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                       CALL FOR PAPERS

        1st Workshop on Mining Social Data (MSoDa'08) 
                http://mlkd.csd.auth.gr/msoda/
		
             July 21st/22nd, 2008, Patras, Greece

                      in conjunction with
   18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'08)                

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AIMS & SCOPE
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Social Data are generated by online systems, such as YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Del.icio.us, where users store data and share experiences. In the recent years we have been witnessing the rapid development of online social websites and instant messaging systems. Due to the success of such systems, numerous web users everyday use the Web as a social medium to interact with other people and to share their experiences.

Social data mining is a new and challenging aspect of data mining. It is a fast-growing research area, in which connections among and interactions between individuals are analyzed to understand innovation, collective decision making, and problem solving, and how the structure of organizations and social networks impacts these processes. Social data mining includes various tasks such as the discovery of communities, searching for multimedia data (images, video, etc) personalization, search methods for social activities (find friends), text mining for blogs or other fora. Social data mining finds several applications; for instance, in e-commerce (recommender systems), in multimedia searching (high volumes of digital photos, videos, audio recordings) in bibliometrics (publication patterns), in homeland security (terrorist networks).

This workshop intends to provide a forum for researchers in the field of Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, to discuss the above and other related topics regarding Social Media. 


MAIN TOPICS
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* Social network analysis
* Community discovery
* Mining (Collaborative) Tagging Systems (blogs, wikis, etc.)
* Mining social data for multimedia information retrieval
* Web mining algorithms
* Personalization for search and for social interaction
* Applications of social network analysis
* Bibliometrics
* Opinion mining
* Recommender systems


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Submission   : May 3, 2008 
* Notification : June 1, 2008
* Camera ready : June 10, 2008
* Workshop day : July 21/22, 2008


PROCEEDINGS
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The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed on paper and as a CD-ROM. 
*** NEW IN THIS CFP ***: Proceedings will also be formally published by IOS Press, based on the volume of submissions  
*** NEW IN THIS CFP ***: Extended versions of selected papers of the workshop, will be published at a special issue of the International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Bettina Berendt, KU Leuven, Belgium
* Magdalini Eirinaki, San Jose State University, USA
* Robert Jaschke, Universitat Kassel, Germany
* Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
* Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA
* Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg, Germany
* Athena Vakali, Aristotle University, Greece


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
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Alexandros Nanopoulos, 
Dept. of Informatics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
ananopou@csd.auth.gr

Grigorios Tsoumakas, 
Dept. of Informatics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
greg@csd.auth.gr