First International Workshop on Data Engineering and Social Networks at ICDE 2007

      Invitation to submit research papers at the First international workshop

                   Data Engineering and Social Networks
                    April 15th 2007, Istanbul, Turkey


                               In association with
           23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2007)

http://www.icde2007.org/icde/modules.php?name=Workshops&file=workshop

Scope

While social network theory and analysis has been extensively developed

as a subject in Social Science, the emergence and explosion of social networks in the online world in the recent past warrants research of the subject in the online context. Online social networks combine explicit human interactions and implicit behaviors with hypertext content and commerce. Over 200 social networking sites exist and are growing at an amazing rate. The nature of these communities how data is

managed and surfaced provide interesting dimensions for research. Online social networking affords interesting areas of research related to data engineering related to - implicit and explicit social network analysis, data mining and privacy, collaborative filtering, and indexing and search, among other topics. collaborative filtering, and indexing and search, among other topics.

Topics
This workshop would focus on research topics in data engineering as applied to social networking. Papers will be solicited on topics on social networks related to but not limited to

Social network analysis
Clustering and classification techniques Collaborative filtering
Search and indexing
Knowledge management
Social web
Social network infrastructure
Privacy preserving mining

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original research papers on one or more of the topics of interest mentioned above. Papers should be no longer than 5000 words and follow the guidelines specified in http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Papers should be submitted via email to nsundare..._at_ebay.com. Proceedings will be published by IEEE press. The workshop committee is also working on publishing select

papers in a special issue on Social Networks and Data Engineering.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2006
Paper Notification: December 24, 2006 Camera Ready Paper Due: January 10, 2006 Workshop date: April 15, 2007

Workshop Program Committee

 Neel Sundaresan (Workshop Chair), eBay Research Labs, California, USA  Haluk Bingol, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey  Ravi Kumar S., Yahoo Research, California, USA  John Mount, Shopping.com Research, California, USA  Ankur Teredesai, Department of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
 Tao Yang, Ask.com, California, USA

Please email the workshop chair at nsundare..._at_ebay.com in case of any questions. Received on Fri Nov 10 2006 - 16:12:03 CET