<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-m_-3657404372522012581gmail-m_-1611327053941263412gmail-docs-internal-guid-5e0f0641-4da8-c0f7-f077-b5f6ac3c531f"><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:2pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><span id="gmail-m_-3657404372522012581gmail-m_-1611327053941263412gmail-docs-internal-guid-5e0f0641-4da9-15eb-a7e5-4d59a51890d3" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;text-align:start;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">*Please feel free to circulate this CFP among your colleagues and students.</span></p></span><br></span></h4><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:2pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></h4><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:2pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Joint International Workshop on Social Influence Analysis and Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks (SocInf+MAISoN 2018)</span></h4><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">In conjunction with the Federated AI Meeting (FAIM) / IJCAI-ECAI 2018 </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br class="gmail-m_-3657404372522012581gmail-m_-1611327053941263412gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br class="gmail-m_-3657404372522012581gmail-m_-1611327053941263412gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">July 13-19, 2018</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br class="gmail-m_-3657404372522012581gmail-m_-1611327053941263412gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br class="gmail-m_-3657404372522012581gmail-m_-1611327053941263412gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Stockholm, Sweden</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br class="gmail-m_-3657404372522012581gmail-m_-1611327053941263412gmail-kix-line-break"><br class="gmail-m_-3657404372522012581gmail-m_-1611327053941263412gmail-kix-line-break"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Website: </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__socinf-2Dmaison-2D2018.isistan.unicen.edu.ar_&d=DwMFaQ&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=uXI5O6HThk1ULkPyaT6h2Ws3RKNKSY__GQ4DuS9UHhs&m=04DmvJWcOLrd8Gdmw0eoEF_xdMo9qff6iPEE4Q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/p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Traditional research in social network mining mainly focuses on theories and methodologies for community discovery, pattern detection and evolution, behavioural analysis and anomaly (misbehaviour) detection. While interesting and definitely worthwhile, the main distinguishing focus of this joint workshop will be the use of social network data for building predictive models that can be used to uncover hidden and unexpected aspects of user-generated content in order to extract actionable insights from them and for analyzing different aspects of social influence, such as influence maximization and discovering influencers. Thus, the focus is on algorithms and methods for (social) network analysis, data mining techniques to gain</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">actionable real-world insights, and models and </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">approaches for understanding influence dissemination and discovering influential users in social networks</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">In this joint workshop, we invite researchers and practitioners, </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">both from academia and industry, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">from different disciplines such as computer science, data mining, machine learning, network science, social network analysis and other related areas to share their ideas and research achievements in order to deliver technology and solutions for mining actionable insight from social network data.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We solicit original, unpublished and innovative research work on all aspects around, but not limited to, the following themes:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Social networks and information/knowledge dissemination</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Topic and trend prediction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Prediction of information diffusion patterns</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Identification of causality and correlation between event/topics/communities</span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Social network analysis and measures</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Network topology</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Centrality measures</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Community detection</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dynamic network models</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Diffusion models</span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Information diffusion modeling with social networks</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Information propagation and assimilation in social networks </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Sentiment diffusion in social networks</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Competitive intelligence from social networks</span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Social influence analysis on online social networks</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Systems and algorithms for discovering influential users </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Recommending influential users in online social networks </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:tr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on:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Product adaptation models with social networks such as</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Sale price prediction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">New product popularity prediction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Brand popularity</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Business downfall prediction</span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">User modeling and social networks including</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Predict users daily activities including recurring events</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">User churn prediction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Trust and reputation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;font-style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