SNW 2016 - Social Networking Workshop

Social networking is profoundly changing the way people communicate and interact on a daily basis. Online social networks are serving as a vital means for supporting information and resource sharing, aiding discovery of connected individuals, improving communication between globally dispersed individuals, and even measuring scientific impact. A significant fraction of mind-share in the form of applications, diverse access interfaces, and a large economic ecosystem has developed around this field. Going past the simple characterization and enumeration of properties, the networking research community has shown significant interest in attacking various problems associated with social networks. The proposed workshop strives to bring together academic, R&D, and industry researchers from these disciplines to address both the science and engineering challenges associated with the rapidly evolving domain of social networking.
This year the social network wokshop will have a special focus on security in online social media. This theme has been motivated by the rising issues related to privacy and security threats over social media and its consequences thereof. A recent article from ComputerWeekly states that "the rapid spread of false information through social media is among the emerging risks identified by the World Economic Forum in its Global Risks 2013 report." The unprecedented reach of social media allows the cyber criminals to commit all different types of malicious activities and the stakeholder companies are now converging on social media policies to ensure security and privacy. The workshop plans to host leaders in this area of research and will feature invited talks on this theme.
Topics of Interest
The goal of this workshop is to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion of relevance to social networking, involving novel ideas and applications, and experimental results. This workshop provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the ethological approach to social behaviour in human with web-based evidence of social interaction, perceptual learning, information granulation, the behaviour of humans and affinities between web-based social networks. This workshop welcomes contributions from researchers working on the following topics of interest, including, but not limited to:
Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks
Visualization of social network analysis
Social networks and social intelligence
Link topology and site hierarchy
Virtual and web communities and web site clustering
Security, privacy and trust computational analysis of social networks
Web-based cooperative work
Knowledge community formation and support
Intelligent wireless Web
Social network analysis and mining of communities of practice
Network evolution and growth mechanisms
Information diffusion and knowledge transfer in social networks
Epidemics and rumours in networks
Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
Anomaly detection in social network
Outlier detection in social network
Quantifying success through social network analysis
Multiplex and interdependent networks
Computational models and agent-based simulations of networks
High dimensional network analytics
Big data techniques for social networks
Strategic social networks and game theoretic models