SoMeRis 2016 - International Workshop on Social Media and Risk (SoMeRis 2016)

1st Workshop: Advances of Social Networks for Life Science Workshop ASNAL - 2016 The widespread use of social media offers powerful tools for life scientists to better understand relationships, causality, public opinions, perceptions, and the communications among social media communities and their structures. Some of the most significant contributions were made in the biomedical domain where topics such as drug side effects, smoking cessation, and health behavior. Exploration of biodiversity, and climate change, and environmental issues have recently been aided by social media analysis. Though the work that has been done addressing such important topics is impressive, its use is still limited and in its infancy. In this workshop, we hope to advance the use of social media to address life science research questions. The objective of this workshop is to advance the current knowledge of social network data from various point of view:
Expanding the discovery of knowledge in health behavior, drug interaction/side effects, and disease causality
Assessing the extinction status of endangered species by monitoring and mining social media data
Understanding the impact of climate change on humans health and biodiversity and their ecosystems
Designing Big Data cyberinfrastructure that supports scientific workflows that are entirely based on social media data and networks
Exploring the various data networks in terms of their structures and patterns demonstrated
Designing new network mining algorithms for Big Data networks
Submission Instructions
The manuscript should follow IEEE Computer Society's two-column format. The maximum manuscript length is six (8) pages including tables, figures, and references. Accepted papers are published by IEEE Computer Society in ASONAM 2016 official proceedings. To submit your paper, email it directly to the chairs ahmed DOT elmasri AT gmail.com
General Chair
Dr. Luis M. Rocha, School of Informatics & Computing at Indiana University
Workshop Chairs
Dr. Ahmed Abdeen Hamed, Department of Computer Science and Innovation, Champlain College
Dr. Josef Gorres, Department of Plant and Soil Science, UVM
Dr. Byung Suk Lee, Department of Computer Science, Univeristy of Vermont
Program Committee Chair
Dr. Ikhlas M. Ahmad, Educational Psychology, University of Jordan
Dr. Tamer E. Fandy, Ablany College of Pharmacy, Colchester Vermont campus