Keynote Speakers

Peter Triantafillou

Sihem Amer-Yahia

Boaz Patt-Shamir

Krishna Gummadi

Call for Papers

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.

Submission and logistics

The SNDS program will combine the presentations of a several contributed papers with a set of invited talks by leading researchers in distributed systems and social networks. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers by email to both:

• davide.frey@irisa.fr, and
• anne-marie.kermarrec@inria.fr

Submission emails MUST have "[SNDS2010-submission]" as a subject line. Submitted papers should consist of 2 to 3 pages including all figures and references. They should be typeset in the same format as PODC submissions, and should include author names and affiliations. Submitted papers will be subject to a light review process to evaluate their originality, clarity, relevance, and, above all, their likelihood of generating discussion.

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