Social Networking Workshop

08:30 – 09:00	Workshop Registration
09:00 – 11:00	Technical Session 1 1. Topic-based Targeted Influence Maximization Balaji V Srinivasan (Adobe Research India Labs, Bangalore, Bangalore),Anandhavelu N (Adobe Research India Labs, Bangalore), Aseem Dalal (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Madhavi Yenugula (Indian Institute of Technology,  Madras), Prashanth Srikanthan (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras) and Arijit Layek (Indian Institute of Technology,  Kharagpur) 2. A Faceted Characterization of the Opinion Mining Landscape Rajeev Arora (IIIT, Bangalore) and Srinath Srinivasa (IIIT, Bangalore) 3. Online Network Inference under Dynamic Cascade Updates: A Node-Centric Approach Rama Kumar Pasumarthi (IBM India Research Lab), Srinivas Karthik (IISc, Bangalore), Ayush Choure (Amazon.com) and  Vinayaka Pandit (IBM India Research Lab) 4. Rising Popularity of Interdisciplinary Research ? an Analysis of Citation Networks Tanmoy Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology,  Kharagpur), Animesh Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur) 5. Studying Indian Railways Network Using Hypergraphs Sai Nageswar Satchidanand (Indian Institute Of Technology Madras), Siddharth Kumar Jain (Indian Institute Of Technology  Madras),Amit Maurya (Indian Institute Of Technology Madras), Balaraman Ravindran (Indian Institute Of Technology Madras) 6. Temporal Analysis of Telecom Call Graphs Saket Gurukar (Indian Institute of Techology, Madras) and Balaraman Ravindran (Indian Institute of Techology, Madras)
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15	Invited Talk 1 Nidhi Hegde, Paris Research & Innovation Centre Content curation games in social networks
12:15 – 13:00	Invited Talk 2 N. Viswanadham, Indian Institute of Science  Structural Holes and Smart Business Network Orchestration
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:00	Technical Session 2 1. Competition for Content Spread over Multiple Social Networks Srinivasan Venkatramanan (IISc, Bangalore) and Anurag Kumar (IISc, Bangalore) 2. Game theory approach for modeling competition over visibility on social networks Alexandre Reiffers-Masson, Yezekael Hayel and Eitan Altman 3. A Strong Nash Stability based Approach to Minimum Quasi Clique Partitioning Srinka Basu (Jadavpur University, Kolkata), Debarka Sengupta (Corecompete Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad), Ujjwal Maulik (Jadavpur  University, Kolkata) and Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
15:00 – 15:45	Invited Talk 3 David Parkes, Harvard University  Robust Peer Prediction
15:45 – 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:15	Demos and Discussion

Social Networks – Science and Engineering

The use of social networks and analytics is now a critical component of many emerging applications. Further progress in this field will necessarily emanate from a melding of ideas in diverse fields, including, computer science, engineering, social, behavioral and economic sciences, physics, and biological sciences. This workshop brings together academic, R&D, and industry researchers from these disciplines  to address both the science and engineering challenges associated with this rapidly evolving field. We believe the workshop will set up an impactful platform to address the above need.

The workshop comprises three invited talks by acknowledged leaders (Nidhi Hegde from Paris Research and Innovation Centre; David Parkes from Harvard University; and N. Viswanadham from the Indian Institute of Science) and nine contributed papers, on a variety of interesting topics. The workshop also includes a Demo Session where social network analysis tools will be showcased by academia and industry.

The workshop offers a unique opportunity to interact with active researchers on both foundational and applied aspects of social networking.

Looking forward to your participation,

Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
Y. Narahari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Ramasuri Narayanam, IBM India Research Lab, Bangalore
(Organizers)

The use of social networks and analytics is now a critical component of many emerging applications. Further progress in this field will necessarily emanate from a melding of ideas in diverse fields, including, computer science, engineering, social, behavioral and economic sciences, physics, and biological sciences. The proposed workshop will strive to bring together academic, R&D, and industry researchers from these disciplines  to address both the science and engineering challenges associated with this rapidly evolving field.

Our objective is to set up an impactful platform to address the above need. The workshop will offer a unique opportunity for researchers to communicate both foundational and applied  research. This workshop welcomes contributions from researchers working on the following topics of interest, including, but not limited to:

1. New mathematical models for social networks
2. New measures of centrality and influence in social networks
3. Scalable algorithms for analysis of massive networks
4. High Dimensional network analytics
5. Big data techniques for social networks
6. Information diffusion over networks
7. Epidemics, contagion, rumor, and inoculation
8. Influence maximization and minimization in social networks
9. Community detection and link prediction
10. Searching on social networks
11. Learning in social networks
12. Social network formation and evolution
13. Understanding evolution of cooperation in networks
14. Strategic social networks and game theoretic models
15. Mechanism design in social networks
16. Crowdsourcing networks
17. Social mining and social recommendation systems
18. Anomaly detection in social networks
19. Application of social network analytics to current applications
20. Societal applications of social networks

Formatting Guidelines for Submitted Papers
The Social Networking workshop solicits paper submissions of up to 6 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted via the Social Networking Workshop submission site on EDAS (Submit Papers to “Social Networking Workshop”) in PDF. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and will include the final papers of up to 6 pages in length. All Social Networking workshop technical papers must be associated with an author registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one full registration is valid for up to three papers. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE  Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.

Overall appearance: Submitted papers should adhere to the appearance of the standard IEEE twocolumn format that is used for IEEE Transactions.

Margins: Papers must use a 10pt font on US Letter paper with margins no smaller than 0.75in for the top margin, 1.0in for the bottom margin, and 0.625in for side margins.

Templates: Depending on whether you are using LaTeX or Microsoft Word for formatting your paper, you can download the relevant templates that incorporate the formatting specifications at  http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Paper Submission Details

Papers should be registered and submitted on EDAS.  Submission URL: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=15035

Important Dates: Electronic submission of full papers:October 28, 2013 Author notification: November 19, 2013 Submission of Camera-ready papers: December 02, 2013 Workshop in Bangalore, India: January 10, 2014

Co-Chaired by: Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA Y. Narahari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Ramasuri Narayanam, IBM India Research lab, Bangalore