Program
(Attendance is by invitation only)
Wednesday 18th May 2011
9:10 Introduction
Session 0: Social dimension
9:20 Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)
Media landscape in Twitter: A world of new conventions and political diversity
9:40 Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica Research, Spain)
Scaling Online Social Networks
10:00 Miranda Mowbray (HP Labs, UK)
Twitter, a Techno-Social Network
10:20 Discussion
10:40 Break
Session 1: Internet science insights
11:00 Gábor Vattay (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Wide side of the Internet: Benford type distributions in Internet data
11:20 Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)
Improving Random Walk Estimation Accuracy with Uniform Restarts
11:40 Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Opportunistic Caching and Cooperation for Effective Information Delivery
12:00 Gustavo de Veciana (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Rethinking Video Transport
12:20 Discussion
12:40 Lunch
Session 2: Metrics
13:40 Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Perspectives in Benchmarking of Overlay Networks
14:00 Ioannis Stavrakakis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
How much can social metrics actually help in content distribution?
14:20 Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, UK)
Study of Geo-Social Networks, Social Cascades and Applications
14:40 Discussion
15:00 Break
Session 3: Visions
15:20 Nick Maxemchuk (Columbia University, USA and Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain)
The Next Disruptive Network Technology
15:40 Hari Balakrishnan (MIT, USA)
Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems, Or, Improving Your Commute
16:00 Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
The FuturICT Flagship: Creating Socially Interactive Information Technologies for a Sustainable Future
16:20 Discussion
16:50 Conclusion
17:00 Meeting of the members of the Institute IMDEA Networks' Scientific Council (for SC members only)
21:00 Social Event for all workshop attendees at the James Joyce Irish Pub.
