LCP 2014 - Track 1: Links and Connections between People.

Track Chairs:
Daniele Quercia Yahoo! Labs, Spain.
Johan Bollen Indiana University, USA.
Goals:
What structures can be found and exposed in conversations via Twitter or Facebook? What is the role of location in mobile communications? What characterizes people whom we talk with, meet, and listen to? And what are the topics that relate us with one another? The focus of this track is on the analysis and exploitation of links between topics, people and events in social media and beyond.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Social search and recommender systems.
Temporal and spatial analysis of social and information networks.
User modeling.
Information visualization of social data.
Mobile social media.
Privacy and Security.
Crowdsourcing and social computing.
Computational Social Science.
Online markets, behavioral finance, and crypto-currencies.
Bibliometrics, informetrics, and scientometrics.