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Invited session : IS20: Preventing risks and analysing events through social media analysis
24th Annual KES Conference Verona, Italy
16-18 September 2020
Call for contributions
Scope: This session specifically addresses the security-related domains of (a) preventing risks and making alerts (b) assisting the analysis and understanding of events, through automatic social media analysis. The main objective of this session is to propose a unique place for stimulating and disseminating research on these topics, where researchers from both universities and companies can discuss their research results with stakeholders, including leagal authorities.
Important dates:
- 26 April 2020: Deadline for long papers submission
- 3 May 2020: Deadline for short and demo papers submission
- 20 May 2020: PC, Long paper, short paper, and demo notifications
- 28 May 2020: Deadline for camera-ready papers
Topics:
Online social network is an important medium for many types of information communication, including communication that conveys or eases unethical or even illegal actions. Preventing risks and analysing events through social media analysis session aims at reporting research work and studies related to the detection and tracking of such communication. Submissions may range from theoretical work, experimental research, to system and project descriptions.
Among targeted applications, we can quote as examples:
- Depression detection
- Rumour detection
- Extremist content or propaganda detection
- Fake news and conspiracy theory detection, deepfake
- Organised crime and cybercrime
- Art, goods, and human traffic
Among the research challenges, we can quote (although not limited to):
- Entity linking
- Information extraction
- Data mining and cross-media analysis
- Network analysis and community detection
- Video analysis
- Weak signal detection
- Visual representation
- Information summarization
- Ethics
Authors are invited to submit one of the following types of contributions:
- Long original papers: 8 to 10 pages
- Short papers from 2 to 5 pages that presents:
- Novel and significant proposals despite not having gone through sufficient experimental validation or lacking strong theoretical foundation
- Project description
- System demonstration
The type of paper will be indicated in the title of the submitted paper as follows: Title (Paper type) paper type being one of the following: Long, Short, Project, Demo
Submissions:
Please select the Invited Session IS20: Preventing risks and analysing events through social media analysis from the drop-down box on the Invited Sessions Paper Submission page.
In case you realized you made an error in selecting the session, please email the organizer.
Format:
- Guidance notes for the preparation of Full Papers is available .. here ..
- An MS Word template is available (6.2Mbyte .zip archive) .. here ..
- A LaTeX template is available (6.1Mbyte .zip archive) .. here ..
- The paper format as a PDF document is available .. here ..
- Please consult important FAQs about document preparation to be found .. here ..
Publication:
All papers will be reviewed by members of the International Programme Committee and depending on their level and attributes, may be selected for oral or poster presentation, and publication in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published in Elsevier’s Procedia Computer Science open access journal, available in ScienceDirect and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in CPCi (ISI conferences and part of Web of Science), Engineering Index, and Scopus.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication as full journal papers, in Information Journal special issue or other journals.