SIMNA 2011 - 1st Workshop on Social Interactive Media Networking and Applications (SIMNA)

The First ICCCN Workshop on Social Interactive Media
Networking and Applications (SIMNA)

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have attracted billions of active users, and this critical mass of users are increasing exponentially. Social interactive media networking and applications such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. are providing valuable social information on contacts and their relationships. Wired and wireless/mobile devices which are capable of creating, storing, processing, interacting, forwarding and sharing media content are socially connected in a new radical network architecture harnessing the social behavior and mobility of the users. Thus, OSNs enable the pervasive connectivity even without the need to maintain fully connected always-on networks and applications.

Such OSNs communities trigger exciting research interests in collaborative systems arising from the analysis of the structure and properties of OSNs. The use of private social information provides additional avenues for new interactive networking operations and interactive media applications --- for example, problems that allow the exploitation of OSNs to solve network and system security vulnerabilities, and how these new social networking solutions can shape the design of secured distributed systems and networks; development of cross-layered architecture for diverse mobile pervasive applications to distribute user-generated media content based on social interaction, relationships and behaviors; etc. It also requires the cross-disciplinary research integration of computer science and engineering, traditional sciences, anthropology, social sciences, etc.

The goal of this workshop is to catalyze cross-disciplinary research discussions that are of relevance to new and novel computer networking ideas, applications and experimental results in the area of social interactive media networking and applications. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include (but are not limited to) the following:
Implications of social networking on future network architecture
System design for social networks
New social science of networks
Physical and virtual social networks
Mobile and pervasive social networks
Real world applications of social network analysis and theory
New socially-inspired interactive media content creation and distribution networks
Trust, privacy and security in social networks
Submission Instructions
Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Please see author information page for submission guidelines at ICCCN 2011. Papers should be submitted in a PDF format through EDAS.

Important Dates
Paper Submission Due: March 7th, 2011
Author Notification: April 25th, 2011
Camera-ready Due: May 13th, 2011