4th Workshop on Link Analysis, Counterterrorism and Security 2006 - Call
for Papers
Held in conjunction with the SIAM - SDM 06 on 20th April 2006.
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~amt/linkanalysis06/
With the increasing amount of data available electronically the need
for tools and techniques to extract, analyze, and make sense of massive
social data sets, many of which have strong temporal and geographic
features, has escalated. This has led to dramatic increase in research
in areas such as link analysis, social network analysis, dynamic network
analysis, text analysis, data mining and machine learning. Research in
areas such as link analysis, social network analysis, dynamic network
analysis, and text analysis has a long history. It is important to
understand how information flows in organizations, how people form
relationships and connections, and how these processes affect
decision-making. Results of this research have been applied to
understand pathologies in organizations: how collusion and fraud reveal
themselves in the links within and among organizations.
This year we will encourage both the practical and theoretical
perspectives to solving problems related to mining large-scale dynamic
social network datasets including the Enron e-mail dataset, instant
messaging logs and online blog sources. In addition to the objectives of
previous years we specifically wish to bring together social network
statisticians with computer science data miners.
The workshop attracts a mixture of academics, and security and
counterterrorism practitioners. It provides a venue in which to present
early work in relevant areas. Online proceedings will be created, and
hardcopy proceedings will be available to conference attendees (and
through SIAM afterwards). However, authors may retain copyright.
Industrial organizations with products suitable for analyzing large
datasets related to the theme of the workshop may also wish to
participate, either directly in the workshop or in an industrial track
in the main conference.
Topics of Interest Include: Link analysis, Graph mining, Relational
data mining, Social Network Analysis, Dynamic network analysis, Web
mining applied to security and counterterrorism, Text mining applied to
security and counterterrorism, Scalability of algorithms, Visualization
of link structures, Performance evaluation measures, Innovative
applications related to link analysis, Privacy issues, Novel Applications.
Important Dates -
Submissions Due - 7th January 2006.
Acceptance Notification - 1st February 2006.
Camera Ready Papers Due - 13th February 2006. List of accepted papers
and Preliminary Workshop Schedule - 20th February 2006.
Workshop Day - 20th April 2006.
Organization -
Co-Chairs:
Kathleen Carley
Institute for Software Research International
School of Computer Science
Carnegie-Mellon University
Kathleen.carley AT cmu DOT edu
Ankur M. Teredesai
Laboratory for Discovery Informatics
Department of Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
amt AT cs DOT rit DOT edu
Program Committee -
Daniel Barbara, Geoge Mason University
Michael Berry, University of Tennessee
Deepayan Chakrabarti, Yahoo Inc.
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Terrill Frantz, CMU
Lise Getoor, University of Maryland Jeffrey Johnson, East Carolina
University
Ju-Sung Lee, CMU
Ying Li, Microsoft
Castellanos Malu G, Hewlett-Packard
William Pottenger, Lehigh University
Edna Reid, University of Arizona
Lisa Singh, Georgetown University
David Skillicorn, Queens University Bulent Yener, Rensellear Polytechnic
Institute
Kindly e-mail questions and comments to amt AT cs DOT rit DOT edu
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Professor Nigel Gilbert, ScD, FREng, AcSS, Professor of Sociology,
University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483 689173
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