JCST Special Issue on Social Networks

Journal of Computer Science and Technology 

Special Issue on Data Mining on Social Networks and Social Web

Guest editor: Qiang Yang, Jie Tang, and Lei Zhang        Submission Deadline: September 1st, 2011

Overview

Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in research activity in data mining on social networks and social media. The ubiquitous nature of Web-enabled devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones, enables users to participate and interact with each other in various Web communities. Examples of such communities include forums, newsgroups, blogs, microblogs, bookmarking services, photo sharing platforms, and location-based services. The rapidly evolving social Web provides a platform for communication, information sharing, and collaboration. A vast amount of heterogeneous data (composed of e.g., text, photos, video, links) has been generated by the users of various social communities, which offers an unprecedented opportunity for studying novel theories and technologies for social Web search and mining.

The goal of the special issue is to provide a forum for presenting the most recent advances in data mining on social media topics related to Web search and information retrieval, Web mining, social network analysis, semantic Web, natural language processing, and computational advertising. We are particularly interested in articles that address how to handle crisis and disaster situations through the help of social Web and mining. 

Topics
Papers should include systems related research of socially aware computing. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to,
  • Search and mining algorithms for large-scale social networks
  • Real-time social search and mining infrastructures
  • Microblog (e.g., Twitter, QQ, Jaiku) search and mining
  • Search across heterogeneous user generated content
  • Content aggregation, summarization, and reasoning across multiple data streams
  • Personalized search for social interactions
  • Credibility and provenance of social Web content
  • Computational advertising for user generated content
  • Cross-media search and mining of user generated content
  • Collaborative filtering and recommender systems
  • Community detection and network evolution analysis
  • Sentiment analysis/opinion mining
  • Social network analysis and social influence analysis
  • Spam detection of social media
  • Geospatial and temporal analysis of social media
  • Applications of social search and mining
  • Detecting and preventing false alarms in social media

Tentative Schedule

  • Submission deadline: Sept 1st, 2011
  • Notification date: Oct 1st, 2011
  • Camera ready: Dec 1st, 2011
  • Publication: Feb 1st, 2012
Submission Guidelines
Original manuscripts should be submitted through http://jcst.ict.ac.cn:8080/jcst/EN/volumn/home.shtml, with a keyword: “Special Issue on Social Networks.” 

Guest Editors

  • Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Jie Tang, Tsinghua University
  • Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia

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