IEEE First International Workshop on Social Networks

IEEE First International Workshop on Social Networks

Cape Town, South Africa, May 27, 2010
in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications

Social networks treating relationship as connections to form networks become an emerging technology in Internet and mobile computing/communications, as the foundation of popular personalized but anonymous applications/services of networking and communication infrastructure. However, there are tremendous knowledge and technology challenges, which are open to research community to facilitate state-of-the-art systems and networks of user attraction. This workshop will focus on but not limited to the following potential subjects of
interests:

* Social network behaviors, dynamics, modeling, and analysis
* Representation, measurement, modeling of relationship
* Social network topology, complex network theory, random graph, and relationship to statistical mechanics or biology
* Web connections and grid/cloud computing
* Belief and message propagation, search technology over Internet
* Trusted networking, security, privacy, and digital right management over social networking
* Cognitive modeling, machine learning, game theory, computational intelligence, applied in social networks
* Applications and services to Internet, multimedia networks, e-commerce, and mobile-commerce

The manuscripts must be originally written in English, and no more than 6 two-column pages following IEEE format in PDF. Please visit www.comm.ntu.edu.tw/socialnet and submit your paper through EDAS with the following schedule:

Submission Deadline: November 20, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: January 20, 2010
Camera-Ready Due: February 20, 2010

Accepted papers will be published at the IEEE Xplore. Further questions can be addressed to social.net@santos.ee.ntu.edu.tw

TPC Members:

Masaki Aida (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
Ulrik Brandes (U. of Konstanz)
Klaus David (Universität Kassel)
Mads Haahr (Trinity College Dublin)
Symeon Papavassiliou (Nat'l Technical U. of Athens)
Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
Kazumi Saito (University of Shizuoka)
Knud Skouby (Aalborg University)
Yan Sun (University of Rhode Islands)
Stephen Wicker (Cornell University)
Ja-Lin Wu (National Taiwan University)
Vicky Zhao (University of Alberta)

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University)
Naohisa Ohta (Keio University)

Workshop Secretary:

Phone Lin (National Taiwan University)