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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 2013 IEEE International Workshop on </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Big Data Analytics in Mobile Social Networks (BigMSN)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <a href="http://asia2013.cloudcom.org/BigMSN2013" target="_blank">http://asia2013.cloudcom.org/BigMSN2013</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> to be held on December 16-19, 2013, Fuzhou, China</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
in conjunction with CloudCom-Asia 2013 </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">==============================================================</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important dates:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Submission Deadline (Extended): Sept. 25, 2013</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Notification of Acceptance: Oct. 11, 2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Camera-ready: Oct. 25, 2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* Author registration: Oct. 25, 2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">As smart phones, global positioning systems, and Web 2.0 technologies become prevalent, mobile social networks (MSN), including location based social networks, are getting popular, e.g., Foursquare, BrightKite, Jiepang, Facebook, Google+, Flickr, Wechat all offer location sharing services. MSN bridge the physical and virtual worlds by enabling anytime anywhere social interaction and geotagging any user generated content. It is believed that various application domains will be benefited from analyzing the data from MSN, such as business services, health care, disaster management, smart cities, etc.. However, since they reflect the daily social lives of billions of people, MSN data are not only of vast amount, but also with characteristics distinguished from general big data: 1) complex network structures from the social dimension; 2) sparse or coarse trajectories from the spatial dimension; 3) subjective bias from human factors. Therefore it is imperative to develop sophisticated and scalable analyzing techniques for extracting meaningful information from MSN Data. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">To address these concerns, the workshop BigMSN 2013 is intended to provide a forum for researchers to present their researches related to big data analytics in MSN. We solicit technical papers of topics including but not limited to:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Location estimation / prediction from MSN data</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* User / group mobility modeling</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* Activity / emotion / opinion recognition from MSN data</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Data mining / machine learning / pattern recognition in MSN</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* Algorithms for mobile / crowd / participatory sensing</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Social structure and community detection in MSN</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* Dynamics and evolution of MSN</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Storing and querying of large scale graph / spatial data</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Location based personalized search / recommendation</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Energy / bandwidth / time efficient strategy for MSN</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Security, privacy, trust and reputation in MSN</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Software architecture for MSN data analytics lifecycle</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Visualization of MSN data</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* Innovative location-based services and applications</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* User studies and experiences</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Interested authors can submit full papers of 6 pages in IEEE Computer Society Proceedings format to<a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=bigmsn2013" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=bigmsn2013</a>. Each paper will receive at least 3 peer reviews. Accepted papers will be included in the CloudCom-Asia workshop proceedings (EI-Indexed), published by IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one author of each accepted paper should register as a participant and present the paper on the workshop. Extended versions of distinguished papers will be invited for publication in special issues of reputable international journals:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (SCI, EI)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier) (SCI, EI)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Automated Software Engineering (Springer) (SCI, EI)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Journal of Internet Technology (SCIE, EI)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshop Chairs:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* Zhiyong Yu, Fuzhou University, China</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Sarah Gallacher, University College London, UK</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshop Vice-chair:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Daqiang Zhang, Tongji University, China</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Technical Program Committee: </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Chris Smith-Clarke, University College London, UK</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Damian Philipp, University of Stuttgart, Germany</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Daqiang Zhang, Tongji University, China</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* De-Nian Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* Dingqi Yang, Institut Mines-Telecom, France</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Eskindir Asmare, Imperial College London, UK</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Haoyi Xiong, Institut Mines-Telecom, France</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Kazutoshi Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Pravin Shankar, Green Dot Corporation, USA </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Santi Phithakkitnukoon, The Open University, UK </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Sarah Gallacher, University College London, UK</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Shijian Li, Zhejiang University, China</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* Xiangwen Liao, Fuzhou University, China</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Xiaodi Huang, Charles Sturt University, Australia</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Xiaofei Liao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Xufei Wang, LinkedIn Corporation, USA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Zhiyong Yu, Fuzhou University, China</div></div></div>
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