** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2016) Behavioral Analytics on the Web to be held on April 12, 2016, Montreal, Canada co-located with ACM WWW 2016 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2016/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Dec 22, 2015 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Feb 2, 2016 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 8, 2016 ** Workshop date: April 12, 2016 Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany: atzmueller@cs.uni-kassel.de Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA: alvin.chin@bmwna.com Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria: trattner.christoph@gmail.com For the 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the field of behavioral analytics using web and social media data. Behavioral analytics is an important topic, e.g., concerning web applications as well as extensions in mobile and ubiquitous applications, for understanding user behavior. We would also like to invite researchers in the data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. Thus, we invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to: * Behavioral analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Approaches for personalization and recommendations * Methods for social structure and community discovery * Methods for tie strength or link prediction * Methods for extracting and understanding user and group behavior * Methods for predicting user behavior * Methods for user modeling and profiling * Applications of behavioral analytics * Privacy and security in behavioral analytics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to apply behavioral analytics approaches and algorithms on social media, big data and the web. Hence, the workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of personalization, recommendation, community discovery, profiling and prediction from social media. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm16 Program Committee: ================== Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Stephan Doerfel, University of Kassel, Germany Ruth Garcia, Oxford University, UK Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain Mouzhi Ge, University of Bolzano, Italy Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Barcelona Media, Spain Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Bart Knijnenburg, University of California, Irvine, USA Simon Koo, Jesuit Liberal Arts College, Hong Kong, China Florian Lemmerich, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Philipp Singer, GESIS, Germany Alan Said, Recorded Future, SE Su Yang, Fudan University, China Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2016 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller - atzmueller@cs.uni-kassel.de Alvin Chin - alvin.chin@bmwna.com Christoph Trattner - trattner.christoph@gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner@know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------