The First International Workshop on Social Network Systems will bring together researchers for one day of interaction. This workshop will be a forum to present and discuss new ideas about social network systems.
Online social networks are growing rapidly in popularity and are now among the most popular sites on the Web. They provide mechanisms for establishing online identities, sharing information, and creating relationships. The resulting network provides a new basis for maintaining social relationships and for locating content. The workshop focuses on understanding the systems issues associated with social networks.
Broadly, systems issues of social networks include:
- Improved system infrastructure to support social networks. As workloads, social networks have their own special properties and characteristics, which have been shown to differ from previous systems. How can we improve system infrastructure; databases, operating systems, and storage systems, to support social networks?
- Ways of leveraging social networks in systems design. These systems hold the potential to aid designers of computer systems, for example, by providing new ways to reason about trust and new means to publish and find content. How can social networks improve computer systems?
- Measurement and analysis of existing social networks, including experiences with deployment and operation. How can we model and characterize social networks? What have we learned from the operation of existing systems?
In greater detail, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Crawlers and other mechanisms for observing social network structure.
- Measurement and analysis, including comparative analysis.
- Experiences with deployed systems.
- Tools for designing and deploying social networks.
- Application programming interfaces for social networks.
- Query engines for online processing.
- Database issues for offline analysis.
- Network dynamics, including relationships between network links and user behavior.
- Benchmarks, modeling, and characterization.
- Methods for integrating multiple networks.
- Issues of privacy and security.
- Leveraging social network properties in systems design.
The papers presented at the workshop, as well as a summary of the discussion, will be archived electronically. Accepted papers may be subsequently revised, expanded, and submitted to full conferences and journals.
Program Chairs
Lex Stein, Microsoft Research Asia
Alan Mislove, MPI-SWS and Rice University
Program Committee
Questions? email: castein@microsoft.com
