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Special Tracks

(1)   Social network and social media analysis (SNA / SMA)

Track Chairs:

Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

Henric Johnson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Przemysław Kazienko, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland

Ioannis (Yiannis) Kompatsiaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece

List of topics (the authors are not strictly limited to this list):

  • Application of social network and social media analysis
  • Big data approach to SNA / SMA
  • Blog and microblog analysis
  • Collaborative query processing and optimization
  • Community discovery and analysis in large scale social networks
  • Contextual social network analysis
  • Crowd sourcing
  • Cultural, anthropological and political aspects in SNA / SMA
  • Data acquisition and social relationship extraction for SNA/SMA
  • Data integration and identification in SNA / SMA
  • Data models for social networks and social media
  • Data protection and security issues in SNA / SMA
  • Deep web SNA / SMA
  • Dynamics of networks and social communities
  • Dynamics and patterns in social media data
  • Economic impact of social network discovery
  • Efficiency in SNA / SMA
  • Evaluation of SNA / SMA
  • Evolution of social networks and social media
  • Exchange networks
  • Graph-based algorithms for SNA/SMA
  • Impact of social networks on recommendations systems (overlaps the second track)
  • Information diffusion and spread of influence in social networks
  • Knowledge networks
  • Large graph and parallel processing
  • Machine learning methods for SNA / SMA
  • Measures, similarity and dissimilarity in SNA / SMA
  • Multi-agent based social network and social media modelling and analysis
  • Multiple / multilayer social  network analysis
  • Multiple social network interaction and multiple media system correlation
  • Outlier and misbehaviour detection in SNA/SMA
  • Pattern discovery on the web data and in large organizations
  • Personalization in social services (overlaps the second track)
  • Privacy and security in SNA / SMA
  • Reasoning fort social and media data
  • Recommender systems in establishment of social relations (overlaps the second track)
  • Scalability of social networking, search algorithms and social media data processing
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Signed graphs and multigraphs in SNA / SMA
  • Simulations and computational models for social networks
  • Social intelligence
  • Social role identification
  • Social search analysis
  • Spatial networks
  • Statistical modelling of large networks
  • Trust networks and evolution of trust
  • Visual representation of dynamic social networks and social media evolution
  • Wikipedia-based data analysis

Track Programme Committee (tentative):

  • Harith Alani, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Martin Boldt, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Piotr Brodka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Bengt Carlsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Uni. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  • Michele Coscia, Harvard University, USA
  • Schahram Dustdar, Vienna Uni. of Technology, Austria
  • Damien Fay, Bournemouth University, UK
  • Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
  • Enrique Frias-Martinez, Telefonica Research, Spain
  • David Garcia, ETH, Switzerland
  • Nathan Griffiths, University of Warwick, UK
  • Heinz Ulrich Hoppe, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  • Jaroslaw Jankowski, West Pomeranian Univ. of Technology, Poland
  • Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Vassilis Kostakos, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Hishan Liu, LinkedIn, USA
  • Nadine Lucas, GREYC CNRS Caen University, France
  • Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany
  • Matteo Magnani, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Dunja Mladenic, J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia
  • Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys, King’s College London, UK
  • Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Symeon Papadopoulos, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
  • Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Labs, France
  • Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK
  • Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
  • Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska, ESIGETEL, France
  • Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA
  • Katharina Zweig, Kaiserslautern University, Germany
  • Anna Zygmunt, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

(2)   Recommender systems

Track Chairs:

Emilio S. Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

Janusz Sobecki, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland

Recommender Systems are applied to provide customized information for their users in a complex environment, i.e. web-based systems. This alternating environment captures not only information needs of differentiated users but also the various system platforms, which are used in many different contexts. In such circumstances so-called classical information systems tend to be very ineffective and there is a great need for applications of adaptive technologies in general or recommender agents in particular. Recommendation exploits past behaviors and user similarities to generate a list of information items that is personally tailored to an end-user’s preferences. Topics of submitted papers should focus on Recommender Systems and related topics concerning both theoretical and application aspects in the following areas:

  • Case studies of applications
  • E-learning in the web environment
  • Expert systems
  • Hyperlink recommendation
  • Information retrieval and filtering
  • Multimedia and mobile systems
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Personalization processes
  • Privacy and Security in Recommender Systems
  • Product recommendation
  • Recommendation algorithms
  • Recommender Systems Evaluation
  • Social networks
  • Targeted advertising
  • User modelling
  • User interfaces
  • Web browsing

Track Programme Committee (tentative):

  • Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA
  • Mária Bieliková, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
  • Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  • Paul Davidsson, Malmö University, Sweden
  • Krzysztof Dembczyński, Poznań University of Technology, Poland
  • Manuel Grana, University of the BasqueCountry, Spain
  • Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Toyaoki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
  • Anthony Savidis, ICS-FORTH, Greece
  • Vittorio Scarano, University of Salerno, Italy
  • Marcus Specht, Open University, The Nethelands
  • Dariusz Król, Bournemouth University, UK
  • Luminita Dumitriu, University Dunarea de Jos, Romania
  • Michał Woźniak, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
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