MONET 2008 PC Co-chairs message

The research area of mobile and networking technologies applied to the social field has made rapid advances, due to the increasing development of new mobile technologies and the widespread usage of the Internet as a new platform for social interactions. New mobile and networking technologies such as 3G/4G cellular networks and the new generation of wireless local area networks and ad hoc networks are devoted to playing an important role in many areas of social activities, predominantly in those areas where having the right data at the right time is of mission-critical importance.