Workshop on Social Clouds: Cloud Computing through Social Networks

Call for Papers

Workshop on Social Clouds: 

Cloud Computing through Social Networks

alongside the IEEE CloudCom Conference, 

Bristol, UK December 2-5, 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/socialcloud2013/

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialcloud2013
http://www.facebook.com/events/109914549183542/
http://www.facebook.com/SocialCloudComputing

Overview

Social network platforms have rapidly changed the way that people
communicate and interact. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and
LinkedIn enable the establishment of and participation in digital
communities; and the representation, documentation and exploration of
social interactions as well as relationships. Consequently, electronic
relationships are quickly becoming intertwined with their real world
counterparts. Social networks have always served as a vital means for the
sharing and exchange of informal information, improving the understanding
of relationships, improving communication between globally dispersed
individuals, and more recently measuring scientific impact. As social
network platforms as well as the "apps" they enable become more
sophisticated social networks can also serve as a means of service,
resource and data sharing. Or in other words, social networks can
facilitate the construction of Social Clouds: the provisioning of Cloud
infrastructure through social network constructs.

As the cost of personal computing has decreased, the capabilities and
resources of Internet connected users has dramatically increased. We know
from volunteer computing that at the edges of the Internet, resource
owners are willing to make their resources freely available for “good
uses”. Taking Facebook as an example, and discounting the 60% of users
that access Facebook with mobile devices, skimming just 1% of users’
compute resources would yield a computational infrastructure 4 times
larger than the total resources contributed to the SETI@home project. 2%
would begin to be comparable to a top500.org supercomputer. In addition,
crowdsourcing leverages the capabilities of both skilled and unskilled
communities of individuals to perform a wide variety of tasks.

However, constructing a compute, data or resource sharing platform through
a social network is not straightforward. There are many challenges that
sit at the intersection of computer science, information systems,
computational social science and economics that must be addressed. At the
centre of this workshop is the question: How can members of a social
network efficiently share infrastructure and software services across
digital relationships?

In order to address different aspects of this question, the following
topics are of (representative) interest:
- Social network-based resource sharing in Cloud environments
- Forming "edge" Clouds through user contributed resources and services
- Peer-2-Peer resource sharing to form distributed Cloud systems
- Cloud federation through user provisioned resources
- Social network-based resource sharing and collaboration architectures
- Testbed implementations of Social Clouds
- Data caching and sharing through socially formed relationships
- Content and data distribution via socially formed relationships
- Novel methods of observing and applying digital relationships and trust
- Middleware for the construction and management of Social Clouds
- Definition of novel principles, models and methodologies for the harnessing of digital relationships in the construction of Social Clouds
- Social network analysis in Cloud environments
- Qualitative Studies for the understanding of Social Cloud actors as well as their social and cognitive processes
- Representing (Soft) agreements for service and resource sharing and exchange
- Social Cloud Markets
- Social matching mechanisms
- Economic and incentive models for resource sharing in Social Cloud environments
- Methods for resource, service and capability representation in Social Networks and/or Social Clouds
- Case studies into Social Clouds
- Recommender Systems for Sharing, Exchange and Collaboration
- Crowdsourcing using Social Networks and Social media

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Important Dates
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- Paper Submissions Due: July 15, 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: September 2, 2013
- Camera Ready Versions Due: September 16, 2013

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Submission Details
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Authors are invited to submit papers containing unpublished, original work
(not under review elsewhere) of up to 6 pages of double column text using
single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11
manuscript guidelines. Templates are available from:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm
l.

Authors should submit a PDF file. Papers conforming to the above
guidelines can be submitted through the workshop's paper submission system
on EasyChair -- available at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialcloud2013

At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop
and all workshop participants must pay the CloudCom 2013 workshop
registration fee, as well as the conference fee. All accepted papers will
be published by the IEEE in the same volume as the main conference. All
papers will be reviewed by an International Programme Committee. Papers
submissions should be performed using the EasyChair system, by the date
mentioned above.

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Organisers:
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- Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
- Kyle Chard, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Programme Committee
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- David de Roure, Oxford University, UK
- Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
- Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany
- Ioan Petri, Cardiff University, UK
- Magdalena Punceva, University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Western Switzerland
- Wei Tan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
- Peter Komisarczuk, University of West London, UK
- Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
- Laura Pullum, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Raihan ur Rasool, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
- Wenjun Wu, Beihang University, China
- Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Georg Groh, TU Munich, Germany