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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   
      
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