DBSocial 2011 (in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2011) - First Call For Papers

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/dbsocial11/

Sponsors: ACM SIGMOD / Google, Inc.

=== Call For Papers ===

DBSocial (ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Databases and Social Networks) 2011,
to be held in Athens, Greece in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2011, is a
venue for database research applied to the problems of extraction,
querying, and analysis of social networks. DBSocial aims at
disseminating results founded on database research and practice that
advance the state-of-the-art in the observation, management, and
analysis of inherently networked data originating primarily from
social phenomena.

DBSocial welcomes both theoretical and practical papers whose
approaches are within the scope of databases and very closely related
areas (e.g., data mining and information retrieval), and whose
validations are on par with the high standards in the database
community.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Performance and Scalability of Social Network Analysis
* Benchmarking for Social Network Analysis
* Discovery, Collection, and Extraction of Social Network Data
* Curation and Provenance in Social Networks
* Representation of Uncertainty in Social Network Analysis
* Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks
* Visualization of Social Networks
* Exploration and Analysis of Massive Social Networks
* Summarization of Massive Social Networks
* Parallel, Distributed, or Cloud Computation on Social Network Data
* Distributed Architectures for Online Social Networks
* Data Modeling for Social Networks
* Processing of Social Stream Data
* Social Search, Retrieval, and Ranking
* Collaborative Platforms and Social Recommendation
* Access Control in Online Social Networks
* Private Analysis of Social Networks
* Privacy Policies for Online Social Networks
* Identity, Reputation, and Trust in Online Social Networks
* Algorithms and Analysis Techniques for Meme Tracking

=== Important Dates ===

Submission: April 8th, 2011 (Friday) 6pm US ET

Notification: May 9th, 2011 (Monday)

Camera Ready: May 23rd, 2011 (Monday)

Workshop: June 12th, 2011 (Sunday)

=== Keynote Speakers ===

We are thrilled to have Dr. Jignesh Patel (University of Wisconsin,
Madison) and Dr. Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Reseearch) as our confirmed
keynote speakers.

Jignesh Patel (Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Jignesh M. Patel is a Professor at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He received his PhD from the University of
Wisconsin- Madison in 1998. His current research interests are in
large-scale data management, spatial data management, and biological
data management. He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award, multiple
IBM Faculty Awards, and the CIDR 2007 Gong Show Timeless Idea Award.
He has served as the VLDB 2009 Core Database Technology PC Chair, as
Vice-Chair for IEEE ICDE 2005, as an Associate Editor for the Systems
and Prototype section of ACM SIGMOD Record, and as an Associate Editor
for the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. He is also the co-founder of
Locomatix, a startup providing cloud-hosted location services and
solutions. Under his leadership, Locomatix has won numerous awards
including being named the 20 hottest startup by MobileBeat in 2010,
and being selected as the top 16 Innovative Startups by CTIA in 2010.

Duncan Watts (Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Labs)

Duncan Watts is a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research,
where he directs the Human Social Dynamics group. He is also an
adjunct senior research fellow at Columbia University, and an external
faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and Nuffield College, Oxford.
His research on social networks and collective dynamics has appeared
in a wide range of journals, from Nature, Science, and Physical Review
Letters to the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the author of
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (W.W. Norton, 2003) and
Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness
(Princeton University Press, 1999). His upcoming book, Everything Is
Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer (Crown Business, 2011), will be
released in March 2011. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the
University of New South Wales, and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics from Cornell University.

=== Program Committee ===

Workshop co-chairs

* Denilson Barbosa, Univ. of Alberta
* Gerome Miklau, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
* Cong Yu, Google Research, New York

Program Committee

* Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)
* Sihem Amer-Yahia (Yahoo! Labs)
* Klemens Boehm (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
* Graham Cormode (AT&T Research)
* Gautam Das (University of Texas Arlington)
* Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland)
* Krishna P. Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
* Jake Hofman (Yahoo! Labs)
* Laks Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia)
* Kristen Lefevre (University of Michigan)
* Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)
* Paolo Merialdo (Roma Tre)
* Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)
* Prasenjit Mitra (Penn State University)
* Srinivas Narayanan (Facebook)
* Jennifer Neville (Purdue University)
* Josiane Xavier Parreira (National University of Ireland/DERI Galway)
* Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University)
* Jun Rao (LinkedIn)
* Pierre Senellart (Telecom ParisTech)
* Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Research)
* Evimaria Terzi (Boston University)
* Yuanyuan Tian (IBM Almaden Research Center)

=== Submission ===

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that are not being considered for publication in any other forum.

Papers must strictly adhere to the ACM proceedings format, using one
of the provided templates. It is not permissible under any
circumstance to change the template's font size, margins, inter-column
spacing, or line spacing. Templates are available in Word and LaTeX
(version 2e). For the LaTeX formats, you may use either the standard
style or the SIG-alternate style. Only PDF files are acceptable.

Papers submitted cannot exceed six letter-size (8.5" X 11") pages in
length, including all references and appendices.

All submissions will be handled electronically, at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsocial2011

Best,
DBSocial 2011 Co-Chairs
Denilson, Gerome, Cong