HotPOST 2014 - The 6th 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.
Papers accepted for HotPOST 2014 workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. All accepted papers will be included in IEEE ICDCS 2014 workshop proceedings, as well as IEEE Xplore (indexed by EI). The technical program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award and one winner for the Best Paper Runner-up.
Topics of interest 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
P2P-based measurements
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
P2P and OSN in information-centric networking