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The third edition of this workshop was held in Tainan, Taiwan in 2011.

- 9 papers from 7 countries/regions were selected for HotPOST'11.

- Accepted papers will be published by IEEE, in proceeding of ICPADS'11.

- Keynote talk by Dr. Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories): Social Engineering Approach to Computer Systems Design.

- Best Paper Award: "Wisdom of the Crowd: Incorporating Social Influence in Recommendation Models. Shang Shang (Princeton University, USA), Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany), Sanjeev Kulkarni, Paul Cuff (Princeton University, USA).

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The second edition of this workshop was held in Shanghai, China in 2010.

- 10 papers out of 26 submissions were selected (rate 38.5%), including both traditional topics and new emerging topics.

- 23 authors from 8 countries/regions.

- Extended version of selected outstanding papers were recommended for fast track publication in the IET Communications (SCI Index, IF=0.963).

- Accepted papers were published by IEEE, in proceeding of ICPADS 2010.

- Best Paper Award: "Small-World Social Relationship Awareness in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks" Hao Liao, Kuo-Chan Huang, Hung-Chang Hsiao (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan).

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The first edition of this workshop was held in St.-Petersburg, Russia in 2009.

- 12 papers from 9 countries/regions were presented.

- Accepted papers were published by IEEE, in proceeding of ICUMT 2009.