CFP -- Workshop on Social Networks Analysis in conjunction with COMNETS 2016

[Balaraman Ravindran]

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. Goingpast 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. 

This year the social network wokshop will have a special focus on security in online social media. This theme has been motivated by the rising issues related to privacy and security threats over social media and its consequences thereof. A recent article from ComputerWeekly states that “the rapid spread of false information through social media is among the emerging risks identified by the World Economic Forum in its Global Risks 2013 report.” The unprecedented reach of social media allows the cyber criminals to commit all different types of malicious activities and the stakeholder companies are now converging on social media policies to ensure security and privacy. The workshop plans to host leaders in this area of research and will feature invited talks on this theme. 

Topics of Interest: The goal of this workshop is to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion of relevance to social networking, involving novel ideas and applications, and experimental results. This workshop provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the ethological approach to social behaviour in human with web-based evidence of social interaction, perceptual learning, information granulation, the behaviour of humans and affinities between web-based social networks. This workshop welcomes contributions from researchers working on the following topics of interest, including, but not limited to:

 Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks 

 Visualization of social network analysis 

 Social networks and social intelligence 

 Link topology and site hierarchy 

 Anomaly detection in social network 

 Virtual and web communities and web site clustering 

 Security, privacy and trust computational analysis of social networks 

 Web-based cooperative work 

 Multiplex and interdependent networks 

 Knowledge community formation and support 

 Intelligent wireless Web 

 High dimensional network analytics 

 Social network analysis and mining of communities of practice 

 Network evolution and growth mechanisms

Submission Guidelines

 Submissions must be no longer than 6 pages in length including all figures, 

tables, and references and must be a PDF file.

 All papers must be electronically submitted via the Social Networking Workshop submission site on EDAS.

 Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission.

 Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines at 

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

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.

Important Dates:

Submission Due  Oct 19, 2015 

Notification of Acceptance Nov 20, 2015 

Camera-ready Version Due Nov 25, 2015

Workshop Date Jan 9, 2016

Keynote Speaker: Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University

Invited Speakers: Niloy Ganguly, IIT Kharagpur; Partha Pratim Talukdar, IISc Bangalore.

Confirmed List of PC Members

• Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur

• Bivas Mitra, IIT Kharagpur

• Saptarshi Ghosh, MPI-SWS

• Amitabha Bagchi, IIT Delhi

• Bibhas Adhikari, IIT Kharagpur

• Ramasuri Narayanam, IBM-IRL, Bangalore

• Amit Nanavati, IBM-IRL, Bangalore

• Partha Pratim Talukdar, IISc, Bangalore

• Balaji Vasan, Adobe Research, Bangalore

• Sayan Ranu, IIT Madras

• Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research, Bangalore

• Lionel Tabourier, LIP6, France

• Janardhan Doppa, Washington State University

• Saketha Nath, IIT Bombay

• Maya Ramanath, IIT Delhi

• M. Saravanan, Ericsson Global Research, Chennai

• Narayanan Unny, XRCI, Bangalore

• David Gleich, Purdue University

• L Venkat Subramaniam, IBM-IRL Delhi

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