Bern, Switzerland – 10 April 2012.
http://www.cambridgeplus.net/SNS12/
Online social networks (e.g., Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc.) are among the most popular sites on the Web and are still growing rapidly. These systems have their own characteristics and challenges. However, the popularity of these new systems is not reflected in current systems research. There is no major venue or conference dedicated to system support for social networks. Little research has examined these systems or addressed their needs, for instance fundamental problems like managing and online querying of large social graphs are still mostly unchartered territories.
The workshop addresses this situation by providing a forum for researchers to discuss the systems issues associated with online social networks. The workshop nicely complements the topics of the main EuroSys conference, since the research issues with online social networks span the topics of distributed computing, databases, and storage systems as well as security and privacy. The ultimate goal of this workshop is to bring together the researchers and practitioners who are active in this emerging area.