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Call for papers MISNC 2020
The 7th Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference
Kaohsiung, Taiwan Oct. 31- Nov. 2, 2020
http://tasn.org.tw/misnc2020/
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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: July 16, 2020

Acceptance Notification: Aug. 6, 2020

Final Camera Ready Paper: Aug. 20, 2020

Author Registration: Aug. 20, 2020

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MISNC is dedicated to exploring topics related to social networking, a dominant field of modern communication involving multiple disciplines. The conference brings together researchers and developers from industry and academia to discuss and conduct multidisciplinary social networks research. MISNC provides great opportunities for participants to share, interact and learn from each other and to inspire cross-field social networks research and potential collaboration. It is an excellent opportunity for the academic community to become more aware of subject areas critical to the social networking industry as practitioners bring their needs to the table.

MISNC 2014 is the first edition of MISNC conference and was held in Kaohsiung City. MISNC 2015 in Matsuyama, Japan. MISNC 2016 at Kean University, New Jersey, MISNC 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand, MISNC 2018 at University of Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France., MISNC 2019 at Wenzhou-Kean University, China. On 2020, MISNC is held in Kaohsiung Taiwan from October 31-November 2, 2020.

Topics of Interest
Papers related to the conference theme will receive priority consideration, including theories, methodologies, and emerging applications. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas.
 Socionetwork strategies
 Education and social networks
 Intelligent informatics for social networks
 Software engineering for social networks
 Internet of things and cloud computing
 Open Data
 Modeling, prediction, simulation, and evaluation
 Metrics, measurements, and analysis
 Reliability, security, availability, and safety
 Social network penetration and protection
 Social network mining and data storage
 Social networks for health care
 Marketing and social networks
 Social networks for communication
 Social networks for collaboration
 Human interaction in social networks
 Mobile and smartphone applications
 Information and knowledge management
 Benchmark, tools, and empirical studies

Paper Submission System
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers electronically through the submission website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=misnc2020
Papers should be concise, but contain sufficient detail and references to allow for critical review.

Publication
It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (final approval pending) Which is indexed by EI and Scopus.

Journal Special Issues
Selected best papers from MISNC 2020 will be included in following journal special issues:
● Journal of Database Management (SCI-E indexed)
● International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity (DBLP indexed)
● The Review of Socionetwork Strategies (DBLP indexed)

Organization

Honorary Chair
Leon S. L. Wang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

General Chair
I-Hsien Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Shiro Uesugi, Matsuyama University, Japan

Program Chair
Yen-Hsien Lee, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Kai Wang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Steering Committee Chairs
Christine Largeron, Université Jean Monnet, France
George Chang, Kean University, USA
Vincent Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Chih-Chien Wang, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Guandong Xu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Katsutoshi Yada, Kansai University, Japan

Publication Chair
Hsin-Chang Yang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chung-Hong Lee, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Publicity Chair
Giovanny Mauricio Tarazona Bermúdez, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Colombia
Been-Chian Chien, National Tainan University, Taiwan
Hiroshi Koga, Kansai University, Japan
Georgios Lappas, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Qian Li, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Andi Mursidi, STKIP Singkawang, Indonesia
Takashi Okamoto, Ehime University, Japan
Didi Sundiman, Universitas Universal, Indonesia
Chuan-Chun Wu, I-Shou University, Taiwan
Chia-Sung Yen, National Chin-Yi University, Taiwan

Special Session Chair
Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Western Norway University of Applied Science, Norway
Jimmy Ming-Tai Wu, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Yu-Lung Wu, I-Shou University, Taiwan
Tzu-Hsien Yang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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On behalf of the Organizers,
Prof. Georgios LAPPAS
MISNC 20120 Publicity Chair
University of Western Macedonia, Greece