Third International Workshop on MObile and NEtworking Technologies for social applications
(MONET?08)

Monterrey, Mexico, 9-14th November, 2008

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag


WORKSHOP THEME

In recent years the research area of social mobile and networking technologies has made rapid progress,
due to the increasing development of new mobile technologies and the widespread usage of the Internet
as a new platform for social interactions.
Social applications of mobile and networking technologies serve groups of people in shared activities,
in particular geographically dispersed groups who are collaborating on some task in a shared context.
An important characteristic of those social applications is the continuous interaction between people
and technology to achieve a common purpose. Again social applications tend to be large-scale and
complex, involving difficult social and policy issues such as those related to privacy and security
access.
Mobile technologies are devoted to play an important role in many areas of social activities, most
likely in those areas where the right data in the right time have mission-critical importance.
Mobile technologies play an essential role in personalizing working and interaction contexts, and
supporting experimentation and innovation.
Social Networking technologies join friends, family members, co-workers and other social communities
together. These technologies are convergent, emerging from a variety of applications such as search
engines and employee evaluation routines while running on equally diverse platforms from server
clusters to wireless phone networks.
The third generation of social networking technologies has hit the Web. This network serve increasingly
significant social functions. Networking technologies have to face emerging problems of robustness,
such as vulnerabilities to reliability and performance due to malicious attack.
Workshop participants can extent their background on this area, exchange ideas with other researchers
and propose new solutions.


OBJECTIVES
The aim of the proposed workshop is to gather researchers, from academia and industry, and
practitioners to discuss about new mobile and networking technologies, to identify challenging problems
that appear in social applications of those technologies and to show results and experiences realized
by researchers. The workshop will be organized in a way to stimulate interaction among the participants.
Shorter position papers may be presented from researchers of all backgrounds, in particular
social-mobile technologies, information networking, human-computer interaction, security and privacy.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:
?Social networking technologies
?Semantic web
?Multi-modal applications
?Mobile and network security and privacy
.Web and mobile accessibility
?Sharing and management of knowledge
?Future social mobile applications
?Wireless telecommunications technologies
?Human-computer interaction
?Online communities and Social Computing
?Innovative technologies to support people?s interaction


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline June 15, 2008
Paper Submission Deadline June 30, 2008
Acceptance Notification August 15, 2008
Camera Ready Due August 25, 2008
Registration Due August 25, 2008
OTM Conferences November 9 - 14, 2008


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness,
and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format
and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format.
Detailed formatting instructions can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS.
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright
rejection of the paper without review.
The paper submission site will be announced later.


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

? Fernando Ferri

Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS)
National Research Council
Via Nizza 128,
00198 Rome, Italy
Phone: +39 06 49932865
Fax: +39 06 85834506
Email: fernando.ferri@irpps.cnr.it

? Irina Kondratova

NRC Institute for Information Technology
National Research Council
46 Dineen Drive
Fredericton, NB E3B 9W4, Canada
Phone: +1 (506) 444-0489
Fax: +1 (506) 452-3859
E-mail: Irina.Kondratova@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

? Arianna D?Ulizia

Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS)
National Research Council
Via Nizza 128,
00198 Rome, Italy
Phone: +39 06 49932707
Fax: +39 06 85834506
Email: arianna.dulizia@irpps.cnr.it

? Patrizia Grifoni

Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS)
National Research Council
Via Nizza 128,
00198 Rome, Italy
Phone: +39 06 49932704
Fax: +39 06 85834506
Email: patrizia.grifoni@irpps.cnr.it

Program Committee Members

? Kevin C. Almeroth ? University of California, USA
? Frederic Andres - University of Aizu, Japan
? Russell Beale - University of Birmingham, UK
? Yiwei Cao - RWTH Aachen University, Germany
? Tiziana Catarci - University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
? Richard Chbeir - Bourgogne University , France
? Karin Coninx - Hasselt University, Belgium
? Simon Courtenage - School of Informatics, University of Westminster, UK
? Juan De Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
? Anna Formica - Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica CNR, Rome, Italy
? C.-C. Jay Kuo - University of Southern California, USA
? Peter Leijdekkers - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
? Stephen Marsh - NRC Institute for Information Technology of Moncton, Canada
? Rebecca Montanari - Dipartimento di elettronica, Informatica, Sistemistica, University of Bologna, Italy
? Michele Missikoff - Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica CNR, Rome, Italy
? Nuria Oliver - Telefonica R&D, Spain
? Marco Padula - Istituto di Tecnologia delle Costruzioni CNR, Milan, Italy
? Manish Parashar - The State University of New Jersey, USA
? Andrew Phippen - University of Plymouth, UK
? Tommo Reti - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
? Ahmed M. Safwat - Queen?s University of Kingston, Canada
? Nicola Santoro ? Carleton University, Canada
? Tim Strayer - Internetwork Research, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, USA
? Henri Ter Hofte - Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands
? Thanassis Tiropanis - School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK
? Yoshito Tobe - Tokyo Denki University, Japan
? Riccardo Torlone - University of Rome RomaTre, Italy
? Mikael Wiberg - Department of Informatics, Umea University, Sweden