1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media (MSM09-CAEPIA09)

[NEW!!] Call for Papers: Special Issue of International Journal of Electronic Commerce on Mining Social Media

[NEW!!] Proceedings are available at Bubok

[NEW!!] Registration is open and you can find details in the Registration section of this site. Remember that at least one author must register at the advance registration period (until September 28).

[NEW!!] The submission has been extended until 6th of September.

[NEW!!] You can join Mining Social Media group on Facebook as a way to interact with other MSM09 participants and people sharing interests on the application of Data Mining and other AI techniques to Social Media. There is also an event created for this concrete workshop. We have no created any Twitter account, but if you want to tweet about MSM09, please, use the tag #MSM2009. The same tag will be perfect for Flickr photos about the workshop and to tag contents related to the workshop at any Social Media.

[NEW!!] Submission is now Open

The 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media will be held will be held in Sevilla, Spain, in November 10-12th; under the frame of the 13th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA-TTIA 2009).

Social Media are technological tools that allow users sharing and discuss information. Most Social Media are Internet based applications that manage textual information, as blogs (Blogger, Wordpress), microblogging (Twitter, Pownce), wikis (Wikipedia), forums, or Social Networks (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn). But there also exist other Social Media Internet applications where users share more than text, as photo sharing tools (Flickr, Picasa), video sharing (YouTube, Vimeo), livecasting (Ustream), or audio and music sharing (last.fm, ccMixter, FreeSound). More recent Social Media includes virtual worlds (Second Life), online gaming (World of Warcraft, WarHammer Online), game sharing (Miniclip.com) and Mobile Social Media like Nomad Social Networks where users share their current position in the real World.

Social Media have been able to shift the way information is generated and consumed. At first, information was generated by one person and “consumed” by many people, but now the information is generated by many people and consumed by many people, changing the needs in information access and management. It is also noticeable that Social Media applications manage huge quantities of users and data: Facebook and MySpace manage between 100 and 150 million users, it is estimated that 1 million blog posts are generated each day, microblogging services like Twitter generates 3 million messages each day, YouTube manages more that 150.000 million videos, etc). All these points make clear that Social Media is an excellent application field for dataminers.

The Mining Social Media workshop aims to bring practitioners but also researchers with a specific focus on the application of existent or novel Data Mining techniques into the field of Social Media. We encourage the submission of experimental papers where Data Mining techniques are applied into existent Social Media, but also more theoretical papers that show clear application in real Social Media applications. The interesting topics include blog post analysis, blog comments analysis, blog spam, recommender systems for Social Media, clickstream analysis, relevance analysis, spam users detection, behavior analysis, contextual mining, Social Media user segmentation, route analysis for nomad social networks, multimedia mining, search in Social Media, etc.