[agents] CFPs: 2015 International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing (MSNCom-2015)

[Haozhe Wang]

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**************************** MSNCom-2015 CFP ***************************
2015 International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing
(MSNCom-2015)
http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/msncom2015/
<http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/hw389/MSNCom2015/index.html>
Liverpool, England, UK, 26-28 October 2015
 
FOCUS OF THE WORKSHOP
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With the rapid development of broadband wireless networks and location
sensing technologies, Mobile Social Networks (MSNs) pervade many aspects of
our daily lives. By incorporating the spatial dimension with social
dimension, MSNs foster many interesting and valuable applications and
analysis, such as location recommendation service, personal health care,
smart cities, location-based marketing, community discovery, and group
behavior analysis. MSN is influencing our societal and cultural norms, and
transforming the method we acquire and share information and the way we
communicate with others. However, these mobile social systems are
characterised by complex network architectures and abundant contextual
information, due to the heterogeneous access techniques and massive amount
of data generated from social services and social media streams. Moreover,
distinguished from general social networking and computing, wireless network
characteristics, social factors, contextual information and insights, human
behaviour, security and privacy should be taken into account together to
understand and improve the MSN systems, and thereby making MSN a
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary challenge.
MSNCom is organised with this challenge in mind, aiming to address a wide
spectrum of research challenges and key issues in MSNs. Of particular
interests are cutting-edge research in the fields of wireless communication,
mobile computing, mobile social services and applications, social big data
analysis, social knowledge mining, security and privacy, and other related
areas. The goal of the workshop is to bring the research community and
industry practitioners together and foster a cross-disciplinary scientific
forum. In addition to building a premier publication venue that features
high quality research, MSNCom-2015 provides unique opportunities for
researchers from academia and industry to interact, share new results, and
discuss emerging directions focused around the study of mobile social
networking and computing.
 
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The topics of interests related to this workshop include, but are not
limited to: 

·      Network architecture for mobile social systems

·      Heterogeneous wireless networks

·      Mobile IP networks

·      Multimedia communications over wireless

·      Cross-layer design and network optimisation for MSN

·      Green wireless network architectures and energy-efficient
communications 

·      Mobile and wearable social networks and systems

·      Performance evaluation of social media, services and systems

·      Cyber-physical and interactive systems for MSNs

·      Emerging MSN applications and services

·      System prototypes, real deployments and experimentation

·      Management of MSN big data

·      Storing, indexing and querying of large-scale social data

·      Novel data mining and machine learning techniques for MSN

·      Novel recommendation and inference techniques

·      Pattern recognition and trend prediction algorithms

·      Analysis and mining for location-based social data

·      Modeling mobile social networks and user behaviour

·      Processing of social media stream

·      Cloud computing for MSN

·      Trust and reputation modeling in mobile social systems

·      Security and privacy in MSN

 

IMPORTANT DATES
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  Submission Deadline:   15 July 2015
  Authors Notification:   15 August 2015
  Final Manuscript Due:   15 September 2015
  Registration Due:   15 September 2015
  Conference Date:   26-28 October 2015
         
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
website (http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/msncom2015/submission.html) with PDF
format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or
under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 6 pages (or 8 pages
with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE
Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced,
10 fonts). 
Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference
proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At
least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the
paper at the conference.