CFP: SocialSec 2016, Fiji with new SCI-Indexed Journal Special Issue

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2nd IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks
and Big Data
Shangri-La's Fijian Resort and Spa, Fiji, 8-10 December 2016
http://nsclab.org/socialsec2016/
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We are delighted to announce that SocialSec 2016 will feature a special
issue on Social Network Security and Privacy in Concurrency and
Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE).

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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Selected papers presented at the SocialSec 2016 will be invited to consider
submission (after significant extension) for the following special issue in
CCPE.

Special Issue on Social Network Security and Privacy
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE)
http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/


Symposium Outline
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Social Networks and Big Data have pervaded all aspects of our daily lives.
With their unparalleled popularity, social networks have evolved from the
platforms for social communication and news dissemination, to indispensable
tools for professional networking, social recommendations, marketing, and
online content distribution. Social Networks, together with other
activities, produce Big Data that beyond the ability of commonly used
computer software and hardware tools to capture, manage, and process within
a tolerable elapsed time.

Due to their scale, complexity and heterogeneity, a number of technical and
social challenges in Social Networks and Big Data must be addressed. It has
been widely recognised that security and privacy are the critical issues.
On one hand, Social Networks and Big Data have been an effective platform
for the attackers to launch attacks and distribute malicious information.
On the other hand, privacy leakage through Social Networks and Big Data has
become common exercise. Following the success of the first event, the aim
of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social
Networks and Big Data (IEEE SocialSec 2016) is to provide a leading edge
forum to foster interactions between researchers and developers with the
security and privacy communities in Social Networks and Big Data, and to
give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia,
industry, and governments.

IEEE SocialSec 2016 will be held at Shangri-La's Fijian Resort and Spa,
Yanuca Island, Fiji on 8-10 December 2016. Get ready to enjoy a unique trip
in an wonderful island in this Globe.


Co-located Events
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- 6th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2-2016)
- 3rd International Conference on Internet of Vehicles (IOV 2016)
- 16th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT
2016)


Important Dates
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Paper Submission Due: 7 September 2016
Author Notification: 28 September 2016
Camera-ready Paper due: 5 October 2016
Registration due: 5 October 2016
Symposium Date: 8-10 December 2016


Symposium Topics
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The symposium seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government
presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of
security and privacy in Social Networks and Big Data. Papers describing
case studies, implementation experiences, and lessons learned are also
encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Attacks in/via social networks
- Information control and detection
- Malicious behaviour modelling in social networks
- Malicious information propagation via social networks
- Phishing problems in social networks
- Privacy protection in social networks
- Big data analytics for threats and attacks prediction
- Spam problems in social networks
- Trust and reputations in social networks
- Big data outsourcing
- Big data forensics
- Security and privacy in big database
- Applied cryptography for big data
- Big data system security
- Mobile social networks security
- Security and privacy in cloud
- Forensics in social networks and big data


Instructions for authors
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Submission Website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialsec2016

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference
with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not
exceed 8 pages in A4 format, including tables, figures, references and
appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format with Portable
Document Format (.pdf). Please refer to
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
for preparing the submission.

Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness,
significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper
should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at
least one of the authors will register and attend the symposium to present
the work.


Conference Organisation
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General Chairs
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Shawkat Ali, University of Fiji, Fiji
David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia

Program Committee Chairs
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Jun Zhang, Deakin University, Australia
Mirosław Kutyłowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Porland
Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, US

Workshop Chairs
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Motoki Sakai, Chiba University of Commerce, Japan
Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
Ilsun You, Soonchunhyang University, Korea

Publicity Chairs
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Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Temple University, US
Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy

Program Committee Members
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Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
Man Ho Au, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Joonsang Baek, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, Abu
Dhabi
Ero Balsa, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, United States
Nan Cao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, China
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy
David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Richard Chbeir, LIUPPA Laboratory, France
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, United States
Nan Du, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Wei Gao, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Gabriel Ghinita, University of Massachusetts, Boston, United States
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Jaya Kawale, University of Minnesota, United States
Muhammad Khurram Khan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan
Xiangnan Kong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States
Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prasenjit Mitra, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Franco Maria Nardini, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Evangelos Papalexakis, Carnegie Mellon University, Australia
Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Lu-An Tang, NEC Labs America, United States
Ting Wang, Lehigh University, United States
Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia
Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Sheng Wen, Deakin University, Australia
Yanghua Xiao, Fudan University, China
Guomin Yang, University of Wollongong, Australia