ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'14)

Call for Papers

Topics of interest include:

Systems and algorithms for social search
Infrastructure support for social networks and systems
Social properties in systems design
Clean-slate designs for social systems
Learnings from operational social networks
Measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems
Benchmarking, modeling, performance and workload characterization
Modeling Social Networks and behavior
Communities in social networks
Management of social network data
Streaming algorithms for social data
Information propagation and assimilation in social networks
Data mining and machine learning in social systems
Privacy and security in social systems
Trust and reputations in social systems
Detection, analysis, prevention of spam, phishing, and misbehavior in social systems
Novel social applications and systems
New models of advertising and monetization in social networks
Social networks and online education
Multilingual social networks
Social networks as agents of societal change


Program Committee Co-Chairs:

Ashish Goel, Stanford / Twitter, USA
Krishna P. Gummadi, MPI-SWS, Germany



Important dates:

Abstract submission due: Wednesday May 14 23:59:59 GMT
Paper submission due: Monday May 19 23:59:59 GMT
Acceptance notification: Monday July 28
Camera-ready copy due: Monday September 1
Conference: Wednesday - Thursday October 1-2.

COSN 2014 allows two forms of submissions (PDF only):

Full papers (up to 12 pages including references) describing original research in detail
Short papers (up to 6 pages including references) conveying promising work/high-level vision

All submissions must satisfy the following requirements:

10-point font, two-column format, letter page size (11 x 8.5 inches)
Names / affiliations of all authors on title page
Non-compliant submissions will be rejected without review.