WIN 2011 - Workshop on Interdependent Networks: Quality, Influence and Evolution in Social and Information Networks (WIN2011)

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Deadline: April 01, 2011 | Date: June 06, 2011-June 09, 2011

Venue/Country: Eindhoven, Netherlands

Updated: 2011-03-01 18:08:10 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Social and Information Networks (WIN2011)

at the 22nd ACM Hypertext 2011 which will be held in Eindhoven, NL on June 6-9 2011.

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ht2011win/

The emergence of new social technologies has not only changed our everyday life but also has led to new forms

of collective information goods such as media collections, commentary and software. Innovative online

production systems have been designed for people to share their ideas, their experiences and their

knowledge enabling the collaborative production of such information goods.

The nature of these collective information goods produced using online production systems ranges from

pooled information (e.g., Flickr, del.icio.us, Slashdot) to structured information (e.g.,

Wikipedia, Factual.com), and tightly coupled information (e.g., open source software). This spectrum

describes both the coupling of the components of an information good as well as to what extent certain

coordination, communication and collaboration processes between participants were required to

develop this good. Concretely, these information goods consist of a social dimension which comprises

links between people based on their interactions and the information dimension which are links based on

syntactic, semantic or logical relations within these goods. Thus, to effectively understand

collective information goods, one must take a multi-dimensional approach that addresses the

interdependence between social relationships and the networked information that those relationships produce.

Only recently have researchers begun to study the collective information goods using multi-dimensional

approaches. This workshop aims to bring together experts in network analysis, information networks,

semantics and social media to further the development and exchange of knowledge around computational

network analysis methods for multi-dimensional networks. We are particularly interested in work that

covers the following three areas:

* Quality - how do we measure quality of a collective information good using network analysis? What is the

relationship between quality information and reputation? How do online production systems cater for quality?

* Influence - how do we measure the influence of information networks on social networks and vice versa? Are

types of networks more influential than others?

* Evolution - how do information and social networks co-evolve? What techniques can be used for measuring

and describing evolution?

+++Topics include+++

Models of influence in social media including Twitter, Facebook and others

Measures and techniques for assessing quality in online production systems such as reputation systems in Wikipedia

Measures and techniques for assessing influence in online production systems

Empirical studies of influence, quality and evolution in social media

Approaches towards influencing users and quality in online production systems

(Co-)evolution of social and information networks

Network visualizations of quality, influence and evolution

+++Important Dates+++

April 1, 2011: Submission Date

April 29, 2011: Notification Date

May 10, 2011: Early conference registration deadline

June 6, 2011: Workshop Date

+++ Organizers+++

Paul Groth, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Claudia M�ller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria and Palo Alto Research Center, USA

+++Program Committee+++

Fabian Abel, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Wouter van Atteveldt, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sheila Kinsela, DERI NUI Galway, Ireland

Pablo Castels, Universidad AutÃ?nonoma de Madrid, Spain

Marcelo Cataldo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Daniel Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Denis Helic, TU Graz, Austria

Lichan Hong, PARC, USA

George Thomas Kannampallil, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Christian Körner TU Graz, Austria

Kristina Lerman, Information Science Institute - USC, USA

Jacco van Ossebruggen, CWI, The Netherlands

Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-NÃ?rnberg, Germany

Camille Roth, CNRS, France

Jérôme Kunegis, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Bongwon Suh, PARC, USA

Sharoda Paul, PARC, USA

Shenghui Wang, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Arkaitz Zubiaga, UNED, Spain