[Air-l] Workshop "Social Network Analysis and Conceptual

[Josep Vives]

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ICFCA 2007 Workshop "Social Network Analysis and Conceptual
Structures: Exploring Opportunities"
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http://snafca.free.fr

February 16, 2007

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

The recent years have seen a renewed interest in an interdisciplinary
effort aiming at analyzing social networks, in which both
mathematical sociology and computer science play a notable role,
relying altogether extensively on graph theory. This effort has
mainly been fueled and supported by significant advances in computing
capabilities and electronic data availability for several social
systems: scientists, webloggers, online customers, computer-based
collaboration-enhancing devices, inter alia.

In particular, knowledge networks, i.e. interaction networks where
agents produce or exchange knowledge, are the focus of many current
studies, both qualitative and quantitative. Among these, community-
detection issues such as finding agents sharing sets of identical
patterns are a key topic. Social network analysis is proficient in
methods aimed at discovering, describing, and plausibly organizing
various kinds of social communities.

The aim of this workshop is to investigate the opportunities for
formal concept analysis in social networks by proposing possible
bridges between these frameworks and by presenting issues of
mathematical sociology which could benefit from conceptual
structures, so as to eventually facilitate collaboration between the
two fields. Therefore, we particularly welcome submissions of the
survey type describing the state of the art in any of the fields
listed below along with submissions specifying a concrete problem
that still needs an efficient formal solution. Submissions may but do
not have to address the possible use of formal concept analysis in
these fields.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Social scientists using or willing to use formal techniques in any of
the fields listed below; researchers in discrete structures and
formal concept analysis interested in applications in social sciences.

TOPICS

  Knowledge networks / epistemic networks
  Collective construction of knowledge, social cognition
  Social epistemology applied to social networks
  Social network analysis of communities of practice
  Information diffusion in social networks
  Affiliation networks
  Social network-based methods for community detection
  Web communities, open-source development communities
  Weblog analysis
  Social networking websites
  Collaboration-enhancing tools (in organizations, on the web, inter
alia)
  Knowledge exchange devices
  Semantic web and social networks
  Knowledge management using social data
  Building semantics from collaborative environments
  Taxonomies and ontologies for scientific domains
  Network analysis for folksonomies
  Systems for folksonomy building
  Evolution of network structures

ORGANIZERS

Sergei Obiedkov (Higher School of Economics, Russia)  -
sergei.obj at gmail.com <//sergei%2Eobj at gmail.com/>
Camille Roth (University of Modena, Italy & CREA/CNRS, France)  -
roth at shs.polytechnique.fr <//roth at shs.polytechnique.fr/>

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Papers about similars topics in Online Congress of Observatory for
Cybersociety ( www.cibersociedad.net):

In Spanish:
http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2004/grups/grup.php?idioma=en&id=65 (deep
Link)

In various languages:
http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2006/gts/gt.php?perfilpagina=comunicacions&id=26


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Josep Vives Jounou
Board Committee. Observatory for Cybersociety
www.cibersociedad.net
jvives at cibersociedad.net <//jvives at cibersociedad.net/>
josep.vives at gmail.com <//josep%2Evives at gmail.com/>
Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain
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