Call for papers
The Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN) provides a premier
publication venue that features high quality research from academia
and industry across multiple disciplines focused around the study of
OSNs. Of particular interest are works that focus on systems, security
and privacy, graphs, data management, analysis, and data mining. We
solicit papers in broad areas relevant to the design, analysis and
development of OSNs.
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
COSN 2014 will bestow two awards: a Best Paper award and a Community
Contribution award. The Best Paper award will recognize the
outstanding paper at the conference, and all accepted papers are
eligible for it. The Community Contribution award will recognize a
paper that contributes a novel dataset or a useful tool to the
community. To be eligible for this award, the authors must make their
dataset or code publicly available by the time of camera-ready
submission.
- Alessandro Acquisti
- Fabricio Benevenuto
- Jim Blomo
- Paolo Boldi
- Francesco Bonchi
- Ceren Budak
- Carlos Castillo
- Meeyoung Cha
- Anirban Dasgupta
- Xiaoming Fu
- Ashish Goel
- Krishna Gummadi
- Nick Koudas
- Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
- Cecilia Mascolo
- Winter Mason
- Alan Mislove
- Mirco Musolesi
- Prateek Mittal
- Sue Moon
- Alessandro Panconesi
- Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
- Aneesh Sharma
- Ben Zhao
- CMU, USA
- UFMG, Brazil
- UC Berkeley / Yelp, USA
- University of Milano, Italy
- Yahoo Labs Barcelona, Spain
- Microsoft Research, NYC, USA
- QCRI, Qatar
- KAIST, Korea
- IIT Gandhinagar, India
- University of Goettingen, Germany
- Stanford / Twitter, USA
- MPI-SWS, Germany
- University of Toronto, Canada
- IIIT Delhi, India
- Cambridge University, UK
- Facebook, USA
- Northeastern University, USA
- University of Birmingham, UK
- Princeton University, USA
- KAIST, Korea
- Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
- MPI for Intelligent Systems, Germany
- Twitter, USA
- UC Santa Barbara, USA
- Ashish Goel
- Krishna Gummadi
- Stanford / Twitter, USA
- MPI-SWS, Germany
Submission Guidelines
COSN 2014 allows two forms of submissions (PDF only):
Full papers (up to 12 pages + 1 page for references) describing original research in detail
Short papers (up to 6 pages + 1 page for 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.
Authors with questions or concerns can contact the PC co-chairs at: cosn2014-pcchairs@mpi-sws.org
Submission site: http://cosn14.mpi-sws.org/
Use style file at http://cosn14.mpi-sws.org/sig-alternate-10pt.cls
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