Session1:Special Session on Technologies and Applications forSocial-Networks and Internet of Things Integration

Mobile devices, wearables and wireless sensor networks have been lately used to monitorand sense real world. On one hand, processing of information that has been sensed in the real world is used to detect human activities, environmental and urban state, healthcareconditions, proximity and concentrations of people, epidemic trends, network and routingplanning and other natural and human-generated situations describing aspects of the realworld. On the other hand, the evolution of the web in terms of user-generated content and theproliferation of online social networks have generated tremendous amount of information,describing dynamic interaction of people with each other, with their surroundings and broughttogether through their common interests in both, virtual and real worlds.

This special session will explore different challenges involved in the integration of dataoriginated from both sources, physical (IoT) and online (Social Networks) taking intoconsideration (but not limited) to different research topics such as large scale dataintegration, participatory sensing from multiple sources, correlation of physical-digitalinformation, geo-located and online social networks correlations, trust and security.

The special session will foster discussions and accept submissions on a comprehensive list of challenges; including, but not limited to:
• Mobility and geo-localization and their impact to/from social networks
• Wireless sensor networks, mobile devices and social network sensing
• Implications to system design of integrated physical and social network sensing
• Correlation from personal & virtual group spaces and sensors
• Impacts of searching and mining the Internet of things to social networks
• Multi-source information integration
• Search in pervasive social databases
• Models and representations of real-virtual dynamics
• Participatory sensing
• Case studies and applications of mixed sensing and mining
• Content centric networks
• Social metrics for network operation
• Middleware for mobile, wsn and social networks
• Web dynamics and grid/cloud computing
• Security, privacy, reputation and trust issues
• Users studies and human factors in real-online combined sensing
• Applications of physical-online sensing

Submissions and Important Dates
Submissions will follow CASoN format requirements and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore.

All submissions to this special session should follow the requirements and instructions indicated in http://www.mirlabs.net/cason11/index.php-c=main&a=show&id=6.htm