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 Due31 October 2018
Author Notification20 November 2018
Camera-ready Paper Due01 December 2018
Registration Due01 December 2018
Symposium Date10-11 December 2018

Technical Program (Tentative)

Day 1 (10 December 2018)
09:00–09:15Opening Ceremony
09:15–09:45The Impact of Social Networks and Privacy in Impoverished Areas Invited Talk
Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University)
09:45–10:15FriPEL: Friendship Privacy Educational Labware
Na Li (Prairie View A&M University)
Lin Li (Prairie View A&M University)
Yuhong Liu(Santa Clara University)
10:15–10:45Uncover the Ghosts: Deep Learning based Spammer Detection on Social Networks Invited Talk
Hao Yue (San Francisco State University)
10:45–11:00Coffee Break
11:00–11:30The 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)
11:30–12:00Next Generation Neural-Machine Interface: A Computer Engineering Perspective Invited Talk
Xiaorong Zhang (San Francisco State University)
12:00–13:30Lunch Break
13:30–14:00Social Trustworthy Computing - An Industry Perspective Invited Talk
Jack Jia (Founder and CEO of Musely)
14:00–14:30Adaptive Crawling in Online Social Networks: a Matrix Factorization Based Approach
Tianyi Pan (University of Florida)
Xiang Li (Santa Clara University
14:30–15:00Network 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)
15:00–15:15Coffee Break
15:15–15:45Deep-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)
15:45–16:15Causal Modeling for Cybersecurity
Suchitra Abel (Santa Clara University)
Licheng Xiao (Santa Clara University)
Hairong Wang (Santa Clara University)
16:15–16:45A 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)
17:00–19:00Gala Dinner
Day 2 (11 December 2018)
09:00–09:30ZiPro: Towards Probabilistic Identification of Zero-day Attack Paths Invited Talk
Xiaoyan Sun (California State University, Sacramento)
09:30–10:00No One Trusts Emotional Women? Measuring the Impact of Discrete Emotions on Review Helpfulness Invited Talk
Wenqi Zhou (Duquesne University)
10:00–10:30A 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)
10:30–10:45Coffee Break
10:45–11:15A Utility Maximization Framework for Privacy Preservation of User Generated Content Invited Talk
Yi Fang (Santa Clara University)
11:15–11:45Power-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

Paper Submission Portal

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.

IEEE Manuscript Templates

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 TypeRegistration 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.

SocialSec 2018 Registration Link

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.

SCU Campus Map

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.

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