Social Networks and Social Media -- Maximizing Friend-Making Likelihood for Social Activity Organization -- What Is New in Our City? A Framework for Event Extraction Using Social Media Posts -- Link Prediction in Aligned Heterogeneous Networks -- Scale-Adaptive Group Optimization for Social Activity Planning -- Influence Maximization Across Partially Aligned Heterogeneous Social Networks -- Multiple Factors-Aware Diffusion in Social Networks -- Understanding Community Effects on Information Diffusion -- On Burst Detection and Prediction in Retweeting Sequence -- Few Things About Idioms: Understanding Idioms and Its Users in the Twitter Online Social Network -- Retweeting Activity on Twitter: Signs of Reception -- Resampling-Based Gap Analysis for Detecting Nodes with High Centrality on Large Social Network -- Classification -- Double Ramp Loss Based Reject Option Classifier -- Efficient Methods for Multi-label Classification -- A Coupled k-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Multi-label Classification -- Learning Topic-Oriented Word Embedding for Query Classification -- Reliable Early Classification on Multivariate Time Series with Numerical and Categorical Attributes -- Distributed Document Representation for Document Classification -- Prediction of Emergency Events: A Multi-Task Multi-Label Learning Approach -- Nearest Neighbor Method Based on Local Distribution for Classification -- Immune Centroids Over-Sampling Method for Multi-Class Classification -- Optimizing Classifiers for Hypothetical Scenarios -- Repulsive-SVDD Classification -- Centroid-Means-Embedding: an Approach to Infusing Word Embeddings into Features for Text Classification -- Machine Learning -- Collaborating Differently on Different Topics: A Multi-Relational Approach to Multi-Task Learning -- Multi-Task Metric Learning on Network Data -- A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Multilevel Regression -- Learning Conditional Latent Structures from Multiple Data Sources -- Collaborative Multi-view Learning with Active Discriminative Prior for Recommendation -- Online and Stochastic Universal Gradient Methods for Minimizing Regularized Hölder Continuous Finite Sums in Machine Learning -- Context-Aware Detection of Sneaky Vandalism on Wikipedia Across Multiple Languages -- Uncovering the Latent Structures of Crowd Labeling -- Use Correlation Coefficients in Gaussian Process to Train Stable ELM Models -- Local Adaptive and Incremental Gaussian Mixture for Online Density Estimation -- Latent Space Tracking from Heterogeneous Data with an Application for Anomaly Detection -- A Learning-Rate Schedule for Stochastic Gradient Methods to Matrix Factorization -- Applications -- On Damage Identification in Civil Structures Using Tensor Analysis -- Predicting Smartphone Adoption in Social Networks -- Discovering the Impact of Urban Traffic Interventions Using Contrast Mining on Vehicle Trajectory Data -- Locating Self-collection Points for Last-mile Logistics using Public Transport Data -- A Stochastic Framework for Solar Irradiance Forecasting Using Condition Random Field -- Online Prediction of Chess Match Result -- Learning of Performance Measures from Crowd-Sourced Data with Application to Ranking of Investments -- Hierarchical Dirichlet Process for Tracking Complex Topical Structure Evolution and its Application to Autism Research Literature -- Automated Detection for Probable Homologous Foodborne Disease Outbreaks -- Identifying Hesitant and Interested Customers for Targeted Social Marketing -- Activity-Partner Recommendation -- Iterative Use of Weighted Voronoi Diagrams to Improve Scalability in Recommender Systems -- Novel Methods and Algorithms Principal Sensitivity Analysis -- SocNL: Bayesian Label Propagation with Confidence -- An Incremental Local Distribution Network for Unsupervised Learning -- Trend-Based Citation Count Prediction for Research Articles -- Mining Text Enriched Heterogeneous Citation Networks -- Boosting via Approaching Optimal Margin Distribution -- o-HETM: An Online Hierarchical Entity Topic Model for News Streams -- Modeling User Interest and Community Interest in Microbloggings: An Integrated Approach -- Minimal Jumping Emerging Patterns: Computation and Practical Assessment -- Factorisation -- An Empirical Study of Personal Factors and Social Effects on Rating Prediction.