8th Workshop  on 

Large Scale Distributed Virtual  Environments 

LSDVE 2021 

held in conjunction with EURO-PAR 2021 

Lisbon, 30 or 31 August 2021

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 experience 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

Workshop Co-chairs

• • Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa

  • Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

  • Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy

Important Dates

• • Paper Submission Deadline      NEW! Extended Deadline                 14 June 2021

  • Notification of Acceptance                                                                     30 June 2021

  • Registration and Informal camera-ready                                               14 July 2021

  • Workshop                                                                                               31 August 2021

  • Formal camera-ready papers due                                                          10 September 2021

Technical Program Committee

• • Andrea De Salve, ISASI, CNR, Lecce, Italy

  • Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, University of Pisa, Italy

  • Marco Furini, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy

  • Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padova, Italy

  • Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy

  • Mohammad Hammoudeh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 

  • Dragi Kimovski, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

  • Kevin Koidl, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

  • Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • Javier Marìn Morales, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • Fabrizio Marozzo, University of Calabria, Italy

  • Andrea Michienzi, University of Pisa, Italy

  • Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna, Italy

  • Paolo Mori, IIT, CNR, Pisa

  • Claudio Palazzi, University of Padova, Italy

  • Symeon Papadopoulos, Information Technologies Institute, CERTH, Greece

  • Dana Pectu, University of Timisoara, Romania

  • Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

  • Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy

  • Nishant Saurabh, University of Klagenfurt, Austria