The ubiquity of Internet, web, cloud and mobile technologies are the main driving forces behind the success and popularity of online social networks, which represent interactions and linkages among friends, families, colleagues, businesses, and organizations. Billions of users across the globe are using various social networks for various purposes. Social networks are characterised by complex network structures and architectural designs. They give rise to research challenges in different application areas such as social setup, businesses, commerce, education, healthcare, public sector and governmental organizations. This has opened up opportunities for interdisciplinary research that require expertise from a variety of disciplines such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, social science, medical sciences, business and finance.

The International Symposium on Social Networks and Applications (SoNet) provides a forum for researchers, developers, and practitioners from cross-disciplinary areas in order to present their work, and share research and development ideas.

Topics of the SoNet symposium include (but not limited to):

    Social network models and platforms
    Social network architectures and data models
    Social network analysis
    Social network mining
    Searching and discovery
    Security, privacy and trust
    Security, trust and privacy
    Social networks and big data
    Cloud and social networks
    Machine learning and deep learning
    Mathematical and statistical models
    Application areas of social networks
        Business, Commerce, Economics
        Healthcare, Education, Environment
        Transportation, Politics, Finance