In conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity-2018) 28-30 June 2018, Exeter, UK

Overview
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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
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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

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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The workshop seeks for novel, previously unpublished papers. More submission details can be found at http://hpcn.ex.ac.uk/msncom2018/submission.html.

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI).