ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'12)
			(Friday Aug 17, 2012)

			Helsinki, Finland		

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 (10 pt).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

	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 


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)

Workshop Organizer
	 Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs--Research)

Important dates:
        Paper submission due:                   Wed March 14 23:59 GMT
        Acceptance notification:                Fri April 20
        Camera-ready copy due:                  Mon June 4
	Workshop 				Friday Aug 17

URL for submission will be available as a link for workshops from 
	http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/wosn12.php