Workshop date: 31st July 2017
Workshop website: https://wosinf.org
Workshop twitter account: https://twitter.com/wosinf

Conference website: http://asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca Conference dates: 31st July - 3rd August 2017

Location: Sydney, Australia

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DESCRIPTION
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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.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The scope of the Workshop on Social Influence (SI 2017) 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
- optimization of dynamic processes in networks

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: 10th May 2017 (23:59 American Samoa Zone - UTC-11, firm)

Notification of acceptance: 15th June 2017

Camera-ready due: 23rd June 2017 (23:59 American Samoa Zone - UTC-11)

Workshop date: 31st July 2017

ASONAM 2017 conference dates: 31st July - 3rd August 2017

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. Full paper submission deadline is May 10th, 2017. 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 2017 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=si2017

IEEE two-column template:
http://tinyurl.com/ieeetwocolumn

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PUBLICATION
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SI 2017 proceedings will be published in IEEE CS Digital Library, alongside with ASONAM 2017 proceedings.

IEEE/ACM proceedings are indexed by Thomson Reuters Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library and other indexing services.

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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
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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/

Radosław Michalski, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland https://www.ii.pwr.edu.pl/~michalski

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Huan Liu, Arizona State University, United States Omar Lizardo, University of Notre Dame, United States Luis E C Rocha, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Naoki Masuda, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Katarzyna Musiał, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Mara Sorella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Michael Mäs, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Abhinav Bhatnagar, CrossViral Inc., United States Fariba Karimi, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Piotr Bródka, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland Li Huang, University of South Carolina, United States Radu Tanase, University of Zurich, Switzerland Dariusz Król, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland Sen Pei, Columbia University, United States SeWook Oh, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Marcin Kulisiewicz, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland Panagiotis Karampourniotis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Marcin Kulisiewicz, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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CONTACT US
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Workshop website: https://wosinf.org
twitter account: https://twitter.com/wosinf
email: [email protected]