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1st International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web
in conjunction with DASFAA 2010
DASFAA2010, Tsukuba, Japan, April 1-4, 2010
http://www.nishilab.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/SNSMW/
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Workshop Description:

Today the emergence of web-based communities and hosted services such as social networking sites,
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 media are 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.

A prominent challenge lies in modeling and mining this vast pool of data to extract, represent
and exploit meaningful knowledge and to leverage structures and dynamics of emerging social
networks residing in the social media. Social networks and social media mining combines data mining
with social computing as a promising direction and offers unique opportunities for developing
novel algorithms and tools ranging from text and content mining to link mining.

The 1st International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web in conjunction
with DASFAA 2010 will bring together the academia, researchers and industrial practitioners from
computer science, information systems, statistics, sociology, behavior science and organization
science discipline, and provide a forum for recent advances in the field of social networks and
social media, from the perspectives of data management and mining.

We solicit original and high quality submissions addressing all aspects of this field. The topics
of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* Computational models for social media
* Query languages for social networks and social media
* Query processing and optimization
* Influence, trust, and privacy
* Search in social networks and social media
* Interoperability among social applications and social media
* Techniques for social-network and social-media analysis/mining
* Adversarial blogging and counter measures
* 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

Submission Instruction:

Authors are invited to submit electronically original, English-language research contributions
not concurrently submitted elsewhere. All accepted papers will be published in a combined volume
of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series published by Springer in the form of conference
post-proceedings. At the workshop site, informal on-site proceedings will be handed out as well.

All submitted papers should be Springer LNCS camera-ready format. The style files are available
from Springer LNCS site: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
All submissions files should be in PDF formats. We employ the single blind review system
(in which the authors don't know the reviewers, but the reviewers know the authors). The number of
pages should not exceed 10 pages. Any papers more than 10 pages will be rejected.

Submission Website:

Please submit all manuscripts (research/industrial/demo papers) in PDF formats to the submission site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SNSMW2010/

Important Dates :

Paper submission
December 4, 2009, 5PM (Pacific Time)

Notification
January 15, 2010, 5PM (Pacific Time)

Final version
March 1, 2010, 5PM (Pacific Time)


Workshop organizers:

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Yoshinori Hijikata , Osaka University, Japan
Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia

Program Co-Chairs:
Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Munehiko Sasajima, Osaka University, Japan

Program Committee (in alphabetical order of last name):
James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
Yixin Chen, Washington University in St Louis, USA
Irene Ggarrigos, University of Alicante, Spain
Kenji Hatano, Doshisha University, Japan
Yoshinori Hijikata, Osaka University, Japan
Makoto Iguchi, Synclore Corporation, Japan
Fumihiro Kato, Keio University, Japan
Yukiko Kawai, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Hideyuki Kawashima, Tsukuba University, Japan
Ichiro Kobayashi, Ochanomizu University, Japan
Tadahiko Kumamoto, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Wenxin Liang, Dalian University of Technology, China
Mitsunori Matsushita, Kansai University, Japan
Harumi Murakami, Osaka City University, Japan
Hidetsugu Nanba, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Ikki Omukai, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Shingo Otsuka, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Hitomi Saito, Aichi University of Education, Japan
Hiroshi Sakamoto, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Shigeaki Sakurai, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Munehiko Sasajima, Osaka University, Japan
Hiroko Shoji, Chuo University, Japan
Taro Sugihara, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Xiaohui Tao Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Kenji Tateishi, NEC Corporation, Japan
Masashi Toyoda, University of Tokyo, Japan
Botao Wang, Northeastern University, China
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
Kazuaki Yamada, Toyo University, Japan
Zhenglu Yang, University of Tokyo, Japan
Koji Zettsu, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Jianwei Zhang, Kyoto Sangyo University,?? Japan
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia

Event Co-sponsors:
IEICE SIG-WI2 (SIG on Web Intelligence and Interaction)
http://www.ieice.org/~wi2/