International Journal of Social Network Mining (IJSNM)

ISSN (Online): 1757-8493 - ISSN (Print): 1757-8485

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Conference Announcement Business Applications of Social Network Analysis (BASNA) 2012 3rd International Workshop 26 August 2012 Istanbul, Turkey more details Selected authors will be invited to elaborate on their research topic and submit the results to the journal

In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly with the rapid development of online social websites and instant messaging systems. People increasingly perceive the Web as a social medium that fosters interaction among people, sharing of experiences and knowledge, group activities, community formation and evolution. IJSNM addresses important aspects of interest to practitioners and researchers with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with using data mining techniques for social networking analysis. The journal solicits experimental and theoretical work on social network analysis using data mining techniques, including:

data mining advances in: o the analysis of social networks structures o the discovery and analysis of communities o personalisation for solitary activities (such as search) and social activities (such as discovery of potential friends) o the analysis of user behaviour in open forums (such as conventional sites, blogs and forums) and o commercial platforms (such as e-auctions) and on the associated security and privacy-preservation challenges social network modelling scalable, customisable social network infrastructure construction dynamic growth and evolution, and pattern identification and discovery using machine learning approaches or multi-agent based simulation

Papers should elaborate on data mining or related methods, and issues associated to data preparation and pattern interpretation, both for conventional data (usage logs, query logs, document collections) and for multimedia data (automatic indexing of images, video, and sound). Objectives

The objective of IJSNM is to establish an effective channel of communication between policy makers, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, academic and research institutions and persons concerned with the complex role of social network mining in society. Readership IJSNM provides a vehicle to help professionals, intelligence agencies, academics, researchers and policy makers working in the fields of knowledge management, engineering and business education to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work. Contents IJSNM publishes original papers, review papers, case studies, occasional technical reports, conference reports and book reviews. Special Issues devoted to important topics in knowledge management, social network analysis, information visualisation, music information retrieval and link analysis will occasionally be published. Subject Coverage The topics to be covered by IJSNM include but are not limited to:

Discovery of influential members in social networks Discovery of implicit relationships in social networks Discovering implicit social graphs Detecting misbehaviour in web communities Detecting popular emerging events in social communities Compressing large social networks for analysis Mining social interactions for viral marketing Data preparation and pre-processing for mining of large social networks Detecting drift and evolution in web communities Community discovery in social networks Trend prediction in evolving social networks Discovering temporal patterns in social networks Mining stream data in evolving social networks Contextual social network analysis High performing algorithms for social network mining Graph search algorithms on social networks Multi-agent based social network modelling and analysis Data mining for security in social networks Data mining in mobile social networks Real-time mining of social networks Data mining for malware analysis in social networks Data mining and in semantic web platforms for the social web Mining semantic web data from social software applications Scalability in mining social networks Data mining and knowledge discovery in natural languages for social networks Social recommender systems Personalization for search and social interaction

Applications of social network analysis

Specific Notes for Authors Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B.Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted). All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted manuscript. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors is available. All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines web-page. To submit a paper, please go to Submissions of Papers All papers must be submitted online. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contactsubmissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal.

Editors and Members of the Editorial Board Editor(s) in Chief Marenglen Biba Head of Department University of New York, Tirana Computer Science Department Rr. Komuna e Parisit Tirana ALBANIA marenglenbiba unyt.edu.al Zbigniew W. Ras University of North Carolina at Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics Charlotte, N.C. 28223 USA ras uncc.edu Regional Editor Asia and Far East Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University HONG KONG

Regional Editor Europe Donato Malerba Universit degli Studi di Bari ITALY Regional Editor USA Diane J. Cook Washington State University USA Editorial Board Members Aijun AnAi York University CANADA Bettina BerendtBe Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BELGIUM Francois BryFr Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mnchen GERMANY Longbing CaoLo University of Technology, Sydney AUSTRALIA Barbara CarminatiBa University of Insubria ITALY Michelangelo CeciMi Universit degli Studi di Bari ITALY Gao CongGa Nanyang Technological University SINGAPORE Bruno CremilleuxBr Universit de Caen FRANCE Alfredo CuzzocreaAl University of Calabria ITALY

J. Stephen DownieJ. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA Tapio ElomaaTa Tampere University of Technology FINLAND Floriana EspositoFl Universit degli Studi di Bari ITALY Thomas N. FriemelTh University of Zurich IPMZ SWITZERLAND Fabrice GuilletFa Nantes University FRANCE Hakim HacidHa Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Villarceaux FRANCE Mirsad HadzikadicMi University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA Howard J. HamiltonHo University of Regina CANADA Perfecto HerreraPe Universitat Pompeu Fabra SPAIN Larry HolderLa Washington State University USA Nathalie JapkowiczNa University of Ottawa CANADA Jason J. JungJa Yeungnam University KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Rushed KanawatiRu University of Paris Nord FRANCE

Bozena KostekBo Gdansk University of Technology POLAND Shou-De LinSh National Taiwan University TAIWAN Yutaka MatsuoYu University of Tokyo JAPAN Stan MatwinSt University of Ottawa CANADA Mikolaj MorzyMi Poznan University of Technology POLAND Christopher NugentCh University of Ulster UK Hye-Young Helen PaikHy University of New South Wales AUSTRALIA Jean-Marc PetitJe University of Lyon FRANCE Gregory Piatetsky-ShapiroGr KDnuggets USA Naren RamakrishnanNa Virginia Tech USA Henryk RybinskiHe Warsaw University of Technology POLAND Maytham SafarMa Kuwait University KUWAIT Andrzej SkowronAn University of Warsaw POLAND

I-Hsien TingINational University of Kaohsiung TAIWAN Shusaku TsumotoSh Shimane University JAPAN Xintao WuXi University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA Fatos XhafaFa Technical University of Catalonia SPAIN Kun YangKu University of Essex UK Zhenglu YangZh University of Tokyo JAPAN Zhiwen YuZh Northwestern Polytechnical University CHINA Ning ZhongNi Maebashi Institute of Technology JAPAN Xiaofang ZhouXi University of Queensland AUSTRALIA Djamel ZighedDj Universit Lumire Lyon 2 FRANCE