MSM 2016 - 7TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MODELING SOCIAL MEDIA: BEHAVIORAL ANALYTICS ON THE WEB (MSM 2016)

The goal of this workshop is to apply behavioral analytics approaches and algorithms on social media, big data and the web. Contrary to last year’s workshop at WWW2015, we particularly invite submissions that try to go beyond the “simple” computational approaches and try to address the underlying reason as to “why” these computational approaches were done, evaluate how “good” they are, and how they can be validated for accuracy and reality. Hence, the workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of personalization, recommendation, community discovery, profiling and prediction from social media, big data and the web. In short, the workshop invites topics that deal with user and social behavior that is inferred from analysis and mining the social media, big data, or web using suitable methods. Thus, our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world in the behavioral analytics, user analysis, big data and recommendation communities interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to mine behavioral aspects of (complex) social media data, web data and big data, 2) inferring user and social behavior, personalization and recommendation and 3) building models and frameworks for evaluating the designed approaches