Call for paper

The study of social networks originated in social, educational and business communities, with better theoretical support from the 1940’s on. Today, the increasing use of Web and social media fosters interaction among people, data dissemination and information sharing. With such a growing data availability (provided by people and their interaction, logs and web servers), there are opportunities for evaluating and developing techniques for improving social networks and information over many contexts. Hence, social network analyses and techniques have defined fruitful research fields in academia, politics, security, business, marketing, sciences, and many others.

BraSNAM 2022 provides an interdisciplinary venue to bring together practitioners and researchers from social networks and its related fields, to promote collaboration and exchange of ideas and practices.

Topics of Interest

BraSNAM topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Social Data and Information Lifecycle: extraction, cleaning, modeling, querying, indexing, embedding, features and metrics, transformation, compression and summarization, integration, management, storage, characterization, analysis, mining, learning, sampling, monitoring, privacy preserving, navigation and visualization, and evolution.

• Social and Information Networks Human Aspects: crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, ethical issues, fairness and bias, spam, misinformation, malicious activities, communities, influence detection and propagation, epidemiology, social capital, user behavior modeling, organizational and group behavior, cognitive computing, reputation, trust and expertise identification, and team formation.

• Social and Information Networks in Context: medicine, sciences, crime and forensics investigation, education, culture, research and academia, government and politics, economics, health and well-being, marketing, business, management, digital humanities, and software ecosystems.

• Social and Information Networks Techniques: big data, flow and diffusion, interface, link prediction, simulation and evolution, engagement and gamification, sentiment and opinion analysis, ranking, recommendation, retrieval, trend identification, tracking and forecasting.

• Specialized Social and Information Networks: covert networks and dark web, location-aware social networks and mobility, professional networks, mobile and smart multimedia sensors, and novel applications.

Important Dates

• Deadline: 15/03 31/03 (07/04) (FINAL)

• Results: 06/05 (10/05)

• Camera-ready: 20/05

• Authors’ registration: 20/05

Template

• Template of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC)

Best Papers Awards

BraSNAM 2022 will have the following awards, which will be announced during the event: Full Paper, Short Paper, and Dataset Paper.

We will select the distinguished papers in each category. The awards will be conferred to the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference. The decision criterion will consider both the paper quality and oral presentation quality.

The distinguished full and dataset papers submitted to BraSNAM will be invited to submit an extended and revised version to the iSys - Brazilian Journal of Information Systems (full papers) and JIDM - Journal of Information and Data Management (dataset papers).

Paper Registration and Presentation Instructions

At least one author registration as full is mandatory for including the paper in the proceedings. Authors with more than one approved paper at any CSBC workshop/event may pay a single registration, plus an “extra publication fee” per additional article. The value of this “extra publication fee” will be informed at the CSBC 2022 registration webpage.

Full papers will be presented in the technical sessions of BraSNAM2022. Accepted short papers, tools/applications, and dataset will also be published in the workshop’s proceedings and will be presented as posters. There will be a session for tool demonstration.

BraSNAM] reserves the right to not include in the proceedings those papers that, during the workshop, are not presented by one of its authors or by a designated presenter.

Accepted papers will be published in the series na série Anais do Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining at SBC Open Lib, SBC’s content portal, in the BraSNAM series, ISSN 2595-6094, available at https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/brasnam. All papers will be indexed with DOI.