SocialSec 2018
Santa Clara, CA, USA
10-11 December 2018
Welcome to Silicon Valley
Social Networks and Big Data have pervaded all aspects of our daily lives. With their unparalleled popularity, social networks have evolved from the platforms for social communication and news dissemination, to indispensable tools for professional networking, social recommendations, marketing, and online content distribution. Social Networks, together with other activities, produce Big Data that is beyond the ability of commonly used computer software and hardware tools to capture, manage, and process within a tolerable elapsed time. It has been widely recognised that security and privacy are the critical challenges for Social Networks and Big Data applications due to their scale, complexity and heterogeneity.
The 4th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data (SocialSec 2018) will be held at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA, USA on 10-12 December 2018. It follows the success of SocialSec 2015 in Hangzhou, China, SocialSec 2016 in Fiji, and SocialSec 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. The aim of the symposium is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interactions between researchers and developers with the security and privacy communities in Social Networks and Big Data, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments.
Important Dates
| Paper Submission Due | 31 October 2018 |
| Author Notification | 20 November 2018 |
| Camera-ready Paper Due | 01 December 2018 |
| Registration Due | 01 December 2018 |
| Symposium Date | 10-11 December 2018 |
Technical Program (Tentative)
| Day 1 (10 December 2018) | |
|---|---|
| 09:00–09:15 | Opening Ceremony |
| 09:15–09:45 | The Impact of Social Networks and Privacy in Impoverished Areas Invited Talk Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University) |
| 09:45–10:15 | FriPEL: Friendship Privacy Educational Labware Na Li (Prairie View A&M University) Lin Li (Prairie View A&M University) Yuhong Liu(Santa Clara University) |
| 10:15–10:45 | Uncover the Ghosts: Deep Learning based Spammer Detection on Social Networks Invited Talk Hao Yue (San Francisco State University) |
| 10:45–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–11:30 | The Impact of Subjects and Gender in Value-Added Assessment of Senior High School in China Lin Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Tian Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Qinghua Zhang (Beijing Education Examinations Authority) Tao Ren (Beijing Education Examinations Authority) |
| 11:30–12:00 | Next Generation Neural-Machine Interface: A Computer Engineering Perspective Invited Talk Xiaorong Zhang (San Francisco State University) |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30–14:00 | Social Trustworthy Computing - An Industry Perspective Invited Talk Jack Jia (Founder and CEO of Musely) |
| 14:00–14:30 | Adaptive Crawling in Online Social Networks: a Matrix Factorization Based Approach Tianyi Pan (University of Florida) Xiang Li (Santa Clara University |
| 14:30–15:00 | Network Coding based Caching Strategy in D2D Jun Cai (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University) Xiaoping Wu (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University) Yan Liu (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University) Jianzhen Luo (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University) Xiushan Liu (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University) |
| 15:00–15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15–15:45 | Deep-learnt Features for Twitter Spam Detection Xinbo Ban (Swinburne University of technology) Chao Chen (Swinburne University of technology) Shigang Liu (Swinburne University of technology) Yu Wang (Guangzhou University) Jun Zhang (Swinburne University of technology) |
| 15:45–16:15 | Causal Modeling for Cybersecurity Suchitra Abel (Santa Clara University) Licheng Xiao (Santa Clara University) Hairong Wang (Santa Clara University) |
| 16:15–16:45 | A Novel Evaluation Method of Image Scrambling Degree based on Pixel Distribution Zigang Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Lixiang Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Haipeng Peng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Yuhong Liu (Santa Clara University) Yixian Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Haihua Zhu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) |
| 17:00–19:00 | Gala Dinner |
| Day 2 (11 December 2018) | |
| 09:00–09:30 | ZiPro: Towards Probabilistic Identification of Zero-day Attack Paths Invited Talk Xiaoyan Sun (California State University, Sacramento) |
| 09:30–10:00 | No One Trusts Emotional Women? Measuring the Impact of Discrete Emotions on Review Helpfulness Invited Talk Wenqi Zhou (Duquesne University) |
| 10:00–10:30 | A Review on Compressed Sensing Lixiang Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Liwei Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Haipeng Peng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Yixian Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) |
| 10:30–10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45–11:15 | A Utility Maximization Framework for Privacy Preservation of User Generated Content Invited Talk Yi Fang (Santa Clara University) |
| 11:15–11:45 | Power-constrained Internet of Things Security Invited Talk Ramzi Nofal, Bhagyashri Tushir (Santa Clara University) |
Information for Authors
The symposium seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy in Social Networks and Big Data. Papers describing case studies, implementation experiences, and lessons learned are also encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Attacks in/via social networks
- Information control and detection
- Malicious behavior modeling in social networks
- Malicious information propagation via social networks
- Phishing problems in social networks
- Privacy protection in social networks
- Big data analytics for threats and attacks prediction
- Spam problems in social networks
- Trust and reputations in social networks
- Big data outsourcing
- Big data forensics
- Security and privacy in big database
- Applied cryptography for big data
- Big data system security
- Mobile social networks security
- Security and privacy in cloud
- Forensics in social networks and big data
Please click the above button to submit your paper through SocialSec 2018 Easychair submission system. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in A4 format, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please refer to IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings for preparing the submission.
Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the symposium to present the work. All papers accepted by SocialSec 2018 will be published by IEEE and indexed by EI Engineering.
Call for Special Session and Tutorial Proposals
SocialSec 2018 also seeks proposals for special sessions and tutorials on the above or related topics. If you are interested in hosting a spcial session or giving a tutorial in the symposium, please contact Publicity Chair Yu Wang.
Organisation Committees
General Co-Chairs
Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno and University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Nam Ling, Santa Clara University, USA
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Yuhong Liu, Santa Clara University, USA
Tianqing Zhu, Deakin University, Australia
Publication Chair
Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, USA
Financial Chair
Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs
Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Yu Wang, Guangzhou University, China
Program Committee
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy
Richard Chbeir, IUT de Bayonne, France
Chao Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Muhammad Khurram Khan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA
Na Li, Prairie View A&M University, USA
Xiang Li, University of Florida, USA
Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, USA
Xiao Luo, IUPUI, USA
Changqing Luo, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Weizhi Meng, Technical Universtiy of Denmark, Denmark
Franco Maria Nardini, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Jia-Yu Pan, Google, USA
Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Xiaojun Ruan, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA
Edoardo Serra, Boise State University, USA
Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Guomin Yang, University of Wollongong, Australia
Yong Yu, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Tianqing Zhu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Registration
Full registration payment is required for EACH accepted paper. Failure to pay the registration fee will result in the exclusion of the papers from the Conference Proceedings.
| Registration Type | Registration Fee (in US Dollar) |
|---|---|
| Early Registration (By 25 November 2018) | $450 |
| Late Registration (After 25 November 2018) | $700 |
| Attendee Registration | $25 |
Please visit the following link to complete your registration.
Venue
SocialSec 2018 will be held in the Vari Hall Wiegand Room at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA, which is located at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay. The location is adjacent to San Jose, the 10th largest city in the U.S., and just two miles from San Jose International Airport.
Santa Clara University
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University blends high-tech innovation with a social consciousness grounded in the Jesuit educational tradition. The campus spans 106 lush acres with world-renowned gardens and state-of-the-art facilities all surrounding the iconic Mission.
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is the home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of 39 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies. The "valley" in its name refers to the Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara County, which includes the city of San Jose and surrounding cities and towns.
Contact
For further information regarding to SocialSec 2018, please contact nsclab.events@gmail.com.
