SESN 2014 - workshop on Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks

Social networks put together people with common interests and/or existing real-life relationships so that they can produce and share information. These networks rely on a centralized infrastructure and always provide users with the same services regardless of the context. The pieces of data produced in these networks have certain durability, and their production and consumption can be done over several months or years (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn).
A contrario, Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks (SESNs), rely on a distributed architecture and on opportunistic networks. They aim at providing nomadic people with context-aware services in order to produce together multimedia contents during ephemeral events, such as sport or cultural events. For instance in SESNs, photo sharing, collaborative document edition and sport results spreading services can be used for building structured digital contents that relate a sport event. SESNs will emerge in the public domain, only if effective solutions are designed in terms of collaborative data production in mobile situation, service provisioning and composition in opportunistic networks, incentive data production, evaluation and rewarding of the quality of the production. Besides that, the spontaneous and ephemeral features of SESNs impose to be able to upload all, or a part of, the data on a dedicated Web site, or traditional social networks. SESNs can also be relevant sources of information for journalists.
The goal of the SESN 2014 workshop is to serve as a forum for researchers or professionals from both academia and industry to exchange new ideas, discuss new solutions, and share their experience.
Topics of interest for SESN 2014 include, but are not limited to:
- Opportunistic communication supports,
- Service provision and composition in opportunistic networks,
- Applications and middleware supports for SESN,
- Mobile social networking applications,
- Collaborative multimedia content production,
- Service recommendation and ranking,
- Techniques for data dissemination and replication,
- Measurement of the quality of the information,
- Socio-economic models for SESN,
- Incentive mechanisms.
Paper submission and publication
Papers should neither have been published nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Papers are limited to 5 pages and must conform the IEEE standard conference format (8.5" x 11" - US letter, Two-Column). Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. At least one author of each accepted paper is required and present his/her work at the workshop.
Important dates:
- Paper submission: May 1, 2014
- Acceptance notification: June 25, 2014
- Camera ready: July 30, 2014
- Workshop dates: September 8, 2014
Workshop Chairs:
Frédérique Laforest
Telecom Saint Etienne, UJM, Université de Lyon
frederique.laforest-AT-telecom-st-etienne.fr
Nicolas Le Sommer
IRISA/Université de Bretagne Sud
Nicolas.Le-Sommer-AT-univ-ubs.fr
Technical Program Committee:
Silvia Bonomi
University of Roma, Italy
Maciej Dabrowski
AltoCloud, Ireland
Stéphane Frénot
INSA de Lyon et INRIA, France
Christophe Gravier
Telecom Saint Etienne, Université de Saint Etienne, France
Christoph Lange
Universität Bonn, Germany
Franck Legendre
ETH Zurich, Swizerland
Yves Mahéo
Université de Bretagne Sud, France
Mirco Musolesi
Birmingham University, UK
Philippe Roose
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France
This workshop is organized by the C3PO French project (http://www.c3po-anr.fr/), a project financed by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) under the reference number ANR-13-CORD-0005.