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Call for Paper

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he International Workshop on Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Business Applications
(SNMABA2009)
29-31/August/2009 Vancouver, Canada
http://im.nuk.edu.tw/~iting/SNMABA2009/
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Important Dates:
25 April, 2009 Paper Submission Deadline
1 June, 2009 Notification of Acceptance
15 June, 2009 Camera-Ready Due
29-31 August, 2009 Conference Dates
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Social networks mining and analysis has now becoming a very popular research area not only for data mining and web mining but also social computing and social network analysis. Data mining is a technique that has the ability to process and analyze large amount of data and by this to discover valuable information from the data. In recent year, due to the growth of social communications and social networking websites, data mining becomes a very important and powerful technique to process and analyze such large amount of data.

Recently, many researches are focusing on developing new data mining techniques and algorithms, or devoting to improve traditional mining techniques for social network analysis. However, it is meaningless, if the discovered valuable and useful data have not been applied in real environment. In most of application areas, business applications are expected to be killer applications for social network analysis and social computing. Thus, it could be an important time to shift the research focus to application area, such as business.

This year, the workshop will be held in conjunction with The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing(SocialCom-09) in Vancouver, Canada. We are looking forward to you submission and participation to the workshop and the main conference. This workshop invites papers of the following topics, but never exclusive:

Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Management
Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Marketing and Advertisement
Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Human Resource Management
Social Networks Mining and Analysis for E-commerce
Social Networks Mining and Analysis for E-services
Social Networks Mining and Analysis for privacy issues in business
Social Networks Mining and Analysis for fraud detection in business
Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Technology Innovation and Patents
Visualization Techniques
Experiment and Implementation
Case Studies and Empirical Studies

Workshop Chairs: I-Hsien Ting, Ting-Lin Lee, Tien-Hwa Ho, Hui-Ju Wu 



Paper Submissions:
Authors are invited to submit original, 
unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum.
Manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE style) pages.
Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'' two-column format.
Submission should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. 


Please submit your manuscript to:
Dr. I-Hsien Ting iting at nuk.edu.tw
Dr. Hui-Ju Wu d94311001 at mail.ncue.edu.tw


Workshop Chairs
I-Hsien Ting (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Ting-Lin Lee (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Tien-Hwa Ho (Yuanpei University, Taiwan)
Hui-Ju Wu (National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan)