http://www.snakdd.com
The fourth SNA-KDD '2009 solicits contributions on social network analysis and graph mining, including the emerging applications of the Web as a social medium. Papers should elaborate on data mining methods, issues associated to data preparation and pattern interpretation, both for conventional data (usage logs, query logs, document collections) and for multimedia data (pictures and their annotations, multi-channel usage data). Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online and offline social networks
Personalization for search and for social interaction
Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations
Data protection inside communities
Misbehavior detection in communities
Web mining algorithms for clickstreams, documents and search streams
Preparing data for web mining
Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
Evolution of patterns in the Web
Evolution of communities in the Web
Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks, trend prediction
Contextual social network analysis
Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
Search algorithms on social networks
Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
Application of social network analysis
Anomaly detection in social network evolution


All submissions must be made electronically at the paper submission website.

Papers should be no longer than 10 pages inclusive of all references and figures. Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font, approx. 1in margins). Please use the prescribed formatting guidelines of KDD (ACM Proceedings) which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

All papers must be submitted in either PDF (preferred) or postscript. Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original, and have not been published elsewhere.

The workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM Digital Library and distributed during the workshop.



Important Dates
Apr 30 , 2010: Electronic submission of full papers & abstracts
May 21, 2010: Author notification
June 4, 2010: Submission of Camera-ready papers
July 25, 2010: Workshop in Washington DC USA


http://www.snakdd.com
Workshop Co-Chairs

Lee Giles Pennsylvania State University
John Yen Pennsylvania State University
Haizheng Zhang Amazon.com
Sherief Abdullah The British University in Dubai
Qi He Pennsylvania State University
Qiankun Zhao Telefonica I + D, Spain

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