The explosion of the Internet helps the social networking concept to become real, and to be a tool to connect people worldwide in ways that were previously impossible. The Internet’s first generation (Web 1.0) consisted of static pages instead of dynamic HTML, and the presented content to the user is served from a server's file system instead of a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). The second generation (Web 2.0) encouraged users to share information and interact and collaborate with each other by posting their user-generated contents in virtual communities. The development of Web 2.0 allowed many new social networking sites to flourish such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google Plus+, Tumblr, Instagram, VK, Flickr, Vine, and many others. Such Online Social Networks (OSN) provide a wealth of raw data that is invaluable to governments, companies, universities, etc. The large scale of such networks presents a challenge to providers just to keep them running smoothly. It also presents a challenge to researchers wanting to analyze the data collected from such networks. These challenges contributed to the rise of important of important fields such as big data. The objective of this workshop is to provide general guidelines on the current and future trends in online social network technologies. Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to:

Social network analysis (SNA)

OSN mining

Security in OSN

Architecture and growth of OSN

Social networks visualization and large scale data representation

OSN and big data

OSN and SNA tools and services on the Cloud

Location-based OSN and other geographical aspects of OSN

Impact of OSN

Community formation, analysis and detection in OSN

Anomaly detection in OSN evolution

Recommender systems and OSN



Submission Deadline: Jun 25, 2015


Authors Notifications: Aug 10, 2015

Final Submissions and Registrations: Oct 08, 2015

The Conference Dates: Nov 03-05, 2015

Workshop Organizers and TPC:

Andy Rindos, IBM research, USA

Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK

Abdullah Khreishah, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Bas Geerdink, ING, Netherlands

Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Mohammed Naji Al-Kabi, Jordan

Kami Makki, Lamar University, USA

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia

Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan

Marcio Lobo Netto, EPUSP, Brazil

Heider Wahsheh, KSA

Izzat Alsmadi, Boise state University, USA

Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan

Mladen Vouk, N.C. State University, USA

Monther Aldwairi, UAE