CALL FOR PAPERS - Soft Computing journal (Springer)
Special Issue on Intelligent Analytics and Management of Mobile Data and Social Media

In the past decade, we have witnessed the explosive growth of mobile devices, including notebooks, smartphones, sensors, tablets and wearable devices, and social media that allows the creation and exchange of user-generated content, such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, to name a few. Now we are experiencing the blending of these two technologies, forming a widely adopted platform that reshapes nearly all aspects of our daily life, e.g., the way we connect people, doing business, entertaining, etc. This inspires enterprises to seek new business models and provides them greater opportunities than ever before to understand their customers, competitors, marketing trend by analyzing and managing data collected or created during the usage of mobile services and social media. However, specific characteristics of these data and media, like high variance in quality and usability, large volume, high velocity, and low permanence make most contemporary data analysis and managing tools awkward to meet the enterprises’ expectations.

This special issue provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from communities of artificial intelligence, data analytics, mobile computing and social networks to share their ideas, innovations, research achievements and solutions in fostering the advancement of intelligent data analytics and management of mobile data and social media. We solicit original, unpublished, and innovative research work on applying any intelligent technologies and methods to all aspects around the theme of this special issue.

Topics of interest (but not limited to):
‧ Approaches and methods for dealing with big data issues
‧ Approaches and methods for monitoring, retrieval, and analysis of social media
‧ Approaches and methods in storage and management of mobile data and social media
‧ Energy-efficient processing and analysis of mobile data and social media
‧ High performance and scalable computing methods
‧ Privacy, security, and trust issues in data collection and dissemination
‧ Real-time processing and analytics of mobile and social media
‧ Real world applications of mobile data and social media analytics

Submission instructions:
Please submit manuscripts to the special issue through the Soft Computing paper submission website at
http://www.editorialmanager.com/soco/
Authors should prepare the manuscripts according to the Instructions for Authors available at
http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/500
Please select “SI: Intelligent Analytics and Management of Mobile Data and Social Media” when reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed following the Soft Computing reviewing procedures.

Tentative Timetable:
Paper submission: February 28, 2015
Initial feedback to authors: April 30, 2015
Final acceptance notification: August 31, 2015
Final reception of accepted papers: September 30, 2015

Guest Editors:
Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, wylin@nuk.edu.tw
Hsin-Chang Yang, National University of Kaohsiung, yanghc@nuk.edu.tw
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, tphong@nuk.edu.tw
Leon S.L. Wang, National University of Kaohsiung, slwang@nuk.edu.tw