Call for PhD Forum and Posters Track

The PhD forum and posters track will take place as part of the 17th International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2025).

This forum will provide graduate students (e.g., PhD students, pre-doctoral students and Master leading to PhD students) and researchers with an opportunity to share, present, explore, develop their research ideas, and to receive feedback from the research community that will help them in further developing and progressing in their PhD studies. This will help students as prospective candidates to connect up with senior researchers participating in the conference. It will also stimulate collaborations between students with similar research interests.

This forum is intended for students at any stage of their PhD work. All submissions will be thoroughly reviewed by experts in the field and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Further, authors should certify that their submissions contain substantially new and previously unpublished research. Students will be given an opportunity to present their proposals and get feedback and advice on how to improve their research plan.

Submission

We welcome submissions of research ideas that are mature enough to be presented and whose content can evolve to become the substantial part of a PhD dissertation. Reports on PhD dissertations and work in progress towards their dissertation should address research issues, challenges, and originality. Submissions should clearly describe the problem, explain its importance, detail why existing solutions are not sufficient, and give an outline of proposed solutions and preliminary experimental evaluation. Submissions should be written in English and pertaining to the topics mentioned in the Call For Paper page for the ASONAM 2025 conference.

Three categories of submissions will be accepted:

  • Full papers up to 15 pages,
  • Short communications up to 8 pages,
  • Extended abstracts for posters up to 4 pages,

All papers must be in Springer format.

Submissions should include the title, student as single author, affiliation, e-mail address, postal address and abstract on the first page. Authors should mention supervisor(s) name and affiliation as well as any funding source(s) in acknowledgements section. Papers should be submitted online using EasyChair.

The submission link: click here to submit.

Paper submission implies the main author of the paper is a graduate students and one of the authors must pay full registration fee and attend the PhD forum to present the paper. The PhD forum participants will also enjoy free access to the full program of ASONAM 2025 and all the accompanying symposia, tutorials and workshops.

Publication

Accepted and presented papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings and published by Springer.

Contact

For general inquiries about the PhD forum and posters track, please contact the PhD forum and posters organizers.

Key Dates

Paper submission deadline
May 01, 2025 11:59 PM AoE
Acceptance Notification
June 20, 2025 11:59 PM AoE
Camera-ready papers and Author Registration
July 01, 2025 11:59 PM AoE
Conference and Tracks days
August 25-28, 2025

ASONAM 2025

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Committee


  • Steering Chair
  • Reda AlhajjUniversity of Calgary, Canada
  • Honorary Chairs
  • Frans N. StokmanUniversity of Groningen, Netherlands
  • General Chairs
  • Fakhri KarrayMohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE and University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Jon RokneUniversity of Calgary, Canada
  • Rokia MissaouiUniversity of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada
  • Program Committee Chairs
  • Aijun AnYork University, Canada
  • Alfredo CuzzocreaUniversity of Calabria, Italy
  • Hongxin Hu University at Buffalo, USA
  • Journal Track Chairs
  • Chia-Hui ChangNational Central University, Taiwan
  • Mohamad AbulaishSouth Asian University, New Delhi, India
  • Uffe Kock WiilUniversity of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • Industry-Track Chairs
  • Faraz RasheedMicrosoft Inc., Canada
  • Kwan Hui LimSingapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
  • Patricia Takako EndoUniversidade de Pernambuco, Brazil
  • Workshops Chairs
  • I-Hsien TingNational University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Michael BenzingerTechnical University Munich, Germany
  • Sucheta SoundarajanSyracuse University, USA
  • Multidisciplinary Track Chairs
  • Alex ThomoUniversity of Victoria, Canada
  • Carson K. LeungUniversity of Manitoba, Canada
  • Catalina GoantaUtrecht University, Netherlands
  • PhD Forum and Posters Track Chairs
  • Lulwah AlkulaibKuwait University, Kuwait
  • Mohammad MoshirpourUniversity of California, Irvine, USA
  • Omair ShafiqCarleton University, Canada
  • Demos and Exhibitions Chairs
  • Kashfia SailunazUniversity of Calgary, Canada
  • Tansel OzyerAnkara Medipol University, Turkey
  • Tutorial Chairs
  • Ee-Peng LimSingapore Management University, Singapore
  • Nitin AgarwalUniversity of Arkansas - Little Rock, USA
  • Osmar ZaianeUniversity of Alberta, Canada
  • Publicity Chairs
  • Buket KayaFirat University, Turkey
  • Kashfia SailunazUniversity of Calgary, Canada
  • Shang GaoJilin University, China
  • Publication Chairs
  • Min-Yuh DayNational Taipei University, Taiwan
  • Panagiotis KarampelasHellenic Airforce Academy, Greece
  • Registration Chairs
  • Jalal KawashUniversity of Calgary, Canada
  • Mehmet KayaFirat University, Turkey
  • Web Chair
  • Deniz BestepeIstanbul Medipol University, Turkey