Workshop 1. International Workshop on Modeling Social Media 2010 (MSM'10)
Description: Social media applications such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, news aggregation sites and social tagging systems have pervaded the web and have transformed the way people communicate and interact with each other online. In order to understand and effectively design social media systems, we need to develop models that are capable of reflecting their complex, multi-faceted socio-technological nature. While progress has been made in modeling particular aspects of selected social media applications (such as the architecture of weblog conversations, the evolution of wikipedia, or the mechanics of news propagation), other aspects are less understood.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 9, 2010 (updated)
Final Submission Deadline: April 16, 2010 (updated)
Notification of Acceptance: May 13, 2010
Final Papers Due: May 20, 2010
Workshop date: June 13, 2010, Toronto, Canada
Workshop Organizers:
Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China, alvin.chin (at) nokia.com
Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, hotho (at) informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria, markus.strohmaier (at) tugraz.at
Format of the Workshop:
The workshop will be opened by an invited talk given by Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center). The talk will be followed by a number of peer-reviewed research and position paper presentations and a discussion panel including Barry Wellman (University of Toronto), Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley) and Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center).
Submissions:
We solicit position papers (2 pages), demonstration and short research papers (4 pages) as well as full research papers (8 pages). Submissions should be formatted in ACM SIG proceedings format, and submitted via the easychair submission system for this workshop. Please not that submissions of abstracts are required until April 9. The final submission deadline is April 16.
Workshop Overview:
Social media applications such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, news aggregation sites and social tagging systems have pervaded the web and have transformed the way people communicate and interact with each other online. In order to understand and effectively design social media systems, we need to develop models that are capable of reflecting their complex, multi-faceted socio-technological nature. While progress has been made in modeling particular aspects of selected social media applications (such as the architecture of weblog conversations, the evolution of wikipedia, or the mechanics of news propagation), other aspects are less understood.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- new modeling techniques and approaches for social media
- models of propagation and influence in twitter, blogs and social tagging systems
- models of expertise and trust in twitter, wikis, newsgroups, question and answering systems
- modeling of social phenomena and emergent social behavior
- agent-based models of social media
- models of emergent social media properties
- models of user motivation, intent and goals in social media
- cooperation and collaboration models
- software-engineering and requirements models for social media
- adapting and adaptive hypertext models for social media
- architectural and framework models
- user modeling and behavioural models
- modeling the evolution and dynamics of social media
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