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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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First International Workshop on Social Network Systems
http://socialnets2008.msra.cn/
April 1, 2008, Glasgow, Scotland, Co-located with ACM EuroSys 2008
Important Dates:
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Paper submissions due: February 22, 2008
Notification to authors: March 10, 2008
Workshop: April 1, 2008
Overview:
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The First International Workshop on Social Network Systems will bring together
researchers for one day of interaction. This workshop will be a forum to
present and discuss new ideas about social network systems.
Online social networks are growing rapidly in popularity and are now among the
most popular sites on the Web. They provide mechanisms for establishing online
identities, sharing information, and creating relationships. The resulting
network provides a new basis for maintaining social relationships and for
locating content. The workshop focuses on understanding the systems issues
associated with social networks.
Broadly, systems issues of social networks include:
* Improved system infrastructure to support social networks. As workloads,
social networks have their own special properties and characteristics, which
have been shown to differ from previous systems. How can we improve system
infrastructure; databases, operating systems, and storage systems, to support
social networks?
* Ways of leveraging social networks in systems design. These systems hold the
potential to aid designers of computer systems, for example, by providing new
ways to reason about trust and new means to publish and find content. How can
social networks improve computer systems?
* Measurement and analysis of existing social networks, including experiences
with deployment and operation. How can we model and characterize social
networks? What have we learned from the operation of existing systems?
In greater detail, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Crawlers and other mechanisms for observing social network structure.
* Measurement and analysis, including comparative analysis.
* Experiences with deployed systems.
* Tools for designing and deploying social networks.
* Application programming interfaces for social networks.
* Query engines for online processing.
* Database issues for offline analysis.
* Network dynamics, including relationships between network links and user
behavior.
* Benchmarks, modeling, and characterization.
* Methods for integrating multiple networks.
* Issues of privacy and security.
* Leveraging social network properties in systems design.
The papers presented at the workshop, as well as a summary of the discussion,
will be archived electronically. Accepted papers may be subsequently revised,
expanded, and submitted to full conferences and journals.
Organizers:
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Program Chairs:
Lex Stein, Microsoft Research Asia
Alan Mislove, MPI-SWS and Rice University
Program Committee:
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Yahoo! Research
Bobby Bhattacharjee, University of Maryland, College Park
Yu Chen, Microsoft Research Asia
Eran Gabber, Google
Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland, College Park
Jonathan Ledlie, Nokia Research
Jinyang Li, New York University
Alan Mislove, MPI-SWS and Rice University
David Molnar, UC Berkeley
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London
Shiding Lin, Baidu
Lex Stein, Microsoft Research Asia
Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Harvard University
Yongwei Wu, Tsinghua University
Submitting a Paper:
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Papers must be received by 23:59 GMT, on February 22, 2008. This is a hard
deadline. Submissions should contain six or fewer two-column pages, including
all figures and references, using 10-point fonts, standard spacing, and 1-inch
margins (we recommend the ACM sig-alternate template). Please number pages. All
submissions will be electronic, and must be in either PDF format (preferred) or
PostScript. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page.
Reviewing will be single-blind. Paper submission will be online.
This workshop is sponsored by ACM, ACM SigOps, and EuroSys.
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