CFP – Session in KES - Preventing risks and analysing events through social media analysis

KES 2020 Special Session - IS20- Preventing risks and analysing events through social media analysis in
24th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
Verona, Italy, 16-18 September 2020
http://kes2020.kesinternational.org/

Important dates:
Submission of papers: 3 April 2020
Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2020
Final paper publication files to be received by: 29 May 2020

Within the scope of the KES conference, this session specifically addresses the security-related domains of (a) preventing risks and making alerts (b) assisting the analysis and understanding of events, through automatic social media analysis.

Among the applications, we can quote as examples:
- Depression detection
- Rumour detection
- Extremist content or propaganda detection
- Fake news and conspiracy theory detection
- Organised crime and cybercrime
- Art, goods, and human traffic

Among the research challenges, we can quote (although not limited to):
- Entity linking
- Information extraction
- Cross-media analysis
- Community detection
- Video analysis
- Weak signal detection
- Visual representation
- Information summarization
- Ethics

The format of the submissions is the same as in the general KES conference and should present original research work (more details at http://kes2020.kesinternational.org/submission.php).

The conference proceedings will be published in Elsevier's Procedia Computer Science open access journal, available in ScienceDirect and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in CPCi (ISI conferences and part of Web of Science), Engineering Index, and Scopus. This conference is ranked B in Core Portal.