Keynote Speakers

Peter Triantafillou

Sihem Amer-Yahia

Boaz Patt-Shamir

Krishna Gummadi

SNDS 2010: Workshop on Social Networks and Distributed Systems

Held in conjuction with PODC 2010
July 29, 2010
Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.gossple.fr/workshops/snds

About the Workshop

Social Networks have rapidly become a fundamental component of today's distributed applications. Web 2.0 applications have dramatically changed the way users interact with the Internet and with each other. The number of users of websites like Flickr, Delicious, Facebook, or MySpace is constantly growing and is the amount of data that these websites are called to handle.

This emerging scenario creates new opportunities for computer scientists. Developers can exploit the social aspect to derive new interesting ideas for the design of novel applications. Protocol designers can take into account social models to design new communication and data sharing protocols or to optimize the behavior of existing ones. At the same time, as the scale of social-network-based systems increases, we are also faced with new challenges. First, social network systems including users distributed around the globe require scalable protocols to manage data storage and dissemination. Second, the presence of sensitive information associated with users demands that these protocols be robust and resilient to attacks that can hamper the privacy of users. The goal of SNDS is to bring together researchers from such diverse fields of expertise as distributed systems, data bases, software engineering, and security to discuss and tackle these challenges.

Workshop Organizers

Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA - Rennes, France)
Davide Frey (INRIA - Rennes, France)