Topics of interest, embedded with the special interest on the annual theme,include, but are not limited to: TRACK 1: Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Architectures, and Platforms Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches Resource management, provisioning, and migration Mobility modeling, management and measurement techniques Mobility-aware cloud data/streams and associated retrieval/processing techniques Mobile cloud security architectures, security policy enforcement, service models (e.g., BYOD, secure offloading, access control, trust platform, and e-commerce models, etc.) Secrecy, privacy, authentication, and integrity issues in mobile clouds Mobile multimedia content delivery, transferring, and migration Green computing in networking and mobile computing and clouds User-oriented mobile clouds (mobile community/private/public/ad-hoc clouds) Mobile big data computing models Mobile crowd collaborating models and associated platforms TRACK 2: Mobile Cloud Infrastructure and Service Models Mobile Software-as-a-Service (MSaaS) Mobile Data-as-a-Service (MDaaS) Mobile Platform-as-a-Service (MPaaS) Mobile Infrastructure-as-a-Service (MIaaS) Mobile Network-as-a-Service (MNaaS) Mobile-based Testing-as-a-Service (MTaaS) Mobile multimedia and mobile social community services TRACK 3: Engineering Mobile Cloud-based Systems – Modeling, analysis, design methods, and tools Innovative infrastructures, architectures, and middlewares Bridging the gap between mobile and cloud optimized usage, e.g., via edge gateway-based architectures for integrating cloud and mobile localities Resource collaboration and management for mobile clouds Monitoring solutions and evaluation techniques Mobile testing tools and techniques Resource-effective quality of service on mobile clouds and applications Mobile-to-cloud protocol optimizations and mobile cloud-specific resource scheduling Knowledge engineering and data mining techniques Virtualization of mobile device resources, e.g., storage and wireless networking TRACK 4: Enabling Technologies Embedded mobile platforms and technologies for mobile clouds Energy-saving wireless communication technologies Novel mobile middleware Innovative mobile platforms and client technologies Urban (crowd) sensing and smart sensor platforms Emergent barcode/RFID/NFC-based mobile technologies Mobile cloud data centers and storage/persistency technologies Mobile cloud networking, communication, and tunneling technologies TRACK 5: Disruptively Innovative Applications Next generation mobile applications enabled by the cloud Cloud-based mobile media systems and social networks Smart mobile SaaS on clouds Mobile virtual and physical interactions and mobile enabled virtual reality Mobile context-aware services and computing for clouds Cloud-based mobile commerce applications and systems Location-aware mobile applications on clouds Cloud-based mobile app stores and environments Human-centered applications based on wearable computing devices relating to Clouds Intuitive user interfaces for cloud-based mobile applications TRACK 6: Surveys and Experience Reports State-of-the-art survey reports Comparison and analysis reports Research reviews on emergent topics in mobile clouds Research case studies and experimental reports Industry reports on experience and lessons learned