Special Sessions
Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers to various Special Sessions. All submitted papers of Special Sessions will undergo the same review process (three completed reviews per paper). The technical reviewers for each Special Session paper will be members of CoCoNet'15 and Special Sessions' Program Committee.
Authors should submit their papers online using EDAS. Unregistered authors should first create an account on EDAS to log on. Further guidelines for submission are posted at Call for Papers and Submisison pages. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
| Mobile Social Networks | Advances in Big Data Computing |
| Recent Trends in Mobile Cloud Computing | Secure Network Protocols |
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Application of Metaheuristic Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks |
Special Session: Mobile Social Networks
People increasingly use mobile social networks to alter the ways they come together and interact in public space. Mobile social networks enable users to connect with others and share information, images, content, and news. Accordingly, a mobile social network can be defined as the user's patterns of interconnection with others emerging through the social use of mobile devices. This situation has incited extensive recent research interest on mobile social networks.
This special session will focus on the following subjects of interest, as well as related issues:
- Affective Computing by Social Media
- Analysis and Mining of Location-Based Social Networks
- Competitive Viral Marketing
- Contextual Mobile Social Network Analysis
- Distributed Graph Processing
- Dynamics and Evolution Patterns of Social Networks
- Identification and Avoidance of False Information in Social Media
- Identity and Simulation of Social Networks
- Inference and Knowledge Discovery with Big Mobile Data
- Influence Models and their Application in Social Environment
- Innovative Mobile Social Networking Applications
- Interoperability of Social Applications
- Link Analysis and Network Structure Discovery
- Machine Learning and Data Mining for Social Media
- Measuring Predictability of Real World Phenomena Based on Social Media
- Recommender and Collaborative Filtering Systems
- Scalability of Social Networks
- Security, Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Mobile Social Networks
- Understanding Social Content and Dynamics from Social Media
Special Session: Advances in Big Data Computing
Big Data Computing is perhaps the biggest innovation in computing in the last decade. It is already a key player for enterprises, but the sheer volume and massive complexity of data can be overwhelming. The computer scientists are involved to develop of new tools and techniques that are required to manage, analyze, and extract useful information from these large, diverse, distributed and heterogeneous data sets to offer solutions for various challenges. This special session on "Big Data Computing" will provide a dedicated forum for discussing new research, development, and deployment efforts on big data computing and related areas.
We invite authors to submit original and unpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore various challenging topics which include, but are not limited to:
- Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search
- Big Data Analytics in e-Government and Society
- Big Data as a Service
- Big Data Classification Techniques
- Big Data Clustering Algorithms
- Big Data Mining and Security Intelligence
- Big Data on HPC, Cloud, and Grid computing infrastructures
- Big Data Processing in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Cloud Architecture for Big Data
- Data Preservation and Provenance
- Data-Intensive Computing
- Green Big Data Computing
- Large Scale Analytics and Optimization
- Large-Scale Analytical Query Processing
- Mobility and Big Data
- Multimedia and Multi-Structured Data
- Novel Statistical Techniques for Big Data
- Optimizing Big Data with Search
- Parallel and Distributed Machine Learning
- Power-aware Algorithms for Big Data
- Query Processing, Data Modeling, and Analysis
- Scalable Mining of Heterogeneous Social and Information Networks
- Scientific Computing with Big Data
- Security, Privacy and Trust
- Socio-economical Aspect of Big Data
- Visualization for Big Data
- Wireless and Mobility Support in Cloud Data Centre for Big Data
Special Session: Recent Trends in Mobile Cloud Computing
Mobile Cloud Computing represents one of the latest developments in cloud computing advancement. The ultimate goal of mobile cloud computing is to provide rich mobile computing through seamless communication between cloud-mobile users and cloud providers regardless of heterogeneous, wireless environments and underlying platforms in global roaming. However, this area faces several challenges due to converged heterogeneous domains of mobile and cloud computing. The special session on "Recent Trends in Mobile Cloud Computing" aims to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to share ideas, experiences, and practical implementations related to mobile cloud computing technologies and applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cloud-Based Radio Access Networks
- Communication Networks for Mobile Cloud Computing
- Cooperative Communications for Mobile Cloud Computing
- Cross-Layer Design and Optimization for Mobile Cloud Computing
- Disaster Recovery in Mobile Clouds
- Economic, Social and Environmental Impact of Mobile Clouds
- Information Theory for Mobile Cloud Computing
- Mobile Big Data Computing Models
- Mobile Cloud Computing Architecture and Designs
- Mobile Cloud Monitoring and Management
- Mobile Cloud Software Architecture
- Mobile Device Virtualization
- Mobile Multimedia Content Delivery, Transferring, And Migration
- Mobile Vehicular Clouds
- Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Mobile Cloud Computing
- Performance Evaluation of Mobile Cloud Computing and Networks
- PHY, MAC, Routing and Transport Protocols for Mobile Cloud Computing
- Pricing and Billing For Mobile Cloud Computing Services
- Resource Management, Provisioning, and Migration
- Scalability of Mobile Cloud Networks
- Security and Privacy of Mobile Cloud Computing
- Self-Organizing Mobile Clouds
- Signal Processing for Mobile Cloud Computing Networks
- Trends and Challenges of Mobile Cloud Computing
Special Session: Secure Network Protocols
Secure Network Protocols define the processes and methodology to secure network data from any illegitimate attempt to review or extract the contents of data. The special session on Secure Network Protocols aims to bring together all the key researchers in related fields to present their cutting edge work and discuss the future directions of research.
- Vulnerabilities of Existing Protocols and Applications
- Design of New Secure or Resilient Network Protocols
- Security Enhancements to Existing Networking Protocols
- Deployment Study of Secure Protocols on the Internet
- Security in Future Internet Architectures
- Key Distribution/Management
- Intrusion Detection and Response
- Incentive Systems for P2P Systems and MANET Routing
- Secure Protocol Configuration and Deployment
- Challenges and Security Protocols for Social Networks
- Secure Channel Establishment in Disadvantaged Networks
- Network Forensics
Special Session: Application of Metaheuristic Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained worldwide attention in recent years due to their potential for applications in scenarios such as military target tracking and surveillance, natural disaster relief, biomedical health monitoring, hazardous environment exploration and seismic sensing. Metaheuristic algorithms like PSO, ACO, Simulated Annealing etc have been found efficient in solving many optimization problems related to WSNs. For instance, they have been deployed for optimal node localization, energy distribution, coverage, topology control, routing, channel scheduling and improving life time of WSNs. As WSNs are become increasingly pervasive and uncertain, the application of metaheuristic algorithms paves way for countering various constrained optimization problems, thus becoming an evolving research area.
- Adaptive Routing
- Channel Assignment Methods
- Connectivity
- Coverage and Scheduling Techniques
- Cross-Layer Mac Optimization
- Data Gathering
- Density Control
- Deployment
- Distributed Beamforming
- Dynamic Power Management
- Energy Consumption Optimization
- Energy Efficient Clustering
- Exposure
- In-Network Filtering
- Lifetime Maximization
- Location-Based Routing
- Mobility Control
- Modeling
- Node Localization
- Node Placement Optimization
- Non-Repudiation Security Protocols
- Relay Placement
- Resource Management
- Scheduling
- Search-Based Parameter Tuning
- Secure Media Access Control
- Target Tracking
- Time Synchronization
- Topology Control and Management