DASPhone 2014 - The Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Data Applications Workshop (DASPhone)

Workshop proposal: Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Data Applications
Organizing Chairs: Roberto Rojas-Cessa and Ziqian Dong.
1. Tentative Call for Papers
Workshop on Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Applications
In the recent years, smartphones have undertaken unprecedented spread through almost every community around the globe. At the same time, smartphones are becoming the overarching communications device, enabling the transport of personal and private information anywhere and anytime, and the creation of new social means of massive and personal communications. These capabilities also create security risks that need to be considered for allowing the continuous growth of mobile and smart applications. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to practitioners, researchers, and industry to discuss topics on data analysis, technologies, and research on approaches that enabling new paradigms for social networks, and security of data, devices, and infrastructure for smartphones.
The workshop seek manuscript in the following topics:
- Secure mobile protocols
- Near Field Communications
- New Secure Applications
- Location services
- Social Networking
- Data analysis of social networks and mass communications
- Secure Over-the-Air (OTA) services
- Deployment Experiments
- Billing, Ticketing, and Payment
- Internet-of-Things on Smartphones
- Smartphones and Cloud-Computing Interactions
- Smartphone forensics
- Mobile mesh network
- Mobile and wearable applications on smartphones
- Privacy protection of smartphones
- Smartphone user experience
Accepted paper will be available through IEEE Xplore. Accepted papers must be registered and presented by an author for inclusion to the IEEE Xplorer.
Submissions:
Submission must comply the format required by IEEE WiMob 2014.
Workshop Chairs:
Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology), rojas-AT-njit.edu
Ziqian Dong (New York Institute of Technology), ziqian.dong-AT-nyit.edu
2. Workshop duration: the workshop is expected to take half day, where about 10 papers will be presented.
3. Importance of the topic: Smartphones are taking an unprecedented role in personal, commercial, and mass communications. Their use for new applications, and user reliability depend greatly on capabilities developed for data analysis and security of data transmitted through smartphones. The workshop aims to provide a forum to present state of the art on these topics from and for developers, researchers, and service providers.
4. Likely contributors and audience: It is expected that a large body of contributors come from academia, research companies, and smartphone service providers and manufacturers.
5. Organizing committee:
Chairs: Roberto Rojas-Cessa (NJIT) and Ziqian Dong (NYIT)
TPC: TBA
6. Plan for workshop advertisement beyond the conference page: we are planning to advertise the workshop through mailing lists in the scope of communications, including those of IEEE Communications Society.
7. Assistance in camera ready preparation: We will keep communication with the authors of accepted papers to prepare the final version of the manuscripts. We will collect the paper and give the final list to the Publication Chair of the conference.