First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN) - Call for papers

First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks  (WOSN)

http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/workshops/wosn/


Call for papers

With half a billion active users, online social networks (OSN) have attained critical mass and triggered intense research interest in collaborative systems and the analysis of the structure and properties of online communities.

WOSN will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and important questions posed by emerging online social applications. Of particular interest are problems related to network and system architecture design that can best support emerging and future social and collaborative systems, and how those social networks can shape the design of existing distributed systems and real networks. The goal of the workshop is to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion of relevance to computer networking, involving novel ideas and applications, and experimental results.

The workshop solicits original, previously unpublished ideas on completed work, position papers, and/or work-in-progress papers. We encourage papers that propose new research directions or could generate lively debate at the workshop.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

-           Implications of social networking on network and distributed systems design

-          System design for social networks

-          Network architecture design to support large scale social applications

-          Search strategies in social networks

-          Rating, review, reputation, and trust systems

-          Recommendation / collaborative filtering systems

-          Expertise / interest tracking

-          Identification of communities and their evolution in time

-          Anonymity and privacy

-          Measurement and analysis of online communities

-          Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks

-          Mobile social networks

-          Information sharing and forwarding

-          Decentralized (ad hoc) network applications and services

-          Challenges posed by social networks



Important Dates:
Full paper submission: Friday March 7, 2008
Acceptance notification: Friday April 11, 2008
Camera-ready: Friday May 2, 2008
Workshop date: Monday Aug 18, 2008

Submission Instructions:
Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length and must be a pdf file. Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/ .

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal.

Workshop Organizers:
Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Peter Key (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs - Research)
Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)


Program Co-chairs:
Christos Faloutsos (CMU)
Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica)

Program Committee:
Lada Adamic (University of Michigan)
Virgílio Almeida (UFMG)
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)
Christophe Diot (Thomson Research)
Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck)
Bernardo Huberman (HP labs)
David Kempe (University of Southern California)
Peter Key (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Gueorgi Kossinets (Cornell University)
Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs - Research)
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research)
Sue Moon (KAIST)
Mema Roussopoulos (FORTH)
Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)