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

该补助金支持来自美国机构的约17名研究生参加将于2015年11月2日至3日在加州的斯坦福大学举行的计算机协会在线社交网络（COSN）会议的第三次会议（http：//cosn.acm.org/2015/）。CONS提供了一个主要的出版场所，其特点是学术界和工业界跨多个学科的高质量研究，重点是在线社交网络（OSN）的研究。 COSN是一个国际会议，促进各种国际研究社区之间的交流。参加会议，如COSN是研究生院经验的重要组成部分。参加会议将通过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来加强这一新兴研究领域的科学工作者。这种支持将使这些年轻的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的潜在职业道路;访问能够支持其专业发展的研究人员国际网络;并观察在线社交网络中研究的跨学科性质、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能够参与并受益于CONS的经验来促进多样性。CONS专注于系统，安全和隐私，图形，数据管理，分析和数据挖掘，与OSN的设计，分析和开发相关。 今年怎么样？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，系统设计中的社会属性，社交系统的白板设计，从操作社交网络中学习，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、性能和工作负载表征等（参见http：//cosn.acm.org/2015/）。学生的参与有望对学生的研究兴趣产生积极的影响。COSN包括海报会议，为参与的学生提供了一个独特的机会，介绍他们的研究项目，并从高级研究人员和社区的其他成员收到宝贵的反馈。

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.