CALL FOR PAPERS
International Workshop on Leveraging Social Patterns for Security, Privacy and Network Architectures
http://sp4spna.media.mit.edu/
In Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-09)
and IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk, and Trust (PASSAT-09)
Vancouver, Canada
August 29-31, 2009
Proceedings published by IEEE
OVERVIEW
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Most existing communication network architectures are agnostic to the structures and behaviors of the human networks that they serve. By incorporating social patterns into the network protocols we might be able to significantly improve the network security, privacy and quality of service levels, by producing protocols that are auto-adaptive to the social aspects of their users' network behaviors. Utilization of social information at the networking layers could facilitate the building of systems and applications of higher reliability, efficiency, and usability.
Recent years have seen an explosion of social applications on the Internet. However, most of these works remain at the end-user and application levels: applications that reside within specific websites like Facebook, or ones that link social information between other applications - like instant messaging, blogs, web browsers or email clients. Aside from nascent work on areas such as routing and security filters, so far few have ventured into taking the social information down to the lower layers of the network stack.
The workshop aims to bring to the forefront two intertwined approaches that involve the use of social information and social modeling for networking, privacy and security applications:
(1) Creation of network architectures and network devices that are aware of the interpersonal networks and relationships of the end-users.
(2) Designing network architectures that are inspired by the way human networks and human society operate.
For a more detailed overview and motivation for the workshop, please see the following link.
AREAS OF SUBMISSION
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We are looking forward to your submission and participation in the workshop. Diverse ideas that stimulate further thinking and discussion across multiple disciplines are very welcome. This workshop invites submissions related (but not limited) to the following key areas of interest:
* Socially inspired network architectures
* Integrating social information with traditional network layers: Integrating with the OSI model, cross-layerd approaches, etc.
* Socially aware network protocols
* Configuring protocol parameters based on social information - Like TCP/IP settings, authentication, QoS
* Socially aware architectures for the home and office environment
* Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.)
* Opportunistic and ad-hoc communications (e.g. interacting with strangers)
* Diffusion/routing protocols - using the human social network (delay tolerant networks/"pocket switched networks"/"sneaker nets")
* Interest based protocols (selective information dissemination, profile-based multicasting)
* Algorithms inspired by human social interaction
* Social awareness in physical, link and MAC layers
* Providing security and privacy for social overlay networks
PAPER SELECTION PROCESS
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. We welcome work in progress in addition to well established works. Manuscripts could be anywhere up to 8 (IEEE style) pages. Please follow the IEEE conference paper format, prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column format.
Please submit your manuscript to: http://edas.info/N7652 by April 25, 2009.
The received proposals will be evaluated by the Workshop Organizing Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings of SocialCom-09.
For further details please see workshop website.
DEMOS AND VIDEOS
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We welcome demos and videos on ongoing work to be shared during demo sessions. Please submit the 1 page description in IEEE style to: http://edas.info/N7652 by April 25, 2009.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: 25 April 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2009
Camera Ready 15 June 2009
Author/Early Registration 15 June 2009
Conference Dates 29-31 August 2009
Workshop Organizers
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Nadav Aharony, Kwan Hong Lee, David P. Reed
Viral Communications
MIT Media Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room E15-495,
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139-430
Phone: +1(617)223-7722, +1(617)909-2101
Email: nadav@media.mit.edu, kwan@media.mit.edu
Yuval Elovici (Director), Yaniv Altshuler
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at BGU
P.O.B 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Phone: +972 8 6428121
Fax: +972 8 6428016
Email: elovici@bgu.ac.il, yanival@cs.technion.ac.il
www.bgu.ac.il/t-laboratories
Contact
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For any questions, comments, or clarifications, please email: sp4spna@media.mit.edu
Workshop homepage: http://sp4spna.media.mit.edu/
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