Call for Papers
The ubiquity of Internet, web, cloud and mobile technologies are the main driving forces behind the success and popularity of online social networks, which represent interactions and linkages among friends, families, colleagues, businesses, and organizations. Billions of users across the globe are using various social networks for various purposes. Social networks are characterised by complex network structures and architectural designs. They give rise to research challenges in different application areas such as social setup, businesses, commerce, education, healthcare, public sector and governmental organizations. This has opened up opportunities for interdisciplinary research that require expertise from a variety of disciplines such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, social science, medical sciences, business and finance.
The International Symposium on Social Networks and Applications (SoNet) provides a forum for researchers, developers, and practitioners from cross-disciplinary areas in order to present their work, and share research and development ideas.
Topics of the SoNet symposium include (but not limited to):
- Social network models and platforms
- Social network architectures and data models
- Social network analysis
- Social network mining
- Searching and discovery
- Security, privacy and trust
- Security, trust and privacy
- Social networks and big data
- Cloud and social networks
- Machine learning and deep learning
- Mathematical and statistical models
- Application areas of social networks
- Business, Commerce, Economics
- Healthcare, Education, Environment
- Transportation, Politics, Finance
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 20 May 2019
Authors Notification: 01 June 2019
Final Manuscript Due: 14 June 2019
Paper Submission
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit is 6 to 8 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template.
CPS Proceedings Author Guidelines are available at:
Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.
Papers should be submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair submission system: Paper Submission Link.
Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
All papers accepted for this symposium are peer-reviewed and are to be published in the conference proceedings by the Conference Publishing Service (CPS) .
Organising Committee
PC Chair:
Mak Sharma, Birmingham City University, UKProgramme Committee:
Shahram salekzamankhan, London Metropolitan University, UKRehan Bhana, Birmingham City University, UK
Mohammad Patwary, Birmingham City University, UK
Kathleen Maitland, Birmingham City University, UK
Kiran Voderhobli, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Syed Naqvi, Birmingham City University, UK
Khaled Mahbub, Birmingham City University, UK
Ron Austin, Birmingham City University, UK
Raouf Abozariba, Lancaster University, UK
Kamran Naeem, Solent University, UK
Ali Mansour, University of Bedfordshire, UK
David Newell, Bournemouth University, UK
Philip Davies, Bournemouth University, UK