Track 2 - People, Resources, and Annotations
One of the most exciting recent developments in Web science is the rise of social annotation, by which users can easily markup other authors' resources via collaborative mechanisms such as tagging, filtering, voting, editing, classification, and rating. These social processes lead to the emergence of many types of links between texts, users, concepts, pages, articles, media, and so on. We welcome submissions on design, analysis, and modeling of information systems driven by social linking.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
- Applications to search, retrieval, recommendation, and navigation
- Explicit vs. inferred social links (e.g. mining query logs)
- Integration of different social networks (e.g. links between blogs and bookmarking systems)
- Socially induced measures of similarity, relatedness, or distance
- Co-evolution of social, information, and semantic networks
- Analysis of the structure and the dynamics of social information networks
- Behavioral patterns of social linking
- Linguistic analysis of social annotation spaces
- Formal and generative models of social annotation
- Unstructured vs. structured social knowledge representations
- Implementation and scalability of social link representations
- Automatic and user-based evaluation
- Emergent semantics in social networks
- Robustness against spam and other forms of social abuse
- Design of collaborative annotation mechanisms
- Critical mass and incentives of social participation (e.g. games)
- User interfaces for collaborative annotation
Track Chairs
| Andreas Hotho | University of Kassel (Germany) |
| Vittorio Loreto | Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) |
Senior Track Program Committee
| Wendy Hall | University of Southampton (UK) |
| Bernardo Huberman | HP Labs (USA) |
| Peter Mika | Yahoo! Research Barcelona (Spain) |
| Jon Kleinberg | Cornell University (USA) |
| Frank Smadja | Toluna (France) |
| Steffen Staab | University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) |
| Gerd Stumme | University of Kassel (Germany) |
Track Program Committee
| Ruj Akavipat | Indiana University (USA) |
| Harith Alani | University of Southampton (UK) |
| Andrea Baldassarri | Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) |
| Alain Barrat | CNRS (France) |
| Dominik Benz | University of Kassel (Germany) |
| Stephan Bloehdorn | University of Karlsruhe |
| Johan Bollen | LANL (USA) |
| Shannon Bradshaw | Drew University (USA) |
| Andrea Capocci | Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) |
| Riley Crane | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Debora Donato | Yahoo! Research Barcelona (Spain) |
| Alessandro Flammini | Indiana University (USA) |
| Scott Golder | Cornell University (USA) |
| Paul Heymann | Stanford University (USA) |
| Bettina Hoser | University of Karlsruhe (Germany) |
| Robert Jäschke | University of Kassel |
| Pranam Kolari | Yahoo! (USA) |
| Beate Krause | University of Kassel |
| Renaud Lambiotte | Imperial College London (UK) |
| Jure Leskovec | Carnegie Mellon University (USA) |
| Marc Light | The Thomson Corporation (USA) |
| Ana Maguitman | Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina) |
| Massimo Marchiori | University of Padova (Italy) |
| Ben Markines | Indiana University (USA) |
| Mark Meiss | Indiana University (USA) |
| Evangelos Milios | Dalhousie University (Canada) |
| Claudia Müller | University of Stuttgart (Germany) |
| Jacob Ratkiewicz | Indiana University (USA) |
| Heather Roinestad | Indiana University (USA) |
| Vito Servedio | Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) |
| Markus Strohmaier | Graz University of Technology (Austria) |
| Martin Svensson | Ericsson Research (Sweden) |
| Karin Verspoor | LANL (USA) |
| Le-Shin Wu | Indiana University (USA) |
