Socio-Net
The 4th International Symposium on Social Networks and Applications
Socio-Net 2022

22-24 August 2022, Rome, Italy (and Online)

Social Networks and Applications

Co-located with FiCloud 2022 and DBB 2022

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 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
  • Social networks and big data
  • Machine learning and deep learning
  • Mathematical and statistical models
  • Social network analysis
  • Application areas:
  • Business, Commerce, Economics
  • Healthcare, Education, Environment
  • Transportation, Politics, Finance


SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

General Chair

Irfan Awan

University of Bradford
UK

Program Chair

Natalia Kryvinska

Comenius University in Bratislava
Slovakia


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Lin Guan

Loughborough University
UK

Mak Sharma

Birmingham City University
UK

Muhammad Younas

Oxford Brookes University
UK

Filipe Portela

University of Minho
Portugal

George Ghinea

Brunel University London
UK

Qublai Khan

University of Gloucestershire
UK

Antonio Celesti

University of Messina
Italy

Tor-Morten Groenli

Kristiania University College
Norway

Jamal Bentahar

Concordia University
Concordia University

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.

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) .

Papers should be submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair submission system: Paper Submission Link.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline

31 May 2022

Authors Notification

10 June 2022

Manuscript Due

20 June 2022






REGISTATION

Registrations for the conference and workshops are done online through EasyConferences. Participants may pay instantly using their credit card (VISA/MASTERCARD), or they may choose to pay through the bank. A one-stop-shop software is used for the whole registration process. The whole process is easy to use, secure, and can be completed in a few minutes.

Further details will be available soon.

CONTACT

For queries, please send email to us:

Email: Symposium Chairs