Overview

CAOS aims to provide a reference forum targeted not only to the community of researcher working on networking technologies for OSN, but it aims at engaging a multidisciplinary community of researchers working at the intersection between computer networking, complex networks, Big Data analytics, focusing on network technologies and abstractions for OSN. Therefore, the workshop also welcomes submissions applying a wide range of (computer- and network-science) techniques and tools to OSN for investigating the properties and roles of the network of (online) social relationships in the various sectors of the society (e.g., politics, economics, finance, health, entertainment).

Topics include, but are not limited to:

    Communications challenges in OSNs
    Platforms, protocols and applications for OSNs
    Decentralized, mobile and location-based OSNs
    Trust, reputation, privacy and security in OSNs
    Adversarial-aware analysis of OSN data
    Dynamics of trends, information and opinion diffusion in OSNs
    Recommendations and advertising in OSNs
    Social Search in OSNs
    Measurement, analysis and modeling of popular online social networks
    BigData analysis of OSNs seen as complex networked systems
    Information extraction and search in OSNs
    Complex-network analysis of OSNs
    Measurement, analysis and modeling of networked users' behavior through OSNs data
    Analysis of the use of OSNs in the urban context
    Network challenges of crowdsourcing is OSNs
    Network challenges in multidisciplinary applications of OSNs (economics, medicine, society, politics, homeland security, etc.)
    AI technologies applied to OSNs modeling and analysis