Fifth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis (ARS’15)
Large Networks and Big Data: New Methodological Challenges
April 29-30, 2015, Capri, ITALY
http://www.ars15.unisa.it/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Title and short abstract submission: Jan. 31, 2015
Notification of acceptance: Feb. 28, 2015
Abstract Final Version: Mar. 31, 2015
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SCOPE
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Following the four previous issues of the ARS workshop in Salerno, Naples and Rome (http://www.ars15.unisa.it/past_ars) we are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the fifth issue of ARS that will be held in Anacapri (Capri island) on April 29-30, 2015.
ARS’15 aims at presenting the most relevant results and the most recent methodological developments in dealing with LARGE NETWORK and BIG DATA.
The workshop also aims to deepen existing scientific cooperation between social network analysts, to establish new cooperation between researchers, and to provide a multi-disciplinary forum for exchange of ideas
Papers of interest including (but not limited to) the following topics are solicited:
- Analysis of Large-Scale Networks
- Structural Large Network Properties
- Community Detection and structure in Large Networks
- Visualization of Large Networks
- Methodological problems in large network studies
- Dynamics and evolution patterns of large networks
- Big data storage, processing and network analysis
- Social network data mining and analytics
Applications in several fields (Telecommunications networks, Collaboration networks, Online Social Networks, Healthcare, etc.) are also strongly encouraged.
The scientific program includes plenary, invited and contributed paper sessions with oral presentation.
Plenary sessions:
Clustering and Large networks
Invited speakers:
Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Santo Fortunato (Aalto University in Espoo, Finland)
Renaud Lambiotte (University of Namur, Belgium)
Large networks and big data
Invited speakers:
Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University, USA)
Fosca Giannotti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Ludo Waltman (Leiden University, NL)
Building on successes in previous years, a two-day short course will be held before the Work Shop (April 27-28, 2015).
This year edition of the short course will be on "Large Network Analysis"
Instructors: Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj, Anuska Ferligoj, Natasa Kejzar
Detailed program is at http://www.ars15.unisa.it/shortcourse
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Instructions for authors:
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Detailed submission instructions are at Paper Submission page http://www.ars15.unisa.it/submission.
Length of abstract: max 500 words.
Registration is required.
All submitted abstracts are subject to acceptance by the Scientific Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop as full talks.
For co-authored papers, at least one author must be registered and attend the conference.
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Post-Proceedings
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Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special or in a regular issue of the journal Social Network Analysis and Mining.
(guest editors Patrick Doreian And Ludo Waltman)
Post conference full papers could be submitted for publication in the series Lecture Notes in Social Networks
(guest editors Pietrp Panzarasa, Giancarlo Ragozini, Giuseppe Giordano)
Regular peer-review process will be followed.
Detailed call for papers will follow.
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Contact information:
Website http://www.ars15.unisa.it
Email: ars15@unisa.it
- Giancarlo RAGOZINI
giancarlo.ragozini@unina.it - Maria Rosaria D'ESPOSITO
mdesposito@unisa.it
