SN&SMW 2012 - Third International Workshop of Social Networks and Social Web Mining (SN&SMW'2012)

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 sharing between users. And along with the interactions between users and computers, social media are rapidly becoming an important part of our digital experience, ranging from digital textual information to rich multimedia formats. These aspects and characteristics form the core of the second generation of Web.

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 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 and community detection and so on.

This workshop 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 disseminating and exchanging recent advances in the field of social networks and social media, from the perspectives of data management and mining.

We solicit original and high quality submissions addressing all aspects of this field. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Computational models for social media
Query languages for social networks and social media
Influence, trust, and privacy
Collaborative filtering and content ranking using social media
Data management in collaborative open applications
Social reputation and recommendation systems, trust management
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
Adversarial blogging and counter measures
Link analysis and network structure discovery
Community detection and evolution
Blog search and retrieval
Group interaction, collaboration, and recommendation
Knowledge discovery (collective wisdom, trend analysis, and topic detection)
Social aspects of Blogosphere