The First ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research
August 12, 2012, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
In conjunction with ACM KDD 2012, August 12-16, 2012
Keynote: Peter Gloor (MIT Sloan School of Management) "The Wisdom of Few and the Madness of Many: Collective Prediction in Digital Social Network"
Technical Session 1: Network Dynamics in Online and Offline Networks
Sabrina Gaito , Matteo Zignani, Gian Paolo Rossi, William Kennedy
(University of Milan, Italy)Alessandra Sala (Bell Labs,
Ireland), Xiaohan Zhao (UCSB, USA), Haitao Zheng and Ben Y. Zhao (UCSB,
USA). On the Bursty Evolution of Online Social Networks (full paper)
Massimiliano La Gala, Valerio Arnaboldi, Andrea Passarella and Marco
Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy). Ego-net Digger: a New Way to Study Ego Networks in
Online Social Networks (full paper)
Lianghao Dai, Jar-Der Luo (Tsinghua University, China), Xiaoming Fu
(University of Göttingen, Germany) and Zhichao Li (Tsinghua University).
Predicting offline behaviors from online features -- the ego-centric
dynamical network approach (full paper)
Peter Cogan (Bell Labs, Ireland), Matthew Andrews, Milan Bradonjic,
William Kennedy (Bell Labs, USA), Alessandra Sala (Bell Labs, Ireland),and
Gabriel Tucci (Bell Labs, USA). Reconstruction and Analysis of Twitter
Conversation Graphs (full paper)
Panel:Integrating Social Behaviors into Social Computing
Chair: Jar-Der Luo (Tsinghua Univ)
Panelists: Xiang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ), Peter Gloor (MIT), Jie
Tang (Tsinghua Univ), Xiaoming Fu (Univ Göttingen),
Alessandra Sala (Bell Labs)
Invited talk: Yuquan Wang (CEO of Haiyin Fund and Chief Consultant of
Frost & Sullivan)
Technical Session 2: Social Network Sampling, Platforms and Analysis
Jianguo Lu and Dingding Li (University of Windsor, Canada). Sampling
online social networks by random walk (full paper)
Pravin Shankar, Lu Han, Vancheswaran Ananthanarayanan, Matthew Muscari,
Badri Nath and Liviu Iftode Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
USA). A Case for Automatic Sharing over Social Networks (full paper)
Thomas Paul (TU Darmstadt, Germany), Benjamin
Greschbach, Sonja Buchegger (KTH, Sweden) and Thorsten Strufe (TU Darmstadt,
Germany). Exploring Decentralization Dimensions of Social Network
Services: Adversaries and Availability (full paper)
Weimin Liao (School of Culture Communication, Zhejiang Sci-Tech
University, China). Strategies for Spreading Information from Local to
Global in Social Complex Networks: Cases from a Village in China (short
paper)
Technical Session 3: Network Properties and Behaviors
Alexander Mehler and Christian Stegbauer (University of Frankfurt,
Germany). Emergent Semantics from Collaborative Writing: Self-similarity in
Wiki-based Media (short paper)
Lang Qin, Ling Zhou and Jar-Der Luo (Tsinghua University, China).
Complex Network Perspective on Network Dynamics:A Study on
Investment Network in VC Industry in China (short paper)
Yuexin Mao, Bing Wang, Wei Wei (University of Connecticut, USA) and
Benyuan Liu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA). Correlating S&P 500
Stocks with Twitter Data (short paper)
Jiayin Qi, Qixing Qu (School of Economics and Management, Beijing
University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) and Yong Tan (Department
of Information Systems and Operations Management, Michael G. Foster School
of Business, University of Washington, USA). Topic Evolution Prediction of
User Generated Contents Considering Enterprise Generated Contents (short
paper)
Jason Gustafson, Jun Li (University of Oregon, USA) and Haixin Duan
(Tsinghua University, China). Towards a Socially Aware Home Router (short
paper)
Program Committee:
Vitaly Belik, MIT,
USA and MPI-DS, Germany
Margarete Boos,
University of Göttingen, Germany
Wei Chen, Microsoft
Research Asia, China
Kai Fischbach,
University of Bamberg, Germany
Xiaoming Fu,
University of Göttingen, Germany (Co-Chair)
Peter Gloor, MIT, USA
(Co-Chair)
Pan Hui, Deutsche
Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Benyuan Liu,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA
Jar-Der Luo, Tsinghua
University, China
Cecilia Mascolo,
University of Cambridge, UK
Yasmin Merali,
University of Warwick, UK
Alessandra Sala, Bell
Labs, Ireland
Christian Stegbauer,
University of Frankfurt, Germany
Jie Tang, Tsinghua
University, China (Co-Chair)
Allen Zhiwei Wu,
Nanjing University, China
Xifeng Yan, UCSB, USA
Ben Zhao, UCSB, USA
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing
University, China
Sponsor: ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
Supporters: Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, University of Göttingen