Topics of Interest

We solicit original, unpublished and innovative research work on all aspects of the theme of this workshop. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Descriptive models on fake new and malicious bot detection.

• Explainable AI for detection of dis/misinformation.

• User behavior analysis and susceptibility prediction with regard to dis/misinformation in social media.

• Trust and reputation in social media.

• Dis/misinformation propagation modeling and trace analysis.

• Prescriptive countermeasure methods against formation and circulation of misinformation

• Predicting misinformation and bias in news on social media.

• Predictive models for early detection of hoax spread in social media.

• Social influence analysis on online social media including discovering influential users and social influence maximization.

• Assessing the influence of fake news on advertising and viral marketing in social media.

• New datasets and evaluation methodologies to help predicting dis/misinformation in social media

• User modeling and social media including predicting daily activities, recurring events, determining user similarities, trustworthiness and reliability.

• Social networks and information/knowledge dissemination such as topic and trend prediction, prediction of information diffusion patterns, and identification of causality and correlation between events/topics/communities.