International Workshop on Modeling Social Media 2010 (MSM'10)

June 13, 2010, co-located with Hypertext 2010, Toronto, Canada

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Call-for-Papers-MSM'2010.txt

 

Important Dates:

  • Abstract Submission Deadline: April 9, 2010 (updated)
  • Final Submission Deadline: April 16, 2010 (updated)
  • Notification of Acceptance: May 13, 2010 planned new date: May 18, 2010
  • Final Papers Due: May 22, 2010
  • Workshop date: June 13, 2010, Toronto, Canada
Workshop Organizers:
  • Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China, alvin.chin (at) nokia.com
  • Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, hotho (at) informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
  • Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria, markus.strohmaier (at) tugraz.at

 

Format of the Workshop:

The workshop will be opened by an invited talk given by Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center). The talk will be followed by a number of peer-reviewed research and position paper presentations and a discussion panel including Barry Wellman (University of Toronto), Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley) (cancelled) and Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center).

Preliminary Program and Location:

Location: UoT Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 7180 (link to Google maps)
The workshop is in Bahen 7180 (seventh floor) and the location of the Bahen Building at 40 St. George Street can be seen marked on the following Google map. If the building is locked when you arrive please wait at the entrance for a student volunteer to let you in, unless someone else happens to let you into the building.

Short paper talks are 15mins presentation and 5 mins discussion
Full paper talks are 20mins presentation and 10 mins discussion

--- 9.00 - 10.30 Opening ---

Opening (10 min) Slides (PDF)

Invited Talk, Ed Chi, Palo Alto Research Center (60 min) Slideshare
Title: "Model-driven Research for Augmenting Social Cognition"
Short Abstract: Model-driven research seeks to predict and to explain the phenomena in systems. The drive to do this for social computing research should further our understanding of how these systems evolve and develop. I will illustrate how we have modeled the dynamics in the popular social bookmarking system, Delicious, using Information Theory. I will also show how using equations from Evolutionary Dynamics we were better able to explain what might be happening to Wikipedia's contribution patterns.

*) How to Measure the Information Similarity in Unilateral Relations: The Case Study of Delicious (Short 20 min) Paper (PDF), Slides (PDF)
Danielle H. Lee.

--- 11.00 - 12.10 Session: Social Interaction ---

*) Modeling the Social Dynamics of Online Discussion Sites (Full, 30 min) Paper (PDF), Slides (PDF)
Else Nygren

*) Modeling social media support for the elicitation of citizen opinion (Short, 20 min) Paper (PDF), Slides (PDF)
Andrew Hilts and Eric Yu.

Poster Pitch 5 min each (20 min)

--- 14.00 - 15.30 Session: Discussion Panel "Modeling Social Media from Multiple Perspectives" ---

Slides (PDF)
Panel with Barry Wellman (University of Toronto, slides), Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley) (cancelled) Jamie Blustein, (Dalhousie University, slides) and Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center).

--- 16.00 - 17.10 Session: Social Semantics ---

*) Friendship, collaboration and semantics in Flickr: from social interaction to semantic similarity (Short, 20 min) Paper (PDF), Slides (PDF)
Andrea Capocci, Andrea Baldassarri, Vito Domenico Pietro Servedio and Vittorio Loreto.

*) Exploiting Semantic Web Techniques for Representing and Utilising Folksonomies (Full 30 min) Paper (PDF), Slides (PDF)
Owen Sacco and Cécile Bothorel.

Final discussion and Wrap Up (20 min) Slides (PDF)


Posters (presentation during breaks 12:30 - 14:00 and 15:30 - 16:00)
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*) The Dimension of On-line Social Networks, Poster (PDF), Paper (PDF)
Anthony Bonato, Jeannette Janssen and Pawel Pralat.

*) A Conceptual Model for Dimensions Affecting Employees' Effective Participation in Social Tagging In the Corporate Environment (Poster) Paper (PDF)
Hesham Allam, Michael Bliemel, James Blustein, Louise Spiteri and Carolyn Watters.

*) How Far Does a Tweet Travel? Information Brokers in the Twitterverse (Poster) Paper (PDF)
Diederik van Liere.

*) A systems thinking model for open source software development in social media, Poster (PDF), Paper (PDF)
Moyen Mohammad Mustaquim.

 

Submissions:

We solicit position papers (2 pages), demonstration and short research papers (4 pages) as well as full research papers (8 pages). Submissions should be formatted in ACM SIG proceedings format, and submitted via the easychair submission system for this workshop. Please not that submissions of abstracts are required until April 9. The final submission deadline is April 16.

Workshop Overview:

Social media applications such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, news aggregation sites and social tagging systems have pervaded the web and have transformed the way people communicate and interact with each other online. In order to understand and effectively design social media systems, we need to develop models that are capable of reflecting their complex, multi-faceted socio-technological nature. While progress has been made in modeling particular aspects of selected social media applications (such as the architecture of weblog conversations, the evolution of wikipedia, or the mechanics of news propagation), other aspects are less understood.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Workshop's Objectives and Goals:

The goal of this workshop is to focus the attention of researchers on the increasingly important role of modeling social media. The workshop aims to attract and discuss a wide range of modeling perspectives (such as justificative, explanative, descriptive, formative, predictive, etc models) and approaches (statistical modeling, conceptual modeling, temporal modeling, etc). We want to bring together researchers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to modeling complex social media phenomena and systems, 2) the different purposes and applications that models of social media can serve, 3) issues of integrating and validating social media models and 4) new modeling techniques for social media. The workshop aims to start a dialogue aiming to reflect upon and discuss these issues.

Workshop Attendees

Participants who do research or have an interest in theoretical and practical models for social media.

Preliminary Program Committee (confirmed):
Proceedings:
  
Workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM DL.

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Tweetdoc documentation of the #msm10 hashtagstream during the workshop: msm2010-tweetdoc.pdf