Special Issue on Infrastructures for Online Social Networking Services

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Deadline: September 01, 2011 | Date: June 01, 2012

Venue/Country: Call for Papers, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-06-02 22:33:23 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Infrastructures for Online Social

Networking Services (May/June 2012)

Final submissions due 1 September 2011

Please email the guest editors a brief description of the article you

plan to submit by 15 August 2011

Guest Editors: Anwitaman Datta, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Seif Haridi, and

Liviu Iftode (ic3_2012computer.org)

The proliferation of rich social media, online communities, and

collectively produced knowledge resources has accelerated the

convergence of technological and social networks, resulting in a

dynamic ecosystem of online social networking (OSN) services,

environments, and applications. OSN sitesÕ success is reshaping the

InternetÕs structure, design, and utility. Furthermore, itÕs creating

numerous challenges and opportunities for the development, deployment,

management, and operation of scalable, secure, interoperable OSN

infrastructures that can sustain a cycle of innovative application

development, improved end-user experience, high-quality service

provision, privacy protection, and a healthy market expansion.

This special issue seeks recent research results in systems, software,

and services that provide novel ubiquitous, scalable, secure, and

trustworthy OSN infrastructures. Topics of interest include

* architectures, algorithms, and protocols for scalable and

trustworthy OSN infrastructures;

* infrastructure support for security, privacy, and personalization;

* software platforms for social-networking-centric applications and services;

* storage systems and data management issues;

* infrastructures for mining OSN data and social interactions;

* infrastructures for measuring and monitoring social networks and activities;

* OSN infrastructures for mobile devices, vehicular networks, and

location-based services;

* innovative social-networking-centric applications and services; and

* adaptivity and self-management in OSN infrastructures and services.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000

words, focused on Internet technologies and implementations. All

manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and

relevance to IC's international readership - primarily system and

software design engineers. We do not accept white papers, and we

discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers. To submit a

manuscript, please log on to ScholarOne

(https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:443/ic-cs) to create or access an

account, which you can use to log on to ICÕs Author Center and upload

your submission.