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Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines

Workshop III: Social Data Mining and Knowledge Building

November 5 - 9, 2007


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Organizing Committee

Peter Jones, Chair (Yale University, Mathematics)
Johan Bollen (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Ronald Coifman (Yale University)
Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Computer Science)
Karin Verspoor (Los Alamos National Laboratory, CCS-3)

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Scientific Overview

Social Data Mining is a fast-growing and exciting area of inquiry, in which connections among and interactions between individuals are analyzed to understand innovation, collective decision making, and problem solving, and how the structure of organizations and social networks impacts these processes. Analysis of such inherently relational datasets is currently being applied in e-commerce to drive recommendation systems, in bibliometrics to describe patterns of publication and determine the influence of specific individuals, in security environments to understand the structure of terrorist or gang networks, and numerous other areas. This workshop will bring together researchers in mathematics, computer science, and the social sciences to explore the following topics:

  • collective decision making
  • social network analysis
  • social mapping and bibliometrics
  • the role of information visualization in understanding social networks
  • the application of graph-theoretical analysis to social networks
  • data representation strategies, e.g. the Semantic Web

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Confirmed Speakers

Edo Airoldi (Princeton University)
Luis Bettencourt (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Johan Bollen (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Kevin Boyack (SciTech Strategies, Inc.)
James Bremer (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Inderjit Dhillon (University of Texas at Austin)
Leo Egghe (Universiteit Hasselt)
Tina Eliassi-Rad (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Santo Fortunato (ISI Foundation)
Pranam Kolari (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Michael Kurtz (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Edo Liberty (Yale University)
Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)
Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan)
Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo! Research)
Jose Ramasco (ISI Foundation)
Luis Rocha (Indiana University)
Karin Verspoor (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Johan Walden (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Stanley Wasserman (Indiana University)
Eric Xing (Carnegie-Mellon University)

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Contact Us:

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Attn: SEWS3
460 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles CA 90095-7121
Phone: 310 825-4755
Fax: 310 825-4756
Email: ipam@ucla.edu
Website: http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sews3/

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