Important Dates
Submission Deadline:
15 July, 2015 (firm deadline: 31 July 2015)
Authors Notification:
17 August, 2015
Final Manuscript Due:
15 September, 2015 Registraitno Due:
15 September, 2015
Conference Date:
26-28 October, 2015

Sponsors

2015 International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing
(MSNCom-2015)


*** Firm Submission Deadline: 31 July 2015 (GMT) ***

To be held in conjunction with the 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT-2015)

26-28 October 2015, Liverpool, UK


MSNCom-2015 is organized by the EU FP7 CLIMBER project (Cross-Layer Investigation and Integration of Computing and Networking Aspects of Mobile Social Networks) under Grant Agreement No. PIRSES-GA-2012-318939.

Focus of the Workshop

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 behavior 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 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, mobile computing, mobile social services and applications, social big data analysis, social knowledge mining, security and privacy, and other related areas. The goal of the workshop is to bring the research community and industry practitioners together and foster a cross-disciplinary scientific forum. In addition to building a premier publication venue that features high quality research, MSNCom-2015 provides unique opportunities for researchers from academia and industry to interact, share new results, and discuss emerging directions focused around the study of mobile social networking and computing.

Topics of Interest

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

  • Network architecture for mobile social systems
  • Heterogeneous wireless networks
  • Mobile IP 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
  • Cyber-physical and interactive systems for MSNs
  • Emerging MSN applications and services
  • System prototypes, real deployments and experimentation
  • Management of MSN big data
  • Storing, indexing and querying of large-scale social data
  • Novel data mining and machine learning techniques for MSN
  • Novel recommendation and inference techniques
  • Pattern recognition and trend prediction algorithms
  • Analysis and mining for location-based social data
  • Modeling mobile social networks and user behaviour
  • Processing of social media stream
  • Cloud computing for MSN
  • Trust and reputation modeling in mobile social systems
  • Security and privacy in MSN

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