CFP
forSocial Network

Analysis

and

Graph Algorithms

We invite research contributions for the Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms (SNAGA) for the Web track at the 27th edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2018), to be held April 23-27, 2018 in Lyon, France (/www2018/).

Social networks on the Web have lowered the barrier to produce and consume online information by enabling new links between people, objects, information, and services. The vast amount of data available from many online agents and sources has created an unprecedented opportunity to address both new and longstanding questions. On the other hand, these systems have also become targets of issues related to fraud, privacy, fairness and transparency. The sheer size of data has also created challenges regarding storage, analysis, and sensemaking.

We encourage submissions in all areas of graph theory and algorithms, graph mining, and social network analysis; broadly work that integrates ideas from data mining, machine learning, social sciences, and computer science theory. This track explicitly focuses on the investigation of graph-based techniques for social networks on the Web toward developing new theories, models, and algorithms to make these systems more effective and efficient.

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

• Social media analysis through the lenses of networks
• Applications of graph mining in neuroscience, economics, sociology, etc.
• Discovering causal effects in networked environments
• Fairness, bias, and transparency of graph mining and learning algorithms
• Fraud, spam and malice detection in relational domains
• Social mining, social search, and social recommendation systems
• Link prediction
• Social reputation and trust management
• Influence propagation and information diffusion
• Multi-relational graph analysis
• Dynamic network analysis and algorithms for graph streams
• Algorithms for graph reconstruction, graph identification, and network inference
• Mining and learning in graphs with missing information and noise
• Analysis of heterogeneous, signed, attributed, and annotated networks
• Location-aware social network analysis and mobility
• Privacy-preserving graph algorithms
• Algorithms for subgraph and motif discovery
• Graph summarization and visual analytics
• Querying and indexing algorithms for massive graphs
• Methods for graph representation, sparsification, sketching, and compression

Track chairs:

• Leman Akoglu (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
• Francesco Bonchi (ISI Foundation, Italy)
• Yelena Mejova (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)

Contact: www2018-sna-ga (at) googlegroups.com

Senior Program Committee:

• Tanya Berger-Wolf (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States)
• Paolo Boldi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Johan Bollen (Indiana University Bloomington, United States)
• Sanjay Chawla (Qatar Computing Research Institute HBKU, Qatar)
• Aristides Gionis (Aalto University, Finland)
• Jake Hofman (Microsoft, United States)
• Arijit Khan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Nick Koudas (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Danai Koutra (University of Michigan, United States)
• Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (IIITD, India)
• Silvio Lattanzi (Google, United States)
• Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California, United States)
• Alessandro Panconesi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• C. Seshadhri (University of California Santa Cruz, United States)
• Mauro Sozio (Télécom ParisTech, France)
• Yizhou Sun (University of California Los Angeles, United States)
• Boleslaw Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States)
• Evimaria Terzi (Boston University, United States)
• Hanghang Tong (City College CUNY, United States)
• Panayiotis Tsaparas (University of Ioannina, Greece)
• Charalampos Tsourakakis (Harvard University, United States)
• Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Tim Weninger (University of Notre Dame, United States)

Program Committee:

• Rediet Abebe (Cornell University, United States)
• Nesreen Ahmed (Intel, United States)
• Yong-Yeol Ahn (Indiana University Bloomington, United States)
• Luca Maria Aiello (Nokia Bell Labs, United Kingdom)
• Aris Anagnostopoulos (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• Ashton Anderson (Microsoft, Canada)
• David Arbour (Facebook, United States)
• Cigdem Aslay (ISI Foundation, Italy)
• James Bagrow (University of Vermont, United States)
• Christian Bauckhage (Fraunhofer, Germany)
• Luca Becchetti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• Fabricio Benevenuto (Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil)
• Austin Benson (Cornell University, United States)
• Michele Berlingerio (IBM, Ireland)
• Petko Bogdanov (University at albany SUNY, United States)
• Ceren Budak (University of Michigan School of Information, United States)
• Guido Caldarelli (Centre SMC CNR-INFM, Italy)
• James Caverlee (Texas A&M University, United States)
• Tanmoy Chakraborty (University of Maryland, United States)
• Harshal Chaudhari (blank, United States)
• Wei Chen (Microsoft, China)
• Justin Cheng (Facebook, United States)
• Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
• Gao Cong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Anirban Dasgupta (IIT Gandhinagar, India)
• Tijl De Bie (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
• Yuxiao Dong (Microsoft, United States)
• Nick Duffield (Texas A&M University, United States)
• Alessandro Epasto (Google, United States)
• Shobeir Fakhraei (University of Southern California, United States)
• Michalis Faloutsos (UCR, United States)
• Mehrdad Farajtabar (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
• Damien Fay (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom)
• Emilio Ferrara (University of Southern California, United States)
• Pierre Fraigniaud (CNRS and University Paris Diderot, France)
• Sabrina Gaito (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Aram Galstyan (USC/ISI, United States)
• Lixin Gao (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
• David Garcia-Soriano (Yahoo!, Netherlands)
• Assefaw Gebremedhin (Washington State University, United States)
• Manuel Gomez Rodriguez (MPI for Software Systems, Germany)
• Amit Goyal (Yahoo Labs, United States)
• Sebastian Grauwin (university of Lyon, France)
• Francesco Gullo (UniCredit, Italy)
• Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS, Germany)
• Stephan Günnemann (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
• Jinyoung Han (Hanyang University, South Korea)
• Mohammad Hasan (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, United States)
• Xin Huang (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Adriana Iamnitchi (University of South Florida, United States)
• Abigail Jacobs (University of California Berkeley, United States)
• Michal Jacovi (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel)
• Meng Jiang (University of Notre Dame, United States)
• Panos Kalnis (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• U Kang (Seoul National University, South Korea)
• Dmytro Karamshuk (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
• Krishnaram Kenthapadi (LinkedIn Corporation, United States)
• Emre Kiciman (Microsoft, United States)
• Isabel Kloumann (Facebook, United States)
• Farshad Kooti (Facebook, United States)
• Ioannis Koutis (University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, United States)
• Srijan Kumar (Stanford University, United States)
• Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
• Himabindu Lakkaraju (Stanford University, United States)
• Renaud Lambiotte (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Theodoros Lappas (Stevens Institute of Technology, United States)
• Daniel Larremore (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
• Matthieu Latapy (CNRS, France)
• Sangkeun Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States)
• David Liben-Nowell (Carleton College, United States)
• Jefrey Lijffijt (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Nelly Litvak (University of Twente, Netherlands)
• Lin Liu (University of South, Australia)
• Wei Lu (Rupert Labs Inc, United States)
• Mohammad Mahdian (Google, United States)
• Fragkiskos Malliaros (University of California San Diego, United States)
• Michael Mathioudakis (INSA Lyon & LIRIS CNRS, France)
• Julian Mcauley (University of California San Diego, United States)
• Luke Mcdowell (U.S. Naval Academy, United States)
• Ida Mele (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
• Vahab Mirrokni (Google, United States)
• Alan Mislove (Northeastern University, United States)
• Misael Mongiovì (Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, Italy)
• Sebastian Moreno (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile)
• Davide Mottin (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany)
• Abdullah Mueen (University of New Mexico, United States)
• Daniela Paolotti (ISI Foundation, Italy)
• Evangelos Papalexakis (University of California Riverside, United States)
• Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy)
• Leto Peel (Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
• Tiago Peixoto (University of Bath, Germany)
• Ali Pinar (Sandia National Laboratories, United States)
• B. Aditya Prakash (Virginia Tech, United States)
• Geppino Pucci (DEI – Universita’ di Padova, Italy)
• Filippo Radicchi (Northwestern University, United States)
• Jose J. Ramasco (IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Spain)
• Bruno Ribeiro (Purdue University, United States)
• Matteo Riondato (Two Sigma Investments LP, United States)
• Daniel Romero (University of Michigan, United States)
• Ryan Rossi (Adobe Research, United States)
• Natali Ruchansky (University of Southern California, United States)
• Giancarlo Ruffo (Universita’ di Torino, Italy)
• Lee Sael (State University of New York Korea, South Korea)
• Iraj Saniee (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, United States)
• Nishanth Sastry (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
• Grant Schoenebeck (University of Michigan, United States)
• Neil Shah (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
• Amit Sharma (Microsoft, United States)
• Aneesh Sharma (Google, United States)
• Francesco Silvestri (University of Padova, Italy)
• Ambuj Singh (University of California Santa Barbara, United States)
• Stanislav Sobolevsky (NYU-MIT-ITMO, United States)
• Le Song (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
• Andrea Tagarelli (Dept. Computer Engineering Modeling Electronics and Systems Sciences University of Calabria, Italy)
• Chenhao Tan (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
• Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University, United States)
• Johan Ugander (Stanford University, United States)
• Antti Ukkonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Madhav V. Marathe (Virgnia BioInformatics Institute and Dept. of Computer Science, United States)
• Matthijs van Leeuwen (Leiden University, Netherlands)
• Onur Varol (Northeastern University, United States)
• Dashun Wang (Northwestern University, United States)
• Samuel Way (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
• Robert West (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Kevin S. Xu (University of Toledo, United States)
• Jaewon Yang (Stanford University, United States)
• Qian Zhang (Northeastern University, United States)
• Elena Zheleva (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States)
• Changtao Zhong (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
• Linhong Zhu (Information Sciences Institute, United States)

Important dates:

• Research tracks abstracts submission deadline : 26 October 2017
• Research tracks full papers submission deadline : 31 October 2017
• Research tracks acceptance notification : 22 December 2017
• Research tracks papers final version due : 18 February 2018

All submission deadlines are at 9:00pm HAST.