Social networks

Social networks and social media have rapidly become the fastest growing component of the Web, from both usage and research perspectives, as they have lowered the barrier of access for production and consumption of online information, as well as for Web-based interactions among people. Social networks and social media have generalized the key concept of the Web – the hyperlink – to links between people, objects, information, and annotations. As a result, we are discovering ways to leverage links for asking new kinds of questions and building new kinds of systems. The social networks track of WWW explores both analyses of social networks and social media to better understand how these systems work and how people use them, and design and development of theories, algorithms, and techniques to make these systems more effective and to leverage social interaction in new Web application domains.

We welcome original submissions related to all aspects of social networks, including, but not limited to, the following topics :

  • Analysis and modeling of online social systems including blogs and social media sites
  • Interactions between dynamics of social network structure and of social network activity
  • Temporal evolution of online social systems
  • Modeling diffusion of information online
  • Identification of trends and influence in social media
  • Community discovery
  • Link prediction
  • Social mining, social search, and social recommendation systems
  • Location-aware social systems and mobility
  • Collaborative content creation and filtering
  • Social reputation and trust management
  • Representation and compression of social networks

Program committee :

  • Adamic, Lada
  • Aggarwal, Charu
  • Ahn, Yong-Yeol
  • Aiello, Luca Maria
  • Alani, Harith
  • Asur, Sitaram
  • Barrat, Alain
  • Bagrow James
  • Benevenuto Fabricio
  • Boldi, Paolo
  • Bonchi, Francesco
  • Castillo, Carlos
  • Cattuto, Ciro
  • Caverlee James
  • Chi, Ed H.
  • Chierichetti, Flavio
  • Clauset, Aaron
  • Conover Michael
  • Crandall, David
  • De Choudhury, Munmun
  • Ding, Ying
  • Eliassi-Rad, Tina
  • Flammini, Alessandro
  • Fortunato, Santo
  • Galstyan Aram
  • Golder, Scott
  • Goncalves, Bruno
  • Hofman, Jake
  • Hotho, Andreas
  • Huberman, Bernardo
  • Jensen, David
  • John, Ajita
  • Kolari, Pranam
  • Koutrika, Georgia
  • Lambiotte, Renaud
  • Latapy, Matthieu
  • Lattanzi, Silvio
  • Lehmann Sune
  • Lerman, Kristina
  • Leskovec, Jure
  • Liben-Nowell, David
  • Lin, Yu-Ru
  • Liu, Huan
  • Matsuo, Yutaka
  • Mcglohon, Mary
  • Meiss, Mark
  • Menczer, Filippo
  • Metaxas, Takis
  • Mislove, Alan
  • Moreno Yamir
  • Mustafaraj, Eni
  • Oestreicher- Singer, Gal
  • Pei, Jian
  • Perra, Nicola
  • Punera, Kunal
  • Quercia Daniele
  • Romero, Daniel
  • Ruffo, Giancarlo
  • Sarlos, Tamas
  • Scellato Salvatore
  • Schifanella, Rossano
  • Shalizi, Cosma
  • Sheth, Amit
  • Shi, Xiaolin
  • Spiliopoulou, Myra
  • Strohmaier, Markus
  • Stumme, Gerd
  • Suri, Siddharth
  • Tang, Jie
  • Tang, Lei
  • Terveen Loren
  • Terzi, Evimaria
  • Tsaparas, Panayiotis
  • Vigna, Sebastiano
  • Vojnovic, Milan
  • Wasserman, Stanley
  • Zhao Ben

Additional reviewers :

  • Marchiori, Massimo
  • Moon, Sue
  • Onnela, Jukka-Pekka