CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================== Track on Social Network and Media Analysis (SONAMA) The 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2014) March 24-28, 2014, Gyeongju, Korea ACM SAC: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2014/ SONAMA Track: http://agape.hanyang.ac.kr/sonama/ ====================================================== Aims and Scope --------------- With the advent of social network services such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumbler, and Google+, the research on social network and media analysis has been greatly advanced. In recent years, the interactions among people, sharing of knowledge and experiences, community activities in social network services increase greatly, which would make the research on social networks more important. Furthermore, as social media contents within social network services are rapidly being produced and consumed, the social media contents now account for the majority of content published on the world wide web. Social media is differentiated from traditional media in many aspects such as its frequency, quality, usability, immediacy, and permanence, which leads to significant potential to the social media analysis research. The ACM SAC has been an important venue for the past twenty-eight years, attracting computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. The Social Network and Media Analysis (SONAMA) track of ACM SAC will provide a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners for exploring technologies, issues, experiences, and applications with a specific focus on the recent research trends and industrial needs in the related fields. Since social network and media analysis encompasses a variety of highly cross-disciplinary research issues, the SONAMA will foster collaborations and exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers working in various fields such as computer science, linguistics, statistics, sociology, economics, and business. Topics of Interest ------------------ We plan to include all the important topics related to social network and media analysis within the SONAMA. These topics include, but are not limited to: - Community structure analysis in social networks - Applications of social network and media analysis - Analysis of the relationship between social media and traditional media - Data modeling for social networks and social media - Detection of spam, misinformation and malicious activities in social networks - Business impact in social network and media analysis - Political impact in social network and media analysis - Geographical analysis of social networks - Temporal analysis of social networks - Information analysis for social media - Dynamics and evolution of social networks - Information acquisition in social networks - Big data issues in social network and media analysis - Link prediction and simulation - Modeling of user behavior and interaction - Monitoring social networks and media - New social media applications and interfaces - Pattern analysis in social networks - Personalization for social interaction - Privacy and security in social networks - Propagation and diffusion of information in social networks - Social information applied to recommender systems - Information retrieval in social network services - Visualization and presentation of social information - Statistical analysis - Topological analysis of social networks - Trust management for social networks and social media - Qualitative and quantitative studies of social networks and social media Important Dates --------------- Paper submission: September 13, 2013 Acceptance notification: November 15, 2013 Camera-ready copies: December 6, 2013 Author registration: December 13, 2013 Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of research and applications for this track. Full papers are limited to 6 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages at cost (US$80 per page). The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate double-blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Papers must be formatted according to the ACM SAC template. Papers that received high reviews but were not accepted due to space limitations can be invited for the poster session. Posters are limited to 2 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page at cost (US$80). For full submission guidelines, please follow the instructions on the ACM SAC 2014 website. Original manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format through the START web site: https://www.softconf.com/d/sac2014. Registration ------------ Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Student Research Competition (SRC) Program ------------------------------------------ Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (minimum of 2 pages and maximum of 4 pages) following the instructions published at SAC 2014 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by expert reviewers and practitioners. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give poster presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places.The SRC committee will evaluate and select the first-, second-, and third-place winners. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet. Authors of selected abstracts are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award program for financial support. SRC papers should be submitted in electronic format through the START web site: https://www.softconf.com/d/sac-src2014. Track Chair ----------- Sang-Wook Kim Department of Computer Science and Engineering Hanyang University, Korea E-mail contact: wook@agape.hanyang.ac.kr Homepage: http://agape.hanyang.ac.kr/sonama Program Committee Members ------------------------- - Ladjel Bellatreche (National Engineering School for Mechanics and Aerotechnics, France) - Polo Chau (Georgia Tech, USA) - Freddy Chong-Tat Chua (Singapore Management University, Singapore) - Robson L. F. Cordeiro (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) - Fan Guo (Facebook, USA) - Dominic Heutelbeck (Forschungsinst. fur Telekommunikation e.V., Germany) - Shu Huang (Microsoft, USA) - Min-Hee Jang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Jason J. Jung (Yeungnam University, Korea) - Pinar Karagoz (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) - Chulyun Kim (Gachon University, Korea) - Min-Soo Kim (DaeguGyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology, Korea) - Younghoon Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) - Jongwuk Lee (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Sang-Chul Lee (Hanyang University, Korea) - Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, Switzerland) - Pedro O.S Vaz de Melo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) - Mikolaj Morzy (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) - Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys (King's College London, UK) - Richi Nayak (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) - B. Aditya Prakash (Virginia Tech., USA) - Viktor K. Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA) - Jose Fernando Rodrigues Jr. (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) - Julien Velcin (University Lyon 2, France) - Emmanuel Viennet (Universite Paris 13, France) - Shinjae Yoo (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) - Seok-Ho Yoon (Samsung Electronics, Korea) - Xiangliang Zhang (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) - Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research Asia, China)