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Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Social Influence Analysis (SocInf 2017)
August 19th, 2017 - Melbourne, Australia




   Preface
   Online social networks have grown massively during the last decade, and currently are used by
   billions of users to interact. In this context, social influence analysis has become a really active
   research area in the field of online social networks. Nowadays, social influence analysis on
   online social networks is highly relevant for recommendation systems, advertising, political
   campaigns, information and opinion diffusion, expert finding and link prediction, among many
   others. However, social influence analysis on the current online social networks is recognized
   as a complex problem that requires computational models, techniques and algorithms specially
   designed for such social networks.

   This workshop aims to bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss the state-
   of-the-art, open problems, challenges and innovative approaches (i.e., innovative computational
   models, techniques and algorithms), particularly Artificial Intelligence approaches, in the field
   of online social networks for social influence analysis.

   The workshop attracted a number of high-quality contributions of which six long papers were
   accepted for presentation at the workshop. These accepted papers span a wide variety of issues
   and techniques related to social influence analysis on online social networks. Specifically, the
   papers deal with topics such as social influence maximization, explanation systems for social
   influence maximization algorithms, identification of influential users’ professions, and social
   influence analysis.

   Additionally, the workshop includes an invited talk: "Measuring and Modeling Popularity in
   Social Media" by Prof. Lexing Xie, from the Research School of Computer Science at the
   Australian National University.

   We would like to thank all the authors for their submissions, and our Program Committee for
   their precious work. We would also like to thank AMiner for sponsoring our workshop.


   August 2017

   Marcelo G. Armentano,
   Jie Tang
   Virginia Yannibelli

   SocInf 2017 Workshop Chairs

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