The 2012 International Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Information Difussion Modeling(SNAIDM 2012) will be hold in No.1-3, Xiangtan, China, the hometown of Chairman Mao(founder of People's Republic of China).

Workshop Overview
Over the last few years, we have witnessed a tremendous growth in online social networks and social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, which greatly facilitate the collaboration, information sharing, and other interactions between individuals. Large scale social data is aggregated in an ever-increasing rate and provides unprecedented opportunity for the analysis of users’ behavior, human dynamics and the understanding to the mechanism of information diffusion. Meanwhile, big data brings forth more severe information overload and requires more flexible and robust computing platforms or service paradigms. On one hand, the structure of social networks underlies and constrains the process of the information diffusion occurring on networks. On the other hand, the information diffusion also provides crucial insights to the structural characteristics and even affects the evolution of the underlying network.

Call for Papers
In this workshop, therefore, we aim to analyze the structural characteristics of social networks and to understand the mechanism of information diffusion on social networks or social media. For this purpose, the topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Social Information Network Modeling
Information Diffusion on Social Media
Community Detection and Evolution
Link Prediction and Popularity Prediction
Collaborative filtering and Information Recommendation
Social Reputation and Influence
User Behavior Analysis
Anti-spam for Social Media
Real-time Social Search and Mining
Computational Advertising
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
New Applications on Social Networks
All papers must be submitted electronically via the submission page .

Important Dates
Deadlines for workshop poster submissions are:

Submissions Due: July 30, 2012
Authors Notification: August 30, 2012
Final Manuscript Due: September 15, 2012
Program Committee
Co-Chairs
Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, China)
Tao Zhou (University of electronic science and technology of China)
Steve Gregory (University of Bristol, UK)
PC Members
Guoqiang Zhang (NanJing Normal University, China)
Huawei Shen (Institute of Computing Technology, China)
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China)
Lin Gao (XiDian University, China)
Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
Shi Zhou (University College London, UK)
Xiaofan Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Youfang Lin (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Zike Zhang (HangZhou Normal University, China)
Fuxin Ren (Institute of Computing Technology, China)