WWWJ 2011 - World Wide Web Journal Special Issue on Social Neworks and Social Web Mining

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Deadline: July 15, 2011 | Date: November 01, 2011

Venue/Country: CALL FOR PAPERS, U.S.A

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Call For Papers - CFP

Web Mining

CALL FOR PAPERS

World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ) - Springer

http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280

Special Issue on

Social Networks & Social Web Mining

CFP in PDF: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP-11280-20110218.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1083637-p35553315

Background and Scope

Nowadays the emergence of web-based communities and hosted services

such as social networking sites ? Facebook, LinkedIn, wikis ?

Wikipedia, microblogging - Twitter and folksonomies ? Delicious,

Flickr and so on, brings in tremendous freedom of Web autonomy and

facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. And along with the

interactions between users and computers, social Web is rapidly

becoming an important part of our digital experience, ranging from

digital textual information to rich multimedia formats.

Social networks have played an important role in different domains for

about one decade, particularly involved in a broad range of social

activities like user interaction, establishing friendship

relationships, sharing and recommending resources, suggesting friends,

creating groups and communities, commenting friends activities and

opinions and so on. In recent years, rapid progress has been made in

the study of social networks for diverse applications, such as user

profiling in Facebook and group recommendation via Flickr.

These aspects and characteristics form the most active and challenging

parts of Web 2.0. a large amount of challenges and opportunities have

arisen with the propagation and popularity of new applications and

technologies. A prominent challenge lies in modeling and mining this

vast volume of data to extract, represent and exploit meaningful

knowledge, and to leverage structures and dynamics of emerging social

networks residing in the social Web, especially social media. Social

networks and social Web mining combines data mining with social Web

computing as a promising direction and offers unique opportunities for

developing novel algorithms and tools ranging from text and content

mining to link mining and community detection and so on.

The primary goal of this special issue is to showcase the cutting edge

research advances on the intersection of Social Web, Social Network

and Data mining, in order to provide a landscape of research

progresses and application potentials in related areas. We are

interested in not only, the papers with strong algorithmic

innovations, but also the works with solid application-oriented

experiment evaluations. More specialized topics within Social Web

Mining and Social Network include, but are not limited to the

following:

? Computational models for social media

? Computational models for social media

? Graph and matrix methods for computational social science

? Probabilistic models for computational social science

? Information acquisition and establishment of social relations

? Data management in collaborative open applications

? Collaborative filtering and content ranking using social media

? Group interaction, collaboration, and recommendation

? Web2.0 and Collaborative Tagging

? Link analysis and network structure discovery

? Community detection and evolution

? Search in social networks and social media

? Interoperability among social applications and social media

? Techniques for social network analysis/mining and for the analysis

of social media phenomena

? Blog search and retrieval

? User behaviour modeling

? Social media analysis

? Social aspects of Blogosphere

? Web mining algorithms and Web communities

? Semantic Web

? Semantic Web Mining

? Adversarial blogging and counter measures

? Contextual advertising

? Opinion mining

? Sentiment and Search

? Social navigation and visualization

? Application of social Web mining

? Applications of social network analysis

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: July 15, 2011

Notification: September 15, 2011

Final Version due: November. 15, 2011

Publication: Early 2012

Submission Guidelines

Manuscript preparation: Instructions for Authors:

http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280

Manuscript submission: http://www.editorialmanager.com/wwwj/

When submitting, select SI: Social Networks & Social Web Mining.

Guest Editors

Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia,

guandong.xuvu.edu.auvu.edu.au>

Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,

yuse.cuhk.edu.hkse.cuhk.edu.hk>