 Papers due:                            November 18, 2008<br>
 Notification to Authors :              December 15, 2008<br>
 Camera ready versions:                 January 2, 2009<br>
 Workshop:                              March 29, 2009<br>
<br>
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<br>
 All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not<br>
 currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their<br>
 significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and<br>
 relevance to the workshop. Research papers must be formatted using<br>
 the 8/5&quot;x11&quot; IEEE camera-ready format; templates are available at:<br>
 <a href="http://i.cs.hku.hk/icde2009/aik.htm">http://i.cs.<wbr>hku.hk/icde2009/<wbr>aik.htm</a> &lt;<a href="http://i.cs.hku.hk/icde2009/aik.htm">http://i.cs.<wbr>hku.hk/icde2009/<wbr>aik.htm</a>&gt;<br>
<br>
Full papers should not exceed 8 pages, short papers not<br>
 exceed 4 pages and be submitted using the M3SN site at:<br>
 <a href="https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/M3SN">https://cmt.<wbr>research.<wbr>microsoft.<wbr>com/M3SN</a> <br>
&lt;<a href="https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/M3SN">https://cmt.<wbr>research.<wbr>microsoft.<wbr>com/M3SN</a>&gt;<br>
<br>
CONFIRMED KEYNOTES<br>
 Edward Y. Chang  - Director of Research, Google China<br>
 Sihem Amer-Yahia - Yahoo! Research<br>
<br>
ORGANIZATION<br>
<br>
Workshop Organizers<br>
 Ralitsa Angelova, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany<br>
 Srikanta Bedathur, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany<br>
 Arnd Christian Konig, Microsoft Research, USA<br>
 Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA<br>
<br>
Program Committee:<br>
 Eytan Adar          University of Washington, USA<br>
 James Caverlee      Texas A&amp;M University, USA<br>
 Debora Donato       Yahoo! Research, Spain<br>
 Thomas Hofmann      Google Europe<br>
 Matthew Hurst       Microsoft Live Labs, USA<br>
 Jeanette Janssen    Dalhousie University, Canada<br>
 Georgia Koutrika    Stanford University, USA<br>
 Evangelos Milios    Dalhousie University, Canada<br>
 Bamshad Mobasher    DePaul University, USA<br>
 Ingmar Weber        EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland<br>
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