Call for Papers
Special Issue in International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET)
Topic:
Risk assessment in Mobile Social Media: trends, threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures
Introduction to the special issue:
In recent years the world is experiencing the exponential growth of mobile social media and networks and their related platforms. The proliferation of innovative mobile network applications and services leads to the emergence of new forms of threats both for users, organizations (enterprises, communities, developers, etc.) and the society.
Social media have become a large platform for illegal activities such as malware propagation, identity theft, child pornography, etc. It is therefore a major objective to detect abnormal behaviors and to have efficient tools to assess these new forms of threats.
This special issue aims to present current state of art in risk assessment in mobile social media and networks. Authors are encouraged to submit their research papers on latest trends, threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures.
Topics of Interest (but are not limited to):
Trends in new threats and vulnerabilities identification
Survey of risk assessment in Mobile Social Media
Empirical and comparative studies (microblogging, social networks, online professional networks, etc.)
Security and privacy issues in mobile social media (Digital confidence, Privacy policy integration in mobile application)
Digital identity theft
Trust and reputation
Mobile social media use among teens and young adults: trends and vulnerabilities
Best practices and applications in mobile social media
Competitive Intelligence (brand attack, social media crisis, rumours, etc.)
Societal and political issues (E-citizenship, E-government, etc.)
Mobile Cloud Computing
Data mining and web mining for risk assessment
Data collection and new tools for Data analysis (semantic approaches, data mining, etc.)
Data pre-processing for the data from mobile social media
Methods and tools for Identification and assessment of new forms of threats
Risk assessment in mobile social network services: URL-shortening, Geolocation, etc.
Convergence mobile phone, social media and network
Anomalies detection
Mobile Network Forensics: indicators, metrics, etc.
Models and visualization tool for behavior understanding
User modelling and pattern identification in mobile social media
Visualization tools and techniques for cybercrime analysis
Mathematical models: fuzzy logic, Bayesian approaches, probabilistic and statistical methods, kernel methods, etc...
Important Dates:
First submission deadline: 20 June, 2012

First notification: 20 August, 2012

Revision deadline: 30 September, 2012

Final decision and notification: 20 November, 2012

Editors and Notes

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to Online Submissions of Papers. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. (Please include in your email the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors)


Guest Editors:
Dr. Babiga Birregah (University of Technology of Troyes, France)
babiga.birregah@utt.fr
Dr. I-Hsien Ting (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
iting@nuk.edu.tw
Reviewers:
Authors can suggest at most 2 possible reviewers.