MIS2: Misinformation and Misbehavior Mining on the Web

Workshop held in conjunction with WSDM 2018

Feb 9, 2018 - Los Angeles, California, USA, 2018

Updates

1. We have added reading material/resources with surveys and tutorials in misinformation/misbehavior area. See it below.

2. MIS2 2018 @ WSDM was a great success! Thanks to all the speakers and attendees who made it happen!

About

Here's a group picture we took (alas, after several people had left):

Web is a space for all where people interact with each other and anyone can read, publish, and share content. While this has led to several groundbreaking benefits, it is also a breeding ground for misbehavior and misinformation. Anyone can reach thousands of people on the web instantaneously, say whatever they want, whenever they want, and yet be shielded by anonymity. This has led to increase of misbehavior and misinformation, such as harrassment, scams, spread of propaganda, hate speech, fake reviews, and many more. Study of this topic has become important among researchers across many subfields of the computational and social sciences, such as social network analysis, cybersecurity, human–computer interaction, communications, linguistics, natural language processing, social psychology, sociology, political science, journalism, and cognitive science.



MIS2 is an interdisciplinary venue that invites researchers and practitioners who work on studying misbehavior and misinformation on the web. Web includes: social media, e-commerce platforms, collaborative and knowledge-based platforms (e.g., wikis and question-answer platforms like Quora, StackOverflow, etc.), computer mediated communications, both p2p (e.g., email, text chat, video chat, etc.) and broadcasting (e.g., notice boards, discussion boards, video broadcasts), online gaming platforms, online transactions platforms (e.g., credit card, cryptocurrency, etc.), crowdsourcing platforms, and many more types of platforms.



Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

misbehavior and threat on the web, such as spam, trolling, scam, fraud, bots, coordinated attacks, cyberbullying, sockpuppets, propaganda, extremism, hate speech, flashing, and others.

false information on the web: fake reviews, fake news, rumors, fabricated images, videos, and others.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

empirical characterization of false information

measuring real world and online impact

deception in misinformation and misbehavior

reputation manipulation

measuring economic, ideological, and other rationale behind creation

rationale behind spread and success

targets or victims of misbehavior and misinformation

effect of echo chambers, personalization, confirmation bias, and other socio-psychological and technological phenomenon

detection methods using graphs, text, behavior, image, video, and audio analysis

adversarial analysis of misbehavior and misinformation

prevention and mitigation techniques, tools, and countermeasures

theoretical and/or empirical modeling of spread

visualizing spread

anonymity, security, and privacy aspects of data collection

usable security in misbehavior detection

ethics, privacy, fairness, and biases in current tools and techniques

case studies

Papers should be 2 to 8 pages long, will be published only on the workshop webpage, and will not be considered archival for resubmission purposes to future venues. Authors whose papers are accepted to the workshop will have the opportunity to present their research in oral presentation and participate in a poster session.

We explicitly encourage the submission of preliminary work in the form of extended abstracts (2 pages).



Best Paper Awards: Best paper awards will be given to highest quality papers submitted to the workshop. The organizers thanks CreditX for sponsoring the award.

Submission Instructions [Closed]

All papers will be peer reviewed.

We encourage submissions of the following types, but not limited to:

Novel research papers

Demo papers

Survey papers

Comparison papers of existing methods and tools

Work-in-progress papers

Extended abstracts

Relevant work that has been previously published

Work that will be presented at the main conference of WSDM 2018

Submission dates: See below.

Format: Papers must be submitted in PDF according to the new ACM format published in ACM guidelines, selecting the generic "sigconf" sample. Submissions should be 2 to 8 pages long. No need to anonymize your submission.

Submission Link [Closed]: Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis2



Keynote speakers