Social network and high performance in smart communications

Recently, social computing and networking has been driving dramatic evolution in the way people communicate and interact with each other, attracting great attention from the research community as well as the business world. Social networks not only include Web 2.0 elements such as blogs, twitter, and wikis, etc., but also stand for a collection of the technologies that gather, process, compute, and visualize social information and the studies that model and analyze dynamics of participants in social networks. With the advent of the social computing era, this special issue aims at reporting the most recent progresses, trends, and concerns in social network and high performance in smart communications. This special issue provides a forum for participants from the computing and social science communities and publishes state-of-art research papers. Furthermore, we expect that the special issue and its publications will trigger related research and technology innovation in this important subject. This special issue is aimed to solicit research results on the following topics of interest, but not limited: • Social Network System Design and Architectures.