Please forward the invitation to any interested group.

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...&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 nsundaresan (AT) ebay (DOT) 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 nsundaresan (AT) ebay (DOT) com in case of any
questions.