MSM 2014 - 5th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2014)

In our first workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2010 in Toronto, Canada), we explored various different models of social media ranging from user modeling, hypertext models, software engineering models, sociological models and framework models. In our second workshop (MSM 2011 in Boston, USA), we addressed the user interface aspects of modeling social media. In our third workshop (MSM 2012 in Milwaukee, USA), we looked at the collective intelligence in social media, i.e. making sense of the content and context from social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Foursquare by analyzing tweets, tags, blog posts, likes, posts and check-ins, in order to create a new knowledge and semantic meaning. Last year’s workshop (MSM 2013 in Paris, France), we discussed about mining, modeling and recommending “things” in social media.
For this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the field of big data mining and machine learning using web and social media data. Big data is a hot topic in the research community, and we would like to invite researchers in the data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help make understanding of the web and social media that we have out there (e.g. Facebook and Twitter, and browsing web logs).
Topics of Interest
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
novel big data mining and analytics methods or frameworks for social media and the web
novel approaches for personalization and recommendations
novel methods for social structure and community discovery
novel methods for tie strength or link prediction
novel methods for predicting user behavior
novel methods for user modelling and profiling
novel methods for big data information visualization
privacy and security issues in mining big data from web and social media
applications of any of the above methods and technologies
We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas to the workshop topics.
Workshop Organizers
Alvin Chin, Nokia, Beijing, China
Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Program Committee
Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, Australia
Robin Burke, de Paul, USA
Javier Luis Canovas, Izquierdo, INRIA, France
Polo Chau, Georgia Tech, USA
Guanling Chen, University of Massachussetts ? Lowell, USA
Padraig Cunningham, University College Dublin, Ireland
Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany
Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel
Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany
Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg
Geert-Jan Houben, TU-Delft, Netherlands
Elisabeth Lex, Know-Center, Austria
Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
Else Nygren, Uppsala University, Sweden
Denis Parra, PUC, Chile
Haggai Roitman, IBM Research, Israel
James She, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Christoph Scholz, University of Kassel, Germany
Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA
Zhiyong Yu, Institut Telecom Sud de Paris, France
Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA
Submission and Proceedings
Proceedings: We intend to include the publications in the ACM WWW Conference Proceedings and provide them to the attendees of the conference on a USB stick.