Student Participation at ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (CONS) 2015

这笔赠款支持来自美国机构的大约 17 名研究生参加将于 2015 年 11 月 2 日至 3 日在加利福尼亚州斯坦福大学举行的第三届计算机协会在线社交网络会议 (COSN) (http://cosn.acm.org/2015/)。 CONS 提供了一个一流的出版场所，其中包含学术界和工业界跨多个学科的高质量研究，重点关注在线社交网络 (OSN) 的研究。 COSN 是一个促进各个国际研究界之间交流的国际会议。参加 COSN 等会议是研究生院经历的重要组成部分。参加这次会议将培养一批对在线社交网络感兴趣的有前途的年轻研究人员，从而增强这一新兴研究领域的科学队伍。这些支持将使这些年轻研究人员能够与其他研究人员和会议活动进行互动；了解学术界和工业界潜在的职业道路；访问能够支持其专业发展的国际研究人员网络；观察在线社交网络研究的跨学科性质、多样性和相互关系。为学生参与提供的支持将通过鼓励和使妇女和其他代表性不足的少数群体参与 CONS 体验并从中受益来促进多样性。 CONS 重点关注与 OSN 的设计、分析和开发相关的系统、安全和隐私、图形、数据管理、分析和数据挖掘。 今年的会议邀请提交关于社交网络的广泛研究，包括社交搜索的系统和算法、社交网络和系统的基础设施支持、系统设计中的社交属性、社交系统的全新设计、从运营社交网络中学习、瞬态 OSN（例如 Snapchat）、特殊用途 OSN（例如 Instagram、Vine）、社交和众包系统的测量和分析、基准测试、建模、性能和工作负载特征等（参见http://cosn.acm.org/2015/）。学生的参与预计会对学生的研究兴趣产生积极的影响。 COSN 举办海报会议，为参与的学生提供独特的机会展示他们的研究项目，并从高级研究人员和社区其他成员那里获得宝贵的反馈。

This grant supports participation of approximately 17 graduate students from US institutions in the third instance of the Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN) of the Association for Computing Machinery, to be held in Stanford University, California, on November 2-3, 2015 (http://cosn.acm.org/2015/). CONS provides a premier publication venue that features high quality research from academia and industry across multiple disciplines focused around the study of online social networks (OSNs). COSN is an international conference that stimulates exchanges between various international research communities. Participation in conferences such as COSN is an important part of the graduate school experience. Attendance at the conference will enhance the scientific workforce in this emerging research area by developing a group of promising young researchers interested in online social networks. The support will enable these young researchers to interact with other researchers and conference events; to learn of potential career paths within academia and industry; to access an international network of researchers who can support their professional development; and to observe the interdisciplinary nature, diversity and interrelationships of research in online social networks. The support provided for student participation will promote diversity by encouraging and enabling women and other under-represented minorities to participate in and benefit from the CONS experience. CONS focuses on systems, security and privacy, graphs, data management, analysis, and data mining, relevant to the design, analysis and development of OSNs. This year?s conference invites submissions on a wide range of research on social networks, including systems and algorithms for social search, infrastructure support for social networks and systems, social properties in systems design, clean-slate designs for social systems, learnings from operational social networks, transient OSNs (e.g. Snapchat)s, special purpose OSNs (e.g., Instagram, Vine), measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems, benchmarking, modeling, performance and workload characterization, etc. (see http://cosn.acm.org/2015/). Student participation is expected to have a positive impact on the students' research interests. COSN incorporates poster sessions that provide a unique opportunity for participating students to present their research project and receive valuable feedback from senior researchers and other members of the community.