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Dear Colleagues,
We look forward to seeing your valuable contributions to this upcoming
book. The deadline for proposal submission has been extended to January 15,
2012. Please find the CFC below.
Best Regards,
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
in Editorial Advisory Board
Social Network Engineering for Secure Web Data and Services
to be published by IGI Global, USA
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Call for Book Chapters - Deadline EXTENDED to January 15, 2012
*TITLE: Social Network Engineering for Secure Web Data and Services
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A book edited by:
Luca Caviglione, National Research Council of Italy
Mauro Coccoli, University of Genoa, Italy
Alessio Merlo, University of Genoa, Italy,
and Università e-campus, Novedrate, Como, Italy
To be published by IGI Global
Proposals Submission Deadline EXTENDED to January 15, 2012
Full Chapters Due: April 30, 2012
Introduction:
Owing to their ubiquitous diffusion, Social Network (SN) applications
attract a large amount of users, also having impacts on the society, the
economy and the technological pool of the Internet itself. Besides, they
account for new users’ behaviors, Web-based technologies, traffic patterns
and security requirements. SNs are also used to develop new services and
applications, providing a suitable playground to support millions of users
remotely connected and interacting in a real-time fashion. Therefore, they
must properly scale, thus requiring new architectural blueprints and design
choices. This Book aims at capturing the state-of-the-art in the
engineering of SNs infrastructures, the development of novel applications,
as well as the impact of SN-based services over the Internet, both in terms
of traffic and protocols requirements. Nevertheless, SNs often store,
deliver and manage personal data, and are tightly coupled with identities
of individuals, thus making both privacy and security aspects crucial.
Objective of the Book:
The main goal of the Book is to take into account issues and solutions to
prevent security threats and introduce proper countermeasures to attacks at
every level during the design and development of such applications, or
while relying upon such frameworks. This Book will cover three main Parts,
reflecting the state-of-the-art and most promising developments in the
field of Social Networks, with emphasis on issues and solutions for privacy
protection and security of end-users, Service Providers and data.
Target Audience:
The target audience of this Book is composed of professionals and
researchers working in the field of SNs and Web security. Thus, the Book
covers aspects related to Engineering, Security and Application from both
the theoretical and practical points of view, without neglecting the vision
from social sciences in the field of communication, education, and
sociality. Also, the Book will include some tutorial chapters enabling to
understand basics in this area.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following focus
areas:
- Sociological Aspects of SNs and their exploitation through engineering.
- SN modeling, including users’ dynamics and behaviors.
- Development tools, standard and technologies of SN applications.
- Design and deployment of social-enabled frameworks.
- Traffic analysis and identification of SN applications, with relation to
network security.
- SN applications: e-learning, on-line gaming, application development, and
A/V conferencing.
- Web-oriented interaction: protocols, performances and design.
- Security aspects in SNs, including privacy, authentication, authorization
and access control.
- Security assessment of SNs.
- Security Analysis and Testing of SN-related protocols (OAuth, OpenID,
FOAF+SSL, ...)
Manuscript Submission Guidelines:
Researchers, practitioners and professionals are invited to submit no later
than January 15, 2012 a 2-3 pages Chapter Proposal, clearly explaining the
topic and objectives of their proposed chapter. Accepted Authors will be
notified according to the schedule reported in the "Important Dates"
Section below. Also, they will receive a detailed guideline to prepare the
chapter. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review
basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this
project.
Inquiries and submissions (Word or PDF format) can be sent via e-mail to:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Important Dates:
January 15, 2012: Proposal Submission Deadline
January 31, 2012: Notification of Acceptance
April 30, 2012: Full Chapter Submission
June 30, 2012: Notification of Acceptance
September 15, 2012: Final Chapter Submission
October 15, 2012: Final Deadline
Call for Chapters and further details are available at the URL:
http://bit.ly/vHEqws
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Mauro Coccoli, PhD
Assistant Professor
DIST-University of Genoa
Via Opera Pia, 13
16145 GENOVA
Italy
Phone: +39 0103532736
Fax: +39 0103536533
E-mail: [email protected]
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