Call For Papers
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Second Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications (SNAA 2012) that is held as a part of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012), 26-29 August, 2012, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Social networks have been investigated for many years but the scope of the
analyses was limited due to the small data samples that were collected using
questionnaires and interviews. Nowadays, at our disposal we have vast amount
of data about people and their interactions that can be and are gatheblack using
computer systems. This data comes from technological-based services such as
Online Social Networking Sites, telecommunication services, email, etc. From
this vast amount of data we are able to extract and analyse the social networks
of new-era that can be consist of millions of nodes and connections. Due to scale,
complexity and dynamics, these networks are extremely difficult to analyse in
terms of traditional social network analysis methods being at our disposal. On
the other hand, the data about human communication, common activities and
collaboration simultaneously provide new opportunities for new applications.?
This workshop is devoted to analysis of these large-scale social structures
and what is more important to identify the areas where social network analysis
can be applied and provide the knowledge that is not accessible for other
types of analysis. Additionally, applications of social networks analysis can be
investigated either from static or dynamic perspective.
We seek for business and industrial applications of social network analysis
that help to solve real-world problems.
The area of social networks analysis and its applications bring together researchers
and practitioners from different fields and the main goal of this workshop
is to provide for these people the opportunity to share their visions, research
achievements and solutions as well as to establish worldwide cooperative
research and development. At the same time, we want to provide a platform
for discussing research topics underlying the concepts of social network analysis
and its applications by inviting members of different communities that share
this common interest of investigating social networks. As the area of social networks
is a highly cross-disciplinary one, we aim to foster and develop sustainable
collaborations between Computer Science and Informatics, Sociology, Cognitive
Science and Psychology, Geographic and Environmental Science, Biology, and
Health and Social Sciences. This will give the opportunity to push further the
discussion upon the potential of social networks and their applications across
these communities.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The scope of the 2nd Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications
(SNAA 2012) includes, but is not limited to the following application areas of
social network analysis:
- Social Media
- Business / e-business / e-commerce
- Customer relationship management
- Customer behavioural analysis
- Recommender systems – Collaborative filtering and personalization
- Information / opinion / knowledge spread and modelling
- Medical applications, e.g. diseases spread
- Social networks in health and social care
- Educational applications / e-learning
- Collaborative Information Retrieval
- Social networking sites, incl. dating applications
- Crime detection and investigation
- Organisational structure evaluation
- Collaborative environments, incl. wikis
- Sharing systems
- Virtual worlds and online multiplayer games
- Systems for e-society, incl. e-government
- User analysis in web-based systems
- Real – world case studies from the area of social network analysis
- etc.
