The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Social Networking and Computing (MSNCom-2017) is held in conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom-2017), 21-23 June, Exeter, UK, 2017.

Overview
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The goal of the MSNCom-2017 (2nd 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-2017 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
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Architecture of mobile social systems
Scalable data-centric wireless network architecture
Information-centric networking for 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
Data mining and machine learning techniques for MSN
Recommendation and inference techniques
Pattern recognition and trend prediction algorithms
Analysis and mining for location-based social data
Social network modeling and issues
Processing of social media stream
Cloud computing for MSN
Trust and reputation modeling
Security and privacy in MSN

Important Dates
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Firm Submission Deadline: 12 April 2017
Authors Notification: 22 April 2017
Camera-Ready Paper Due: 15 May 2017
Early Registration Due: 15 May 2017
Conference Date: 21-23 June 2017

Submission details
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The workshop seeks for novel, previously unpublished papers.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-2017 website.
http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/hw389/msncom2017/submission.html

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
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MSNCom-2017 website:
http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/hw389/msncom2017/

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