Important Dates

Submissions due (extended)May 20, 2010 May 25, 2010
Notification of Acceptance June 15, 2010
SNDS 2010July 29, 2010

Keynote Speakers

Peter Triantafillou
Sihem Amer-Yahia
Boaz Patt-Shamir
Krishna Gummadi

Keynote Speakers

Sihem Amer-Yahia
Sihem has been a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! Labs since May 2006 after 7 years at AT&T Labs. She received her Ph.D. in CS from U. Paris-Orsay and INRIA, France. Sihem focuses on data management, query processing and relevance models to leverage social behavior for online content serving. Her professional activities include chairing the SIGMOD 2009 Tutorials, the VLDB 2009 Industrial track, the Social Networks and Personal Information track at ICDE 2010, the Structured and Unstructured Data Track at WWW10, and the SIGMOD 2010 Undergraduate Posters. She has recently been elected as a member of the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment and is a member of the ACM SIGMOD Executive Committee. Sihem serves as the VLDB Journal Area Chair in the area of structured and unstructured data management and as the Information Systems Journal Area Chair in the area of social search and recommendations.
Peter Triantafillou
Peter Triantafillou is a Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, at the University of Patras as well as a senior research scientist with R.A.CTI. He is also the director of the Department's Software Division and of the of the Network-centric Information Systems laboratory, heading research efforts on Network-Centric Information Systems. Peter received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 1991. Prior to joining the University of Patras, he held professorial positions at the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, and at the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete. More recently, he was on sabbatical leave with the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics from September 2004 - July 2005. His research efforts currently focus on highly decentralized, scalable algorithms and systems over (possibly highly dynamic) network infrastructures. Specifically, he has been focusing on large-scale systems for content and resource sharing, and integration, with particular emphasis on Peer-to-Peer systems, Distributed Event-Based, Publish/Subscribe Systems, and Social Networks. Peter also spends time on issues related to "trust", be it for social networking and IR, or for TPM-based trustworthy computing (building related drivers, etc). He can be quoted for saying that "while all of this is probably too much, context-switching is fun and refreshing". At SNDS, he will give a talk on "Scalable Decentralized social searching and networking with eXO".
Boaz Patt-Shamir
Boaz Patt-Shamir has been a Professor of Computer Science in Tel Aviv University since 1997. There he directs the laboratory for distributed algorithms. He received his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, his MSc from Weizmann Institute, and his PhD from MIT. His interests include distributed network algorithms and algorithms for communication networks. In 2002-2004 he has spent a sabbatical in HP Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he became interested in recommendation systems. This direction of work resulted in a few theoretical papers as well as an experimental corporate-intranet search engine. Insights gained in this work may be useful in social networks.
Krishna Gummadi
Krishna Gummadi leads the Networked Systems research group at the Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. He received his Ph.D. (2005) and M.S. (2002) degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle. He also holds a B.Tech (2000) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Krishna's research interests are in the measurement, analysis, design, and evaluation of complex Internet-scale systems. His current projects focus on (a) making Internet access infrastructures more transparent, (b) enabling efficient and cost-effective bulk content delivery in the Internet, (c) understanding the evolution of online social network structures and the dynamics of information flows over them, (d) leveraging social networks to design better information sharing systems, and (e) building more trustworthy cloud computing infrastructures. His past work on Internet measurements, peer-to-peer systems, and their workloads has received best paper awards at OSDI, SIGCOMM IMW, and MMCN.