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This workshop by IMPECS supports collaboration between Indian and German computer scientists, promoting research and cooperative platforms. It involves international speakers and sessions focusing on Social Media, Business, Network Algorithms, and more to spark collaboration in social computing research. The event aims to generate ideas, foster community formation, and discuss roadblocks and solutions for improving national publishing records. Join in for insightful talks, open discussions, and panel sessions to contribute to the future of social computing research in India.
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IMPECS Workshop on Social Computing Niloy Ganguly & Krishna Gummadi
IMPECS: Indo-Max Planck Center for Computer Science Vision: • perform top-quality basic research in Computer Science (CS) in cooperation between Indian and German computer scientists, • serve as a bridge between the Indian and German CS communities, and enhance scientific cooperation between them, and • act as a center of excellence in which faculty and students can build careers. Funded by DST, BMBF, & Max Planck Society
Max Planck Society • Germany's premier & most successful basic research organization. • 17 Nobel laureates since 1948 • Runs more than 80 Max Planck Institutes (MPIs) conducting research in medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, technology & humanities • Institutes are fairly autonomous
MPIs in CS • MPI for Informatics (since 1990) • Algorithms, Databases, Graphics, Vision, & Computational biology • MPI for Software Systems (since 2005) • Operating / distributed / real-time systems, Networking, Programming languages, Verification, Security, Social web systems
IMPECS group on Online Social Networks • Understanding, Leveraging and Deploying Online Social Networks Collaborators: • Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Niloy) • MPI for Software Systems, MPI-SWS (Krishna) • Project for 5 years
The Idea IMPECS supports workshops on topics of interest to research groups Choice To make an one-off big workshop with lots of international speakers Do a smaller workshop and try to understand whether a sustainable platform for interaction is possible.
The Idea • People from a lot of fields have began to take interest in social computing • Machine learning/IR • Networks/Systems • Statistical Physics • Sociology/Economics • A huge number customer base existing in India • 50 million Indian Facebook Users
Ideal time to bring in researchers together and exchange ideas
Schedule • Individual Talks • Birds of Feather Session • Dividing social computing into more specific topics and looking whether collaboration can be initiated • Panel Discussion • Publication – roadblocks and solutions • Open House • Towards Community Formation
Individual Talks (9AM – 5PM) • Talk Session 1: Social Web and Social Media • Talk Session 2: Business and the Crowd • Talk Session 3: Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects • Talk Session 4: Network Algorithms and Network Structure
Open Discussion (Today evening) "What can we do as a community to promote social computing research and teaching in India?" (Moderator: Monojit Choudhury)
Birds of the Feather (Tomorrow morning) • Network Science and Social Networks (Champion: Niloy Ganguly) • Learning in networks (Champion: Balaraman Ravindran) • Social Computing in Indian Context (Champion: Monojit Choudhury) • Identity, Anonymity, Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Online Social Networks (Champion: Krishna Gummadi)
Panel Discussion "Towards Community Efforts to Improve National Publishing Record: Roadblocks and Solutions" (Moderator: Balaraman Ravindran, Panelists: Vasudeva Varma, Saikat Guha, Soumen Chakraborti, Animesh Mukherjee, Amit Nanavati)
Concluding Session Next steps and action plan for the community • (Moderator: NiloyGanguly)