COMSNETS Social Networking Workshop: Call for Participation

[Balaraman Ravindran]

Call For Participation:

Please register for the exciting workshop on Social Network Analysis -- In Conjunction with COMSNETS, January 5-9th 2016, Bangalore, India. http://www.comsnets.org/social_networking_workshop.html

Social networking is profoundly changing the way people communicate and interact on a daily basis. Online social networks are serving as a vital means for supporting information and resource sharing, aiding discovery of connected individuals, improving communication between globally dispersed individuals, and even measuring scientific impact. 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 social networks. The proposed workshop strives to bring together academic, R&D, and industry researchers from these disciplines to address both the science and engineering challenges associated with the rapidly evolving domain of social networking. 

Keynote Speaker:

Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State

Invited Speakers:

Niloy Ganguly, IIT Kharagpur

Sayan Ranu, IIT Chennai

Partha Pratim Talukdar, IISc Bangalore

Technical Schedule for Workshop

Time	Sessions
9:00 - 9:30	Inauguration
Session 1
9:30 - 10:30	Keynote Address: Trust in Network Analysis, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
Session 2	Chair: Sayan Ranu
10:30 - 11:15	Invited Talk: Disaster Management through Social Sensing, Niloy Ganguly
11:15 - 11:50	Search Result Diversification in Flickr
11:50 - 12:25	Urban Monitoring Using Participatory Sensing: An Optimal Budget Allocation Approach
12:25 - 1:00	Social Interaction in the Flickr Social Network
1:00 - 2:00	Lunch Break
Session 3	Chair: Balaraman Ravindran
2:00 - 2:45	Invited Talk: Mining Communication Motifs in Dynamic Networks, Sayan Ranu
2:45 - 3:20	Game Theoretic Analysis of Tree Based Referrals for Crowd Sensing Social Systems with Passive Rewards
3:20 - 3:55	Spherule Diagrams with Graph for Social Network Visualization
4:00 - 4:30	Coffee Break
Session 4	Chair: Animesh Mukherjee
4:30 - 5:15	Invited Talk: Inference over Multi-relational Networks, Partha Pratim Talukdar
4:15 - 5:50	Shifting Behaviour of Users: Towards Understanding the Fundamental Law of Social Networks
5:50 - 6:25	An algorithm to search Edge relaxed query graph with minimum support threshold in Large Communication Networks
6:25 - 6:40	Closing/Best Paper Decisions

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