The Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
The Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media was held July 17–21, 2011 in Barcelona (Spain) and was be collocated with IJCAI-11. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and technology are especially encouraged.
Though this conference is relatively new, it has become one of the premier venues for social scientists and technologists to gather and discuss cutting-edge research in Social Media. This is largely due to a typical acceptance rate of 20 percent for full-length research papers and support from Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
For ICWSM-11, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, tutorials and invited presentations, the main conference included a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. This year, for the first time, the workshop program was expanded to an additional day, in addition to the usual tutorial and main conference. There were also opportunities to connect with people in the IJCAI community both formally and informally (a joint social event was held).
Keynote and Invited Speakers
- Sinan Aral, Stern School of Business, NYU (Keynote Speaker)
- Manuel Castells, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain (Keynote Speaker)
- Jimmy Lin, Visiting Research Professor, Twitter
- Foster Provost, New York University
- Joel Seligstein, Facebook
- Duncan Watts, Yahoo! Research
Conference Committee
General Chairs
- Nicolas Nicolov, Microsoft
- James G. Shanahan, Independent Consultant
Program Chairs
- Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
- Scott Counts, Microsoft
Local Chairs
- Alex Jaimes, Yahoo! Research
- Ricard Ruiz de Querol, Barcelona Media Innovation Center
Data Challenge Chairs
- Ian Soboroff, NIST
- Niels Kasch, UMBC
Publicity Chairs
- danah boyd, Microsoft Research and Harvard University
Demo Chair
- Ido Guy, IBM Reseach
Sponsorship Chair
- Ron Kass, Pidgin Technologies
Tutorials Chair
- John Breslin, NUI Galway
Webmasters
- Ritesh Agrawal, AT&T Interactive
- Disco Gerdes, Mutual Mobile
Senior Program Committee Members
- Eugene Agichtein , Emory University
- Cindy K. Chung , The University of Texas at Austin
- William W. Cohen , Carnegie Mellon University
- Chris Diehl , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Eric Gilbert , Georgia Institute of Technology
- Natalie Glance , Google
- Ido Guy , IBM Research
- Alex Jaimes , Yahoo! Research
- Niki Kittur , Carnegie Mellon University
- Kristina Lerman , USC Information Sciences Institute
- Jure Leskovec , Stanford University
- Sofus A. Macskassy , Fetch Technologies/USC
- Winter Mason , Yahoo!
- Gilad Mishne , Twitter
- Mor Naaman , Rutgers SC&I
- Bo Pang , Yahoo! Research
- Ricard Ruiz de Querol , Fundació Barcelona Media
- Loren Terveen , The University of Minnesota
- Program Committee Members
- Eytan Adar , University of Michigan
- Noor Ali-Hasan , Microsoft
- Sihem Amer-Yahia , Yahoo! Research
- Judd Antin , Yahoo! Research
- Lars Backstrom , Facebook
- Eytan Bakshy , University of Michigan/Facebook, Inc.
- Krisztian Balog , Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Bettina Berendt , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Michael S. Bernstein , MIT
- John G. Breslin , NUI Galway
- Chris Brooks , University of San Francisco
- Mark Carman , Monash University
- Carlos Castillo , Yahoo!
- Meeyoung Cha , KAIST
- Jonathan Chang , Facebook
- Ed H. Chi , PARC
- Yejin Choi , Stony Brook University
- Brian D. Davison , Lehigh University
- Munmun De Choudhury , Arizona State University
- Thierry Declerck , Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Könstliche Intelligenz
- Brian Dennis , Lockheed Martin
- Joan Morris DiMicco , IBM
- Ying Ding , Indiana University
- Raymond Elferink , RayCom BV
- Junlan Feng , AT&T
- Donghui Feng , eBay Inc.
- Clay Fink , Johns Hopkins University, APL
- Andrew T. Fiore , Michigan State University
- Michael Gamon , Microsoft
- Daniel Gatica-Perez , Idiap Research Institute
- Werner Geyer , IBM Research
- Alastair Gill , University of Surrey/Northwestern University
- Roxana Girju , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Scott Golder , Cornell University
- Zoltan Gyongyi , Google Inc.
- Derek L. Hansen , University of Maryland
- William Headden , Brown University
- John Henderson , MITRE
- Jake Hofman , Yahoo! Research
- Bernie Hogan , Oxford Internet Institute
- Tad Hogg , IMM
- Gary Hsieh , Michigan State University
- Nancy Ide , Vassar College
- Tasuku Igarashi , Hokkai Gakuen University
- Heng Ji , City University of New York
- Anupam Joshi , University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Arnd Christian König , Microsoft Research
- Murat Kantarcioglu , University of Texas, Dallas
- Tapas Kanungo , Microsoft
- Brian Karrer , University of Michigan
- Jason S. Kessler , Indiana University
- Emre Kiciman , Microsoft Research
- Pranam Kolari , Yahoo!
- Moshe Koppel , Bar-Ilan University
- Cliff Lampe , Michigan State University
- Thomas Lento , Facebook
- Yu Ru Lin , IQSS, Harvard University and CCS, Northeastern
- Jiahui Liu , Google
- Avishay Livne , The University of Michigan
- Yoelle Maarek , Yahoo! Research
- Suresh Manandhar , University of York
- James H. Martin , N/A
- Maarten Marx , University van Amsterdam
- Mary McGlohon , Google
- Bhaskar Mehta , Google Inc.
- Qiaozhu Mei , University of Michigan School of Information
- Charles Mi , Opinmind
- Paola Monachesi , Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Andrès Monroy-Hernández , MIT
- Meredith Ringel Morris , Microsoft Research
- Michael Muller , IBM
- Sean Munson , School of Information, University of Michigan
- Meena Nagarajan , IBM Research, Almaden
- Scott Nowson , Appen Pty Ltd
- Manabu Okumura , Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Miles Osborne , Edinburgh University
- Katrina Panovich , MIT CSAIL
- Livia Polanyi , Microsoft
- Ana-Maria Popescu , Yahoo! Labs
- John Prager , IBM
- Stephan Raaijmakers , TNO
- Emilee Rader , Northwestern University
- Joseph Reagle , Harvard
- Franco Salvetti , Microsoft
- Tamas Sarlos , Yahoo! Research
- Jonathan Schler , Bar-Ilan University
- Cosma Shalizi , Carnegie Mellon University
- Amit Sheth , Wright State University/Kno.e.sis
- Xiaolin Shi , Stanford
- Steve Skiena , Stony Brook University
- Marc A. Smith , Connected Action/Social Media Research Foundation
- Kristin Stecher , TiVo
- Veselin Stoyanov , Johns Hopkins University
- Fred Stutzman , UNC-Chapel Hill
- Hideaki Takeda , National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Lei Tang , Yahoo! Labs
- Chun-Yuen Teng , University of Michigan
- Mike Thelwall , University of Wolverhampton
- Oren Tsur , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Zeynep Tufekci , University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Theresa Wilson , JHU Human Language Technology COE
- Jiang Yang , University of Michigan
- Sarita Yardi , Georgia Tech
- Hongyuan Zha , Georgia Institute of Technology
- Jun Zhang , Pitney Bowes
For More Information
For general information regarding ICWSM-11, please write to icwsm11@aaai.org.