The 2nd International Workshop on Large Scale Network Analysis (LSNA 2013)
In conjunction with WWW 2013

May 14, 2013 -- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Website: http://www.largenetwork.org

Large amounts of network data are being produced by various modern applications at an ever growing speed, ranging from social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, scientific citation networks such as CiteSeerX, to biological networks such as protein interaction networks. Network data analysis is crucial to exploit the wealth of information encoded in these network data. An effective analysis of these data must take into account the complex structure including social, temporal and sometimes spatial dimensions, and an efficient analysis of these data demands scalable solutions. As a result, there has been increasing research in developing scalable solutions for novel network analytics applications.

This workshop will provide a forum for researchers to share new ideas and techniques for large-scale network analysis. We expect novel research works that address various aspects of large scale network analysis, including network data acquisition and integration, novel applications for network analysis in different problem domains, scalable and efficient network analytics algorithms, distributed network data management, novel platforms supporting network analytics, and so on.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to the following:
- Large scale network data acquisition, filtering, navigation, integration, search and analysis
- Novel applications for network data with interesting analytics results
- Exploration of scalability issues in network analysis or modeling
- Distributed network data management
- Discussion on the deficiency of current network analytics or modeling approaches and proposition on new directions for research
- Discovering unique features of emerging network datasets (e.g. new linked data, new form of social networks)

Workshop program

The workshop hopes to accept 8~10 papers for oral presentations. Each paper will have 25 minutes of time, including oral presentation and question & answer. We plan to invite 4~6 keynote/industrial speakers in total: half of them from IBM and half of them from other Internet companies. We hope these speakers will provide a variety of perspectives on the topic of large-scale network analysis from different institutions and companies. Each keynote speech is planed to take 45~60 minutes and every industrial talk is planed to take 30~45 minutes.

Confirmed keynote speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Yahoo! Research for Europe, Middle East and Latin America, leading the labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, since 2006, as well as supervising the lab in Haifa, Israel since 2008. He is also part time Professor at the Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, since 2005. Until 2005 he was Professor and Director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1989. Before he obtained two masters (M.Sc. CS & M.Eng. EE) and the electrical engineering degree from the University of Chile, Santiago. He is co-author of the best-seller Modern Information Retrieval textbook, published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley with a second enlarged edition in 2011, as well as co-author of the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures, Addison-Wesley, 1991; and co-editor of Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Data Structures, Prentice-Hall, 1992, among more than 300 other publications. He has received the Organization of American States award for young researchers in exact sciences (1993) and the CLEI Latin American distinction for contributions to CS in the region (2009). In 2003 he was the first computer scientist to be elected to the Chilean Academy of Sciences. During 2007 he was awarded the Graham Medal for innovation in computing, given by the University of Waterloo to distinguished ex-alumni. In 2009 he was named ACM Fellow and in 2011 IEEE Fellow.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: February 25, 2013
Acceptance Notification: March 13, 2013
Camera-Ready Submission: March 27, 2013
Workshop Date: May 14, 2013


Submission Instructions

Submissions should present original results and substantial new work. This workshop accepts both full papers (up to 10 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages). Papers must conform to the ACM SIG format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submission must be made at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsna2013

Program Chairs
- Qi He, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (heq@us.ibm.com)
- David Konopnicki, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Isreal (davidko@il.ibm.com)
- John McPherson, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (jmcphers@us.ibm.com)
- Jimeng Sun, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (jimeng@us.ibm.com)
- Yuanyuan Tian, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (ytian@us.ibm.com)
- Hanghang Tong, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (htong@us.ibm.com)

Program Committee
Leman Akoglu
Matthias Boehm
David Carmel
Lei Chen
Amol Deshpande
Ido Guy
U Kang
Silvio Lattanzi
Jian Pei
Sherif Sakr
Yang Song
Aixin Sun
Shirish Tatikonda
Yinglong Xia
Xifeng Yan
Ning Zhang
Shijie Zhang
Feida Zhu