ACM Social Network Systems 2009 Workshop

Tao Stein (@Facebook) and I are organizing a wonderful workshop in Nuremberg next Tuesday. We will have 8 paper presentations and 2 invited talks on security -- all look very interesting.

ACM Social Network Systems 2009

Program

0900 - 1000: Security at a Large Social Network, Tao Stein (Facebook)
1000 - 1030: Botnets vs. Social Networks, Elie Bursztein (Stanford)
1030 - 1100: Break

1100 - 1230: Privacy and Security
Eight Friends Are Enough: Social Graph Approximation via Public Listings
Joseph Bonneau, Jonathan Anderson, Ross Anderson, Frank Stajano (University of Cambridge)

Anonymous Opinion Exchange over Untrusted Social Networks
Mouna Kacimi (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Stefano Ortolani (Vrije Universiteit), Bruno Crispo (University of Trento)
PeerSoN: P2P Social Networking - Early Experiences and Insights
Sonja Buchegger, Doris Schiöberg (TU Berlin, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories), Le Hung Vu (EPFL), Anwitaman Datta (NTU Singapore)

1230 - 1330: Lunch

1330 - 1500: The Ties that Bind
On the Strength of Weak Ties in Mobile Social Networks
Stratis Ioannidis, Augustin Chaintreau (Thomson)
Centralities: Capturing the Fuzzy Notion of Importance in Social Graphs
Erwan Le Merrer (INRIA), Gilles Tredan (University of Rennes 1)
Buzztraq: Predicting Geographical Access Patterns of Social Cascades using Social Networks
Nishanth Sastry, Eiko Yoneki, Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)
1500 - 1530: Break

1530 - 1630: Personalizing Search
Towards Personalized Peer-to-Peer Top-K Processing
Xiao Bai, Marin Bertier (INSA de Rennes), Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland), Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA Rennes, France)
Toward Personalized Query Expansion
Marin Bertier (INSA de Rennes, France), Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland), Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Leroy (INSA de Rennes, France)