MSNDS 2013: The 5th International Workshop on Mining and Analyzing Social Networks for Decision Support

Niagara Falls, Canada, August 25-28, 2013

 

Co-located With Asonam 2013

 

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Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Universite Jean-Monnet and Bell Labs co-organize the second edition of the 

International Workshop on Semantic and Dynamic Analysis of Information Networks, co-located with Asonam 2013.

 

1. Background and Objectives

 

Mining social networks has now becoming a very popular research area not only for

data mining and web mining but also social network analysis. Data mining is a

technique that has the ability to process and analyze large amount of data and by this

to discover valuable information from the data. In recent year, due to the booming of

social communications and social networks web services, data mining becomes a very

important and powerful technique to process and analyze such large amount of data.

Recently, many researchers are focusing on developing new data mining techniques

and algorithms, or devoting to improve traditional mining techniques for social

network analysis. However, it is meaningless, if the discovered valuable and useful

data have not been applied in real application environment. Social data are the

aggregations of communication interaction and experience of people, and it if useful

for us to make decision from these data. Thus, it could be an important time to shift

the research focus to application area, such as decision support.

The workshop was firstly organized in conjunction with ASONAM 2009 conference

in Athens, Greece. MSNDS 2010 was conjunction with ASONAM 2010 in Odense,

Denmark. MSNDS 2011 was conjunction with ASONAM 2011 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Recently, MSNDS was held with ASONAM 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey this summer.

Thus, it is also valuable to include this workshop again in ASONAM 2013 to bring

researchers who are interested in this topic.

 

2. Topics include, but are not limited to:

 

This workshop invites papers of the following topics, but never exclusive:

 

· Mining social Data for decision support

· Mining social web services for decision support

· Algorithms for mining social networks for decision support

· Matching engines and interfaces for decision support systems

· System architectures

· Intelligent and multi-agent based decision support systems

· Social decision support systems

· Visualization

· Experiment and implementation

· Case studies and empirical studies

 

3. Important Dates:

 

Full papers submission deadline: April 15, 201

Notification of acceptance: May 6, 2013

Camera ready papers: May 31, 2013

Author registration due: June 10, 2013

Workshop date:  Niagara Falls, Canada, August 25-28, 2013

 

 

 

4. Workshop chairs and Program Committee

 

Workshop Co-Chairs

 

Mr. Liang-Cheng James Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Prof. Yuan-Chu Hwang (National United University, Taiwan)

Prof. I-Hsien Ting (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

Prof. Shyue-Liang Wang (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

 

Program Committee

 

Dr. Nicola Barbieri (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)

Dr. Michael Farrugia (Planitas, Ireland)

Dr. Cheng-Te Li (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Prof. Luca Rossi (University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy)

Prof. Johann Stan (Universite de Lyon, France)

Prof. Chen-Su Wang (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)

Prof. Hsieh-Hua Yang (Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan)

 

 

7. Submissions (more details on webpage)

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.

Submission System 

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