[agents] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing (MSNCom-2017), 21-23 June 2017

[Haozhe Wang]

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****************** MSNCom-2017 CFP **********************

*The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing*

*(**MSNCom-2017* <http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/hw389/msncom2017>*)*


to be held in conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on
Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom-2017), Exeter, UK, 21-23 June
2017


Workshop website: http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/hw389/msncom2017/


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
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 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-2017 will continue the success of MSNCom-2015 which was 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
====================

The topics of interests related to this workshop include, but are not
limited to:

·      Architecture of mobile social systems

·      Scalable data-centric wireless network architecture

·      Information-centric networking for MSN

·      Heterogeneous wireless networks in 5G

·      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 modelling and issues

·      Processing of social media stream

·      Cloud computing for MSN

·      Trust and reputation modelling

·      Security and privacy in MSN



IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline:

15 March 2017

Authors Notification:

22 Arpil 2017

Camera-ready Paper Due:

15 May 2017

Registration Due:

15 May 2017

Workshop Date:

21-23 June 2017





PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
=============================

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 2 additional page with
over-length page charge if accepted). More submission details can be found
athttp://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/hw389/msncom2017/submission.html.

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 for the workshop.