The 2nd Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM2009)
in conjunction with CIKM2009, November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong

There are a growing number of highly?\popular user?\centric applications, especially with the popularity of the
Web 2.0. Such examples include micro?\blogs, blogs, folksonomies, wikis, and Web communities in specific
topics such as in academic research area. They have formed a new Web, Social Web and further formed
social networks. Social networks generates a lot of (semi?\)structured information. This information greatly
enlarges the content of Web. At the same time, it introduces many interesting research issues (e.g., social
web storage, search and mining) as well many real?\world applications (e.g. social recommendation). This
workshop solicits contributions on social search and social mining including Web?\based and Semantic Web?\
based social applications, the emerging applications of the Web as a social media.


Workshop Co-Chairs

Irwin King, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University
Gui?\Rong Xue, Shanghai Jiao Tong U.
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University


Program committee

Isaac Councill, Pennsylvania State U.
Stefan Decker, DERI galway
Wei Fan, IBM TJ Watson
Huan Liu, Arizona State University
Hao Ma, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo
Andrew McCallum, U. of Massachusetts
Yue Pan, IBM China Research Laboratory
Charles Petrie, Standford University
Dou Shen, Microsoft
Zhong Su, IBM China Research Lab
Qiang Yang, Hong Kong UST
Philip Yu, University of Chicago
Huajun Zeng, Microsoft Research Asia
Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Institute of Tech
Haizheng Zhang, Microsoft Corporation
Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
Shenghuo Zhu, NEC Lab. America, Inc.


Contact Information

Jie Tang
Knowledge Engineering Group
Dept. of Computer Science & Technology
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084. China
tangjie@keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn
swsm2009@arnetminer.org

http://arnetminer.org/confs/SWSM2009/


Workshop Topics

The workshop will provide a forum for researchers from all
over the world to share information on their latest research
in social search, social mining and applications.

Topics in social search and social mining of interest include
but are not limited to:

Search algorithms in large?\scale social networks
Search across heterogeneous social networks
Personalized search for social interactions
Classification, clustering on social network data
Collaborative filtering and recommender systems
Community detection
Expert finding
Sentiment analysis/opinion mining
Social network modeling and analysis
Social influence analysis
Evolution of social networks
Privacy and security issues in social networks
Semantic social networks
Integration of heterogeneous social networks
Applications of social networks
Social engineering, tools, and case studies


Important Dates

Submission Deadline: July 20, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2009
Camera Ready Submission Due: August 15, 2009


Submission Information

Prepare your paper not more than 10 pages in PDF file,
with ACM camera?\ready template:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Submit your papers to

https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=swsm2009