User-generated social media such as blogs, podcasts, shared photos and videos, wikis, online gaming communities, and online social networks have grown to over half a billion users today. To exploit the massive amount of social data exposed by such systems requires not only social network analysis, but also large-scale image processing, video encoding, generic information retrieval and management, knowledge mining and discovery, building and matching user profiles for web advertising, etc. Processing information about a world-wide, loosely-connected network of social media users poses a diverse set of challenges, ranging from traditional high-performance distributed computing topics (e.g., scalability, elasticity, reliability) to domain-specific processing (e.g., methods for big data analytics and graph mining at scale.)

The First Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP’12) solicits papers that address the data management and processing challenges raised by running and mining large-scale social media platforms from a systems and infrastructure-oriented perspective. The workshop will be co-located with ACM/IEEE HPDC (http://www.hpdc.org/2012/) and will take place in June 2012 in Delft, The Netherlands. SocMP’12 will bring together researchers and practitioners in discussing and creating new knowledge about the social media infrastructure and methods of the future.

• Techniques for the collection of social media data;
• System architectures for social media processing;
• Methods for Social Media pre-processing and processing;
• System architectures and methods for online or near-realtime social media processing;
• Methods for multi-source social media processing;
• Mechanisms that support specific data consistency models across multiple data centers;
• Business logic and programming models for social media processing systems;
• Autonomic management of social media processing systems;
• Green computing and sustainability in social media processing systems;
• Economic aspects of social media processing systems, in particular for third-party data processing;
• Benchmarks, workload characterization and modeling, and testbeds for designing and analyzing social media processing systems;
• Use cases, applications of social media processing (i.e., to science, engineering, and business), and experience with deployed artifacts focusing on the infrastructure;
• Mathematical and analytical tools for designing and analyzing social media processing systems;
• Simulation methods and tools for designing and analyzing social media processing systems.

SocMP 2012 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Submitted papers should be limited to 6 pages (including tables, images, and references) and formatted according to the ACM SIG Style. Please use the Easychair submission site to submit your paper. Only pdf format is accepted. All papers will receive at least three reviews. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the workshop and present the paper.

Accepted workshop papers will appear in the HPDC conference proceedings and will be incorporated in the ACM Digital Library.

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 21-st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2011) on June 18/19, 2012 in Delft, the Netherlands. For the registration procedure follow the HPDC link.

For further information please contact Alexandru Iosup and/or Adriana Iamnitchi .

SocMP is one of the workshops held in conjunction with HPDC'12:

Short Workshop Name	Full Workshop Name
Application Domain
Astro-HPC 2012	Workshop on High-Performance Computing for Astronomy
ECMLS 2012	Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences Workshop
Science Cloud 2012	Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing
SocMP 2012	Workshop on Social Media Processing
Data-Intensive Processing
DIDC 2012	Workshop on Data-Intensive Distributed Computing
ISDP 2012	In-Situ Data Processing Technologies
General
LSAP 2012	Workshop on Large-scale Systems and Applications Performance
Infrastructure
MapReduce'12	Workshop on MapReduce and its Applications
VTDC-2012	Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing