**************************************************************************** The First International Workshop on Mobile and Social Computing (MoSCom'14) in conjunction with 2014 World Ubiquitous Science Congress (U-Science 2014) August 24-27 2014, Dalian, China http://anss.org.au/moscom ****************************************************************************
Workshop Outline ================ With the rapidly increasing popularity of handheld and wearable computing devices, the boundaries between physical and virtual lives are blurring as people are connected to online social networks anytime and anywhere. The exciting trend brings great opportunities and challenges for disruptive innovations in existing computing paradigms. MoSoCom aims to provide a cutting edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and professionals from academia, industry and government. The workshop will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to mobile and social computing, such as social network analysis, mobile computing technology, data mining, trend prediction, social recommendation, mobile cloud, innovative mobile application, security and privacy. MoSCom will be held on August 24-27 2014 in Dalian, China, in conjunction with 2014 World Ubiquitous Science Congress (U-Science 2014, http://action.dlmu.edu.cn/uscience/) and also co-located with the 14th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2014, http://action.dlmu.edu.cn/ica3pp2014). Topics ====== The MoSCom 2014 workshop seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and social computing. We invite submissions on a wide range of related research, including, but not limited to: - Location-based computing - User and group mobility modelling - Data mining and pattern recognition in mobile social networks - Graph analysis and mining - Recommendation in mobile social networks - Detection, measurement and analysis of Mobile social structure and communities - Mobile social sensing and crowd sourcing - Security and privacy in mobile social networks - Trust and reputation in mobile social networks - Mobile social data collection, anonomysation, storage and sharing - Mobile social data analysis and visualisation - Energy efficient strategy for MSN - Energy efficiency issues in designing socially-aware mobile systems; - Network architecture design for large scale mobile social computing - Mobile clouds - Mobile social games - Protocols and algorithms for mobile social applications - Mobile traffic analysis and modelling - Identification of mobile applications - User studies and experiences - Deployment and testing of mobile social systems Important Dates =============== Paper submission: May 10, 2014 Notification: June 5, 2014 Camera ready: June 30, 2014 Registration: June 30, 2014 Workshop: August 24-27, 2014 Instructions for authors ======================== Papers are solicited in the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns and single-spaced) with up to six (6) pages, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. Check the formatting instructions and templates through the following link: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through the MoSCom 2014 submission page in Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moscom2014. All submissions must be original unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). Authors (at least one) of any accepted paper are requested to register at the conference. Journal Special Issues ====================== Selected best and outstanding papers will be considered for publication in special issues of the following high quality international journals. 1. International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering (SCI index) 2. Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing (SCI index) Workshop Organisation ===================== General Chairs -------------- Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia Yi Xie, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Program Chair ------------- Jun Zhang, Deakin University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Central South University, China Silvio Cesare, Qualys International, Australia Hanhua Chen, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Mohammad Sayad Haghighi, Macquarie University, Australia/Iran Telecom Research Center, Iran Wei Wang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Bailin Xie, Cisco School of Informatics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China Contact Information =================== For further information regarding to the workshop, please send email to [email protected].
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