CFP: 6th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media

CALL FOR PAPERS
6th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2015)

Behavioral Analytics in Social Media, Big Data and the Web

to be held on May 19, 2015, Florence, Italy
co-located with ACM WWW 2015

http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2015/
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Important Dates:
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Submission Deadline: Jan 24, 2015 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
Notification of Acceptance: Feb 22, 2015
Camera-Ready Versions Due: Mar 8, 2015
Workshop date: May 19, 2015

Workshop Organizers:
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Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Kassel,
Germany;atzmueller@cs.uni-kassel.de
Alvin Chin, Microsoft, Beijing, China; alvin.chin@utoronto.ca
Christoph Trattner, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway; trattner.christoph@gmail.com

For the 6h International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the field of behavioral analytics using web and social media data. Behavioral analytics is an important topic, e.g., concerning web applications as well as extensions in mobile and ubiquitous applications, for understanding user behavior. We would also like to invite researchers in the data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media.

Thus, we invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to:

Behavioral analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web

• approaches for personalization and recommendations
• methods for social structure and community discovery
• methods for tie strength or link prediction
• methods for extracting and understanding user and group behavior
• methods for extracting and understanding user and group behavior
• methods for predicting user behavior
• methods for user modelling and profiling
• applications of behavioural analytics
• privacy and security in behavioural analytics
• applications of any of the above methods and technologies

The goal of this workshop is to apply behavioral analytics approaches and algorithms on social media, big data and the web.

Hence, the workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of personalization, recommendation, community discovery, profiling and prediction from social media.

Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style.

Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2015

Program Committee:
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Luca Aiello, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona, Spain
Robin Burke, de Paul, USA
Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, Australia
Polo Chau, Georgia Tech, USA
Guanling Chen, University of Massachussetts Lowell, USA
Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany
Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnic University, USA
Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel
Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany
Sharon Hsiao, Columbia University, USA
Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, INRIA, France
Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany
Simon Koo, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Dominik Kowald, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Florian Lemmerich, University of Wuerzburg
Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Leandro Balby Marinho, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brasil
Kjetil Norvag, NTNU, Norway
Denis Parra, PUC, Chile
Christoph Scholz, University of Kassel, Germany
Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Yang Su, Fudan University, China
Claudia Wagner, GESIS, DE
Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA

Proceedings:
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Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2015 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library.
However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication.

Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference.

Submission guidelines:
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All submitted papers 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 six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices.

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

All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2015

Contact:
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Martin Atzmueller - atzmueller@cs.uni-kassel.de
Alvin Chin - alvin.chin@utoronto.ca
Christoph Trattner - trattner.christoph@gmail.com

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