[CFP] [WISE-2024] - Special Track: Graph Machine Learning on Web and Social Media - Doha, Qatar

[Wenqi FAN]

[WISE-2024] - Special Track: Graph Machine Learning on Web and Social Media: Trends, Challenges, and Applications

Venue: Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Dates: 2-5 December 2024

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Graphs, which encode pairwise relations between entities, are commonly utilized data structures in the realm of the Web and Social Media. As the most representative technique, graph machine learning methods have been extensively developed to effectively analyze graph patterns in a computational manner, which has achieved great success in numerous real-world applications. Meanwhile, the boom of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Consequently, increasing attention has been paid to exploring the potential of leveraging LLMs for advancing graph machine learning techniques. This emerging intersection presents both opportunities and challenges that warrant attention and further exploration.  The goal of this special topic track is to bring together researchers from academia and practitioners from the industry, providing them with an opportunity to present their recent progress and share valuable insights related to advancements on the web and social media.

Webpages:
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Track Webpage: https://wise2024-qatar.com/graph-machine-learning-on-web-and-social-media/
WISE2024 Webpage: https://wise2024-qatar.com/


Organizers:
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- Qing Li (Lead Organizer), Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
- Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Wenqi Fan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. *For questions and further information, please contact Dr. Wenqi Fan (wenq...@polyu.edu.hk).

Topics of Interest:
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Areas of interest include (but not limited to):

- Information and web mining
- Social media analysis
- Social network analysis
- Graph machine learning
- Anomaly and outlier detection in social media
- Dynamic social media monitoring
- Spatio-temporal aspects in social networks and social media
- Semantic and Knowledge
- LLMs-enhanced graphs
- Graph-enhanced LLMs
- Graph foundation models
- Large-scale graph algorithms
- Trustworthy web mining
- Multimodal web mining
- Community discovery and analysis
- Recommender Systems
- Computer Vision on web and social media
- Natural Language Processing on web and social media
- Information systems
- Search and filtering technology
- Web-related economic activities, online markets, and human computation
- Web-based mobile and ubiquitous computing


Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: 30 June, 2024
Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 30 August, 2024
Camera-Ready Files Submission Deadline: 07 September, 2024


Submission Guidelines
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Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at Springer. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. All submissions must go through EasyChair system via Easychair



Special issues in Journals
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A selection of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in:
- ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB).
- Springer Computing Journal.
- Springer WWW Journal.