CALL FOR PAPERS Social Web for Disaster Management (SWDM'16) Co-located with CIKM'16 Indianapolis, USA, October 28, 2016.
https://sites.google.com/site/swdm2016/ -- Deadline: September 1st, 2016 -- The 4th International Workshop on Social Web for Disaster Management (SWDM'16) invites submissions in the following topics. TOPICS The focal point of this workshop is disaster-related information and knowledge management challenges and solutions. How can we extract credible information from heterogeneous, fragmented, biased sources? How can we build scalable systems, accommodating increasingly large volumes of social media data, and supporting a growing number of users? How can we derive actionable insights and infer general crisis parameters to better support decision-making? This workshop welcomes submissions on various research topics within the contexts of crisis informatics for emergency and disaster management, including but not limited to the following: - Applications of data mining and machine learning for crisis data - Data mining and machine learning algorithms for crisis data - Data management and aggregation for crisis data - Extraction of actionable insights and general crisis parameters - Event detection methods - Trust and credibility models for community contributions - Geo-tagging of contents and sources - Understanding the requirements of disaster response professionals - Studying how remote agents can make sense of web data - Improving performance of aggregation and summarization systems - Designing novel crowdsourcing platforms for disaster management - Scaling up collaboration to large numbers of end users and volunteers - Datasets for studying crisis informatics - Evaluation of emergency management and disaster response systems SUBMISSION TYPES The workshop accepts several types of submissions: - Research papers, position papers, and practice and experience reports, having 5-6 pages (regular), or 2-4 pages (short). - Demo proposals describing a prototype or system, up to a maximum of 2 pages. Research papers and position papers (regular and short) should be clearly positioned with respect to previous work, and convey clearly the importance of the contribution for the disaster management and/or humanitarian response community. Research papers should describe the methodology used and the obtained results in as much detail as possible, including a comparison with state-of-the-art methods when appropriate. Practice and experience reports (regular and short) should describe insights obtained in a real-world scenario of interaction between social media and disaster management and/or humanitarian response efforts. Demo proposals should describe the system of prototype that will be shown to attendees, including intended users, and the relevance for the disaster management and/or emergency response community. Demonstrations can range from a functional prototype to a complete application. Papers should be formatted using ACM SIG templates/guidelines: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Note that unlike previous years, accepted submissions will not be published in a formal proceedings volume. Instead, authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide a link to a publicly-accessible archive of their paper, e.g., in arXiv-cs. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Each submission will be evaluated by at least two program committee members. - Harith Alani, Open University, UK. - James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA. - Kyumin Lee, Utah State University, USA. - Richard McCreadie, University of Glasgow, UK. - Muhammad Imran, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar. - Hemant Purohit, George Mason University, USA. - Melanie Roberts, IBM, USA. - Kate Starbird, University of Washington, USA. - Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan. Organizers: - Carlos Castillo, Eurecat, Spain. - Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research, USA. - Yu-Ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh, USA. - Jie Yin, CSIRO, Australia. Series co-founder/advisor: - Maja Vukovic, IBM Research, USA. SUBMISSION SITE Submissions can be provided through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swdm2016. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: 1 September 2016 - Notifications: 27 September 2016 - Camera-ready: 1 October 2016 - Workshop: 28 October 2016
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