[InetBib] Call for Participation: 1st International SoBigData Workshop - in conjunction with TPDL 2016

[Thomas Risse <risse@xxxxxx>]

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Call for Participation
1st International SoBigData Workshop - in conjunction with TPDL 2016

5 September 2016
Hannover, Germany

http://www.sobigdata.eu/events/1st-international-sobigdata-workshop
http://www.tpdl2016.org/
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One of the most pressing and fascinating challenges scientists face 
today, is understanding the complexity of our globally interconnected 
society. The big data arising from the digital breadcrumbs of human 
activities promise to let us scrutinize the ground truth of individual 
and collective behaviour at an unprecedented detail and scale. There is 
an urgent need to harness these opportunities for scientific advancement 
and for the social good. SoBigData proposes to create the Social Mining 
& Big Data Ecosystem: a research infrastructure (RI) providing an 
integrated ecosystem for ethic-sensitive scientific discoveries and 
advanced applications of social data mining on the various dimensions of 
social life The aim of the workshop is to bring together communities 
involved in different aspects of Social Big Data research: researchers, 
policy makers, data provider, data scientists, etc. to present societal 
challenges and discuss potential big data solutions as they are 
currently developed in SoBigData.


Workshop Program
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9:00 – 9:30 Opening

- Welcome - Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR) & Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S & Uni 
Hannover) (15min)
- SoBigData Overview - Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR) (15min)

9:30 – 10:30 Big Data for Migration Studies

- So Little Data: existing sources of information on international 
migration flows - Simone Bertoli (Uni. of Clermont-Ferrand) (30+10min)
- Sentiment-enhanced Multidimensional Analysis of Online Social 
Networks: Perception of the Mediterranean Refugees Crisis - Claudio 
Lucchese, Cristina Muntean (ISTI-CNR) (15+5min)

10.30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 -12:30 Session “Societal Well-being & Economic Performance”

- Measuring fair and sustainable wellbeing: definition and indicators - 
Filomena Maggino (Uni. of Florence) (20+10min)
- Effect of gender-based segregation in company boards to well-being: an 
exploratory walk-through - Pepe Küngas (Uni. of Tartu) (20+10min)
- MobileMiner / NervousNet - Giles Greenway, Tobias Blanke (Kings 
College London) (15+5min)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Session “Monitoring Topics across Time and Space”

- Handling the truth: Data challenges in Newsrooms - Wilfried Runde 
(Deutsche Welle) (20+10min)
- Understanding online debates in social media - Kalina Bontcheva (Uni. 
of Sheffield) (15+5min)
- Monitoring Topics across Time and Space - Gerhard Gossen (L3S & Uni 
Hannover) (15+5min)
- Opinion dynamics: models, extensions and external effects - Alina 
Sirbu (Uni. of Pisa) (15+5min)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Session “Community Integration”

- Unpacking Privacy - Jeroen van den Hoven (TU Delft) (20+10min)
- “Working with SoBigData" (SoBigData) (45min)
- Conclusion & Outlook (SoBigData) (15min)


Registration
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For attending the SoBigData workshop you have to register via the TPDL 
conference system (http://www.tpdl2016.org/registration_page). If you 
only attend the SoBigData workshop please select "Side Events Only" and 
afterwards "1st SoBigData Workshop".
The registration is free of charge.

The program can be found on the SoBigData Web page:
http://www.sobigdata.eu/events/1st-international-sobigdata-workshop

We recommend to attend the full conference with many interesting 
keynotes, talks and discussions:
http://www.tpdl2016.org/programataglance

On Thursday/Friday we also have the Alexandria workshop on Temporal 
Retrieval, Exploration and Analytics in Web Archives.
http://alexandria-project.eu/events/3rd-workshop/


Venue
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TPDL 2016 will be held in the Hannover Congress Centrum (HCC), Hannover, 
Germany.

Special hotel rates are available in the "Hotel am Stadtpark".
http://www.tpdl2016.org/hotel

About Hannover
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Hannover is a pleasant, medium-sized city (516.000 inhabitants) in the 
northern part of Germany. The city is famous for its fairs, most 
importantly the annual CeBIT fair at which the latest technologies are 
presented. In 2000 the World Fair (Expo 2000) took place in Hannover. 
Historically, the city boasts to be the root of the Hanover line of the 
English royal family. At first sight, Hannover is a modest 
non-spectacular city; however, the city has many hidden beauties, 
including the historical Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen, the new and old 
City Halls and the Eilenriede - Europe's largest city forest.

More information can be found in the TPDL 2016 Web page: 
http://www.tpdl2016.org/