Call For Papers

Overview

The goal of the MSNCom-2015 (2015 International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing) 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 Include
  • 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

  • Important Dates

    Submission Deadline: 15 July, 2015 (Firm Dealine 31 July 2015)
    Authors Notification: 15 August 2015
    Final Manuscript Due: 15 September 2015
    Registration Due: 15 September 2015
    Conference Date: 26-28 October 2015

    Submission details

    We solicit original and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference. All papers will be reviewed by the MSNCom-2015 Program Committee for significance, originality, accuracy, and clarity. Each paper is limited to 6 pages (or 8 pages with over length charge), including figures and references (see the IEEE Proceedings Author Guidelines: here). For detailed submission instructions, please visit the workshop website: MSNCom-2015.
    Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). If the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work.

    Contact Information

    MSNCom-2015 website:
    http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/msncom2015/

    For further questions, please contact us through:
    Workshop email address: MSNComWorkshop@gmail.com
    or via
    Haozhe Wang, University of Exeter, UK
    Email: hw389@exeter.ac.uk