SN4MS 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Social Network for Mobility Services (SN4MS)

The SN4MS workshop aims at sharing theoretical, experimental and operational results in the innovative conception and development of Social Network based and Peer-to-peer oriented mobility services. In particular, both Social Networks based and Peer-to-peer oriented
applications will be addressed, such as Dynamic and Multi-scaled Mobility Services based on wireless communications. So, both modern smartphones and multi-communication embedded systems operating within or in relation with a peer-to-peer, or centralized and monitored, shared mobility services are instrumental in the conception and development of innovative applications. Shared mobility services include dynamic car-pooling, or car sharing, or ressource sharing when engaged in a real-time mobility information process, or in a real-time mobility management process. Therin, social networks involved are, not only active in a static use of Internet application, but also in a dynamic and mobile Internet application, and even more in a peer-to-peer application web-service oriented which may involved embedded and native smartphone applications.
The lesson learned conceiving, developping and maintaining such applications are particularly exposed to real-life environmental perturbations, unreliable wireless medium of communication, high mobility versatility.
This poses extraordinary challenges to both the designers and the research community who attempt to provide real-time and multi-scaled social network based applications. Targeted applications may be sharing mobility application in global and public transportation policy, services and systems, but not only. Then simulation frameworks, emulation's one, such as optimizing's one may complete the tool set to address multi-scaled mobility services, from individual or collective human mobility to large-scale RF-Mems mobility.
Novel papers are invited from both academic and industrial research environments, describing original theoretical or empirical results, new technicals, or in-depth user studies on a series of social network based mobility services topics together towards smart and mutualized mobility, including but not limited to:
- Wireless smartphone or internet mobile enhanced organization,optimization, simulation, emulation, tracking, real-time transportation management
- Mobility, Transport, resource planning and optimisation,
- Smart mobilities, robust and flexible cooperative mobility or services
- Simulation, emulation, real-world testbeds and commercial experiences
- Degradable wireless communication
- Privacy, confidentiality, awareness, discrete to continuous wireless services
- Service usage and user assistance
- ICT contextually positionning based services or applications
- peer-to-peer positionning services, peer-to-peer contextual services
- Innovative applications enabled by human mobility for other disciplines, such as sociology or environmental sciences
- Inspiring mobile social applications and services (Social-On-The-Go)
- Mobile social networks for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
- Mobile applications for social sciences and large data collection enabled by human mobility and crowdsourcing