CANOE 2011 - International Summer School on Technologies for Realizing Social Networks and Applications

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Deadline: July 15, 2011 | Date: August 22, 2011-August 26, 2011

Venue/Country: Sundvolden, Norway

Updated: 2011-06-13 22:27:14 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Technologies for Realizing Social Networks and Applications

August 22nd-26th, 2011, Sundvolden (near Oslo, Norway)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

***Registration Deadline is July 15th, 2011***

Organized and sponsored by the

Canada-Norway Partnership in Higher Education (CANOE)

http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-school-2011

OVERVIEW AND TOPICS

Lectures are given by renowned researchers and industry practitioners

from major providers of social networks and online services worldwide.

Lectures combine theory and foundations, concepts and algorithms, as

well as applications and case studies. Lectures also feature advanced

topics, research questions, and group discussions. Particular emphasis

is put on encouraging participants to actively participate in

discussions, brainstorming, and break-out sessions. Participants will

have the opportunity to demonstrate their research in poster

presentations.

The Summer School aims at bringing together graduate students,

researchers, and practitioners interested in the following topics:

* Design of Popular Online Social Networks

* Mobile Social Networks

* Lessons Learned from Architecting Large-scale Decentralized Social

Applications

The Summer School will be held at the Sundvolden Hotel, one of the

oldest Norwegian hotels. The area's picturesque landscape is enclosed

by a number of fjords and lies at the foot of the Krokskogen mountain.

At the same time, it is conveniently accessible by bus from both Oslo

and the Gardermoen airport (Oslo airport).

The Summer School is hosted by the Networks and Distributed Systems

Group at the University of Oslo and co-organized by the Middleware

Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research, India.

Privad: Practical Privacy in Online Advertising

Gunnar Kreitz, Spotify

Spotify: A Peer-assisted Music-on-Demand Streaming System

Chaitanya Mishra, Facebook

Searching Social Networks at Scale

Daniel Myers, Google

Reliable, Fast Notifications for Internet-scale Social Applications

Jayme Rotsaert, Netlog

Distributed Social Data

Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge, UK

1-Mobile Social-networking Recommender Systems

2-The Relationship Between Personality & Use of Social-networking

Sites

Maarten van Steen, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Decentralizing Wikipedia: A Scientific Experiment in Engineering

Middleware Solutions

Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece

From Social Networking to Anthropocentric Systems

Other speakers to be determined

REGISTRATION

Registration site is open! Registration deadline is July 15.

The registration fee is 5950 NOK (about 758 Euro / $US 1066) for

shared accommodations (one person in a double room) or 6950 NOK (about

885 Euro / $US 1245) for one person in a single room.

Registration includes access to the school, accommodations (5 nights),

and all meals (including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and breaks).

Please note, the summer school operates on a non-for-profit basis.

The fees are exclusively for board and lodging at the hotel.

MORE INFORMATION

The summer school is organized and sponsored by Canada-Norway Partnership

in Higher Education (CANOE), hosted by the Networks and Distributed

Systems

Group at the University of Oslo, and co-organized by the Middleware

Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.

http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-school-2011