The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN) has travelled along Vellore, India (2016), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (2015), Porto, Portugal (2014), Fargo, ND, USA (2013), Sao Carlos, Brazil (2012), Salamanca, Spain (2011), Taiyuan, China (2010) and Fontainebleau, France (2009). The 9th CASoN event will be organized in Greece as an interdisciplinary venue for computer scientists, social scientists, mathematicians, computer users, and students to share ideas and experiences on all aspects related to Social Networks, and to discuss on the broad domains of:

Neural Networks and Connectionist Models

Evolutionary Algorithms
Fuzzy Logic, Multi-valued Logic
Semantic Networks
Rough Sets
Reinforcement Learning

Network Evolution and Growth Mechanisms

Online communities
Information diffusion
Detection of communities
Topology of real networks

Recommendation

Recommendation for product purchase, information acquisition and social relations
Impact of recommendation on the evolution of the social network
Classification in social recommenders

Advertisement Models

Economic impact of social network discovery
Social advertising
Use of social networks for marketing

Search in Network

Web page ranking informed by social media
Search algorithms on social networks
Collaborative Filtering

Security

Anomaly detection
Data protection inside communities
Crime data mining and network analysis
Modeling trust and reputation
Misbehaviour detection in communities

Network Geography

Geographical clusters, networks and innovation
Social geography
International Collaborations in e-Social network

Web

Automatic discovery and analysis of Web social networks
Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
Web mining algorithms
Web communities

Evaluation

Test collection
Benchmark creation
Measures and methodologies


Submission procedure

Papers must be submitted online through EasyChair Author instructions along with LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available at Springer’s Information for LNCS Authors page (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages (long papers) and 8 pages (short ones), including figures, tables and references. Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights to Springer.

Author Registration Policy

For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with a full registration.

Venue

The venue is a 5* hotel, Grand Hotel Palace, https://www.grandhotelpalace.gr/en

Important Dates

25 May 2020: Full papers submission

20 July 2020: Notification

24 August 2020: Camera readies and registration