Accepted Papers

The list of accepted submissions (full-short-posters) is as follows (in no particular order).
Posters should be (120 CM x 90 CM)

  • Chainarong Amornbunchornvej and Tanya Berger-Wolf. Mining and Modeling Complex Leadership Dynamics of Movement data , Full Paper
  • Adam Badawy, Emilio Ferrara and Kristina Lerman. Analyzing the Digital Traces of Political Manipulation: The 2016 Russian Interference Twitter Campaign , Full Paper
  • Soheil Jamshidi, Reza Rejaie and Jun Li. Trojan Horses in Amazon’s Castle: Understanding the Incentivized Online Reviews , Full Paper
  • Miao Fan, Yue Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang and Jianmin Wang. Multi-Task Neural Learning Architecture for End-to-End Identification of Helpful Reviews , Full Paper
  • Juergen Lerner and Alessandro Lomi. Diverse Teams Tend to Do Good Work in Wikipedia (but Jacks of All Trades Don't) , Full Paper
  • Josemar A. Caetano, Jussara Almeida and Humberto T. Marques-Neto. Characterizing Politically Engaged Users' Behavior during the 2016 US Presidential Campaign , Full Paper
  • Lucas Lima, Julio Reis, Philipe Melo, Fabricio Murai, Leandro Araújo, Pantelis Vikatos and Fabricio Benevenuto. Inside the Right-Leaning Echo Chambers: Characterizing Gab, an Unmoderated Social System , Full Paper
  • Hesam Salehian, Surender Yerva and Iman Barjasteh. A Deep Multi-Modal Pairwise Ranking Model for Crowdsourced Food Data , Full Paper
  • Dimitrios Rafailidis and Fabio Crestani. Friend Recommendation in Location-based Social Networks via Deep Pairwise Learning , Full Paper
  • Chen Luo and Anshumali Shrivastava. Jaccard Affiliation Graph (JAG) Model For Explaining Overlapping Community Behaviors , Full Paper
  • Ming Cao, Yong Chen, Kayo Fujimoto and Michael Schweinberger. A two-stage working model strategy for network analysis under Hierarchical Exponential Random Graph Models , Full Paper
  • Chi Zhang and Osmar Zaïane. Detecting Local Communities in Networks with Edge Uncertainty , Full Paper
  • Sarath Pattathil, Nikhil Karamchandani and Dhruti Shah. Persistence of the Jordan center in Random Growing Trees , Full Paper
  • Deqing Yang, Lihan Chen, Jiaqing Liang, Yanghua Xiao and Wei Wang. Social Tag Embedding for The Recommendation of Sparse User-item Interactions , Full Paper
  • Hamid Karimi, Courtland Vandam, Liyang Ye and Jiliang Tang. End-to-End Compromised Account Detection , Full Paper
  • Courtland Vandam, Pang-Ning Tan, Jiliang Tang and Hamid Karimi. CADET: A Multi-View Learning Framework for Compromised Account Detection on Twitter , Full Paper
  • Mengfan Yao, Charalampos Chelmis and Daphney-Stavroula Zois. Cyberbullying Detection on Instagram with Optimal Online Feature Selection , Full Paper
  • Sabina Tomkins, Lise Getoor, Yunfei Chen and Yi Zhang. A Socio-linguistic Model for Cyberbullying Detection , Full Paper
  • Ahmet Durahim and Cennet Merve Yılmaz. SPR2EP: A Semi-Supervised Spam Review Detection Framework , Full Paper
  • Nikolaos Lykousas, Vicenç Gómez and Constantinos Patsakis. Adult content in Social Live Streaming Services: Characterizing deviant users and relationships, Full Paper
  • Omar El-Daghar, Erik Lundberg and Robert Bridges. EGBTER: Capturing degree distribution, clustering coefficients, and community structure in a single random graph model , Full Paper
  • Laxmi Amulya Gundala and Francesca Spezzano. A Framework for Predicting Links between Indirectly Interacting Nodes , Full Paper
  • Elaheh Raisi and Bert Huang. Weakly Supervised Cyberbullying Detection using Co-trained Ensembles of Embedding Models , Full Paper
  • Nikan Chavoshi and Abdullah Mueen. Model Bots, not Humans on Social Media , Full Paper
  • Abdelmalek Habi, Brice Effantin and Hamamache Kheddouci. Fast top-k search with relaxed graph simulation , Full Paper
  • Xukun Li, Huaiyu Zhang, Doina Caragea and Muhammad Imran. Localizing and Quantifying Damage in Social Media Images , Full Paper
  • Nuha Albadi, Maram Kurdi and Shivakant Mishra. Are They Our Brothers? Analysis and Detection of Religious Hate Speech in the Arabic Twittersphere , Full Paper
  • Huiling Zhang, Alan Kuhnle, J David Smith and My T. Thai. Fight under Uncertainty: Restraining Misinformation and Pushing out the Truth, Full Paper
  • Guillaume Salha, Nikolaos Tziortziotis and Michalis Vazirgiannis. Adaptive Submodular Influence Maximization with Myopic Feedback, Full Paper
  • Shalini Priya, Manish Bhanu, Sourav Kumar Dandapat, Kripabandhu Ghosh and Joydeep Chandra. Characterizing Infrastructure Damage after Earthquake: A Split-Query based IR Approach , Full Paper
  • Christoph Besel, Juan Echeverria and Shi Zhou. Full cycle analysis of a large-scale botnet attack on Twitter , Full Paper
  • Reza Motamedi, Saed Rezayi, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger. Unveiling Social Characteristics of Twitter Elite Network, Full Paper
  • Daniel Zhang, Qi Li, Herman Tong, Jose Badilla, Yang Zhang and Dong Wang. Crowdsourcing-based Copyright Infringement Detection in Live Video Streams , Full Paper
  • Daniel Zhang, Jose Badilla, Yang Zhang and Dong Wang. Towards Reliable Missing Truth Discovery in Online Social Media Sensing Applications, Full Paper
  • Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Aditya Chetan, Brihi Joshi and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Retweet Us, We Will Retweet You: Spotting Collusive Retweeters Involved in Blackmarket Services , Full Paper
  • Neeraj Kavassery-Parakkat, Kiana Mousavi Hanjani and A Pavan. Improved Triangle Counting in Graph Streams: Power of Multi-Sampling, Full Paper
  • Hemant Purohit, Carlos Castillo, Muhammad Imran and Rahul Pandey. Social-EOC: Serviceability Model to Rank Social Media Requests for Emergency Operation Centers , Full Paper
  • Amin Salehi and Hasan Davulcu. Detecting Antagonistic and Allied Communities on Social Media , Full Paper
  • Abdurrahman Yaşar, Bora Uçar and Ümit V. Çatalyürek. SiNA: A Scalable Iterative Network Aligner , Full Paper
  • Ying Lin, Joe Hoover, Gwenyth Portillo-Wightman, Christina Park, Morteza Dehghani and Heng Ji. Acquiring Background Knowledge to Improve Moral Value Prediction , Full Paper
  • Tanay Mehta, Ravi Sundaram, Auroop Ganguly and Devesh Tiwari. Resilience and the Coevolution of Interdependent Multiplex Networks , Full Paper
  • Hengtong Zhang, Fenglong Ma, Yaliang Li, Chao Zhang, Tianqi Wang, Yaqing Wang, Jing Gao and Lu Su. Leveraging the Power of Informative Users for Local Event Detection , Full Paper
  • Muhammad Rizal Khaefi, Rajius Idzalika, Imaduddin Amin, Pamungkas Jutta Prahara, Yulistina Riyadi, Zakiya Pramestri, George Hodge and Jong Gun Lee. Estimating the Quality of Crowdsourced Translations based on the Characteristics of Source and Target Words and Participants, Full Paper
  • Yihui Ren, Vanessa Cedeno-Mieles, Zhihao Hu, Xinwei Deng, Abhjijin Adiga, Christopher Barrett, Noshir Contractor, Saliya Ekanayake, Joshua Epstein, Brian Goode, Gizem Korkmaz, Christopher Kuhlman, Dustin Machi, Michael Macy, Madhav Marathe, Naren Ramakrishnan, Sekharipuram Ravi, Parang Saraf and Nathan Self. Generative Modeling of Human Behavior and Social Interactions Using Abductive Analysis, Full Paper
  • Stefan Helmstetter and Heiko Paulheim. Weakly Supervised Learning for Fake News Detection on Twitter, Short Paper
  • Carl Yang, Mengxiong Liu, Vincent W. Zheng and Jiawei Han. Node, Motif and Subgraph: Leveraging Network Functional Blocks Through Structural Convolution , Short Paper
  • Kai Shu, Suhang Wang, Jiliang Tang, Yi Chang, Ping Luo and Huan Liu. Exploiting User Actions for App Recommendations , Short Paper
  • Chaima Dhahri, Kazunori Matsumoto and Keiichiro Hoashi. Mood-Aware Music Recommendation via Adaptive Song Embedding , Short Paper
  • Gabriel Barina, Mihai Udrescu, Alexandru Topirceanu and Mircea Vladutiu. Simulating payoff distribution in networks of economic agents , Short Paper
  • Soumya Sarkar, Aditya Bhagwat and Animesh Mukherjee. Core2Vec: A core-preserving feature learning framework for networks , Short Paper
  • Matthias Bentert, Anne-Sophie Himmel, Hendrik Molter, Marco Morik, Rolf Niedermeier and René Saitenmacher. Listing All Maximal k-Plexes in Temporal Graphs , Short Paper
  • Yu-Cheng Lin, Chun-Ming Lai, Jon William Chapman, Shyhtsun Felix Wu and George A. Barnett. Geo-location Identification and Localization of Facebook Pages , Short Paper
  • Gisel Bastidas, Sara Abdali, Neil Shah and Evangelos E. Papalexakis. Semi-supervised Content-based Detection of Misinformation via Tensor Embeddings , Short Paper
  • Ajitesh Srivastava, Robin Petering, Rajgopal Kannan, Eric Rice and Viktor Prasanna. How to Stop Violence among Homeless: Extension of Voter Model and Intervention Strategies , Short Paper
  • Olivier Brandouy, Philippe Mathieu and Nicolas Mauhé. Segregation in Social Networks : A Simple Schelling-like Model, Short Paper
  • Pantelis Vikatos, Alkiviadis Savvopoulos and Fabricio Benevenuto. Socialbots' First Words: Can Automatic Chatting Improve Influence in Twitter?, Short Paper
  • Christoph Martin and Peter Niemeyer. An Approach for Quantifying the Impact of Measurement Errors on Centrality Measures, Short Paper
  • Saba Al-Sayouri, Ekta Gujral, Danai Koutra, Evangelos Papalexakis and Sarah Lam. t-PINE: Tensor-based Predictable and Interpretable Node Embeddings , Short Paper
  • Neema Kotonya, Paolo De Cristofaro and Emiliano De Cristofaro. Of Wines and Reviews: Measuring and Modeling the Vivino Wine Social Network , Short Paper
  • Obaida Hanteer, Luca Rossi, Davide Vega and Matteo Magnani. From interaction to participation: the role of the imagined audience in social media community detection and an application to political communication on Twitter , Short Paper
  • Farzan Masrour, Pang-Ning Tan, Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian and Courtland Vandam. Attributed Network Representation Learning Approaches for Link Prediction , Short Paper
  • Katchaguy Areekijseree and Sucheta Soundarajan. DE-Crawler: A Densification-Expansion Algorithm for Online Data Collection , Short Paper
  • Robert Krause, Mark Huisman, Christian Steglich and Tom Snijders. Missing Network Data - A Comparison of Different Imputation Methods, Short Paper
  • Vishal Sharma and Kyumin Lee. Predicting Highly Rated Crowdfunded Products , Short Paper
  • Gizem Korkmaz, Claire Kelling, Carol Robbins and Sallie Keller. Measuring the Impact of R
  • Packages Using Dependency and Contributor Networks, Short Paper
  • Gizem Korkmaz, Chris Kuhlman, Joshua Goldstein and Fernando Vega-Redondo. A Model of Homophily, Common Knowledge and Collective Action through Facebook, Short Paper
  • Ian Crandell and Gizem Korkmaz. Link Prediction in the Criminal Network of Albuquerque , Short Paper
  • Ashok Deb, Anuja Majmundar, Sungyong Seo, Akira Matsui, Rajat Tandon, Shen Yan, Jon-Patrick Allem and Emilio Ferrara. Social Bots for Online Public Health Interventions , Short Paper
  • Tao Ding, Warren Bickel and Shimei Pan. Predicting Delay Discounting from Social Media Likes with Unsupervised Feature Learning, Short Paper
  • Abhijnan Chakraborty and Niloy Ganguly. Analyzing the News Coverage of Personalized Newspapers , Short Paper
  • Gian Maria Campedelli, Mihovil Bartulovic and Kathleen M. Carley. Patterns of Jihadist Terrorism Using Transition Networks: an Exploration on Target Selection, Short Paper
  • Yue Ning, Sathappan Muthiah, Huzefa Rangwala, David Mares and Naren Ramakrishnan. When do Crowds turn Violent? Uncovering Triggers from Media, Short Paper
  • Lucas Vinícius Caldas, Antonio Jacob Junior, Simone Souza, Fernando Pontes and Fábio Lobato. Development of Social Network for ResearchSupport and Individual Well-being Improvement, Short Paper
  • Shashank Gupta, Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Manjira Sinha and Sandya Mannarswamy. CIMTDetect: A Community Infused Matrix-Tensor Coupled Factorization Based Method for Fake News Detection , Short Paper
  • Praboda Rajapaksha, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi and Bruno Defude. Inspecting Interactions: Online News Media Synergies in Social Media, Short Paper
  • Aparup Khatua, Erik Cambria and Apalak Khatua. Sounds of Silence Breakers: Exploring Gender Violence on Twitter, Short Paper
  • Shivani Shah, Jacques-Henri Sublemontier, Fatma Bouali and Gilles Venturini. ProxiClust: Data sparsification and community detection for assembly-free metagenomic binning , Short Paper
  • Chuqin Li, Xi Niu, Ahmad Al-Doulat and Noseong Park. A Computational Approach to Finding Contradictions in User Opinionated Text, Short Paper
  • Ahmed Mourad, Falk Scholer, Walid Magdy and Mark Sanderson. How Well Did You Locate Me? Effective Evaluation of Twitter User Geolocation, Short Paper
  • Shambavi Sadayappan and Ian Mcculloh. Evaluation Political Party Cohesion Using Exponential Random Graph Modeling , Short Paper
  • Massimo Marchiori and Enrico Bonetti Vieno. Negapedia: The negative side of Wikipedia, Short Paper
  • Mohan Timilsina. A 2-Layered Graph Based Diffusion Approach for Altmetric Analysis, Short Paper
  • Sanaz Bahargam and Evangelos Papalexakis. Constrained Coupled Matrix-Tensor Factorization and its Application in Pattern and Topic Detection, Short Paper
  • Muhammed Yusuf Ozkaya, A. Erdem Sarıyüce, Ali Pinar and Umit Catalyurek. Local Detection of Critical Nodes in Active Networks, Short Paper
  • Hawre Hosseini, Tam Nguyen and Ebrahim Bagheri. Implicit Entity Linking through Ad-hoc Retrieval , Short Paper
  • Hugo Hromic and Conor Hayes. Characterising and Evaluating Online Communities from Live Microblogging User Interactions, Short Paper
  • Tyler Derr, Zhiwei Wang and Jiliang Tang. Opinions Power Opinions: Joint Link and Interaction Polarity Predictions in Signed Networks, Short Paper
  • Raazesh Sainudiin, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Kyle Nash and Rania Sahioun. Rejecting the Null Hypothesis of Apathetic Retweeting of US politicians and SPLC-defined Hate Groups in the 2016 US Presidential Election, Short Paper
  • Amaury W. Carvalho and Thierson C. Rosa. A Structural Analysis of Multiplex Ego-Networks in Twitter , Short Paper
  • Yao Ma, Suhang Wang and Jiliang Tang. Local and Global Information Preserved Network Embedding , Short Paper
  • Yeshwanth Balachander and Teng-Sheng Moh. Ontology Based Technical Skill Similarity, Short Paper
  • Jean-Benoît Griesner, Talel Abdessalem, Hubert Naacke and Pierre Dosne. ALGeoSPF: A Hierarchical Factorization Model for POI Recommendation, Short Paper
  • Muhammad Rizal Khaefi, Zakiya Pramestri, George Hodge, Imaduddin Amin and Jong Gun
  • Lee. Nowcasting Air Quality by Fusing Meteorological Data, Insights from Satellite Imagery and Photos Shared on Social Media using Deep Learning, Short Paper
  • Ridho Reinanda, Edgar Meij, Joshua Pantony and Jonathan Dorando. Related Entity Finding on
  • Highly-heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs , Short Paper
  • Ángel F. Agudo-Peregrina, Diego Pérez, Luis C. Reyes, Martin Langberg and Martin Minnoni. What Banking and Phone Data tell us about the Socioeconomic Groups and their Consumption Patterns? , Poster
  • Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini and Jeremy Blackburn. Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter and Their Influence on the Web , Poster
  • Liqiang Wang, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo and Gerhard Weikum. Five Shades of Untruth: Finer-Grained Classification of Fake News , Poster
  • Nur Shazwani Kamarudin, Vineeth Rakesh Mohan, Ghazaleh Beigi, Lydia Manikonda and Huan Liu. Breaking the Stigma of Sexual Abuse: A Study of Reddit-User’s Response to Rape, Poster
  • Jennifer Golbeck and Cody Buntain. This Paper Is About Lexical Propagation on Twitter. H*ckin smart. 12/10. Would accept! , Poster
  • Michal Vaanunu and Chen Avin. Homophily and Community Modularity Among the Most Cited Researchers’ Social Network , Poster
  • Abigail Paradise, Dvir Cohen, Asaf Shabtai and Rami Puzis. ProfileGen: Generation of Automatic and Realistic Artificial Profiles, Poster
  • Roberto Interdonato, Antoine Doucet and Jean-Loup Guillaume. Unsupervised Crisis Information Extraction from Twitter Data , Poster
  • Alon Bartal. Analysis of the Gaza Great Return March: Modeling Influence on Posting Engagement in Online Social Networks, Poster
  • Carmela Comito. Mining Pattern Similarity for Mobility Prediction in Location-based Social Networks, Poster
  • Tanuj Joshi, Animesh Mukherjee and Girish Ippadi. One size does not fit all: Predicting product returns in e-commerce platforms, Poster
  • Gayani Tennakoon and Richi Nayak. Discovering influence hierarchy based on frequent social interactions, Poster
  • Hans Van Halteren. Language use differences between Dutch Twitter communities, Poster
  • Mohammad Luqman, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Niloy Ganguly and Vasudeva Varma. Multilingual News Consumption in India and Its Impact on News Recommendations, Poster
  • Zachary Stine, Tuja Khaund and Nitin Agarwal. Measuring the Information-Foraging Behaviors of Social Bots Through Word Usage , Poster
  • Pravallika Devineni, Evangelos Papalexakis, Michalis Faloutsos and Kalina Michalska. MIMiS: Minimally Intrusive Mining of Smartphone User Behaviors , Poster
  • Sebastian Göndör and Axel Küpper. A Survey of Functionality of Online Social Networks, Poster

ASONAM 2018

  • ASONAM 2018 Program Draft
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • ACM
  • IEEE TCDE
  • ACM SIGKDD
  • SPRINGER

Committee


  • Steering Chair
  • Reda AlhajjUniversity of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
  • Honorary Chairs
  • Talel Abdessalem Telecom ParisTech, France
  • Hamid AL-Naimiy University of Sharjah, UAE
  • Frans Stokman University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • General Chairs
  • Rosa Benito Technical University of Madrid, Spain
  • Noshir Contractor Northwestern University, USA
  • Jon Rokne University of Calgary, Canada
  • Program Committee Chairs
  • Ulrik Brandes ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Chandan Reddy Virginia Tech., USA
  • Andrea Tagarelli University of Calabria, Italy
  • Industry-Track Chairs
  • Ebrahim Bagheri Ryerson University, Canada
  • Fuzheng Zhang Microsoft Inc., China
  • Jiabin Zhao Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
  • Workshops Chairs
  • Piotr Brodka Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
  • I-Hsien Ting National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Ingmar Weber Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
  • Multidisciplinary Track Chairs
  • Rokia Missaoui Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
  • Giancarlo Ragozini Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
  • PhD Forum and Posters Track Chairs
  • Nitin Agarwal University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
  • Gao Cong Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Nima Dokoohaki KTH, Sweden
  • Demos and Exhibitions Chairs
  • Keivan Kianmehr Oracle Inc., Canada
  • Tansel Ozyer TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
  • Tutorial Chairs
  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
  • Richard Chbeir University of Pau and Pays de lAdour, France
  • Jürgen Lerner University of Konstanz, Germany
  • Sponsorship Chairs
  • Thirimachos.Bourlai West Virginia University, USA
  • Jalal Kawash University of Calgary, Canada
  • Publicity Chairs
  • Ahmad Kassem ,
  • Buket Kaya ,
  • Keivan Kianmehr ,
  • Danielle Sleiman ,
  • Shang Gao ,
  • Publication Chairs
  • Min-Yuh Day Tamkang University, Taiwan
  • Panagiotis Karampelas Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece
  • Registration Chairs
  • Mehmet KayaFirat University, Turkey
  • Jalal KawashUniversity of Calgary, Canada
  • Local Arrangements Chair
  • Jordi Conesa i Caralt Open University of Catalonia, Spain
  • Jordi Casas-Roma Open University of Catalonia, Spain
  • Web Chair
  • Tansel Ozyer University of Calgary, Canada