We solicit original, unpublished and innovative research work on all aspects around, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Social networks and information/knowledge dissemination

• Topic and trend prediction

• Prediction of information diffusion patterns

• Identification of causality and correlation between event/topics/communities

• Social network analysis and measures

• Network topology

• Centrality measures

• Community detection

• Dynamic network models

• Diffusion models

• Information diffusion modeling with social networks

• Information propagation and assimilation in social networks

• Sentiment diffusion in social networks

• Competitive intelligence from social networks

• Social influence analysis on online social networks

• Systems and algorithms for discovering influential users

• Recommending influential users in online social networks

• Social influence maximization

• Modeling social networks and behavior for discovering influential users

• Discovering influencers for advertising and viral marketing in social networks

• Decision support systems and influencer discovering

• Predictive modeling based on social networks such as

• Box office prediction

• Election prediction

• Flu prediction

• Product adaptation models with social networks such as

• Sale price prediction

• New product popularity prediction

• Brand popularity

• Business downfall prediction

• User modeling and social networks including

• Predict users daily activities including recurring events

• User churn prediction

• Trust and reputation

• Determining user similarities, trustworthiness and reliability