Program Schedule

Time
Content

8:30—9:30

Invited Talk

Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute, Germany). Extracting Relevant and Trustworthy Information from Microblogs. [Slides]


9:30—10:00

Paper Session 1

Özer Özdikiş (Garanti Teknoloji), Pınar Şenkul (Middle Eastern Technical University), and Halit Oguztüzün (Middle Eastern Technical University). Semantic Expansion of Hashtags for Enhanced Event Detection in Twitter  [PDF]
10:00—10:30 Coffee Break







10:30—12:00

Paper Session 2

Georgia Koloniari (Univ. of Ioannina), Dimitris Souravlias (Univ. of Ioannina ) and Evaggelia Pitoura (Univ. of Ioannina). On Graph Deltas for Historical Queries. [PDF]

Yuhki Shiraishi (Kyoto Sangyo University), Jianwei Zhang (Tsukuba University of Technology), Yukiko Kawai (Kyoto Sangyo University)and Toyokazu Akiyama (Kyoto Sangyo University). Proposal of Combination System of Page-centric Communication and Search. [PDF]

Vassilis Plachouras (Athena Research Center) and Yannis Stavrakas (Athena Research Center). Querying Term Associations and their Temporal Evolution in Social Data.  [PDF] [Slides]
12:00—1:30 Lunch

1:30—2:30

Invited Talk

Sebastiano Vigna (Università degli Studi di Milano). Four degrees of separation in 69 billion friendships: social sciences meet very large social networks. [Slides]




2:30—3:30

Paper Session 3

Joseph Pfeiffer (Pursue) and Elena Zheleva (LivingSocial). Incentivized Sharing in Social Networks. [PDF]

Yusuf Aytas (Bilkent University), Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (Bilkent University), and Ozgur Ulusoy (Bilkent University). Link Recommendation IN P2P Social Networks
. [PDF][Slides]
3:30—4:00 Coffee Break

4:00—5:00

Invited Talk

Subbu Subramanian (Facebook).Enabling Fast Pages and Furious Development While Supporting A Billion Users [Slides]