HotPOST 2013 - The Fifth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-peer computing and Online Social neTworking

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are widely used in today's Internet and produce a significant portion of its traffic. The increasing penetration of wireless technologies, the popularity of mobile and handheld devices, and the rapid growth of their user base call for innovative algorithms, protocols, and applications that benefit from infrastructure-less P2P technologies to support ever-increasing demand. By attracting more than half a billion users worldwide, online social networks (OSNs) provide a new venue of innovation with many challenging and practical research problems. In particular, more and more P2P applications involve social information to enhance the user experience. Also, P2P-based solutions play an important role in preventing OSNs from privacy violations.
The Fifth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-peer computing and Online Social neTworking (HotPOST'13) is organized with the objective of bringing together researchers working on the intersection of P2P and OSN to present and discuss their latest research results and ideas, thereby promoting the development and evolution of this area. All submissions on P2P and OSN related to architecture, design, implementation, simulation, analysis and measurement are welcomed. We highly encourage novel and innovative previously unpublished work, even reporting work in early stage. Topics include but are not limited to:
Social network analysis for P2P and distributed computing systems
OSN-based systems and designs
P2P-based social networking architectures
P2P-based solutions to cloud computing and data center problems
Evolution of P2P communities and systems
Reputation, security, incentives, and economics in P2P systems
Large scale content distribution
Mobile P2P and social networking systems
P2P overlays, file sharing, and streaming systems
User behavior analysis and modeling in OSNs
Security and privacy in OSNs
Evolutions and dynamics of OSNs and their implications
Decentralized OSN Applications
Social graph analysis
Location-based services in OSNs
Papers accepted for HotPOST 2013 workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. All accepted papers will be included in IEEE ICDCS 2013 workshop proceedings, as well as IEEE Xplore (indexed by EI).
News
The paper submission site is set up on https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hotpos...
HotPOST'13 will be held in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS'13 in Philadelphia!
Important dates
Submission deadline Feb. 26, 2013
Authors notification Mar. 23, 2013
Camera-ready Apr. 1, 2013
Workshop Jul. 8, 2013
Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs Mooi Choo Chuah Lehigh University, USA
Pan Hui Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
TPC Co-Chairs Ruichuan Chen Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland, Germany
Yang Chen Duke University, USA
Steering Committee Chair Baoliu Ye Nanjing University, China
Publicity Chair Matthias Wählisch Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Web Chair Tianyin Xu UC San Diego, USA