MITACS (http://www.mitacs.ca) is running a workshop on Social Networks Analysis and its Applications in Vancouver from August 9-13, 2010.

The main focus of this workshop will be on the development and use of social networks in a number of contexts, from criminal networks to online social networks to social gaming. There will be a number of interesting speakers from both industry and academia and a number of interesting tutorials on the latest technologies and innovations in online social networking.

As part of this workshop, Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd from the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University will teach a tutorial on “Automated Discovery and Analysis of Online Social Networks”

(http://bit.ly/dv2dvp). This tutorial will explore new automated ways for discovering and analyzing various online social networks.

For more information about this workshop and how to register, visit http://bit.ly/9VyNTf.