SI 2020: Workshop on Social Influence 2020 December 7, 2020 |
Conference website | https://wosinf.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=si2020 |
Submission deadline | September 15, 2020 |
Introduction
The Workshop on Social Influence - SI 2020, co-located with The 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2020).
Workshop date: 7th December 2020
Workshop website: https://wosinf.org
Workshop twitter account: https://twitter.com/wosinf
Conference website: http://asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Conference dates: 7th - 10th December 2020
Location: Online
Important dates
Submission deadline: |
15th September 2020 (23:59 American Samoa Zone - UTC-11) |
Notification of acceptance: |
10th October 2020 |
Camera-ready due: |
25th October 2020 (23:59 American Samoa Zone - UTC-11) |
Workshop date: |
7th December 2020 |
ASONAM 2020 conference dates: |
7th - 10th December 2020 |
Description
The digital era creates new possibilities for observing humans’ behaviour, especially the one expressed on the Internet, but we also leave traces during everyday activity by making phone calls, using GPS devices or using any kind of transportation. People who meet together or communicate over the Internet or other channels constantly exchange information, rumours, spread opinions and attitudes. Sometimes it is just an information that is being passed from one to another, but it may also become the beginning of a huge change, either of an individual or even of the whole society – but in both cases it starts with becoming influenced or influencing others.
Social influence is the process of a complex nature which involves our location in social network, the network structure and dynamics, time and psychological and sociological factors. At the level of an individual it is rather a psychological process but at the network scale it is strongly dependent on the network structure and its dynamics. Hence, studying social influence is a challenging interdisciplinary task, which, if succeeded, leads to better understanding of the surrounding world.
This workshop aims to gather researchers studying the phenomenon of social influence in networks and it is indented to be a cross-domain knowledge exchange. That is why we are willing to present the state of the art and current research in this area from different perspectives: computer science, physics, sociology, as well as mathematics or psychology, making this event interdisciplinary. We believe that only by taking the advantage of all the above mentioned fields it is possible to move forward in understanding how this complex works and how the society may benefit from understanding it better.
Submission Guidelines
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. Full paper submission deadline is August 30th, 2020. These papers will follow an academic review process.
Manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages. Papers have to be formatted according to the IEEE two-column template.
Submissions to SI 2020 should be anonymized: please remove authors' names and any other information that could reveal your identity from your submission. Papers that have not been properly anonymized will be rejected without review.
At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper.
Please submit your paper by using the on-line submission system via:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=si2020
IEEE two-column template:
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html
List of Topics
The scope of the Workshop on Social Influence (SI 2020) includes, but is not limited to the following areas:
- social influence
- diffusion of information and innovations
- influence maximization
- graphical voter models
- evolutionary graph theory
- epidemic models on graphs
- data-driven approaches
- temporal networks
- seeding strategies
- content manpulation
- optimization of dynamic processes in networks
Workshop Co-Chairs
Radosław Michalski, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
https://www.ii.pwr.edu.pl/~michalski
Jarosław Jankowski, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
http://jjankowski.zut.edu.pl/
Paulo Shakarian, Arizona State University, Arizona, United States
https://cidse.engineering.asu.edu/directory/shakarian-paulo/
Committees
Program Committee
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Katarzyna Musiał, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Jieun Shin, University of Florida, United States
Tao Jia, Southwest University, China
Suman Kundu, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
Sen Pei, Columbia University, United States
Sebastiano Delre, Montpellier Business School, France
Radu Tanase, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mara Sorella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Dariusz Król, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Patryk Pazura, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
SeWook Oh, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Mateusz Nurek, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Piotr Bródka, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Marcin Waniek, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Organizing Committee
Mateusz Nurek, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Patryk Pazura, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
Publication
SI 2020 proceedings will be published in IEEE CS Digital Library, alongside with ASONAM 2020 proceedings.
IEEE/ACM proceedings are indexed by Thomson Reuters Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library and other indexing services.
Journal special issue
Apart from the publication of conference proceedings, the authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for a special issue of Electronics journal (published by MDPI, IF 2.412).
Contact
All questions about the workshop should be emailed to info@wosinf.org.