2nd SNA-KDD Workshop Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis Held in conjunction with The 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008) August 24-27, 2008, Las Vegas, NV

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Final Program - August 24, 2008

08:45-09:00 Welcome and Introduction

Session 1 - Community Discovery and Extraction

9:00 - 9:25 Adequacy of Data for Characterizing Caller Behavior
9:25 - 9:50 Social Topic Models for Community Extraction

9:50-10:20 Coffee Break

Session 2 - Social Dynamics and Evolution

10:20-10:45 Communication Dynamics of Blog Networks
10:45-11:10 Ontology Engineering and Feature Construction for Predicting Friendship Links in the Live Journal Social Network
11:10-11:35 Wikis as Social Networks: Evolution and Dynamics
11:35-12:00 Overcoming Resolution Limits in MDL Community Detection

12:00-14:00 Lunch

Session 3 - Social Network Applications

14:00-14:25 Group Proximity Measure for Recommending Groups in Online Social Networks
14:25-14:50 A Social Query Model for Decentralized Search

14:50-16:00 Poster Session and Coffee Break,

Session 4 - Social Network Models

16:00-16:25 Combining Transitive Trust and Negative Opinions for better Reputation Management in Social Networks
16:25-16:50 Pseudolikelihood EM for Within-Network Relational Learning
16:50-17:15 Nonparametric Relational Learning for Social Network Analysis

17:15 Discussion and Closing

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