NSF III Workshop on Social Networks and Mobile Applications in the Cloud

社交网络、移动性和云代表着几个现有的和新兴的社区之间实现协同的特殊和独特的机会，这些社区现在经常在孤立的孤岛中发展。所有这三个领域都对计算的未来充满希望，并代表着大规模数据管理的重大挑战。随着这三个领域的发展，它们对彼此重大决策的直接影响变得明显和关键。这三个重要研究领域之间的交叉受精潜力将推动学术界和工业产品的大部分研究。为期两天的NSF研讨会汇集了领先的研究人员、实践者和规划者，讨论并阐明了社区在云环境中部署大规模移动和社交网络应用时应遵循的有趣方向。研讨会包括受邀的演讲、小组讨论和分组会议。该研讨会对社会的多个部分产生了更广泛的影响，因为：(1)社交网络和移动应用程序有可能显著提高生产力和生活质量；(2)研讨会产生了一系列研究挑战和方向，为研究项目提供种子，并提供建议，准备和教育下一代研究人员和学生，他们将对建立未来计算的基础至关重要，无论是短期的工业界还是学术界和工业界的长期基础；以及(3)研讨会扩大了其三个主要社区(社交网络、移动应用和云环境)的研究范围，纳入了与其他两个社区整合而来的新方面。有关研讨会的更多信息，请访问http://NSFSocialMobilityCloud.cs.umn.edu/.。

Social Network, mobility and the cloud represent special and unique opportunities for synergy among several existing and emerging communities that are now often evolving in isolated silos. All three areas hold much promise for the future of computing and represent significant challenges for large scale data management. As these three areas evolve, their direct influence on significant decisions on each other becomes evident and critical. The potential for cross fertilization among these three areas of important research will drive much of the research in academia, and the products in industry. This two-day NSF workshop brings together leading researchers, practitioners, and planners to discuss and articulate interesting directions that the community should pursue in deploying large-scale mobile and social network applications in the cloud environment. The workshop includes invited talks, panels and breakout sessions.This workshop has broader impacts across multiple segments of society as: (1) social network and mobile applications have the potential to significantly enhance productivity and quality of life;(2) the workshop produces a set of research challenges and directions that seed research projects and grant proposals that prepare and educate the next generation of researchers and students who will be critical for building the foundations of future computing, both short term in industry as well as long term in both academia and industry; and (3) the workshop widens the scope of research in each of its three main communities: social networks, mobile applications, and cloud environment, to include new aspects that evolve from integrations with the other two communities. More information on the workshop can be found at http://NSFSocialMobilityCloud.cs.umn.edu/.