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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 ************************************************************************ 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 Department of Computer Science: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk HKBU Faculty of Science: http://www.sci.hkbu.edu.hk Disclaimer: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/disclaimer _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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