ICWSM 2012 - THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM2012)

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Deadline: January 18, 2012 | Date: June 04, 2012-June 08, 2012

Venue/Country: Dublin, Ireland

Updated: 2011-10-13 13:09:09 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

4-8 JUNE 2012: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND

http://icwsm.org/

Call for Papers

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial

Intelligence

Technical Paper Submission Site: Available November 1, 2011

Abstracts Due: January 13, 2012

Full Papers Due: January 18, 2012 (by midnight Pacific Time)

The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

(ICWSM) is a unique forum that brings together researchers from

the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, communication,

and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase

understanding of social media in all its incarnations.

Submissions describing research that blends social science and

computational approaches are especially encouraged.

Though this conference is just in its sixth year, it has become

one of the premier venues for social scientists and technologists

to gather and discuss cutting-edge research in social media. This

is largely due to a typical acceptance rate of 20% for

full-length research papers published in our conference

proceedings and support from the Association for the Advancement

of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

For ICWSM-12, in addition to the usual program of contributed

technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main

conference will include a selection of keynote talks from

prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on the

success of the first workshops program in 2011 and our regular

tutorials day, ICWSM-12 will also hold a workshops and tutorials

day just before the main conference.

Disciplines

* Computational linguistics/NLP

* Text mining/data mining

* Psychology

* Sociology (including social network analysis)

* Communication

* Anthropology

* Media studies

* Visualization

* Political science

* Computational social science

* HCI

* Economics

* Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical

models

Media

* Weblogs, including comments

* Social networking sites

* Microblogs

* Wikis (Wikipedia)

* Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups

* Community media sites (YouTube, Flickr)

Topics Include

* Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of

social media

* Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream

media

* Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media

* Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors

* Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking

based on blogs and microblogs

* Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise

and authority discovery; collaborative filtering

* Trust; reputation; recommendation systems

* Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and

visualization

* Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis;

polarity/opinion identification and extraction

* Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age

identification

* Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting;

measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media

* New social media applications; interfaces; interaction

techniques

* Social innovation and effecting change through social media

Keynotes

* Andrew Tomkins (Google+)

* More to be announced

Author Submission Account

Authors must set up an account (or add ICWSM-12 to your list of

conferences) at the ICWSM-12 web-based technical paper submission

site, which will be available November 1, 2011. Please make a

note of your password, as this will allow you to log on to submit

an abstract and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last

minute, authors are encouraged to set up their account as soon as

possible, and well in advance of the January 13, 2012 abstract

deadline.

Abstract and Paper Submission

Electronic abstract submission through the ICWSM-12 paper

submission site is required on or preferably before January 13,

2012 at 11:59 PM PST. Full papers are due via the submission site

no later than Monday, January 18, 2012 at midnight PST. We cannot

accept submissions by e-mail or fax. Authors will receive

confirmation of receipt of their abstracts and papers, including

a paper number, shortly after submission. AAAI will contact

authors again only if problems are encountered with papers.

Content Guidelines

Submissions to other conferences or journals: ICWSM-12 will not

accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review

for or has already been published or accepted for publication in

a journal or conference. This restriction does not apply to

submissions for workshops and other venues with a limited

audience. If in doubt please contact the PC Chairs.

If duplicate submissions are identified during the review process

then:

* All submissions from that author will be disqualified from the

current ICWSM conference;

* And authors will not be permitted to submit papers to the ICWSM

conference in the following year.

_Format:_ Papers must be in trouble-free, high resolution PDF

format, formatted for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1

or TrueType fonts. Full papers must be no longer than 8 pages,

including references, poster papers must be no longer than 4

pages, and demo descriptions must be no longer than 2 pages, and

all must be submitted by the deadlines given above, and formatted

in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author

instructions page ). Please note that the formatting and

submission instructions at the author site are for final,

accepted papers; no additional pages can be purchased at the

review stage. In addition, the copyright slug may be omitted in

the initial submission phase and no copyright form is required

until a paper is accepted for publication.

_Anonymity:_ ICWSM-12 review is double-blind. Therefore, please

anonymize your submission: do not put the author(s) names or

affiliation(s) at the start of the paper, and do not include

funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for review.

Citations to authors窶・own prior relevant work should be included,

either by not specifying that this is the authors窶・own work, or

where this is not possible, by anonymizing the citation itself.

It is up to the authors' discretion how much to further modify

the body of the paper to preserve anonymity. The requirement for

anonymity does not extend outside of the review process, e.g. the

authors can decide how widely to distribute their papers over the

Internet before the program committee meeting. Even in cases

where the author窶冱 identity is known to a reviewer, the double

blind process will serve as a symbolic reminder of the importance

of evaluating the submitted work on its own merits without regard

to authors窶・reputation.

_Language:_ All submissions must be in English.

Conference Registration

All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in

the conference proceedings. At least one author must register for

the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission.

In addition, the registered author must attend the conference to

present the paper in person.

Publication

All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated eight (8)

pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to

transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI.

Datasets

This year, for the first time, we will be providing a service for

hosting datasets pertaining to research presented at the

conference. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to

share the datasets on which their papers are based, while

adhering to the terms and conditions of the data provider. Of

these datasets, one will be selected for an award which will be

based on the quality, scope, and timeliness of each dataset. More

information will be available on our website.

Conference Website

http://icwsm.org/

For general information regarding ICWSM-12, please write to

icwsm12aaai.org.

Committee

General Chair:

John Breslin, NUI Galway

Programme Chairs:

Nicole Ellison, Michigan State University

James G. Shanahan, Church and Duncan Group Inc.

Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Local Chairs:

Derek Greene, University College Dublin

Conor Hayes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute

Sponsorship Chair:

Meenakshi Nagarajan, IBM

Data Chairs:

Derek Ruths, McGill University

Ian Soboroff, NIST

Demos Chair:

Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo!

Social Media / Publicity Chair:

Max L. Wilson, Swansea University

Tutorials Chair:

Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute

Workshops Chair:

Sofus Macskassy, USC and Fetch Labs

Regional Chairs:

Americas: Raquel Recuero, Universidade Catテウlica de Pelotas

Asia Pacific: Hideaki Takeda, National Institute for Informatics

Europe: Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Hans-Bredow-Institut

Middle East and Africa: Sihem Amer-Yahia, Qatar Computing

Research Institute

Webmaster:

Ritesh Agrawal, AT&T Labs Research

Venue

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Student Awards

We will be providing an increased number of student awards this

year to help cover the cost of travel, subsistence, and

registration to the ICWSM-12 conference. Details will be posted

on the conference website.

Important Dates

Papers / Posters / Demos:

Abstract Submission: January 13, 2012

Full Paper, Poster and Demo Submission: January 18, 2012 (by

midnight Pacific Time)

Notification of Acceptance: February 27, 2012

Camera Ready Due: March 12, 2012

ICWSM-12, Dublin: June 4-8, 2012

Tutorials:

Tutorial Proposal Submission: January 9, 2012

Tutorial Acceptance: January 23, 2012

Workshops:

Workshop Proposal Submission: December 14, 2011

Workshop Acceptance: January 6, 2012

Workshop Paper Submission: March 2, 2012

Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: March 16, 2012

Workshop Paper Final Camera-Ready Copy Due: April 2, 2012