Technical Program (July 8, 2013)

 

The proceedings of HotPOST'13 can be downloaded here.

 

Session 1 (9:00-10:00)

Opening Ceremony (Workshop report, TPC report, best paper award)

Keynote talk by Prof. Jie Wu from Temple University: Algorithemic Crowdsourcing

 

Session 2 (10:30-12:00)

Ensuring Beta-Availability in P2P Social Networks
Best Paper Runner-up

Nashid Shahriar (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Tehcnology, Bangladesh), Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury (University of Waterloo, Canada), Mahfuza Sharmin (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Reaz Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada), Bertrand Mathieu (Orange Labs, France)

Yelp Events: Making Bricks Without Clay?
Best Paper Award

Jaime Ballesteros, Bogdan Carbunar, Mahmudur Rahman, Naphtali Rishe (Florida International University, USA)

SoNet – Privacy and Replication in Federated Online Social Networks
Lorenz Schwittmann, Christopher Boelmann, Matthäus Wander, Torben Weis (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

 

Session 3 (13:30-15:00)

Chair: Jaime Ballesteros (Florida International University, USA)

Access Control in Social Enterprise Applications: An Empirical Evaluation
Rafae Bhatti (Accenture Technology Labs, USA), Camille Gaspard (Cisco Inc., USA), Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue University, USA)

Capturing Connectivity Graphs of a Large-Scale P2P Overlay Network
Hani Salah, Thorsten Strufe (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

SAS: Semantic Aware Search in P2P Networks
Rasanjalee Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage, Sushil Prasad (Georgia State University, USA), Shamkant Navathe (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

 

Session 4 (15:30-17:00)

Chair: Md. Endadul Hoque (Purdue University, USA)

A Framework for Peer-to-Peer Micro-blogging
Hersh Asthana, Ingemar J. Cox (University College London, UK)

A Tweet-Centric Algorithm for News Ranking
Bo Zhang, Jinchuan Wang, Lei Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

Update Management in Decentralized Online Social Networks
Simon Forsyth, Khuzaima Daudjee (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Closing Ceremony (Workshop Summary)