The 4th International Workshop on Application of Big Data for Computational Social Science (ABCSS2019 @ WI2019)
(WI2019 Workshop)
https://css-japan.com/abcss2019/

Contemporary social sciences are facing a serious paradigm shift because of the developments in computer and Internet technologies, though traditional social sciences are still very important. Big data, such as digital traces of online activities and mobility records, allows us to quantify human behavior and social phenomena at a fine-grained level, yet it is global in scale, thereby complementing experimental data and theoretical and computational simulation results. In some cases, we can even employ the methods of natural sciences, including physics, chemistry or biology, in order to analyze big data. From this perspective, we will organize the workshop of “applications of big data for computational social science.” The scopes of the workshop include the applications of big data, as well as the methods for collecting and using big data for computational social science. Moreover, theoretical frameworks and computational techniques for big data are also very important topics in our workshop. In this workshop, social sciences are not limited to sociology, economics, marketing, political science, but also include informatics, complexity science, econophysics, sociophysics, culturomics and the arts.

* DATE & PLACE
October 14-19, 2019, MET HOTEL (Thessaloniki, Greece)
In conjunction with Web Intelligence 2019 (WI2019)
https://webintelligence2019.com/

* RESEARCH TOPICS
- Application of Sociology/Sociophysics using Big Data
- Application of Econometric/Econophysics using Big Data
- Social Media Data analyses from economic/political/social perspective
- Informatics using social Big Data
- Marketing science using social Big Data
- Business analytics using Big Data on consumer behavior
- Culturomics and art management
- Analysis of reputation of entertainment using Big Data

* IMPORTANT DATES
- July 19, 2019
Workshop Papers submission
- August 15, 2019
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
- August 25, 2019
Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due
- October 14-19, 2019
Main Conference and Workshops

* SUBMISSION
We accept papers of up to 8 pages.
- Paper Submission Page
http://bit.ly/abcss2019submission

Submitted papers should be formatted to the ACM Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to below).
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

All registered papers that presented in this workshop will be submitted to ACM Digital Library with main conference papers, and will be submitted into some indexing system such as Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and others.

* Main Chairs
Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Informatics
Akira Ishii, Tottori University, Social Physics
Hiroki Takikawa, Tohoku University, Sociology
Mitsuo Yoshida, Toyohashi University of Technology, Informatics
Isamu Okada, Soka University, Informatics

Drop us an email at abcss2019 [at] ss.cs.tut.ac.jp if you have any questions.

* Program Committee Members
Kimitaka Asatani, The University of Tokyo
Takashi Kamihigashi, Kobe University
Yasuko Kawahata, Gunma University
Tetsuro Kobayashi, City University of Hong Kong
Satoshi Kurihara, Keio University
Asako Miura, Osaka University
Makoto Mizuno, Meiji University
Takayuki Mizuno, National Institute of Informatics
Yuki Ogawa, Ritsumeikan University
Karuna Pande Joshi, University of Maryland
Takeshi Sakaki, Hotto Link Inc.
Takuto Sakamoto, The University of Tokyo
Kazutoshi Sasahara, Nagoya University
Yoshimichi Sato, Tohoku University
Naoki Sudo, Gakushuin University
Toshiharu Sugawara, Waseda University
Yoshihiko Suhara, Megagon Labs
Masanori Takano, CyberAgent, Inc.
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics
Shinichi Yamaguchi, GLOCOM
Hitoshi Yamamoto, Rissho University
Koichi Yasutake, Hiroshima University

* Journal Special Issue
We have a special issue of Information (MDPI journal) in connection with this workshop.
Selected papers which were presented at this workshop are invited to be submitted as extended versions to this Special Issue of the journal Information. Each submission to this journal issue should contain at least 50% of new material, e.g., in the form of technical extensions, more in-depth evaluations, or additional use cases. Note that anyone can submit to the special issue.
Our special issue of Information (MDPI journal):
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/ABCSS_2019