Call for Book Chapters

Security and Privacy preserving in Social Networks

To be published by Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Social Networks)

Editors:  Richard Chbeir, Bechara AL Bouna

  Book Objectives

Online social networks provide users, within their platforms, powerful ways to interact with other users through different forms and modalities. Consequently, each user can search and check the profiles of her social network members (for various reasons), exchange messages with some of them, publish some photos, and post comments on shared photos, etc. Although such tools are attracting continuously more and more users, several security and privacy problems related to their usage are emerging. For instance, how to provide users with an easy way to protect their shared data? How to protect a multimedia data repository (e.g., photo album) while several related information about the same content is already published (by some user friends) on the same or other blog/wiki/social network? How to define publication strategies? etc.

The general aim of this book is to assess the current approaches and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future perspectives, related to the security and privacy protection of social networks. It aims to provide an overview of the state of the art, latest techniques, studies, and approaches as well as future directions in this field, by including a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions from various research groups.

The primary target audience for the book includes researchers, scholars, postgraduate students and developers who are interested in social network security and protection.

Topics

Below is a non exhaustive list of topics to be addressed by the chapters:

• Social network description and representation
• Trust and privacy management
• Risks and threats of social networking
• Tracability analysis
• User profiling and related risks
• Ethical conflicts in social networks as well as the moral implications
• Relationship management and discovery
• Anonymity preserving
• Social terrorism
• Social network-based access control
• Abnormal activites on social networks
  

  Submission Guidelines

Authors are kindly invited to firstly send (before April 25, 2012) a brief email to the editors (richard.chbeir@u-bourgogne.fr and bechara.albouna@qu.edu.qa) in which they provide a description of the chapter to be submitted.

Full chapters must be uploaded before June 15^th 2012 at:

http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/DBconf/Springer/Submission/

All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least two reviewers.  

   Careful preparation of the manuscripts will help keep production time short and ensure satisfactory appearance of the finished book. Please prepare the manuscript using the author guidelines as follows:

·         Each chapter must be self-contained and not exceed 50 pages,

·         Please centralize all tables and figures with appropriate legends,

·         Please carefully check for typos inside the text, figures, legends, etc.

·         All equations must be numbered and please try to use standard fonts.

·         Produce a LaTeX version of your chapter using the template provided here)

 Original artwork and a signed copyright release forms will be required for all accepted chapters.

Important Dates

Editors

Editorial Board Members (TBA)