Call For Papers: Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications (SNAA 2012)

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Call For Papers: Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications
(SNAA 2012)
26 August 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/SNAA2012/

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications (SNAA 2012) that is held as a part of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012), 26-29 August, 2012, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Social networks have been investigated for many years but the scope of the analyses was limited due to the small data samples that were collected using questionnaires and interviews. Nowadays, at our disposal we have vast amount of data about people and their interactions that can be and are gatheblack using computer systems. This data comes from technological-based services such as Online Social Networking Sites, telecommunication services, email, etc. From this vast amount of data we are able to extract and analyse the social networks of new-era that can be consist of millions of nodes and connections. Due to scale, complexity and dynamics, these networks are extremely difficult to analyse in terms of traditional social network analysis methods being at our disposal. On the other hand, the data about human communication, common activities and collaboration simultaneously provide new opportunities for new applications.? This workshop is devoted to analysis of these large-scale social structures and what is more important to identify the areas where social network analysis can be applied and provide the knowledge that is not accessible for other types of analysis. Additionally, applications of social networks analysis can be investigated either from static or dynamic perspective. We seek for business and industrial applications of social network analysis that help to solve real-world problems. The area of social networks analysis and its applications bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields and the main goal of this workshop is to provide for these people the opportunity to share their visions, research achievements and solutions as well as to establish worldwide cooperative research and development. At the same time, we want to provide a platform for discussing research topics underlying the concepts of social network analysis and its applications by inviting members of different communities that share this common interest of investigating social networks. As the area of social networks is a highly cross-disciplinary one, we aim to foster and develop sustainable collaborations between Computer Science and Informatics, Sociology, Cognitive Science and Psychology, Geographic and Environmental Science, Biology, and Health and Social Sciences. This will give the opportunity to push further the discussion upon the potential of social networks and their applications across these communities.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The scope of the 2nd Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications (SNAA 2012) includes, but is not limited to the following application areas of social network analysis:

    Social Media
    Business / e-business / e-commerce
    Customer relationship management
    Customer behavioural analysis
    Recommender systems – Collaborative filtering and personalization     Information / opinion / knowledge spread and modelling     Medical applications, e.g. diseases spread     Social networks in health and social care     Educational applications / e-learning     Collaborative Information Retrieval
    Social networking sites, incl. dating applications     Crime detection and investigation
    Organisational structure evaluation
    Collaborative environments, incl. wikis     Sharing systems
    Virtual worlds and online multiplayer games     Systems for e-society, incl. e-government     User analysis in web-based systems
    Real – world case studies from the area of social network analysis

HOW TO SUBMIT
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. Full paper submission deadline is May 7, 2012. 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.

Research paper authors should submit papers to the EasyChair

In case of any problem do not hesitate to contact – SNAA organizing committee.

IMPORTANT DATES
    May 7, 2012
    Full paper submission deadline
    June 7, 2012
    Notification of acceptance
    June 15, 2012
    Camera-ready paper due
    June 15, 2012
    Presenting author registration due
    August 26-29, 2012
    Conference, the workshop is scheduled on the first day of the ASONAM conference (August 26, 2012) Received on Mon Mar 12 2012 - 11:07:53 CET

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