CFP: 1st Int'l Workshop on Social Knowledge Discovery and Utilization (SKDU'12)

[Toshiyuki AMAGASA <amagasa [at] cs.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

日本データベース学会のみなさま

筑波大学の天笠です．

ASONAM2012 の併設ワークショップ SKDU2012 ご案内します．ソーシャ
ルメディアからの知識発見と利活用をテーマにしております．
selected paper のジャーナルへの推薦もございます．

場所はイスタンブールと魅力的ですので，ぜひご投稿をご検討くだ
さい．よろしくお願いいたします．

天笠俊之
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			    CALL FOR PAPERS

 The 1st Int'l Workshop on Social Knowledge Discovery and Utilization
			       SKDU2012
	    http://people.cs.aau.dk/~rpan/skdu/
				   
In conjunction with IEEE/ACM ASONAM2012, Istanbul, Turkey, 
               August 26-29, 2012. (http://www.asonam2012.etu.edu.tr/)

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OVERVIEW
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Today the emergence of web-based communities and hosted services such
as social networking sites, microbloggings, wikis and folksonomies,
brings in tremendous freedom of Web autonomy and facilitate
collaboration and knowledge sharing between users. Along with the
interaction between users and computers, social cyberspace is rapidly
becoming an important part of our digital experience, ranging from
digital textual information to diverse multimedia forms. These aspects
and characteristics constitute of the core of second generation of
Web. Some sorts of on-the-fly experience is learned and obtained by
daily users. This type of experience can, in addition, be recognized
as a particular way to cultivate domain knowledge. One typical
instance is friend-sourcing. Friend-sourcing gathers social
information in a social context, which information can be used to
personalize users's computing experiences, for example to aid question
answering for topics comprehensible only to a few of a user's friends.

A prominent challenge lies in modeling and mining this vast pool of
data to extract, represent and distribute the meaningful knowledge and
to utilize structures and dynamics of the social knowledge, such as
emerging social networks residing in the social media, for better user
experience and satisfaction. This workshop attempts to fill the gap
between social experience and knowledge discovery and utiliztion,
encouraging to share achievements, experiments, and ideas from the
perspective of knowledge discovery and data mining, and to propose a
range of strategies and practices to identify, create, represent,
distribute, and enable the adoption of novel insights and experiences
for knowledge utilization.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The main goals of the workshop are: (1) to create a platform to
discuss latest issues, trends, solutions, and cutting-edge research
strategies in knowledge discovery and utilization in context of social
cyberspace; (2) to bring together acdemic researchers and industrial
practitioners to discuss problems, current studies, and solutions on
how the knowledge is discovered and utilized in a socialized
environment to facilitate human experience and satisfaction.

We solicit original and high quality submissions addressing all
aspects of this field. The topics of interest include, but are not be
limited to the following:

- Computational models for social media
- Influence, trust, and privacy
- Search in social networks and social media
- Interoperability among social applications and social media
- Techniques for social-network analysis/mining and for the analysis
  of social-media phenomena
- Adversarial blogging and counter measures
- Counter-Terror social network analysis
- Social networking security risks
- Social engineering through social networks
- Data privacy in Social Networks
- Secure information sharing in online communities
- Social networking safety
- Security issues in mobile social networking
- Trust-based social networks
- Anonymization of social network datasets
- Link analysis and network structure discovery
- Community detection and evolution
- Blog search and retrieval
- Group interaction, collaboration, and recommendation
- Knowledge discovery (collective wisdom, trend analysis, and topic detection)
- Social aspects of Blogosphere
- Human interface and interaction techniques for social media
  
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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining
to the workshop topics are solicited. 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).

Papers should be submitted to the EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=skdu2012
 
Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance,
technical depth, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Paper
submission implies that at least one of the authors will do a full
registration and go to present the paper if their paper is accepted.

All papers accepted for workshop will be included in the Workshop
Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Hence all
the rules and regulations of IEEE CPS will be applied as explained in
the following link: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/policies

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: May 7, 2012 (PST)
Notification: June 4, 2012 (PST)
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2012 (PST)
Author registration: June 15, 2012 (PST)

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SPECIAL ISSUE
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The extended versions of selected papers presented during the SKDU
2012 workshop will be invited for a special issue of journal.

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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
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Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia
Tieyun Qian, Wuhuan University, China
Zeki Bozkus, Kadir Has University, Turkey

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Web Master and Publicity Chair
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Rong Pan, Aalborg University, Denmark

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Program Committee
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Muhammad A Ahmad, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Songul Albayrak, Yildiz University, Turkey
Taner Arsan Arsan, Kadir Has University, Turkey
James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ahmet Bulut, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey 
Ling Chen, UTS, Australia
Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
Ersin Elbasi, Tubitak, Turkey
Cesim Erten, Kadir Has University, Turkey
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherland
Irene Garrigos, University of Alicante, Spain
Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Xueqing Gong, Eastern China Normal University, China
Yanhui Gu, University of Tokyo, Japan
Takako Hashimoto, Chiba University of Commerce, Japan
Ben He, GUCAS, China
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 
Wenxin Liang, Dalian University of Technology, China
Akiyo Nadamoto, Konan University, Japan
Shinsuke Nakajima, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Satoshi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan
Darko Obradovic, GMX, Germany 
Kenta Oku, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Shingo Otsuka, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Sherif Sakr, NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Munehiko Sasajima, Osaka University, Japan
Mingsheng Shang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Julien Velcin, University of Lyon, France
Daling Wang, Northeastern University, China
Zongda Wu, Wenzhou University, China
Zhenglu Yang, University of Tokyo, Japan 
Jianwei Zhang, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan 
Xiuzhen Zhang, RMIT, Australia
Tingshao Zhu, GUCAS, China
Yu Zong, West Anhui University, China