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 Social Networks Interoperability - International Workshop 2009
4th Asian Semantic Web Conference, 7-9 Dec 2009, Shanghai, China
           http://spin.nicta.org.au/SNI2009
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The objective of the 1st International Workshop on Social Networks
Interoperability is to bring together the Social Networks community to
discuss the technical interoperability issues facing service providers
and end users. The workshop will attract researchers, practitioners,
end users, and providers to help understand the current state-of-the-
art in social networks interoperability, and to plan pathways forward
to enable the community to achieve these goals.

Workshop Website: http://spin.nicta.org.au/SNI2009

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The workshop will consist of a mix of full and short paper
presentations and demonstrations that will lay out the challenges to
the wider community.

Topic of interest include:
 - Social Networks data format interoperability
 - Social Networks information policy interoperability behaviour
(privacy and rights)
 - Social Networks interoperable notification and connection mechanisms
 - Social Networks data feed interoperation
 - Social Networks identity and authentication interoperability
 - Social Networks mobile interoperability
 - Social Networks graph interoperability and federation
 - Social Networks interoperable business models

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submissions:  22 Oct 2009
Paper Notification: 02 Nov 2009
Paper Camera-ready: 09 Nov 2009
Workshop days:      07 Dec 2009

See the Workshop Website for Submission details:
http://spin.nicta.org.au/SNI2009

Workshop Co-Chairs:
 - Renato Iannella, NICTA, Australia
 - John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
 - Adrienne Felt, UC Berkeley, USA
 - E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

Program Committee:
Dan Brickley, Asemantics S.R.L., UK
Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Fabien Gandon, Inria, France
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
Tyrone W A Grandison, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Harry Halpin, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Galway, Ireland
Ivan Herman, W3C, Netherlands
Sarath Indrakanti, NICTA, Australia
Sheila Kinsella, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Kun Liu, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Ashrafi Mafruzzaman, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Paul Miller, Talis, UK
See-Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Alexandre Passant, DERI, Galway, Ireland
David Peterson, Boab Interactive, Australia
Matthew Rowe, University of Sheffield, UK
Laurianne Sitbon, QUT/NICTA, Australia
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, Austria
Rigo Wenning, W3C, France

Workshop Website: http://spin.nicta.org.au/SNI2009