The 2012 International Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Information Difussion Modeling(SNAIDM 2012) will be hold in No.1-3, Xiangtan, China, the hometown of Chairman Mao(founder of People's Republic of China).

I cordially invite you and your collegues to submit your recent research results to this workshop, which provides a platform for researchers around the world in this area to communicate and exchange their views. Also, please forward this CPF to anyone who are interested in social network analysis.

All accepted papers will be indexed by EI.

Workshop website: http://searchforum.org.cn/sca/

Detailed Workshop Information:

Workshop Overview

Over the last few years, we have witnessed a tremendous growth in online social networks and social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, which greatly facilitate the collaboration, information sharing, and other interactions between individuals. Large scale social data is aggregated in an ever-increasing rate and provides unprecedented opportunity for the analysis of users’ behavior, human dynamics and the understanding to the mechanism of information diffusion. Meanwhile, big data brings forth more severe information overload and requires more flexible and robust computing platforms or service paradigms. On one hand, the structure of social networks underlies and constrains the process of the information diffusion occurring on networks. On the other hand, the information diffusion also provides crucial insights to the structural characteristics and even affects the evolution of the underlying network.

Call for Papers

In this workshop, therefore, we aim to analyze the structural characteristics of social networks and to understand the mechanism of information diffusion on social networks or social media. For this purpose, the topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Social Information Network Modeling  
Information Diffusion on Social Media  
Community Detection and Evolution  
Link Prediction and Popularity Prediction  
Collaborative filtering and Information Recommendation  
Social Reputation and Influence  
User Behavior Analysis  
Anti-spam for Social Media  
Real-time Social Search and Mining  
Computational Advertising  
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining  
New Applications on Social Networks

All papers must be submitted electronically via the submission page .

Important Dates

Deadlines for workshop poster submissions are:
Submissions Due: July 30, 2012
Authors Notification: August 20, 2012
Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2012

Program Committee

Co-Chairs
Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, China)  
Tao Zhou (University of electronic science and technology of China)  
Steve Gregory (University of Bristol, UK)

PC Members
Guoqiang Zhang (NanJing Normal University, China)  
Huawei Shen (Institute of Computing Technology, China)  
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China)  
Lin Gao (XiDian University, China)  
Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)  
Shi Zhou (University College London, UK)  
Xiaofan Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)  
Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)  
Youfang Lin (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)  
Zike Zhang (HangZhou Normal University, China)  
Fuxin Ren (Institute of Computing Technology, China)