CANOE 2011 - International Summer School on Technologies for Realizing Social Networks and Applications
Topics/Call fo Papers
International Summer School on
Technologies for Realizing Social Networks and Applications
August 22nd-26th, 2011, Sundvolden (near Oslo, Norway)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
***Registration Deadline is July 15th, 2011***
Organized and sponsored by the
Canada-Norway Partnership in Higher Education (CANOE)
http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-sch...
OVERVIEW AND TOPICS
Lectures are given by renowned researchers and industry practitioners
from major providers of social networks and online services worldwide.
Lectures combine theory and foundations, concepts and algorithms, as
well as applications and case studies. Lectures also feature advanced
topics, research questions, and group discussions. Particular emphasis
is put on encouraging participants to actively participate in
discussions, brainstorming, and break-out sessions. Participants will
have the opportunity to demonstrate their research in poster
presentations.
The Summer School aims at bringing together graduate students,
researchers, and practitioners interested in the following topics:
* Design of Popular Online Social Networks
* Mobile Social Networks
* Lessons Learned from Architecting Large-scale Decentralized Social
Applications
The Summer School will be held at the Sundvolden Hotel, one of the
oldest Norwegian hotels. The area's picturesque landscape is enclosed
by a number of fjords and lies at the foot of the Krokskogen mountain.
At the same time, it is conveniently accessible by bus from both Oslo
and the Gardermoen airport (Oslo airport).
The Summer School is hosted by the Networks and Distributed Systems
Group at the University of Oslo and co-organized by the Middleware
Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research, India.
Privad: Practical Privacy in Online Advertising
Gunnar Kreitz, Spotify
Spotify: A Peer-assisted Music-on-Demand Streaming System
Chaitanya Mishra, Facebook
Searching Social Networks at Scale
Daniel Myers, Google
Reliable, Fast Notifications for Internet-scale Social Applications
Jayme Rotsaert, Netlog
Distributed Social Data
Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge, UK
1-Mobile Social-networking Recommender Systems
2-The Relationship Between Personality & Use of Social-networking
Sites
Maarten van Steen, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Decentralizing Wikipedia: A Scientific Experiment in Engineering
Middleware Solutions
Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece
From Social Networking to Anthropocentric Systems
Other speakers to be determined
REGISTRATION
Registration site is open! Registration deadline is July 15.
The registration fee is 5950 NOK (about 758 Euro / $US 1066) for
shared accommodations (one person in a double room) or 6950 NOK (about
885 Euro / $US 1245) for one person in a single room.
Registration includes access to the school, accommodations (5 nights),
and all meals (including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and breaks).
Please note, the summer school operates on a non-for-profit basis.
The fees are exclusively for board and lodging at the hotel.
MORE INFORMATION
The summer school is organized and sponsored by Canada-Norway Partnership
in Higher Education (CANOE), hosted by the Networks and Distributed
Systems
Group at the University of Oslo, and co-organized by the Middleware
Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.
http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-sch...
Technologies for Realizing Social Networks and Applications
August 22nd-26th, 2011, Sundvolden (near Oslo, Norway)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
***Registration Deadline is July 15th, 2011***
Organized and sponsored by the
Canada-Norway Partnership in Higher Education (CANOE)
http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-sch...
OVERVIEW AND TOPICS
Lectures are given by renowned researchers and industry practitioners
from major providers of social networks and online services worldwide.
Lectures combine theory and foundations, concepts and algorithms, as
well as applications and case studies. Lectures also feature advanced
topics, research questions, and group discussions. Particular emphasis
is put on encouraging participants to actively participate in
discussions, brainstorming, and break-out sessions. Participants will
have the opportunity to demonstrate their research in poster
presentations.
The Summer School aims at bringing together graduate students,
researchers, and practitioners interested in the following topics:
* Design of Popular Online Social Networks
* Mobile Social Networks
* Lessons Learned from Architecting Large-scale Decentralized Social
Applications
The Summer School will be held at the Sundvolden Hotel, one of the
oldest Norwegian hotels. The area's picturesque landscape is enclosed
by a number of fjords and lies at the foot of the Krokskogen mountain.
At the same time, it is conveniently accessible by bus from both Oslo
and the Gardermoen airport (Oslo airport).
The Summer School is hosted by the Networks and Distributed Systems
Group at the University of Oslo and co-organized by the Middleware
Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research, India.
Privad: Practical Privacy in Online Advertising
Gunnar Kreitz, Spotify
Spotify: A Peer-assisted Music-on-Demand Streaming System
Chaitanya Mishra, Facebook
Searching Social Networks at Scale
Daniel Myers, Google
Reliable, Fast Notifications for Internet-scale Social Applications
Jayme Rotsaert, Netlog
Distributed Social Data
Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge, UK
1-Mobile Social-networking Recommender Systems
2-The Relationship Between Personality & Use of Social-networking
Sites
Maarten van Steen, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Decentralizing Wikipedia: A Scientific Experiment in Engineering
Middleware Solutions
Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece
From Social Networking to Anthropocentric Systems
Other speakers to be determined
REGISTRATION
Registration site is open! Registration deadline is July 15.
The registration fee is 5950 NOK (about 758 Euro / $US 1066) for
shared accommodations (one person in a double room) or 6950 NOK (about
885 Euro / $US 1245) for one person in a single room.
Registration includes access to the school, accommodations (5 nights),
and all meals (including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and breaks).
Please note, the summer school operates on a non-for-profit basis.
The fees are exclusively for board and lodging at the hotel.
MORE INFORMATION
The summer school is organized and sponsored by Canada-Norway Partnership
in Higher Education (CANOE), hosted by the Networks and Distributed
Systems
Group at the University of Oslo, and co-organized by the Middleware
Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.
http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-sch...
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