TIST 2012 - ACM TIST Special Issue on Social Web Mining

Call for PapersrrACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)rrSpecial Issue on Social Web MiningrrSocial network platforms (e.g., Facebook, Google+, Twitter) have beenrdrawing increasing attention from everyday users worldwide to researchrcommunities and industries. For instance, it is reported that thererare more than 750 million active Facebook users, of which 50% log onrin any given day. The success of the social network platform providesra wealth of information, which brings great opportunities forre-Commerce, policy making, social media recommendations, and much more.rHowever, it can be challenging to model the social networks and makerpredictions, given this prosperity of social networks leading torinformation overload.rrSocial web mining aims at modeling social interactions (e.g., postingrand messaging in Facebook) and relationships (e.g., friendship inrFacebook, Followed / Following in Twitter, Friends / Family /rAcquaintances / Following in Google+), and then learning inductiverrules for predictions, which are carried out by leveraging therinformation available via various social networks and recent advancesrin machine learning and data mining. This special issue is aimed atrproviding a forum to highlight the leading works from the data miningrand machine learning communities for making sense of social networks.rrTopics of interest include but are not limited to:r- Community detectionr- Crawling of social networksr- Large scale graph miningr- Multi-relational data miningr- News/social media recommender systemsr- Preference learning and elicitation in social networksr- Privacy protection in social networksr- Sentiment analysis in social networks (e.g., opinion mining in Twitter)rrSubmissionsrrOn-Line Submission (will be available around January 1, 2012):rhttp://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select "Special Issue:rSocial Web Mining" as the manuscript type)rDetails of the journal and manuscript preparation are availableron the website http://tist.acm.org/rEach paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers.rrImportant DatesrrFull Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012rReview Notification: April 1, 2012,rFinal Manuscript: May 1, 2012,rElectronic Publication Date: June, 2012,rrGuest EditorsrrFrancesco BonchirYahoo! Research Barcelona, Spainrhttp://www.francescobonchi.com/rrWray BuntinerNICTA - ANU, Australiarhttp://www.nicta.com.au/people/buntinewrrRicard GavaldàrTechnical University of Catalonia, Spainrhttp://www.lsi.upc.edu/~gavalda/rrShengbo GuorXerox Research Centre Europe, Francerhttp://www.xrce.xerox.com/Research-Development/Ser..., wray.buntine-AT-nicta.com.au,rgavalda-AT-lsi.upc.edu, shengbo.guo-AT-xrce.xerox.com