SNSMW 2011 - 2nd International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web (SNSMW)

The 2nd International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web (SNSMW)

Chaired by:
Guandong Xu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Hong Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Botang Wang, Northeastern University, China

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 2nd International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web in conjunction with DASFAA 2011 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.