Call for Papers

The recent advances in networking have determined an increasing use of information technology to support distributed networked cooperative applications. Several novel applications have emerged in this area: distributed social networks and media, blockchain-based social media, token economies, and collaborative applications. In particular, this workshop aims to provide a venue for researchers to present and discuss important aspects of large-scale networked collaborative applications and of the platforms supporting them, with a particular focus on distributed social networks and media. Social Networks are dynamic and evolving in nature and involve a huge amount of users and this makes it challenging to design distributed platforms for social networks/media. Important challenges are the design of user interfaces, coordination protocols, and proper middle-ware and architectures. The workshop's aim is to provide the opportunity for scientists, engineers, researchers, and entrepreneurs to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, and experiences on all the aspects of Distributed Social Networks design and their deployment on distributed architectures.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• • Distributed Online Social Networks and Media

  • Mobile Social Media

  • Social Data Analysis

  • User Behavior Modeling in Online Social Media

  • Community Detection in Online Social Media

  • Reputation and Trust in Online Social Networks

  • Data mining and machine learning for social systems

  • Security and Privacy Issues

  • Cooperative applications

  • Distributed, Cloud, and peer to peer infrastructures

  • Blockchain supports for social media

  • User Reward models

  • Distributed token economies