2012 - Special Issue on Infrastructures for Online Social Networking Services

IEEE Internet Computing

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_2012-AT-computer.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
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account, which you can use to log on to ICÕs Author Center and upload
your submission.