Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN)

Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN’12)

Friday, August 17, 2012
Helsinki, Finland
Room: Hall B

Technical Program

8:30-8:50 Welcome Message and Opening Remarks
Session Chair: Balachander Krishnamurthy (Organizer), Ben Zhao & Stefan Saroiu (PC Chairs)
8:50-10:30 Session 1: Share at Your Own Risk
Session Chair: Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS)
Poultry Markets: On the Underground Economy of Twitter Followers
Gianluca Stringhini, Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna (UC Santa Barbara)
Paper
Big Friend is Watching You: Analyzing the Tracking Capabilities of Online Social Networks
Abdelberi Chaabane (INRIA), Mohamed Ali Kaafar (INRIA, NICTA), and Roksana Boreli (NICTA, UNSW)
Paper
A Workflow for Differentially-Private Graph Synthesis
Davide Proserpio and Sharon Goldberg (Boston University), and Frank McScherry (Microsoft Research)
Paper
Is More Always Merrier? A Deep Dive Into Online Social Footprints
Terence Chen (NICTA and UNSW), Mohamed Ali Kaafar (INRIA and NICTA), Arik Friedman (NICTA), and Roksana Boreli (NICTA, UNSW)
Paper
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2: Locked in A Long-Distance Relationship
Session Chair: Sue Moon (KAIST)
Far from the Eyes, Close on the Web: Impact of Geographic Distance on Online Social Interactions
Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media Foundation), Salvatore Scellato (University of Cambridge), Yana Volkovich and David Laniado (Barcelona Media Foundation), Dave Currie and Erik J. Jutemar (Tuenti), and Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
Paper
Coarse-Grained Topology Estimation via Graph Sampling
Maciej Kurant, Minas Gjoka, Yan Wang, Zack W. Almquist, Carter T. Butts, and Athina Markopoulou (UC Irvine)
Paper
The Importance of Being Placefriends: Discovering Location-focused Online Communities
Chloë Brown, Vincenzo Nicosia, Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
Paper
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 3: Do Your Servers Social Network?
Session Chair: Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs—Research)
Shortest Paths in Less Than a Millisecond
Rachit Agarwal, Matthew Caesar, and P. Brighten Godfrey (UIUC), and Ben Y. Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)
Paper
Navigation Characteristics of Online Social Networks and Search Engines Users.
Christopher W Dunn and Minaxi Gupta (Indiana University), and Oliver Spatscheck (AT&T Labs-Research)
Paper
Keeping Information Safe from Social Networking Apps
Bimal Viswanath, MPI-SWS, Emre Kiciman and Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research)
Paper
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:50 Session 4: Think Before You Post
Session Chair: James Salter (GCHQ)
Inferring Who-is-Who in the Twitter Social Network
Saptarshi Ghosh and Naveen Sharma (IIT Kharagpur), Fabricio Benevenuto (Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil), Niloy Ganguly, IIT Kharagpur, and Krishna P. Gummadi (MPI-SWS)
Paper
Why Watching Movie Tweets Won’t Tell the Whole Story
Felix Ming Fai Wong, Soumya Sen, and Mung Chiang (Princeton University)
Paper
16:50-17:30 Panel: Future of Social Networking Research

Introduction

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).

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Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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

Submission Instructions

All submissions must be original work not under review at any other venue. Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length and author names and affiliations should be included in the submission. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines at http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/. Papers should be submitted via the submission site.

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