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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="m_-3771582219816673699_OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,255)">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email]</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,255)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">**************************** MSNCom-2018 CFP ***************************<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(MSNCom-2018)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">In conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity-2018)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> 28-30 June 2018, Exeter, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Workshop website: </span></font><span class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></span><a href="http://hpcn.ex.ac.uk/msncom2018/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://hpcn.ex.ac.<wbr>uk/msncom2018/</span></a></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoPlainText" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">*** The paper submission deadline is extended to 1 April 2018 ***<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoPlainText" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoPlainText" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">========================<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">With the rapid development of broadband wireless networks and location sensing technologies, Mobile Social Networks (<span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_59 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-ContextualSpelling gmail-ins-del gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-59" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">MSNs</span>) pervade many aspects of our daily lives. By incorporating the spatial dimension with<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_75 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Grammar gmail-only-ins gmail-doubleReplace gmail-replaceWithoutSep" id="gmail-75" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">social</span><span> </span>dimension,<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_61 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-ContextualSpelling gmail-ins-del gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-61" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">MSNs</span><span> </span>foster many interesting and valuable applications and analysis, such as location recommendation service, personal<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_60 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-ContextualSpelling gmail-ins-del" id="gmail-60" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">health care</span>, 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<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_79 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Grammar gmail-only-ins gmail-doubleReplace gmail-replaceWithoutSep" id="gmail-79" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">massive</span><span> </span>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.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_56 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-ContextualSpelling gmail-ins-del gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-56" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">MSNCom</span><span> </span>workshop is organised with this challenge in mind, aiming to address a wide spectrum of research challenges and key issues in<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_57 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-ContextualSpelling gmail-ins-del gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-57" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">MSNs</span>. 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.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_58 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-ContextualSpelling gmail-ins-del gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-58" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">MSNCom</span>-2018 will continue the success of MSNCom-2017 and MSNCom-2015 which were held in Exeter and 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<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_74 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Grammar gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-74" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">around</span><span> </span>mobile social networking and computing.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">TOPICS OF INTERESTS</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>====================<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The topics of interests related to this workshop include, but are not limited to:<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Architecture of mobile social systems<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scalable data-centric wireless network architecture<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Future Internet for MSN<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Machine learning techniques for MSN<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Information-centric networking for MSN<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Quality-of-Experience in MSN<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Heterogeneous wireless networks in 5G<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Multimedia communications over wireless<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cross-layer design and network optimisation for MSN<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Green wireless network architectures and energy-efficient communications<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mobile and wearable social networks and systems<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Performance evaluation of social media, services and systems<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interoperability between future wireless networks and MSN<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Emerging MSN applications and services<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">System prototypes, real deployments and experimentation<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Social and media analysis<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data analytics in MSN<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Large-scale social data computing<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Recommendation and inference techniques<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pattern recognition and trend prediction algorithms<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Analysis and mining for location-based social data<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Social network modelling and issues<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Processing of social media stream<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cloud computing for MSN<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Trust and reputation modelling<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security and privacy in MSN</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>==================<span></span></span></p><div align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><table class="gmail-m_-3771582219816673699gmail-MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:528px"><tbody><tr><td width="38%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:201.2px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Deadline:<span></span></span></b></p></td><td width="60%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:315.6px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">1 April 2018<span></span></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:201.2px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors Notification:<span></span></span></b></p></td><td width="60%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:315.6px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">25 April 2018</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:201.2px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-ready Paper Due:<span></span></span></b></p></td><td width="60%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:315.6px;background:white;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">22 May 2018</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:201.2px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Registration Due:<span></span></span></b></p></td><td width="60%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:315.6px;background:white;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">25 May 2018</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:201.2px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop Date:<span></span></span></b></p></td><td width="60%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:315.6px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">28-30 June 2018</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:201.2px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p></td><td width="60%" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;width:315.6px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>=============================<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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 at<span> </span></span><a href="http://hpcn.ex.ac.uk/msncom2018/submission.html" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://hpcn.ex.ac.uk/<wbr>msncom2018/submission.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Once accepted, the paper will be included<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_71 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Grammar gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-71" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">into</span><span> </span>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.<span></span></span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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