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From: Nicola Perra <nicolaperra(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2015-03-11 10:00 GMT-04:00
*Modeling and Mining Temporal Interactions (M2TI)*
*ICWSM'15 workshop.*
*Oxford, UK, May 26, 2015*
*Webpage:*
http://m2ti.weebly.com/
The emergence of the Big Data paradigm together with the framework of
complex networks has played a crucial role in providing the tools and
datasets to begin understanding human interactions and the dynamics of
social systems with wide applications to informatics, social sciences,
information technology, and epidemiology.
The rise of the social web has resulted in the creation of an unprecedented
number of social systems than can be analyzed in great detail. This unique
opportunity has fostered an interdisciplinary effort to study their
structure and dynamics with network theory taking the forefront. As a
result, researchers have unveiled a number of surprising properties about
the structure and dynamics of large-scale social systems such as online
social networks, scientific and OSS collaboration networks, or mobile phone
communication networks.
Due to both theoretical and practical difficulties, until recently, the
majority of studies have focused on static representations of the social
interactions, where the underlying network structure does not change over
time. While this assumption has proven to be useful and allowed for a great
progress recently, its limitations are now becoming clear. Static
representations miss the timing, duration, and concurrency of social
interactions, which are crucial to characterize many processes such as the
spread of rumors, information and epidemics, the emergence of social norms
and memes or even online congestion, resource depletion and mutual
influence, among others. In general, neglecting the network dynamics might
lead to mischaracterizations of the dynamical processes.
Today, thanks to the ubiquity of online services, social media, GPS enabled
smartphones and the rise of wearable computers, rich time-resolved datasets
of both user behaviors and interactions are available. Empirical data on
human interaction dynamics now include user access logs, email
communications, chatting, phone call and SMS metadata, online forum
discussions, collaborations in software projects, movie participations,
geo-located individual mobility datasets, location check in, and many
others. The availability of such data is triggering a new wave of
data-driven studies of temporal properties of human behavior,
communication, and social interactions.
The mining and study of the temporal characteristics of social dynamics,
raises new fundamental challenges, both theoretical and computational, with
applications to fields such as social sciences, marketing, computer
science, and epidemiology. In particular, new tools and frameworks are
needed to mine, characterize and model temporal behaviors as well as the
profound consequences that individual characteristics and behavioral
correlations have on processes under study.
*Topics and Themes*
The list of topics that we aim to cover at the workshop is the following:
- Data mining approaches for time-resolved datasets
- Representation of time-resolved datasets
- Dynamic interplay between social temporal networks and human behavior
- Analysis and characterization of temporal networks
- Modeling of temporal networks
- Behavioral pattern mining
- User modeling and analysis of behavioral patterns
- Processes on temporal networks
- Data driven models of collaboration
- Influence models
- User and product recommendation based on temporal patterns
- Spatio-temporal correlation between interactions and service usage
The meeting will be one day long and will host around 15 contributed talks.
Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the Program Committee
members, based on the adherence with the theme of the satellite,
originality and scientific soundness.
Abstracts are submitted via the EasyChair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m2ti
Authors who do not have an EasyChair account should sign up for an account
(for identification purposes, make sure to use the same email address as
the one used for the conference registration).
We solicit research papers (up to 8 pages) and extended abstracts (max 2
pages with one illustration/figure).
Extended abstracts will not be included in the proceedings of the conference
Once the selection process is complete, the authors of the accepted
abstracts will be notified by e-mail
Papers submission: *March 13, 2015*
Acceptance notification: March 27, 2015
Camera-ready paper due: April 3, 2015
Workshop Day: May 26, 2015
*Invited Speakers*:
- Bruno Ribeiro, Carnegie Mellon University
- Suzy Moat, Warwick University
*Organizers*:
- Bruno Goncalves
- Marton Karsai
- Nicola Perra