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3rd International Workshop on Mining the Social Web (SoWeMine 2017)
in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2017)
Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy | 8 June 2017
http://www.ebusiness-lab.gr/sowemine2017
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CALL FOR PAPERS

The last decade the Social Web is rapidly becoming an important part of our digital lives with shared information in formats that range from text to rich multimedia. Social web networks help to improve the sense of connectedness with real and/or online communities and can be effective communication tools for corporations and groups. Modeling and mining the vast volume of data dynamically produced and maintained in social web environments is a great challenge in an effort to extract, represent and discover meaningful knowledge. Social web mining is a type of data mining, a set of techniques for analyzing social web data to detect patterns. It combines data mining with social computing with the purpose of developing novel algorithms and tools ranging from text and multimedia content mining to web structure mining and community detection. Social web mining is applied in domains such as user modeling, recommendations, personalization, e-learning, e-recruitment, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, visualization, folksonomies, multimedia searching and so on. These trends raise the need for mining big data comprising heterogeneous, dynamic data trails, as well as the critical need for privacy, security and ethical considerations.

TOPICS of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Recommendations in social media
- Social web search
- Sentiment analysis
- Trust in social media
- Opinion mining
- Behavior analysis, evolution and modeling
- Information diffusion
- Personalization for search and social interaction
- Web mining algorithms
- Applications of social network analysis
- Mobile and location-aware social networks
- Folksonomies and mining tagging systems (blogs, wikis, etc.)
- Mining social data for multimedia information retrieval
- Spam detection
- Usability aspects of social media
- Social media analysis and visualization
- Interactive/exploratory processes for social media mining
- Social networks and big data mining

SUBMISSION Information
We welcome contributions related to the topics of interest and formatted according to Springer´s LNCS style guidelines. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 12 pages in the final camera-ready format.
The submission Web site for SoWeMine 2017 is http://www.ebusiness-lab.gr/sowemine2017

Submitted contributions may not overlap with papers that have already been published in a journal, conference or workshop, or are currently under review. All contributions will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted contributions will appear in the extended proceedings of ICWE2017 that are going to be published by Springer in the series LNCS.
Important: accepted contributions will be allocated 20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes for questions during the workshop. So that at least one of the authors should be registered and attend the workshop to present the paper.

Important DATES
Workshop papers submission deadline: 31/03/2017
Notification of Workshop papers acceptance:28/04/2017
Workshop papers camera-ready version: 12/05/2017
Workshop date: 08/06/2017


Organizers
Spiros Sirmakessis, Professor [Main Contact Person] Dept. of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Technological Institution of Western Greece, syrma@cti.gr
Olfa Nasraoui, Professor, Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department, University of Louisville, olfa.nasraoui@louisville.edu
Maria Rigou, PhD, Lecturer Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece, rigou@ceid.upatras.gr
Evanthia Faliagka, PhD, Teaching and Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Technological Institution of Western Greece, efaliaga@teimes.gr


Program COMITTEE
Evanthia Faliagka, Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Technological Institution of Western Greece
John Garofalakis, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece
Koutheair Khribi, ALECSO Organization, Tunisia
Maja Pivec, University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM, Austria
Maria Rigou, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece
Michalis Xenos, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece
Muhammet Demirbilek, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey
Olfa Nasraoui, Dept. of Computer Engineering & Computer Science, University of Louisville, US
Paolo Crippa, Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Spiros Sirmakessis, Department of Computer Informatics and Engineering, Technological Educational Institution of Western Greece, Greece
Zanifa Omary, The Institute of Finance Management, Tanzania

Contact
For further information, please contact the organizers:
Spiros Sirmakessis: syrma@teimes.gr
Olfa Nasraoui olfa.nasraoui@louisville.edu
Maria Rigou: rigou@ceid.upatras.gr
Evanthia Faliagka: efaliaga@teimes.gr