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Subject:    [Tccc]  ICDCS-MCSC 2013 Deadline Approaching (March 3, 2013)
From:       "Chu Xiaowen" <chxw () Comp ! HKBU ! Edu ! HK>
Date:       2013-02-28 1:43:54
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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

MCSC 2013  -  The First International Workshop on Mobile Cloud and Social
Computing

 

To be held in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2013
<http://www.temple.edu/cis/icdcs2013/index.html> 

 

Philadelphia, USA, 08-11 July 2013

 

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~chxw/mcsc2013/

 

Important Dates 

 


- Submission Deadline:

Extended to 3 March, 2013


- Acceptance Notification:

17 March, 2013


- Final Manuscript Due:

07 April, 2013

 

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Scope

Wireless mobile networks, smart phones and cloud computing are converging
into the new, rapidly growing field of mobile cloud computing (MCC) enabling
the availability of cloud computing services in a mobile ecosystem. Current
cloud computing architecture, platforms and services need to evolve, by
taking into consideration the specific features of mobile networks that are
different from those of fixed IP networks, to better serve cloud
applications operating over mobile wireless networks and on mobile devices.
Apart from investigating into the mobile IaaS framework, which provides
fundamental, infrastructure-level support to MCC, SaaS (software as a
service) is particularly attractive to mobile applications. This is because
a SaaS can free resource-constrained mobile devices from having many
applications installed and executed on them. On a wider spectrum, any
enabling technologies that come along with a more user-customized and
mobile-device-friendly cloud environment would be of the interest of this
workshop. These technologies may concern various mobile devices including
not only smart phones and tablets but also wirelessly connected sensors.
Issues may include service engineering aspects such as cloud
service/application creation, deployment, adaptation, discovery and
management and also networking aspects such as bandwidth, delay, security
among a massive number of cloud-ready devices. 

In the meanwhile, widely spread social networks are also getting into end
user's mobile phones by offering more customized services with a particular
aid of user's context information (e.g. location information), thus
rendering the so called mobile social networks. The massive information
available on social networks provides good source for human-based computing
or social computing. Outsourcing is an active branch of social computing,
which usually makes use of web tools to collect the wisdom of a group of
distributed people (or crowd) and then aggregate them into a more complete
and accurate conclusion on a certain task. Nowadays, with smart devices
getting as pervasive as the web, outsourcing can take place in a more
mobile, location-aware and thus more realistic world. 

There is also a trend of utilizing cloud computing technologies to enable
more efficient and cost-effective mobile social computing. The goal of this
workshop is to provide a venue to bring together researchers and
practitioners in these two extremely active and rather related areas to
highlight and systematically address the arising challenges. The workshop
welcomes contributions from both academia and industry to disseminate
state-of-the-art concepts and techniques in all aspects of mobile cloud
computing, mobile social computing and their integration. Communication and
network aspects relating to these computing technologies are also important,
particularly with emphasis on mobility and dependability.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 

*	Computing issues in mobile cloud such as overall system
architecture, protocols, algorithms relating to VM (Virtual Machine)
selection, migration, scheduling. 
*	Networking issues in mobile cloud such as network routing, resource
allocation, scheduling, quality of services 
*	Cross-layer issues in mobile cloud computing and networking such as
network-aware cloud and cloud-aware wireless networks 
*	Heterogeneous wireless infrastructure for mobile cloud computing 
*	Media cloud over wireless networks 
*	Implications, opportunities and challenges of social computing
caused by mobile wireless networks and smart mobile devices and their
technical solutions 
*	Crowdsourcing in mobile environment 
*	Sensing for mobile computing 
*	Network-aware modelling, design and development of mobile social
networks 
*	Network-aware social search, data collection, processing, ranking
and recommendation 
*	Network-aware middleware, framework for mobile cloud or mobile
social computing systems 
*	New aspects of security, privacy and trust in mobile cloud and
social computing 
*	Mobile cloud and/or mobile social systems for Internet of Things 
*	Energy efficiency in mobile cloud and/or mobile social computing
systems and networks 
*	Testing and evaluation tools 
*	End-to-end performance evaluation and quality of experience 
*	Prototype systems, real-world deployment experiences, and
standardization 

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished
research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The
length of the papers should not exceed 6 pages with up to 1 overlength page
with extra page charge of $150 (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings
Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, 10-point font, US Letter, no
margin smaller than one inch). All papers will be peer reviewed by the
programme committee and the comments will be provided to the authors. 

To submit your paper, please access EasyChair
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcsc2013> .

Workshop Co-Chairs

Prof. Kun Yang, University of Essex, United Kingdom

Dr. Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Dr. Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications, USA

Prof. Antonio Liotta, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherland

 

Program Committee 

Prof. Xu Ke         Tsinghua University        China

Dr. Ning Wang   University of Surrey       UK

Prof. Fangming Ling        Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China

Prof. Jiangchuan Liu       Simon Fraser University               Canada

Prof. Sergei Gorlatch      University of Muenster                 Germany

Dr. Hang Liu        InterDigital Communications     USA

Dr. Micro Musolesi          University of Birmingham            UK

Prof. Xiang-Yang Li          Illinois Institute of Technology USA

Prof. Jianping Wang       City University of Hong Kong      China

Prof. Song Wu   Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China

Prof. Luigi Atzori              University of Cagliari     Italy

Dr. Carmelo Ragusa        SAP UK Ltd.         UK

Prof. Jian Tang Syracuse University        USA

Prof. Majed Alhaisoi      University of Ha'il            Saudi Arabia 

Prof. Yonggang Wen       Nanyang Technological University
Singapore

Dr. Xiaolong Jin                Institute of Computing Technology, 

Chinese Academy of Sciences   China

Prof. Maria Luisa Merani              University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Italy

Prof. Joan Serrat              Technical University of Catalonia
Spain

Prof. Weiyi Zhang            University of Michigan  USA

Prof. Hongyi Wu               University of Louisiana USA

Prof. Zongpeng Li            University of Calgary      Canada

Dr. Eliane Bodanese       Queen Mary, University of London          UK

Prof. Geyong Min            University of Bradford   UK

Prof. Xiaofei Liao             Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China

 



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