Call For Papers

Overview

The goal of the MSNCom-2018 (the 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing) 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-2018 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
  • Architecture of mobile social systems
  • Scalable data-centric wireless network architecture
  • Future Internet for MSN
  • Machine learning techniques for MSN
  • Information-centric networking for MSN
  • Quality-of-Experience in MSN
  • Heterogeneous wireless networks in 5G
  • 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
  • Interoperability between future wireless networks and MSN
  • Emerging MSN applications and services
  • System prototypes, real deployments and experimentation
  • Social and media analysis
  • Big data analytics in MSN
  • Large-scale social data computing
  • Recommendation and inference techniques
  • Pattern recognition and trend prediction algorithms
  • Analysis and mining for location-based social data
  • Social network modelling and issues
  • Processing of social media stream
  • Cloud computing for MSN
  • Trust and reputation modelling
  • Security and privacy in MSN

    • Important Dates

    Submission Deadline: 15 April 2018
    Authors Notification: 30 April 2018
    Camera-Ready Paper Due: 22 May 2018
    Early Registration Due: 22 May 2018
    Conference Date: 28-30 June 2018

    Submission details

    The workshop seeks for novel, previously unpublished papers.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 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 MSNCom-2018 website.
    Once accepted, the paper will be included into 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.

    Contact Information

    MSNCom-2018 website:
    http://hpcn.ex.ac.uk/msncom2018

    For further questions, please contact us through:
    Workshop email address: msncom.submission@gmail.com
    or
    Dr. Haozhe Wang, University of Exeter, UK
    Email: H.Wang3@exeter.ac.uk

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