<div dir="ltr">(Please accept our apologies for cross-posting)<table class="gmail-MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:531px"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,64)">The Fourth International Workshop on Online Social Networks Technologies (OSNT-2018)<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,64)"><a href="http://emergingtechnet.org/OSNT2018/default.php">http://emergingtechnet.org/OSNT2018/default.php</a><span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,64)">in conjunction with</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2018/index.php" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(41,145,214)">The Fifth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2018)</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,64)"><span> </span><br><br>Valencia, Spain. October 15-18, 2018</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span></span></span></p></td><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">                <span></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The explosion of the Internet helps the social networking concept to become real, and to be a tool to connect people worldwide in ways that were previously impossible. The Internet’s first generation (Web 1.0) consisted of static pages instead of dynamic HTML, and the presented content to the user is served from a server's file system instead of a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). The second generation (Web 2.0) encouraged users to share information and interact and collaborate with each other by posting their user-generated contents in virtual communities. The development of Web 2.0 allowed many new social networking sites to flourish such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google Plus+, Tumblr, Instagram, VK, Flickr, Vine, and many others. Such Online Social Networks (OSN) provide a wealth of raw data that is invaluable to governments, companies, universities, etc. The large scale of such networks presents a challenge to providers just to keep them running smoothly. It also presents a challenge to researchers wanting to analyze the data collected from such networks. These challenges contributed to the rise of important of important fields such as big data. The objective of this workshop is to provide general guidelines on the current and future trends in online social network technologies. Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,64)">Topics of interest<span> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">==============<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="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Social network analysis (SNA)<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Online Social Networks Mining<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Security in Online Social Networks<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Architecture and growth of Online Social Networks<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Social networks visualization and large scale data representation<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Online Social Networks and Big Data<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Online Social Networks and SNA tools and services on the Cloud<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Location-based OSN and other geographical aspects of OSN<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Society Impact of Online Social Networks<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Community formation, analysis and detection in Online Social Networks<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>   <span> </span></span>Anomaly detection in Online Social Networks evolution<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Recommender systems and Online Social Networks<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Emerging technologies in Big Data and Social Networking<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Management Issues of Social Network Big Data<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Security challenges in Big Data and Social networks<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Social Network and Big Data Analytics<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Network Infrastructure for Social Networking and Big Data<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Social Networks Monitoring Tools as a Service<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times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t submissions should be emailed to: <a href="mailto:emergingtechnetwork@gmail.com">emergingtechnetwork@gmail.com</a></span></p></div>