CALL FOR PAPERS
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Mining Data Semantics in Information Networks (MDS'2012) Workshop
in conjunction with SIGKDD2012 (http://www.sigkdd.org/kdd2012/)
http://arnetminer.org/MDS2012
August 12-16, 2012, Beijing, China.
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News:
- Keynote: Christos Faloutsos (Department of Computer Science, Carnegie
Mellon University, USA)
- Invited Speakers:
. Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, USA
. Hui Xiong, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
. Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Best papers with significant extension will be invited to submit to a
top journal (indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI) with impact factor>2)
This workshop aims to motivate researchers and practitioners from
multidisciplinary fields to study the problem of mining semantics in
heterogeneous information networks. The recent efforts on converting and
generating semantic data provide large knowledge base for us to analyze
and practice now. The pressing needs coming from life science for
integrating and mining data provide an excellent opportunity to showcase
the values of semantic technologies for mining information networks.
Recognizing the research challenges, it is important for KDD, one of the
most influential venues for data mining research, to play a leading role
and address that. Unlike the other workshops which focus primarily on
the algorithmic aspects, the intent of this workshop is to continue the
research effort on semantic data mining, and to encourage the academia
and industrial researchers to share their study and experience on
semantic data mining algorithms, theory and applications. The objective
of the workshop is to the better collaboration, idea exchange, and
information sharing, a thorough analysis and mining on data semantics.
The anticipated outcome includes a fruitful discussion about the
emerging challenges in this field, inspiration of the novel theories for
mining semantic graph data, and motivating the interesting applications.
The broader anticipated outcome includes: fostering future research
directions, publishing high quality papers, attracting new researchers
to this field, and concrete solutions to the existing problems.
The workshop will provide a forum for researchers from all over the
world to share information on their latest investigations in semantic
mining and its application particularly in academic research area and
industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop can be related
in some respects to the areas of Web Mining, Social Networks Analysis,
Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing. In
addition to paper presentations and depending on time limitations, we
will solicit an invited talk or a panel that will stress the
interdisciplinary challenges of Semantic Graph Mining. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to:
* Metadata integration;
* Classification and prediction in heterogeneous networks;
* Clustering and ranking methods for heterogeneous networks;
* Pattern-analysis methods;
* Link mining and link prediction;
* Semantic search over heterogeneous networks;
* Mining with user interactions;
* Semantic mining with light-weight reasoning;
* Extending LOD and Quality of LOD disambiguation, identity,
provenance, integration;
* Personalized mining in hetereogeneous networks;
* Domain specific mining (e.g., Life Science and Health Care);
* Multi-scale visualization;
* Collective intelligence mining.
Important Dates
* Submission deadline: May 15th, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: June 7th, 2012
* Final papers due: June 15th, 2012
All papers submitted should have a maximum length of 8 pages and must be
prepared using the ACM camera-ready
templatehttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Authors are
required to submit their papers electronically in PDF format. The
submission website is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mds2012.
Workshop Chairs:
Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Philip Yu, University of Illinouis Chicago, USA
