BASNA 2012 - The 3rd International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis (BASNA 2012)

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Category BASNA 2012

Deadline: April 02, 2012 | Date: August 26, 2012

Venue/Country: Istanbul, Turkey

Updated: 2012-02-02 10:37:34 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

- The role of data mining techniques in identifying scalable methods for the extraction and organization of social relations for management research and business practice

- The role of management research in guiding data mining efforts and SNA metrics development towards theoretically-grounded discoveries about social network emergence.

- The role of Social Network Analysis in developing and applying metrics and tools for the mapping, evaluation, visualization, and design of social relations in organizations.

Confirmed Keynotes:

- Prof Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University

- Dr Christian Posse, Principal Research Scientist, LinkedIn

- Prof Narahari, Indian Institute of Science

Topics:

The workshop's topics of interest include (but are not limited to the following):

Algorithms for data mining social networks, graphs, links

Applications of social network data mining to address a real world business scenario

Anomaly detection in network based applications like intrusion detection in telecommunication

Fraud detection in telecommunication network

Mobile social networks

Community discovery in social networks

Contextual applications for social networks

Data mining applications for micro-blogging (real time mining)

Data mining on large graphs

Mining Wikipedia like graph/network structure

Data mining applications for viral marketing

Behavioral analysis in social networks

Social semantic web

Privacy issues in social networks

Recommendations in social networks

Social Network Analysis (SNA) -based:

Knowledge Management (identifying experts, fostering knowledge exchange and integration, creating and developing communities of practice)

Marketing (identifying new customers, customer relationship management)

Innovation Support (enhancing innovation capacity, supporting new product development teams)

Change Management (managing change, post-merger integration, identifying key enablers)

Talent Management (hiring and career development)

Leadership Development (decision-making, identifying leaders)

Intra-Organizational Coordination (supporting coordination and information flows among organizational members and units)

Inter-Organizational Coordination (supporting collaboration in consortia, industrial districts, inter-organizational alliances)

Accepted papers of the workshop would be available via IEEE Xplore digital library.

Selected papers will be invited for a fast review also at the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations.

BASNA best papers will be granted a fast review process at the Journal of Information Science and Technology.

Organizing Committee:

* Avik Sarkar, IBM, India

* Roberto Dandi, Luiss Business School, Italy

* Koustuv Dasgupta, Xerox India Innovation Hub

Technical Program Committee:

* Samit Paul, Intuit, India

* Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Yahoo Research, Spain

* Ashish Tendulkar, IIT Madras

* Akshay Java, MSN, Microsoft, USA