[agents] CFP: International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing (MSNCom-2016)

[Haozhe Wang]

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Submission Deadline Extended to 30 April 2016 (GMT)
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2nd International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing (MSNCom-2016)

to be held in conjunction with the 5th IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2016), Chengdu, China, 27-29 July, 2016

Workshop website: http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/hw389/msncom2016/

SCOPE 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 behaviour 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 info!
 rmation 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 workshop 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, network architecture, social computing, mobile social services and applications, social big data analysis, social knowledge mining, security and privacy, and other related areas. 
MSNCom-2016 will continue the success of MSNCom-2015 which is held in Liverpool, UK. The workshop aims to bring the research community and industry practitioners together and foster a cross-disciplinary scientific forum and provide unique opportunities for sharing new results and discussing emerging directions focused around mobile social networking and computing. 

TOPICS OF INTERESTS
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- The topics of interests related to this workshop include, but are not limited to: 
- Architecture for large-scale mobile social systems
- Scalable data-centric wireless network architecture
- Information-centric networking for MSN
- Heterogeneous wireless 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 
- Interoperability between future wireless networks and MSN
- Emerging MSN applications and services
- System prototypes, real deployments and experimentation
- Social and media analysis
- Big data analytics in MSN
- Large-scale social data computing
- Data mining and machine learning techniques for MSN
- Recommendation and inference techniques 
- Pattern recognition and trend prediction algorithms 
- Analysis and mining for location-based social data
- Social network modeling and issues
- Processing of social media stream
- Cloud computing for MSN
- Trust and reputation modeling
- Security and privacy in MSN

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission Deadline: 20 April 2016 (extends to 30 April 2016)
Notification Date: 1 June 2016
Camera-ready Paper Due: 10 June 2016
Registration Due: 10 June 2016
Workshop Date: 27-29 July 2016


PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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The workshop seeks for novel, previously unpublished papers. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures and references without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over-length page charge if accepted). More submission details can be found at http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/hw389/msncom2016/submission.html. 
Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper for the conference.