[sigcomm] CFP: ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'12)

[Ryuji Wakikawa]

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Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'12)
Helsinki, Finland (Friday August 17, 2012)
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/wosn12.php
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With nearly half the world's population with access to the Internet being present on an Online Social Network, the field has infiltrated most walks of life. A significant fraction of mind-share in the form of applications, diverse access interfaces, and a large economic ecosystem has developed around this field. Going past the simple characterization and enumeration of properties, the networking research community has shown significant interest in attacking various problems associated with OSNs. WOSN'12 will bring together networking researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and important questions posed by emerging social applications. Of particular interest are problems related to system architecture design, explosion of new media traffic, and mobile access. WOSN'12 will facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion of relevance to computer networking involving new ideas and applications and experimental results. The workshop solicits original papers on ongoing work as well as position papers. All papers are limited to 6 pages.

- Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

	• Implications of social networking on network design
	• Network architecture design to support large scale social applications
	• Search strategies in social networks
	• Reputation and trust systems
	• Anonymity and privacy
	• Economic incentives for privacy
	• Architecture and design of external OSN applications
	• Decentralized (ad hoc) network applications and services
	• Measurement and analysis of online communities

-Workshop organizer
	• Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs--Research)

- Program Committee
	• Alessandro Acquisti (CMU)
	• Virgilio Almeida (UFMG, Brazil)
	• Landon Cox (Duke University)
	• Yafei Dai (Peking University, China)
	• Josh Elman (Greylock Partners)
	• Lixin Gao (Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst)
	• Krishna Gummadi (Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems)
	• Pankaj Gupta (Twitter Inc.)
	• Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research)
	• Yongdae Kim (University Minnesota)
	• Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge )
	• Alan Mislove (Northeastern University)
	• Sue Moon (KAIST, Korea)
	• Jennifer Neville (Purdue University)
	• Eamonn O'Neill (University of Bath, U.K.)
	• Reza Rejaie (Univ of Oregon)
	• Keith Ross (NYU-Polytechnic University)
	• Alessandra Sala (Bell Labs, Ireland)
	• James Salter (Government Communications HQ, UK)
	• Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research, PC Co-Chair)
	• Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs--Research)
	• Ben Zhao (UC Santa Barbara, PC Co-Chair)

- Submission Instructions
All submissions must be original work not under review at any other venue. Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length and author names and affiliations should be included in the submission. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines at http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/. Submission website details will appear later.

- Important Dates

Submissions due	Friday March 9, 2012
Notification of acceptance	Friday April 20, 2012
Camera-ready copy due	Monday June 4, 2012
Workshop date		Friday August 17, 2012

- Thanks to SIGCOMM 2012 supporters (in alphabetical order): 
AT&T Labs Research, Aalto University , Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, Comcast, Cisco, HP, Internet Society, Microsoft Research, NetApp, Nokia, OY L M ERICSSON AB, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A. Unipersonal, Verisign Labs