The third Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS'10) will gather researchers to discuss novel ideas about computer systems and social networks. Online social networks are among the most popular sites on the Web and continue to grow rapidly. They provide mechanisms to establish identities, share information, and create relationships. The resulting social graph provides a basis for communicating and distributing and locating content.

• How can systems infrastructure be improved for social networks? Infrastructure includes database systems, operating systems, file systems, and storage systems.
• How can the social graph be leveraged in computer system design? The social graph encodes trust and common interests. How and to what extent can this encoding be used to improve computer systems?
• How can social networks be modeled and characterized? What has been learned from the operation of existing systems?

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Security and privacy.
• Leveraging the social graph in systems design.
• Real-time monitoring and query processing.
• Database issues for offline analysis.
• Experiences with deployed systems.
• Crawlers and other mechanisms for observing social network structure.
• Measurement and analysis, including comparative analysis.
• Tools for designing and deploying social networks.
• Network dynamics, relationships between network links and user behavior.
• Benchmarks, modeling, and characterization.
• Decentralization: methods for integrating multiple networks.
• Application programming interfaces (APIs) for social networks.

The papers presented, as well as a summary of the discussion, will be archived electronically. Accepted papers may be subsequently revised, expanded, and submitted to full conferences and journals.

ORGANIZERS

Chairs

Elie Bursztein, Stanford University
Tao Stein, Facebook
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge

Program Committee

Romain Bauxis, Tulane University, USA
Joseph Bonneau, University of Cambridge, UK
Meeyoung Cha, MPI, Germany
Landon Cox, Duke University, USA
Richard G. Clegg, UCL, UK
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Nathan Eagle, MIT, USA
Aurelien Francillon, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Bruno Goncalves, Indiana University, USA
Florent Jacquemard, INRIA Saclay, France
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Telefónica, Spain
David Mazieres, Stanford University, USA
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
Ben Zhao, UCSB, USA

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submissions due: 5th March
Notification to authors: 14th March
Camera Ready: 21st march
Workshop13th April

SUBMITTING A PAPER

Submissions are made via Easychair. Click here to submit your paper
Papers should be received by 23:59 PST, on March 5th 2010. Submissions should contain six or fewer two-column pages, including all figures and references, using 10-point fonts, standard spacing, and 1-inch margins (we recommend the ACM sig-alternate template, LaTeX template available at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~stein/sig-alternate-10pt.cls. Please number pages. All submissions will be electronic, and must be in either PDF format (preferred) or PostScript. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page. Reviewing will be single-blind. Accepted papers may be subsequently revised, expanded, and submitted to full conferences and journals. This workshop is sponsored by ACM, ACM SigOps, and EuroSys.