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)

  • Suhansanu Kumar, Heting Gao, Changyu Wang, Hari Sundaram and Kevin Chang.Hierarchical Multi-Armed Bandits for Discovering Hidden Populations, Full Paper
  • Michele Coscia and Luca Rossi.The Impact of Projection and Backboning on Network Topologies, Full Paper
  • Peng Ni, Masatoshi Hanai, Wen Jun Tan and Wentong Cai.Efficient Closeness Centrality Computation in Time-Evolving Graphs, Full Paper
  • Taoran Ji, Xuchao Zhang, Nathan Self, Kaiqun Fu, Chang-Tien Lu and Naren Ramakrishnan.Feature Driven Learning Framework for Cybersecurity Event Detection, Full Paper
  • Hamid Karimi, Tyler Derr, Aaron Brookhouse and Jiliang Tang.Multi-Factor Congressional Vote Prediction, Full Paper
  • Marija Stanojevic, Jumanah Alshehri and Zoran Obradovic.Surveying public opinion using label prediction on social media data, Full Paper
  • Chen Avin, Zvi Lotker, Yinon Nahum and David Peleg.Random Preferential Attachment Hypergraphs, Full Paper
  • Thiago Silva, Alberto Laender and Pedro Vaz de Melo.Characterizing Knowledge-Transfer Relationships in Dynamic Attributed Networks, Full Paper
  • Huda Nassar, Austin Benson and David Gleich.Pairwise Link Prediction, Full Paper
  • Aravind Sankar, Xinyang Zhang and Kevin Chang.Meta-GNN: Metagraph Neural Network for Semi-supervised learning in Attributed Heterogeneous Information Networks, Full Paper
  • Pujan Paudel, Trung Nguyen and Amartya Hatua.How the Tables have Turned: Studying the New Wave of Social Bots on Twitter Using Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Full Paper
  • Yang Chen and Jiamou Liu.Becoming Gatekeepers Together with Allies: Collaborative Brokerage over Social Networks, Full Paper
  • Julian Müller and Ulrik Brandes.The Evolution of Roles, Full Paper
  • Vanessa Cedeno-Mieles, Zhihao Hu, Yihui Ren, Xinwei Deng, Abhijin Adiga, Christopher Barrett, Saliya Ekanayake, Gizem Korkmaz, Chris Kuhlman, Dustin Machi, Madhav Marathe, S. S. Ravi, Brian Goode, Naren Ramakrishnan, Parang Saraf, Nathan Self, Noshir Contractor, Joshua Epstein and Michael Macy. Mechanistic and Data-Driven Agent-Based Models to Explain Human Behavior in Online Networked Group Anagram Games, Full Paper
  • Chia-Wei Chen, Sheng-Chuan Chou, Chang-You Tai and Lun-Wei Ku.PGA: Phrase-Guided Attention Web Article Recommendation for Next Clicks and Views, Full Paper
  • Binxuan Huang and Kathleen Carley.A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Geotagging Behavior on Twitter, Full Paper
  • Yulong Pei, George Fletcher and Mykola Pechenizkiy.Joint Role and Community Detection in Networks via L2,1 Norm Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Tri-Factorization, Full Paper
  • Indu Manickam, Andrew Lan, Gautam Dasarthy and Richard Baraniuk.Tracing Political Ideology on Twitter During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Full Paper
  • Michele Coscia. Discovering Communities of Community Discovery, Full Paper
  • Mitchell Goist, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen and Christopher Boylan.Reconstructing and Analyzing the Transnational Human Trafficking Network, Full Paper
  • Soumajyoti Sarkar, Ashkan Aleali, Paulo Shakarian, Mika Armenta, Danielle Sanchez and Kiran Lakkaraju. Impact of Social Influence on Adoption Behavior: An Online Controlled Experimental Evaluation, Full Paper
  • Emily Fischer, Souvik Ghosh and Gennady Samorodnitsky.Epidemic Threshold and Lifetime Distribution for Information Diffusion on Simultaneously Growing Networks, Full Paper
  • Sooji Han, Jie Gao and Fabio Ciravegna.Neural Language Model Based Training Data Augmentation for Weakly Supervised Early Rumor Detection, Full Paper
  • Malik Magdon-Ismail and Kshiteesh Hegde.The Intrinsic Scale Of Networks Is Small, Full Paper
  • Limeng Cui, Suhang Wang and Dongwon Lee.SAME: Sentiment-Aware Multi-Modal Embedding for Detecting Fake News, Full Paper
  • Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, My T. Thai, Thien Huu Nguyen and Dejing Dou. Rumor Detection in Social Networks via Deep Contextual Modeling, Full Paper
  • Jianjun Luo, Xinyue Liu and Xiangnan Kong. Competitive Opinion Maximization in Social Networks, Full Paper
  • Jundong Li, Liang Wu, Ruocheng Guo, Chenghao Liu and Huan Liu. Multi-Level Network Embedding with Boosted Low-Rank Matrix Approximation, Full Paper
  • Aynaz Taheri and Tanya Berger-Wolf. Predictive Temporal Embedding of Dynamic Graphs, Full Paper
  • Jean Marie Tshimula, Belkacem Chikhaoui and Shengrui Wang. HAR-search: A Method to Discover Hidden Affinity Relationships in Online Communities, Full Paper
  • Courtland Vandam, Farzan Masrour, Pang-Ning Tan and Tyler Wilson. You have been CAUTE! Early Detection of Compromised Accounts on Social Media, Full Paper
  • Huyen Le, Bob Boynton, Zubair Shafiq and Padmini Srinivasan. A Postmortem of Suspended Twitter Accounts in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Full Paper
  • Young D. Kwon, Reza Hadi Mogavi, Ehsan Ul Haq, Youngjin Kwon, Xiaojuan Ma and Pan Hui. Effects of Ego Networks and Communities on Self-Disclosure in an Online Social Network, Full Paper
  • Benedek Rozemberczki, Ryan Davies, Rik Sarkar and Charles Sutton. GEMSEC: Graph Embedding with Self Clustering, Full Paper
  • Katchaguy Areekijseree and Sucheta Soundarajan. Measuring the Sampling Robustness of Complex Networks, Full Paper
  • Deqing Yang, Ziyi Wang, Junyang Jiang and Yanghua Xiao. Knowledge Embedding towards the Recommendation with Sparse User-item Interactions, Full Paper
  • Daniel Zhang, Bo Ni, Qiyu Zhi, Thomas Plummer, Qi Li, Hao Zheng, Qingkai Zeng, Yang Zhang and Dong Wang. Through The Eyes of A Poet: Classical Poetry Recommendation with Visual Input on Social Media, Full Paper
  • Henry Dambanemuya, Madhav Joshi and Ágnes Horvát. Network Perspective on the Efficiency of Peace Accords Implementation, Full Paper
  • Antoine Tixier, Maria Rossi, Fragkiskos Malliaros and Jesse Read. Perturb and Combine to Identify Influential Spreaders in Real-World Networks, Full Paper
  • Thai Le, Kai Shu, Maria D. Molina, Dongwon Lee, S. Shyam Sundar and Huan Liu. 5 Sources of Clickbaits You Should Know! Using Synthetic Clickbaits to Improve Prediction and Distinguish between Bot-Generated and Human-Written Headlines, Full Paper
  • Neda Zarayeneh and Ananth Kalyanaraman. A Fast and Efficient Incremental Approach toward Dynamic Community Detection, Full Paper
  • Xiao Yang, Seungbae Kim and Yizhou Sun. How Do Influencers Mention Brands in Social Media? Sponsorship Prediction of Instagram Posts, Short Paper
  • Caleb Belth, Fahad Kamran, Donna Tjandra and Danai Koutra. When to Remember Where You Came from: Node Representation Learning in Higher-order Networks, Short Paper
  • Yulong Pei, Jianpeng Zhang, George Fletcher and Mykola Pechenizkiy. Infinite Motif Stochastic Blockmodel for Role Discovery in Networks, Short Paper
  • Lea Baumann and Sonja Utz. How to encourage people to build diverse business networks?, Short Paper
  • Xiuwen Zheng and Amarnath Gupta. Social Network of Extreme Tweeters: A Case Study, Short Paper
  • Yang Zhang, Hongxiao Wang, Daniel Zhang, Yiwen Lu and Dong Wang. RiskCast: Social Sensing based Traffic Risk Forecasting via Inductive Multi-View Learning, Short Paper
  • Seyed Amin Mirlohi Falavarjani, Ebrahim Bagheri, Jelena Jovanovic and Ali A. Ghorbani. On the Causal Relation between Users' Real-World Activities and their Affective Processes, Short Paper
  • Frédéric Simard. On computing distances and latencies in Link Streams, Short Paper
  • Domenico Mandaglio and Andrea Tagarelli. A Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit based approach for Dynamic Consensus Community Detection in Temporal Networks, Short Paper
  • Pamela Thomas, Rachel Krohn and Tim Weninger. Dynamics of Team Library Adoptions: An Exploration of GitHub Commit Logs, Short Paper
  • Jesper Holmström, Daniel Jonsson, Filip Polbratt, Olav Nilsson, Linnea Lundström, Sebastian Ragnarsson, Anton Forsberg, Karl Andersson and Niklas Carlsson. Do we Read what we Share? Analyzing the Click Dynamic of News Article's Shared on Twitter, Short Paper
  • Sai Kiran Narayanaswami, Balaraman Ravindran and Venkatesh Ramaiyan. Generalized Random Surfer-Pair Models, Short Paper
  • Feiyu Long, Nianwen Ning, Chenguang Song and Bin Wu. Strengthening Social Networks Analysis by Networks Fusion, Short Paper
  • Vachik Dave, Baichuan Zhang, Pin-Yu Chen and Mohammad Hasan. Neural-Brane: Neural Bayesian Personalized Ranking for Attributed Network Embedding, Short Paper
  • Victor S. Bursztyn, Larry Birnbaum and Doug Downey. Thousands of Small, Constant Rallies: A Large-Scale Analysis of Partisan WhatsApp Groups, Short Paper
  • Sumeet Kumar and Kathleen M. Carley. What to Track on the Twitter Streaming API? A Knapsack Bandits Approach to Dynamically Update the Search Terms, Short Paper
  • Sreeja Nair, Adriana Iamnitchi and John Skvoretz. Promoting Social Conventions across Polarized Networks: An Empirical Study, Short Paper
  • Rahul Pandey, Carlos Castillo and Hemant Purohit. Modeling Human Annotation Errors to Design Bias-Aware Systems for Social Stream Processing, Short Paper
  • Mahsa Ghorbani, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah and Hamid R. Rabiee. MGCN: Semi-supervised Classification in Multi-layer Graphs withGraph Convolutional Networks, Short Paper
  • Alexandru Topirceanu and Radu-Emil Precup. A Novel Methodology for Improving Election Poll Prediction Using Time-Aware Polling, Short Paper
  • Kun Tu, Jian Li, Don Towsley, Dave Braines and Liam Turner. gl2vec: Learning Feature Representation Using Graphlets for Directed Networks, Short Paper
  • Rashid Tahir, Fareed Zaffar, Faizan Ahmad, Christo Wilson, Hammas Saeed and Shiza Ali. Bringing the Kid back into YouTube Kids: Detecting Inappropriate Content on Video Streaming Platforms, Short Paper
  • Ninareh Mehrabi, Fred Morstatter, Nanyun Peng and Aram Galstyan. Debiasing Community Detection: The Importance of Lowly Connected Nodes, Short Paper
  • Alexandre M. Sousa, Jussara M. Almeida and Flavio Figueiredo. Analyzing and Modeling User Curiosity in Online Content Consumption: A LastFM Case Study, Short Paper
  • Arash Ghayoori and Rakesh Nagi. Seed Investment Bounds for Viral Marketing under Generalized Diffusion, Short Paper
  • Kai Shu, Xinyi Zhou, Suhang Wang, Reza Zafarani and Huan Liu. The Role of User Profiles for Fake News Detection, Short Paper
  • Udit Arora, William Scott Pakka and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Multitask Learning for Blackmarket Tweet Detection, Short Paper
  • Yu Zhang. Diversifying Seeds and Audience in Social Influence Maximization, Short Paper
  • Mohammad Raihanul Islam, Sathappan Muthiah and Naren Ramakrishnan. RumorSleuth: Joint Detection of Rumor Veracity and User Stance, Short Paper
  • Pradyumna Prakhar Sinha, Rohan Mishra, Ramit Sawhney and Rajiv Ratn Shah. ASASNet - Exploiting Linguistic Homophily for Suicidal Ideation Detection in Social Media, Short Paper
  • Farzan Masrour Shalmani, Pang-Ning Tan and Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian. OPTANE: An OPtimal Transport Algorithm for NEtwork Alignment, Short Paper
  • Yo-Der Song, Benjamin Farrelly, Yiying Sun, Mingwei Gong and Aniket Mahanti. Measurement and Analysis of an Adult Video Streaming Service, Short Paper
  • Obaida Hanteer and Luca Rossi. The Meaning of Dissimilar: An Evaluation of Various Similarity Quantification Approaches Used to Evaluate Community Detection Solutions, Short Paper
  • Bhavtosh Rath, Wei Gao and Jaideep Srivastava. Evaluating Vulnerability to Fake News in Social Networks: A Community Health Assessment Model, Short Paper
  • Wataru Kudo, Mao Nishiguchi and Fujio Toriumi. Fraudulent User Detection on Rating Networks Based on Expanded Balance Theory and GCNs, Short Paper
  • Haripriya Chakraborty and Liang Zhao. Modeling the Dynamics of Resource Exchange Networks, Short Paper
  • Virgile Landeiro and Aron Culotta. Collecting Representative Social Media Samples from a Search Engine by Adaptive Query Generation, Short Paper
  • Laurence Brandenberger, Giona Casiraghi, Vahan Nanumyan and Frank Schweitzer. Quantifying Triadic Closure in Multi-Edge Social Networks, Short Paper
  • Kaustav Basu and Arunabha Sen. Monitoring Individuals in Drug Trafficking Organizations: A Social Network Analysis, Short Paper
  • Arijit Khan and Sixing Yan. Composite Hashing for Data Stream Sketches, Short Paper
  • Mahboubeh Ahmadalinezhad, Masoud Makrehchi and Neil Seward. Lineup Performance Prediction Through Network Analysis, Short Paper
  • Mayank Kejriwal and Peilin Zhou. Low-supervision urgency detection and transfer in short crisis messages, Short Paper
  • Renhao Cui, Gagan Agrawal and Rajiv Ramnath. Tweets Can Tell: Activity Recognition using Hybrid Long Short-Term Memory Model, Short Paper
  • Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen. Next Cashtag Prediction in the Social Trading Platform with Auxiliary Tasks, Poster Paper
  • Dipanjyoti Paul, Rahul Kumar, Sriparna Saha and Jimson Mathew. Online Feature Selection for Multi-label Classification in Multiobjective Optimization Framework, Poster Paper
  • Liang Feng, Qianchuan Zhao and Cangqi Zhou. An Efficient Method to Find Communities in K-partite Networks, Poster Paper
  • Katchaguy Areekijseree, Yuzhe Tang and Sucheta Soundarajan. Computing Node Clustering Coefficients Securely, Poster Paper
  • Masaomi Kimura. CAB-NC:The Correspondence Analysis Based Network Clustering Method, Poster Paper
  • Vivek Singh and Connor Hofenbitzer. Fairness across Network Positions in Cyberbullying Detection Algorithms, Poster Paper
  • Gabriel P. Oliveira, Natércia A. Batista, Michele A. Brandão and Mirella M. Moro. Exploring Semantic Properties on GitHub Heterogeneous Networks, Poster Paper
  • Zhou Yang, Long Nguyen and Fang Jin. Opioid Relapse Prediction with GAN, Poster Paper
  • Shalini Priya, Saharsh Singh, Sourav Kumar Dandapat, Kripabandhu Ghosh and Joydeep Chandra. Identifying Infrastructure Damage during Earthquake using Deep Active Learning, Poster Paper
  • Maryam Ramezani, Mina Rafiei, Soroush Omranpour and Hamid R. Rabiee. News Labeling as Early as Possible: Real or Fake?, Poster Paper
  • Adrien Benamira, Benjamin Devillers, Etienne Lesot, Ayush K. Ray, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros and Manal Saadi. Semi-Supervised Learning and Graph Neural Networks for Fake News Detection, Poster Paper
  • Rajesh Sharma, Artem Mateush and Jaan Übi. Tale of three States: Analysis of person-to-person online financial transactions in Baltics, Poster Paper
  • David Spence, Christopher Inskip, Novi Quadrianto and David Weir. Quantification Under Class-Conditional Dataset Shift, Poster Paper
  • Taha Hassan, Bob Edmison, Larry Cox, Matthew Louvet and Daron Williams. Exploring the Context of Course Rankings on Online Forums, Poster Paper
  • Shabnam Behzad, Sean MacAvaney and Nazli Goharian. Finding Needles in a Haystack: Identifying Social Media Posts Suggestive of Mental Illnesses, Poster Paper
  • Parham Hamouni, Taraneh Khazaei and Ehsan Amjadian. TF-MF: Improving Multiview Representation for Twitter User Geolocation Prediction, Poster Paper
  • Meysam Ghaffari, Ashok Srinivasan and Xiuwen Liu. High-resolution home location prediction from tweets using deep learning with dynamic structure, Poster Paper

ASONAM 2019

  • ASONAM 2019 Final Program
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • ACM
  • IEEE TCDE
  • ACM SIGKDD
  • SPRINGER

Organizing Committee


  • Steering Chair
  • Reda AlhajjUniversity of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
  • Honorary Chairs
  • Jiawei Han University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • General Chairs
  • Aidong Zhang University of Virginia, USA
  • Jon Rokne University of Calgary, Canada
  • Laks V.S. Lakshmanan University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Program Committee Chairs
  • Francesca Spezzano Boise State University, USA
  • Wei Chen Microsoft Research, China
  • Xiaokui Xiao National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Industry-Track Chairs
  • Jiabin Zhao Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
  • Neil Shah SNAP Research, USA
  • Prantik Bhattacharyya Reddit, USA
  • Workshops Chairs
  • Cataldo Musto Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
  • I-Hsien Ting National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Xia Ben Hu Texas A&M University, USA
  • Multidisciplinary Track Chairs
  • Giancarlo Ragozini Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
  • Shimei Pan University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
  • PhD Forum and Posters Track Chairs
  • Charalampos Chelmis University of Southern California, USA
  • Erdem Sariyuce SUNY at Buffalo, USA
  • Omair Shafiq Carleton University, Canada
  • Teng Moh San Jose State University, USA
  • Demos and Exhibitions Chairs
  • Keivan Kianmehr Oracle Inc., Canada
  • Tansel Ozyer TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
  • Tutorial Chairs
  • Francesco Bonchi ISI Foundation, Italy
  • Ke Wang Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Sponsorship Chairs
  • Jalal Kawash University of Calgary, Canada
  • Peter Peng University of Calgary, Canada
  • Thirimachos.Bourlai West Virginia University, USA
  • Publicity Chairs
  • Ahmad Kassem Lebanon
  • Buket Kaya Turkey
  • Keivan Kianmehr Canada
  • Shang Gao China
  • Publication Chairs
  • Min-Yuh Day Tamkang University, Taiwan
  • Panagiotis Karampelas Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece
  • Registration Chairs
  • Danielle Sleiman Canada
  • Jalal Kawash Canada
  • Mehmet Kaya Turkey
  • Local Arrangements Chair
  • Mohammed Sleiman Canada
  • Web Chair
  • Tansel Ozyer University of Calgary, Canada