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<table class="gmail-m_8362037776216643126gmail-MsoNormalTable" width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;width:982px"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,64)">The 6th International workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security (BDSN 2016)<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,64)"><a href="http://emergingtechnet.org/BDSN2018/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://emergingtechnet.org/<wbr>BDSN2018/</a><span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;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;color:rgb(0,0,64)">in conjunction with</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2018/index.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(41,145,214)">The Fifth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2018)</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,64)"><span> </span><br><br>Valencia, Spain. October 15-18, 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p></td><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);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">Data has always been recognized as an important asset for driving value be it scientific, governmental or for enterprise. The amount of data being generated constantly with high volume, velocity and variety has marked the emergence of "Big Data" as a contemporary research challenge with vast opportunities. In the context of the digital-world, the internet and Social Networks have contributed immensely in generating Big Data pools. Hundreds of millions of people around the globe are nowadays connected using different type of social networks. Big Data and Social Networks become interrelated in the modern computing agenda being both concerned with intensive data. As much opportunities they hold, Big Data and Social Networks come with their own challenges such as management, Security, Processing etc. In order to unlock the potentials of these technologies, innovative solutions are required, which will leverage new models in computing. The 6th International workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of big data and social networking. We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of big data management system, big data security and privacy, cloud computing and big data, social networking and big data analytics, and social networking management and security, to mention but few..<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,64)">Topics of interest<span> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">==============<span> </span><br>Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to:<span></span></span></p><ul type="disc" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and Social Networking concepts and applications<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Emerging technologies in Big Data and Social Networking<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Management Issues of Social Network Big Data<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security challenges in Big Data and Social networks<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Social Network and Big Data Analytics<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Open Source tools for Big Data<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Green Computing for Big Data<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network Infrastructure for Social Networking and Big Data<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Social Networks Monitoring Tools As a Service<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cloud Computing for Big Data and Social Networks<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big Data and the Internet of Things<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big Data Management<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big Data and Decision Making<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Visualization tools for Big Data<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mobile Cloud networks and Big Data<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Social network data analysis tools and services on the Cloud<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Case studies<span></span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,64)">Paper Submission :<span> </span></span></b><a name="m_8362037776216643126__submission" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>=============<span></span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template.<span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines are available at:<span> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submission" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">IEEE Guidelines Link</span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Papers should be submitted as PDF files via:<span> </span></span></span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=anlp2018" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">EasyChair Link</span></span></a><span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);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">Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference. All papers accepted for this conference are peer-reviewed and are to be published in the SNAMS conference proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,64)">Important Dates :<span> </span></span></b><a name="m_8362037776216643126__dates" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>=============<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Full Paper Submission:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">  July 15, 2018<span> </span><br><b>Notification of Decision:</b>  August 25th, 2018<br><b>Camera-Ready and Registration :</b><span> </span>September 5th, 2018<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All questions about submissions should be emailed to:<span> </span><a href="mailto:emergingtechnetwork@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">emergingtechnetwork@gmail.com</a></span></p>

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