Cross-post... ########################################### Apologies for cross-posting -------------------- ICFCA 2007 Workshop "Social Network Analysis and Conceptual Structures: Exploring Opportunities" -------------------- http://snafca.free.fr February 16, 2007 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS The recent years have seen a renewed interest in an interdisciplinary effort aiming at analyzing social networks, in which both mathematical sociology and computer science play a notable role, relying altogether extensively on graph theory. This effort has mainly been fueled and supported by significant advances in computing capabilities and electronic data availability for several social systems: scientists, webloggers, online customers, computer-based collaboration-enhancing devices, inter alia. In particular, knowledge networks, i.e. interaction networks where agents produce or exchange knowledge, are the focus of many current studies, both qualitative and quantitative. Among these, community- detection issues such as finding agents sharing sets of identical patterns are a key topic. Social network analysis is proficient in methods aimed at discovering, describing, and plausibly organizing various kinds of social communities. The aim of this workshop is to investigate the opportunities for formal concept analysis in social networks by proposing possible bridges between these frameworks and by presenting issues of mathematical sociology which could benefit from conceptual structures, so as to eventually facilitate collaboration between the two fields. Therefore, we particularly welcome submissions of the survey type describing the state of the art in any of the fields listed below along with submissions specifying a concrete problem that still needs an efficient formal solution. Submissions may but do not have to address the possible use of formal concept analysis in these fields. TARGET AUDIENCE Social scientists using or willing to use formal techniques in any of the fields listed below; researchers in discrete structures and formal concept analysis interested in applications in social sciences. TOPICS Knowledge networks / epistemic networks Collective construction of knowledge, social cognition Social epistemology applied to social networks Social network analysis of communities of practice Information diffusion in social networks Affiliation networks Social network-based methods for community detection Web communities, open-source development communities Weblog analysis Social networking websites Collaboration-enhancing tools (in organizations, on the web, inter alia) Knowledge exchange devices Semantic web and social networks Knowledge management using social data Building semantics from collaborative environments Taxonomies and ontologies for scientific domains Network analysis for folksonomies Systems for folksonomy building Evolution of network structures ORGANIZERS Sergei Obiedkov (Higher School of Economics, Russia) - sergei.obj@gmail.com <//sergei%2Eobj@gmail.com/> Camille Roth (University of Modena, Italy & CREA/CNRS, France) - roth@shs.polytechnique.fr <//roth@shs.polytechnique.fr/> ################################################### Papers about similars topics in Online Congress of Observatory for Cybersociety ( www.cibersociedad.net): In Spanish: http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2004/grups/grup.php?idioma=en&id=65 (deep Link) In various languages: http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2006/gts/gt.php?perfilpagina=comunicacio... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Josep Vives Jounou Board Committee. Observatory for Cybersociety www.cibersociedad.net jvives@cibersociedad.net <//jvives@cibersociedad.net/> josep.vives@gmail.com <//josep%2Evives@gmail.com/> Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------- Josep Vives Jounou jvives@cibersociedad.net josep.vives@gmail.com -------------------------------------------------