Call for Contributions: ICML 2010 Workshop on Social Analytics

[Elad Yom-Tov]

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Call For Papers

Social Analytics: Learning from human interactions
http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/kirilld/ICML10_SNA_Workshop/description.shtml

Workshop held at the 27th International Conference
on Machine Learning (ICML 2010)

Haifa, Israel: June 25, 2010
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Our social interactions are often made by electronic means, and are
thus recorded in
accessible formats. This opens a range of possibilities for studying
human interactions
from data such as social network sites on the web and cell phone
communications. These
tasks usually involve massive amount of data (billions of records)
that is often quite
noisy and even corrupted. Social and artificial networks suggest new
challenges in
modelling machine learning problems as there are strong spatial and
temporal
correlations.

In this workshop we will hear researchers from academia and industry
share their
insights about the theory and applications of social analytics. Our
focus will be on
graph mining and predictive tools that can be used in this area. We
will also consider
different applications from recommender systems, marketing, search,
network
optimization and other emerging areas.

Our goal is to bring people from different fields, ranging from
computer science to
marketing, from both academia and industry, to foster a discussion on
the different
approaches people have taken to the study of social phenomena. A
successful workshop
will introduce people to the tools and data available for social
research in various
communities. A primary goal of the workshop is to create a set of
common theoretical
problems to work on and to solicit data from companies to facilitate
common research
challenges.

Submission Instructions
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If you would like to present at this workshop, please send an email
to
icml10.sn...@gmail.com no later than 23st May, specifying:
- Title
- Authors and affiliations
- A short paper - Length should be no more than 2000 words (Postscript
or PDF format)

Dates & Deadlines
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May 16th: Abstract Submission
May 25th: Acceptance Notification

Organizing Committee
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Shie Mannor
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel and
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University,
Montreal, Canada

Yossi Richter
IBM Research Haifa Lab, Haifa, Israel

Elad Yom-Tov
IBM Research Haifa Lab, Haifa, Israel

Kirill Dyagilev
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel