IEEE Communications Magazine Call for Papers - Special Issue on Social-aware Communication Networks and Systems and Innovative Social Network Applications and Services

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IEEE Communications Magazine Call for Papers Special Issue on Social-
aware Communication Networks and Systems and Innovative Social Network
Applications and Services

Call for Papers Social network analysis has been an active area of
research for several decades. Ιt has recently though gained a big
momentum with the booming popularity of social media, the proliferation
of mobile devices and advancement of their capabilities and the
semantically enriched user interactions that have exponentially grown,
especially during the long-lasting COVID-19 pandemic. In general, social
entities with close relationships (family, friends), sharing similar
interests or belonging within the same community, tend to interact more
often, more regularly and for longer periods than others, carrying with
them an inherent concept of trust. Representing social interactions
using directed or undirected graphs with nodes and edges carrying weight
and different types of information, researchers have been able to
identify users within certain circles of trust / distrust (friends,
friends of friends, distrusted entities, friends of distrusted entities,
etc.), communities of users sharing similar interests, the most
influential users and information / influence flows, and to develop
recommender system for users and content. The social dimension, however,
cannot be separated from the spatial one: physical proximity affects
relations between users, making social ties establishment more likely to
succeed. Thus, online social networks and offline social interactions
(mostly following users’ mobility patterns) in the physical world can
play a crucial role in a multitude of areas.

As a result of the aforementioned considerations, social networks have
attracted interest from researchers across multiple disciplines and for
a wide range of challenges. Without being exhaustive: developing social-
aware networking algorithms for improving various networking operations
(most notably routing and information forwarding, resource allocation,
content placement/caching/sharing etc.), identifying graph topology
structure as well as its evolution, along with information / influence
paths for maximizing the impact of information dissemination (with
advertisements for new products and services in marketing being a direct
application area) and exploring decision making process in a social
psychology context (with the Internet of Behaviors forming a new concept
to be explored), designing incentive mechanisms for promoting
cooperation and establishing trust in order to address security concerns
(mostly concerning open, uncertain, highly dynamic and potentially
competitive environments, such as Internet of Things). These challenges
have often been addressed with the help of emerging informatics and
communication technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), big
data analysis, and blockchain.

The aim of this Feature Topic (FT) is to attract original works
discussing the state-of-the-art and setting future directions in the
area of social-aware networks and advanced applications in the following
topical areas.

Prospective authors are invited to submit articles on topics including,
but not limited to: Graph modeling, learning/prediction, social network
evolution with application in social-aware networks / systems and
advanced applications; simulations, experiments Recommender systems,
community detection with application in social-aware networks / systems
and advanced applications Influence, trust, information propagation &
evolution with application in social-aware networks / systems and
advanced applications Detection and mitigation of echo chambers,
polarization, radicalization and other societal challenges exacerbated
by social media platforms with application in social-aware networks /
systems and advanced applications Platforms, algorithms, systems and
techniques integrating AI/blockchain/big data with social networking Social-
aware traffic management Social-aware network infrastructure Social-by-
engineering design in 6G Social-aware networking algorithms, techniques
and social-aware communication systems Internet of Things (IoT), Social-
IoT, Internet of Behavior (IoB), Social Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet
of People Social sensing Location-based social networks, user activity
modeling and exploitation, mobility and behavior data mining Advanced
Innovative social network related applications and services
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on social networks for
social-aware networking and advanced applications Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the
Information for Authors section of the Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Please, check these guidelines carefully before submitting since
submissions not complying with them will be administratively rejected
without review.

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by
the deadline through Author Portal. Select the “FT-2227 / Social-aware
communication networks and systems” topic from the drop-down menu of
Topic/Series titles. Please observe the dates specified here below
noting that there will be no extension of submission deadline.

Important Dates Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 April 2023 Decision
Notification: 30 July 2023 Final Manuscript: 30 September 2023
Publication: Fourth Quarter 2023