Recent years have witnessed the emergence of network embedding research. The Web Conference 2018 edition of the BigNet Workshop series focuses on presenting and discussing the state-of-the-art, open problems, challenges and latest algorithms, techniques, and applications of network embeddings in the era of big network data. It will provide a forum for bringing together network embedding researchers and practitioners. The workshop program will be featured with keynotes delivered by leading experts in learning representations for network and novel research works that address various challenges in this direction.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Network representation learning theories and foundations
- Representation learning for big networks
- Representation learning for heterogeneous networks
- Representation learning for dynamic networks
- Representation learning across multiple networks
- Representation learning for graphs with text
- Knowledge base embedding
- Deep learning for networks
- Graph theories and network embeddings
- Visualization for network embeddings
- Efficient graph embedding algorithms
- Scalable graph embedding models and frameworks
- Novel network embedding applications
- Representation learning and traditional structural mining
- Graph kernels and similarity


Submission Guidelines
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The BigNet 2018 workshop encourages submissions that present both original results and preliminary/existing work on network embedding. We explicitly welcome extended-abstract submissions to introduce preliminary and arXiv work on network representation learning and knowledge graph embedding, as well as recently-published research at top conferences. The extended abstracts can option to be not archived in the Web Conference 2018 Companion proceeding. Therefore, this workshop accepts both full papers (4 to 8 pages) for original results and extended abstracts (1 to 2 pages) for published or ongoing work. All submissions must conform to the Web Conference 2018 submission format (ACM SIG Proceedings template with a font size no smaller than 9pt).

Submission site at easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites


Workshop Organizers
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- Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
- Michalis Vazirgiannis, Ecole Polytechnique, France
- Yuxiao Dong, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
- Fragkiskos Malliaros, CentraleSupelec, University of Paris-Saclay, France


Important Dates
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- Submission Deadline: January 10, 2018
- Notification Date: February 14, 2018
- Camera-Ready Submission: March 4, 2018
- All deadlines are at 11:59PM Alofi Time
- Workshop Date: April 23, 2018


Further Information
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https://aminer.org/bignet_www2018