[SIMNA 2011] Workshop on Social Interactive Media Networking and Applications

IEEE ICCCN 2011 Workshop on Social Interactive Media Networking and Applications (SIMNA)

http://www.icccn.org/icccn11/workshops.html  and  http://simna2011.mpi-sws.org/

Maui, Hawaii, USA

July 31 - August 4, 2011

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have attracted billions of active users, and this critical mass of users are increasing exponentially. Social interactive media networking and applications such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. are providing valuable social information on contacts and their relationships. Wired and wireless/mobile devices which are capable of creating, storing, processing, interacting, forwarding and sharing media content are socially connected in a new radical network architecture harnessing the social behavior and mobility of the users. Thus, OSNs enable the pervasive connectivity even without the need to maintain fully connected always-on networks and applications.

Such OSNs communities trigger exciting research interests in collaborative systems arising from the analysis of the structure and properties of OSNs. The use of private social information provides additional avenues for new interactive networking operations and interactive media applications --- for example, problems that allow

the exploitation of OSNs to solve network and system security vulnerabilities, and how these new social networking solutions can shape the design of secured distributed systems and networks; development of cross-layered architecture for diverse mobile pervasive applications to distribute user-generated media content based on social interaction, relationships and behaviors; etc. It also requires the cross-disciplinary research integration of computer science and engineering, traditional sciences, anthropology, social sciences, etc.

The goal of this workshop is to catalyze cross-disciplinary research discussions that are of relevance to new and novel computer networking ideas, applications and experimental results in the area of social interactive media networking and applications. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include (but are not limited to) the following:

-- Implications of social networking on future network architecture

-- System design for social networks

-- New social science of networks

-- Physical and virtual social networks

-- Mobile and pervasive social networks

-- Real world applications of social network analysis and theory

-- New socially-inspired interactive media content creation and distribution networks

-- Trust, privacy and security in social networks

==== Submission Instructions ====

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five pages. Please see author information page at ICCCN 2011 for submission guidelines. Papers should be submitted in PDF format through EDAS. The paper title and author name list/order cannot be changed during the final camera-ready submission. All authors of a paper must be registered in the RIGHT order via EDAS at the SUBMISSION TIME and cannot be changed after the submission due time at EDAS. The final program will be generated from EDAS automatically.

Accepted papers will be published in proceedings that will be available through IEEE Xplore. Papers that are not presented at the workshop by one of the co-authors may not appear in IEEE Xplore.

==== Important Dates ====

Paper Submission Due: March 18th, 2011 EXTENDED

Author Notification: April 25th, 2011

Camera-ready Due: May 13th, 2011

==== TPC Chairs ====

Eng Keong Lua (NYP, Singapore / CMU, USA)

Ruichuan Chen (MPI-SWS, Germany)

==== Web and Publicity Chair ====

Cong Tang (Peking University, China)

==== TPC Members ====

John Buford (Avaya Labs Research, USA)

Zhuhua Cai (Rice University, USA)

Eduardo Cerqueira (UFPA, Brazil)

Ruichuan Chen (MPI-SWS, Germany)

Yang Chen (University of Goettingen, Germany)

Hamed Haddadi (University of London, UK)

Henry Holtzman (MIT Media Lab, USA)

Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and TU-Berlin, Germany)

Nina Kohli-Laven (Altusys, USA)

Sangkeun Lee (Korea University, South Korea)

Franck Le (CMU, USA / IBM Research, USA)

Shou-De Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Eng Keong Lua (NYP, Singapore / CMU, USA)

Tom Murase (NEC Laboratories, Japan)

Kiyohide Nakauchi (NICT, Japan)

Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London, UK)

Robert Seeliger (FOKUS FAMELAB, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

Ryoichi Shinkuma (Kyoto University, Japan)

Cong Tang (Peking University, China)

Xiaoming Zhou (Philips Research, Netherlands)