<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Dear All,</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">We are pleased to announce the availability of Call for Exceptional </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Papers for Social Media Mining and Analysis (SMMA'17), and we </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">invite submissions of papers on all topics related to computer </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">science theories, algorithms, and applications, etc. Accepted </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">papers must contain novel results. Contributions can be either </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">theoretical or empirical. Results will be judged on the degree </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">to which they have been objectively established and/or their </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">potential for scientific and technological impact.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">==============================<wbr>===================</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">The 3rd International Workshop on Social Media Mining and Analysis (SMMA'17) </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">in Conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2017)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">               21-23 June 2017, Exeter, England, Great Britain</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><a href="http://smma2017.weebly.com/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none">http://smma2017.weebly.com</a></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Submission Deadline: March 22, 2017     Author Notification: April 22, 2017</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px">Camera-Ready Due</span>: May 15, 2017     </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">==============================<wbr>===================</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Introduction:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">The emergence of social network led to the boost of user generated content </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">which consequently gave rise to fields such as data mining and web mining. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">The social network also gave rise to the new phenomena called social media </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">which empowered the users towards citizen journalism where users can </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">choose to act as content providers instead of more content consumers. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">The social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">and Weibo etc, are a few examples of such empowerment. Furthermore, </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">these social media platforms provide new opportunities to explore the user </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">behaviour which could benefit for various applications related to economy, </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">marketing, education, business, medicine, etc. Social Media Mining is the </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">process of representing, analysing, and extracting actionable patterns </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">from large-scale social media data.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">SMMA-2017 is the next edition of SMMA-2016 (Toulouse, France), </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">SMMA-2015 (Liverpool, UK) and aims to discuss the theories and </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">methodologies from different disciplines such as computer science, </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">data mining, machine learning, social network analysis, network science, </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">sociology, and statistics in order to provide conceptual insights on </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">mining social media data.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">We invite researchers and practitioners namely from communities of machine </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">learning (or artificial intelligence), information retrieval, data mining, </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">reinforcement learning, big data, data science, deep learning, large-scale </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">database, smart robotics and social network analysis to share their ideas, </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">innovations, research achievements and solutions in fostering the </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">advancement of intelligent data analytics and management of social media </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">data. We solicit original, unpublished, and innovative research work on applying </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">any intelligent technologies and methods to all aspects around the theme of </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">this workshop. The workshop is co-located with CPSCom-2017, the 10th IEEE </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Fundamental theories of big data analysis and machine learning</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Statistical modelling of large computer networks</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Social media for citizen journalism</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Communities discovery and analysis in large-scale social networks</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Reputation, trust, privacy and security in social networks</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Expert systems and decision-making for social media data</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Recommendation systems and marketing</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Methods for tie strength or link prediction</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Methods for extracting and understanding user and group behaviour</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Crowdsourcing and collective intelligence</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Human-computer interaction systems and applications</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">+Other related issues to various applications and case studies</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">General Chairs:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Shuai Li, University of Cambridge, UK</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Fei Hao, Shaanxi Normal University, China</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Yu Wu, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Program Chairs:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Daqiang Zhang, Tongji University, China</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Bowen Sun, Beijing Institute of Technology, China</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Program Committee Members:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Qingcheng Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Zheng Pei, Xihua University, China</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Arjumand Younus, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Xiaoliang Chen, Xihua University, China</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Safee Ullah Chaudhary, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Pitt X. Dong, BiciTech, China</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Muhammad Atif Qureshi, Insight-Centre (UCD), Ireland</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Xiaokang Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Khurram Shahzad, University of the Punjab, Pakistan</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Shi Cheng, Shaanxi Normal University, China</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Don-Wan Choi, Simon Fraser University, Canada  </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Shengtong Zhong, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">All papers need to be submitted electronically through Email: </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><a href="mailto:fhao@snnu.edu.cn" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none">fhao@snnu.edu.cn</a> with PDF manuscript, Email subject: </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">"SMMA 2017 + paper title". The materials presented in the </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Each paper is limited to 6 pages including figures and references </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">(two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none">https://www.ieee.org/conferenc<wbr>es_events/conferences/publishi<wbr>ng/templates.html</a></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">paper at the conference.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Should you have any other concern feel free to contact: </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><a href="mailto:shuai.li@eng.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none">shuai.li@eng.cam.ac.uk</a></div></div><div><br></div></div>