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Announcement:
Keynote Speaker: Dr.
Raghu Ramakrishnan
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Yahoo! Vice President and Yahoo! Research Fellow
Title and abstract to be available shortly
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In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly, thanks to the prevalence of the online social websites and instant messaging systems. 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. The social flair of the Web poses new challenges for the data mining community. Social networking in the Web is a phenomenon of scientific interest per se; there is demand for flexible and robust community discovery technologies but also for interdisciplinary research on the rules and behavioral patterns that emerge and characterize community formation and evolution. Further, the social Web poses challenges for the individual; assistance �C and ultimately, personalization �C is needed for a broad scope of activities, including the traditional search for documents, the less traditional search for multimedia content and the search for similar people and for answers to poorly articulated information needs. Moreover, the misuse potential of social formations cannot be stressed enough: People are confronted with unreliable or even malicious content, with surveillance and even stealth of information and of personal data; detection and protection mechanisms are needed here, based on a deep understanding of patterns of misuse and misbehavior. Finally, the diversity of social structures in the Web must be kept in mind: Social structures in the Web take many forms, including wikis and folksonomies where people contribute semantically rich content, platforms for collaborative annotations where people enrich existing content, bulletin boards and similar fora where people seek for advice but also establish new contacts, but also the implicit communities to be found in auction platforms and among the reviewers of products and services; these are communities where reputation and trust play a mission-critical role. Data miners are expected to deliver solutions for the challenges in searching, personalizing, understanding and protecting those social structures. The Joint 9th WEBKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop 2007 aims to bring together practitioners and researchers with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with the traditional Web, the social Web, and other forms of social networking systems. The workshop solicits experimental and theoretical work on Web mining and social network analysis, including (1) data mining advances on the discovery and analysis of communities, on personalization for solitary activities (like search) and social activities (like discovery of potential friends), on the analysis of user behavior in open fora (like conventional sites, blogs and fora) and in commercial platforms (like e-auctions) and on the associated security and privacy-preservation challenges; (2) social network modeling, scalable, customizable social network infrastructure construction , dynamic growth and evolution patterns identification and discovery using machine learning approaches or multi-agent based simulation. In addition to paper presentations and depending on time limitations, we will solicit an invited talk or a panel that will stress the interdisciplinary challenges of the social Web. |
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The Joint 9th WEBKDD and 1st SNA-KDD '2007 Workshop solicits contributions on Web mining and social network analysis, including traditional Web and Semantic Web applications, the emerging applications of the Web as a social medium, as well as social network modeling and analysis. Papers should elaborate on data mining or related methods, issues associated to data preparation and pattern interpretation, both for conventional data (usage logs, query logs, document collections) and for multimedia data (pictures and their annotations, multi-channel usage data). Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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All submissions must be made electronically at the paper submission website. Papers should be no longer than 10 pages inclusive of all references and figures. Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font, approx. 1in margins). Please use the prescribed formatting guidelines of KDD (ACM Proceedings) which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. All papers must be submitted in either PDF (preferred) or postscript. Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original, and have not been published elsewhere. The workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM Digital Library and distributed during the workshop.
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Note: for inquiries please send e-mail to mobasher @ cs.depaul.edu and hzhang @ ist. psu.edu
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