GraphA 2015 - International Workshop on: Graph Analytics

The International Workshop on: Graph Analytics
https://sites.google.com/site/workshopglak2015/
Held in Conjunction with the 5th International Learning Analytics and
Knowledge (LAK) Conference - March 16-20, 2015.
Poughkeepsie, New York (USA) at Marist College
*** Submission Deadline is January 23rd ***
Graph data has become increasingly prevalent in data-mining and data
analysis. Many types of data can be represented naturally as graphs
including social network data, log traversal, and online discussions. Such
data has grown exponentially in volume as courses have moved online and
educational technology has been incorporated into the traditional
classroom. Recent work on tutorial interactions online resource use, and
argumentation has highlighted educationally relevant data that lends itself
to graphical analysis including: graphical solution representations such as
argument diagrams; interaction logs; social networks in learner
communities, and online discussion forums.
While data of this type has grown increasingly common it has only recently
been approached by analysts, and no strong community of researchers focused
on graph-based data exists. Such a community is important to foster useful
interactions, share tools and techniques, and to explore common problems.
We believe that there is a strong need for such research and an interest
both from academic researchers and industrial partners. We have previously
organized a successful workshop on this topic held at the 2014 Educational
Datamining Conference where we discussed existing data and problems and
novel graph-analysis techniques. That workshop was widely successful and
included both researchers and industry professionals.
Our goal in the present workshop is to continue that collaboration and to
expand the community of interested researchers to include members of the
learning analytics community. We believe that the problems and analytical
techniques discussed previously are relevant to the LAK community. We also
believe that the LAK 2015 focus on large-scale data presents an opportunity
to address novel problems with the massive datasets under discussion.
We plan a half-day interactive workshop combining short research
presentations with breakout groups and collaboration planning. We will
open submissions for research papers describing relevant mature work, tools
and analytical techniques, open problems, and novel datasets. We will
organize the workshop into three phases:
* Lightning Talks: We will open the workshop with short research
presentations and a summary of current work.
* Shared Problems: We will then have a breakout for small-group discussion
focused on identifying shared research problems, common analytical
techniques, and the problems unique to large datasets.
* Collaborative Planning: For the final session of the day we will return
to breakout groups with the goal of identifying potential shared projects.
It is our hope that the final session will help to foster the development
of shared proposals that will lead to future research to be presented at
LAK 2016.
Organizers: Dr. Collin Lynch, Dr. Tiffany Barnes & Dr. Jennifer Albert.
Paper Formats
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We particularly welcome submission of in-progress work both from students
and researchers with problems who are seeking appropriate analytical tools,
and developers of graph analysis tools who are seeking new challenges. We
will accept long papers, short papers, and poster/demo submissions. All
submissions should be novel and not previously published work.
Long papers should be from describe mature work and be from 7-8 pages long.
Short papers should be 5 pages long and describe planned research; existing
datasets that would be amenable to graphical analysis; or analytical tools
that are available for use.
Poster and demo submissions should be 3 pages and should present an
overview of the planned content. Posters and demos should be focused on
available datasets and tools and be designed to foster discussion.
Papers should be submitted in the LAK 2015 latex and word formats:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t...
Submission Instructions
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Papers should be submitted via EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dglak2015
Organization
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The workshop will be organized as a mini-conference with time set aside for
short presentations, collaborative discussion, and demos. More information
on the presentation formats will be made available once the final
submissions are selected.
Important Dates
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23 January 2015 - Submissions Due.
6 February 2015 - Acceptance notification.
afternoon March 16, 2015 - Tentative Workshop Date.