Second CFP -- Workshop on Social Networks Analysis

[Balaraman Ravindran]

Second Call for papers​

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Workshop on Social Network Analysis -- In Conjunction with COMSNETS,
January 5-9th 2016, Bangalore, India.
http://www.comsnets.org/social_networking_workshop.html

Submission

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Due  Oct 19, 2015

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.

This year the social network workshop 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.

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.


Important Deadlines

Submission

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Due  Oct 19, 2015
Notification of Acceptance Nov 20, 2015
Camera-ready Version Due Nov 25, 2015
Workshop Date Jan 9, 2016