Welcome to MSNDS 2019

The 10th International Workshop on Mining and Analyzing Social Networks for Decision Support

(MSNDS 2019)

In conjunction with IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2019

Vancouver, Canada

27-30 August, 2019

Mining and analyzing social networks is now becoming a very popular research area not only for data mining and web mining but also social network analysis. Data mining is a technique that has the ability to process and analyze large amounts of data and by this to discover valuable information from the data. In recent years, due to the booming of social communications and social network-based web services, data mining has become a very important and powerful technique to process and analyze such large amount of data.

Recently, many researchers are focusing on developing new data mining techniques and algorithms, or devoting to improve traditional mining techniques for social network analysis. However, it is meaningless, if the discovered valuable and useful data have not been applied in real application environment. Social data are the aggregations of communication interaction and experience of people, and it if useful to leverage this type of data for decision making. Thus, it could be an important time to shift the research focus to an application area, such as decision support.

The workshop was firstly organized in conjunction with ASONAM 2009 conference in Athens, Greece. MSNDS 2010 was in conjunction with ASONAM 2010 in Odense, Denmark. MSNDS 2011 was in conjunction with ASONAM 2011 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. MSNDS 2012 was held with ASONAM 2012 in Istanbul and MSNDS 2013 was conjunction with ASONAM 2013 in Niagara Falls, Canada, MSNDS 2015 was conjunction with ASONAM 2015 in Paris, France, MSNDS 2016 was conjunction with ASONAM 2016 in San Francisco, USA, MSNDS 2017 was held in Sydney, Australia and MSNDS 2018 was held in Barcelona, Spain. Thus, it is also valuable to include MSNDS 2019 in ASONAM 2019 to bring together researchers who are interested in this topic.

TOPICS

This workshop invites papers of the following topics, but never exclusive:

Mining and analyzing social data for decision support
Mining social web services for decision support
Algorithms for mining social networks for decision support
Matching engines and interfaces for decision support systems
System architectures
Intelligent and multi-agent based decision support systems
Social decision support systems
Semantic Analysis for Decision Support
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
Big Data Issue in Mining and analyzing social data for decision support
Visualization
Experiment and implementation
Leveraging social data for decision support in healthcare
Case studies and empirical studies

KEY DATES

Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2019
Acceptance notification: June 30, 2019
Camera-ready paper deadline: July 15, 2019
Author registration due: July 15, 2019
Conference events: August 27-30, 2019

SUBMISSION

The papers will be reviewed and assessed by the program committee. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a length of 8 pages using the IEEE two-column template. We solicit also short paper with a maximum length of 4 pages. Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), and abstract on the first page.

EasyChair submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msnds2019

Papers will be accepted for the conference based on the reviewers' comments on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Co-Chairs

I-hsien Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Min-Yuh Day, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Ming-Tai Wu, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

Program Committee

Sarabjot Anand, Warwick University, UK
YingZi Jin, Tokyo University, Japan
Ravi Kumar, Yahoo Research, USA
Ron Kohavi, Microsoft Research, USA
Raymond Kosala, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belguim
Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technology of University, Singapore
Brij Masand, Data Miners, Inc. USA
Yutaka Matsuo, National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech., Japan
Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Hsing-I Wang, The Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan
Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Ellen Spertus, Google and Mills College, USA
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota,USA
Ming-Hsiung Ying, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo Research, USA
Osmar Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada
Li- Chen Cheng, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

Previous MSNDS workshop

MSNDS 2018 - The 9th MSNDS workshop in Barcelona, Spain
MSNDS 2017 - The 8th MSNDS workshop in Sydney, Australia
MSNDS 2015 - The 6th MSNDS workshop in Paris, France
MSNDS 2013 - The 5th MSNDS workshop in Niagara Falls, Canada
MSNDS 2012 - The 4th MSNDS workshop in Istanbul, Turkey
MSNDS 2011 - The 3rd MSNDS workshop in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
MSNDS 2010 - The 2nd MSNDS workshop in Odense, Denmark
MSNDS 2009 - The 1st MSNDS workshop in Athens, Greece

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