[hpc-announce] CfP: SocialMeta 2022: The 1st International Workshop on Social and Metaverse Computing and Networking

[Yang Chen]

* Apologies for Cross-Posting
* Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2021

The main page of the workshop is
https://socialmeta22.mystrikingly.com/

While social network services and applications are unprecedentedly
pervasive today (e.g., messaging, gaming, advertising, recommendation,
and commerce), multiple recent technology advances have already
started to shape the social networks, including “metaverse”. On one
hand, Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Internet of Things (IoT), and
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) are bringing new mobile computing
and communication paradigms for provisioning and accessing social
networks, digital spaces of social media, online gaming, etc. On the
other hand, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML),
characterized by recent breakthroughs of deep learning and big data,
are finding successful applications to social networks, including
detecting/preventing spam, fraud, and misinformation and enhancing
service experience via intelligent user interactions (e.g.,
recognition) with texts, images, and voices. Yet, how to exploit and
synergize all such state-of-the-art technologies to revolutionize
social networks is still in its infancy and requires comprehensive
investigation and research.

The goal of the 1st International Workshop on Social and Metaverse
Computing and Networking (SocialMeta'22) is to bring together
scientists, researchers, engineers, and practitioners to identify new
problems and discuss the latest research ideas and results, especially
those related to novel and emerging technologies, regarding social
networks and the metaverse. SocialMeta focuses on all aspects of
social networks and the metaverse, including architecture, design,
implementation, measurement, modeling, algorithm, analysis, and
theory. The topics include but are not limited to the following:

- Mobile and location-based online social networks and the AR/VR-based
metaverse
- Reputation, incentives, and economics in social networks
and the metaverse
- Security and privacy in social networks and the
metaverse
- AR/VR, IoT, wearables, and crowdsourcing for social networks and the metaverse
- Cloud, edge, SDN, and NFV for social networks and the metaverse
- Non-terrestrial networks, UAV, and 5G/6G for social networks and the metaverse
- AI/ML, data science, and blockchains for social networks and the
metaverse
- Measurement of social network and metaverse systems and
applications
- Modeling, algorithms, and theories for social networks and the metaverse

Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing original and
unpublished research, not currently under review in other venues,
addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all aspects of
mobile computing, social networks, or the intersection of both. In
particular, innovative, early-stage ideas and preliminary results are
welcome. The length of the paper must be no more than 6 pages in the
IEEE double-column format, including references. The first page must
contain an abstract, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s).
Each submission will receive at least three independent, blind peer
reviews from the program committee. At least one of the authors of
every accepted paper must register and present the paper at the
workshop. The program committee will select one paper for the Best
Paper Award. Outstanding papers will be recommended to IEEE/TUP
Journal of Social Computing.

Steering Committee:
Xiaoming Fu (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Vassilis Kostakos (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Jörg Ott (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Antonia Tulino (New York Univeristy, USA; University of Naples
Federico II, Italy)
Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland)

TPC Co-chairs:
Yang Chen (Fudan University, China)
Lei Jiao (University of Oregon, USA)

TPC Members(tentative):
Felix Beierle (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Dimitrios Chatzopoulos (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Xiaonan Guo (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)
Xiaowen Gong (Auburn University, USA)
Sokol Kosta (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Lik-Hang Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Bin Li (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Yupeng Li (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
Weixiong Rao (Tongji University, China)
Xiang Su (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Chen Tian (Nanjing University, China)
Shiqiang Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Xin Wu (Alibaba DAMO Academy, China)
Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK)
Xu Yuan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
Huacheng Zeng (Michigan State University, USA)
Yang Zhang (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany)
Pengyuan Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Web Chair:
Min Gao (Fudan University, China)

Submission deadline: Mar 1, 2022
Notification due: Mar 31, 2022
Final version due: Apr 21, 2022
Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialmeta2022


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Yang Chen
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science
Fudan University
http://ychen.xyz/