Workshop on Social Interactions Analysis and Services Providers (SIASP) @ICDM2010

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The 2010 Workshop on Social Interactions Analysis and Services Providers
(SIASP)
In conjunction with the IEEE ICDM 2010
December 13th, 2010, Sydney, Australia
http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~siasp/
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CALL FOR PAPERS

With the emergence of Web 2.0, the user became the heart of various
technologies that compose this new era such as mashups, collaborative
environments, social networks, etc. The main added ingredient is
certainly the social dimension with the aim of linking users together to
facilitate their interaction and make it richer and more productive. The
social Web is increasingly becoming the most interesting part of the Web
and is at the point of challenging well established Web players such as
the traditional search engines, e.g., Google. This is a huge step
forward from a user perspective but also opens up great prospects for
research in an environment that becomes increasingly complex, less
structured and more hostile considering the great mass of knowledge
generally hidden from the user.

Social networks are the focus of most of the work being done around the
social Web. Works in this area address in particular the structural
properties, e.g., the strength of social connections, characterization
of key players, etc. Apart from social networks, the social dimension
may be found in other forms and other locations on the Web: social media
such as YouTube and Flickr, social news like Digg or Twitter, or social
bookmarking as Delicious (del.icio.us). All these forms constitute a
huge container of social information with knowledge that may be useful
to the user. This knowledge may be leveraged by, e.g., offering new
value added services exploiting that knowledge, which otherwise is very
poorly exploited by users and service providers today.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and young researchers
from both academia and industry around issues related to the social
interactions analysis through mining social data for providing users
added value services. On the other hand, it is necessary to study and
understand how services providers could leverage this huge mass of
hidden knowledge for, e.g., business purposes, an issue facing all
services providers in this area. Concretely, this includes confronting
ideas in order to have a clearer view of the elements that surround this
new phenomenon, to build a clear overview of advances in the various
tracks related to the new Web era and then examining the scientific and
industrial short, medium and long terms to rise around this hot topic.

The workshop includes the following topics (but not limited to):
- Knowledge discovery from social data;
- Social networks (personal/professional) analysis;
- Social interactions analysis and aervice providers;
- Social analysis for content and services personalization;
- Social interactions analysis for information retrieval and filtering;
- Social recommender systems
- Community extraction and analysis;
- Privacy and social interactions analysis;
- Business models;
- New challenges and applications of social interactions analysis
for services providers;
- etc.

Submission must be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages
using the IEEE format. All the submissions will be reviewed by at least
three reviewers. Authors should submit their articles electronically
through the submission platform using the workshop website.

IMPORTANT DATES
- July 18, 2010 : Abstract submission
- July 23, 2010 : Full paper submission
- September 20, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
- October 8, 2010: Camera-ready of accepted papers
- December 13, 2010: Workshop date

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
- Hakim Hacid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
- Cécile Favre, Université Lyon 2, France
- Tetsuya Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- David Carmel, IBM Research, Israel
- Aiyou Chen, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA
- Paul El-Khoury, SAP Research, France
- Amol Ghoting, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
- Laurent Gomez, SAP Research, France
- Fabrice Guillet, Université de Nantes, France
- Makoto Haraguchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Silvija Kokalj, INRIA Saclay, France
- Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
- David Konopnicki, IBM Research, Israel
- Yosi Mass, IBM Research, Israel
- Mikolaj Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
- Victor Muntés Mulero, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Yoshiaki Okubo, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Nisheeth Shrivastava, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, India
- Emina Soljanin, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA
- Julia Stoyanovich, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Aixin Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece