SSMS 2012 - Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search

We are pleased to announce the 6th edition of the Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search
Based on the great success and experience of five previous SSMS editions, the 2012 Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search will be offering top level education for participants from all over the world. The summer school is aimed at PhD students, young researchers and practitioners interested in social media modeling and analysis, online social interaction analysis and relevant approaches and applications in prediction, search and visualization. Lectures include introductory and advanced courses by leading researchers from academia and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of state-of-the-art research in these multi-disciplinary topics.
This year the summer school also offers a "students lab" where participants will have the chance to practice with social media analysis and modeling tools within a hands-on programming session. In addition, the “poster sessions” will give participants the opportunity to present their work, get comments and feedback from senior researchers, and interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment.
Topics
SSMS 2012 will feature the topics mentioned below. A more detailed program and the list of speakers will be announced soon.
Social Media Content Analysis
Multimedia and multimodal analysis (image, video, 3D, text) processing and feature extraction
Data Mining and Machine learning for large-scale social media
GPU based processing, distributed and parallel architectures
Online Social Interaction Modeling and Analysis
Observing and modeling online communities
Social network analysis and community detection
User behaviour analysis, crowdsourcing and trust analysis
Social Media Applications and Architecture
Sensing and predicting social media topics and activities
Social media and crowd sourcing search and personalization
Massive Social Data & Knowledge Visualization and Exploration