WORKSHOP SESSIONS

Just Up! Videos of the presentations are now available. Access is currently restricted to USENIX members and WOSN 2010 workshop attendees. Not a member? Join today!

All sessions will take place in Back Bay D unless otherwise noted.

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Session papers with links below are available to conference registrants immediately and to everyone beginning June 22, 2010.

Session Chair: Ben Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ghostbusting Facebook: Detecting and Characterizing Phantom Profiles in Online Social Gaming Applications
Atif Nazir, Saqib Raza, Chen-Nee Chuah, and Burkhard Schipper, University of California, Davis

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Diffusion Dynamics of Games on Online Social Networks
Xiao Wei, Jiang Yang, and Lada A. Adamic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ricardo Matsumura de Araújo, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil; Manu Rekhi, LOLapps

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Outtweeting the Twitterers—Predicting Information Cascades in Microblogs
Wojciech Galuba and Karl Aberer, EPFL; Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM Research, India; Zoran Despotovic and Wolfgang Kellerer, DOCOMO Euro-Labs

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Session Chair: Margo Seltzer, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Privacy Leakage in Mobile Online Social Networks
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs—Research; Craig E. Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Don't Tread on Me: Moderating Access to OSN Data with SpikeStrip
Christo Wilson and Alessandra Sala, University of California, Santa Barbara; Joseph Bonneau, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Robert Zablit and Ben Y. Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Prediction Promotes Privacy in Dynamic Social Networks
Smriti Bhagat, Rutgers University; Graham Cormode, Balachander Krishnamurthy, and Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs—Research

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Session Chair: Lada Adamic, University of Michigan

A Geometric Model for On-line Social Networks
Anthony Bonato, Ryerson University; Jeannette Janssen, Dalhousie University; Paweł Prałat, West Virginia University

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Distance Matters: Geo-social Metrics for Online Social Networks
Salvatore Scellato and Cecilia Mascolo, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Mirco Musolesi, University of St. Andrews; Vito Latora, Università di Catania and INFN

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Orion: Shortest Path Estimation for Large Social Graphs
Xiaohan Zhao, Alessandra Sala, Christo Wilson, Haitao Zheng, and Ben Y. Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara

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The Effects of Restrictions on Number of Connections in OSNs: A Case-Study on Twitter
Saptarshi Ghosh, Gautam Korlam, and Niloy Ganguly, IIT Kharagpur, India

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Session Chair: Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research Cambridge

Voice of the Customers: Mining Online Customer Reviews for Product Feature-based Ranking
Kunpeng Zhang, Ramanathan Narayanan, and Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University

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I rate you. You rate me. Should we do so publicly?
Chun-Yuen Teng, Debra Lauterbach, and Lada A. Adamic, University of Michigan

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Measuring Online Service Availability Using Twitter
Marti Motoyama, University of California, San Diego; Brendan Meeder, Carnegie Mellon University; Kirill Levchenko, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego

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