ERCIM SNA WG on "Algorithmic Aspects of Social Network Analysis", 9:30- 14:00, 11th March 2010, UCD, Dublin

Guest Speakers:

  • Santo Fortunato, Community Detection Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis
  •  Krista Gile, Inference for Hidden Populations Based on Network Sampling

This half-day long workshop will bring together European researchers on network data analysis. This workshop will be of interest to researchers on:
- algorithmic aspects of large-scale networked data analysis
- information retrieval over social media
- data mining and semantic web approaches for social media enrichment

The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers to interact with leading researcher in the above field.

The workshop will begin with two guest talks by Santo Fortunato on "Community Detection Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis" and Krista Glie on "Inference for Hidden Populations Based on Network Sampling".  The workshop will proceed with short presentations where other participants summarise their research activities and future plans in this research area.

Interested participants should contact Prag Sharma (prag.sharma@ucd.ie). 

Programme

Session 1
9:30 - 11.30am:

Santo Fortunato -  Community Detection Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis
Krista Gile - Inference for Hidden Populations Based on Network Sampling

Coffee Break

Session 2
11:45 - 1.30pm (Short Presentations):

Conrad Lee - My recent and future work
Aaron McDaid - Detecting highly overlapping communities with Model-based Overlapping Seed Expansion (download)
Daniel Archambault - Data Visualization from a Steerable Perspective
Guillaume Herbiet - Distributed community detection over dynamic networks using neighborhood similarity
Tara Hennessy - Decomposing Discussion Forums using User Roles

General Discussion & Next Steps

 

Venue

The workshop will be held in the Seminar room in UCD CASL, 8 Belfield Office Park, Clonskeagh, Dublin 4, Ireland. See map

Accommodation

The most convenient hotel for UCD is the D4 Berkely Court Hotel http://www.d4hotels.ie/D4-Berkeley/d4-berkeley.html .
Additionally, there is a regular bus service to the UCD campus from the city centre where there is a number of accommodation options available www.goireland.ie.

 

Organisers:
Neil Hurley, UCD, Dublin
Brendan Murphy, UCD, Dublin
Pádraig Cunningham, UCD, Dublin
 

Note: Logo courtesy of ERCIM

Social Network Analysis Group

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